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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4
Introduction 23
Welcome! 24
About this chapter 24
About this manual 24
About the Reason operating system
versions 24
Conventions in the manual 24
Authorization 26
Registering and authorizing Reason 26
Running Reason with the Ignition Key hardware 28
Running Reason with Internet Verification 28
Running Reason in Demo Mode 29
Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac
OS X 30
Common Operations and
Concepts 33
About this chapter 34
Areas, windows and basic navigation 34
Song window overview 34
The Main Mixer 35
The Rack 36
The Sequencer 37
The Transport Panel 38
The ReGroove Mixer 38
Navigating between the areas 39
Showing/hiding the Navigators 39
Using several Reason Song windows 39
The Tool Window 40
The On-screen Piano Keys window 41
General window techniques 42
Resizing 42
Scrolling 43
Zooming in the Sequencer 44
Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 45
Editing parameters 46
Knobs 46
Faders and sliders 46
Buttons 47
Fold/Unfold buttons 47
Multi Mode selectors 48
Numerical controls 48
Alpha-numeric controls 49
Numerical segment displays 50
Tool Tips 51
Context menus 52
Parameter context menus 52
Device context menus 53
Main Mixer channel strip context menu 54
Rack “background” context menu 55
Main Mixer “background” context menu 55
Sequencer context menus 55
Undo and Redo 56
On-screen Piano Keys 59
About this chapter 60
Using the On-screen Piano Keys 60
Opening the Piano Keys window 60
Mouse mode 61
Computer Keys mode 62
Audio Basics 65
About this chapter 66
How Reason communicates with your
audio hardware 66
Manual audio routing 67
Audio quality 67
Audio settings 68
About audio levels 70
System signal paths 73
Audio Track signal paths 73
Instrument Track signal paths 74
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General information about audio and
computers 75
About latency 75
About processors 76
About RAM 76
Sequencer Functions 77
About this chapter 78
Introduction 78
Sequencer area overview 78
Song View and Edit Mode 79
Toolbar overview 80
Track List overview 80
Tracks overview 81
Lanes overview 81
Clips overview 82
Inspector overview 82
Ruler overview 82
Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 82
Track Navigator overview 83
Song Navigator overview 83
Transport Panel overview 83
Track details 84
Track definition 84
The relationship between the track, the rack and the
Main Mixer 85
Master Keyboard Input 89
The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events
90
Track types 90
Track List elements 92
Creating tracks 92
Selecting tracks 96
Moving tracks 97
Deleting tracks 97
Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 98
Coloring tracks 99
Naming tracks 99
Folding tracks 99
Muting tracks 100
Soloing tracks 100
Lane details 101
Audio lane 101
Note lane 102
Parameter automation lane 103
Pattern lane 104
Creating/adding lanes 105
Deleting lanes 107
Moving note lanes 109
Copying (duplicating) note lanes 109
Muting lanes 110
Clip basics 110
Clip types 110
Toolbar details 111
Toolbar tools 111
Alternate tools 113
Snap 114
Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 115
Ruler details 115
Transport Panel details 116
Transport keyboard commands 119
About the Inspector 120
About subticks in the Position and Length displays 120
About the “Match Values” function 120
Recording in the Sequencer
121
About this chapter 122
General recording functions 122
Record enabling 122
Click and Pre-count 126
Loop mode 128
General recording procedure 129
Undoing a recording 130
Recording tips 130
Audio recording details 130
Setting up the audio track 130
Recording audio 135
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Recording audio in Loop mode 137
Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 138
Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 138
Recording over or into an existing audio clip 139
Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 140
Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 142
Note recording details 146
Setting up the instrument track 146
Recording notes 146
Recording notes in Loop mode 146
Recording over or into an existing note clip 147
Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 148
Parameter automation recording details
150
Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation
150
Recording performance controller automation 151
Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 152
Recording performance controller automation over or
into an existing clip 152
About performance controller automation on multiple
lanes 153
Recording parameter automation 153
Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 154
Recording parameter automation over or into an existing
clip 155
Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live
mode” 156
Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 156
Pattern automation recording details 157
Recording pattern automation 157
Tempo automation recording 158
Recording tempo automation 158
Arranging in the Sequencer
161
About this chapter 162
Clip handling 162
Selecting clips 162
Setting audio clip Level and Fades 164
Deleting clips 165
Resizing (masking) clips 166
About masked recordings and events 167
Tempo scaling clips 169
Moving clips 171
About overlapping clips 173
Duplicating clips 173
Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 173
Naming clips 174
Coloring clips 174
Splitting clips 174
Joining clips 176
Muting clips 178
Merging clips on note lanes 178
Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 179
Inserting bars 181
Removing bars 181
About removing bars that contain audio recordings 182
Audio Editing in the
Sequencer 183
About this chapter 184
The Edit Mode 184
Opening audio clips for editing 185
Edit Mode elements for audio clips 187
The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and
Recordings 190
Edit Mode window handling 192
Audio editing tools 193
Razor (Cut) Tool 193
Speaker Tool 193
Editing audio clips 194
Selecting a Comp Row for playback in Single Mode 194
Selecting Comp Rows 195
Deleting Comp Rows 195
Moving Comp Rows 196
Duplicating Comp Rows 196
Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 197
Adjusting the Comp Row Level 197
Adjusting the Recording Offset 198
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Delete Unused Recordings 198
Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 199
Normalizing Clips 200
Reversing Clips 201
Tempo scaling Clips 201
Transposing Audio Clips 203
Editing audio in Comp Mode 205
Adding Cuts 205
Adding Segments 206
Adding Crossfades to Cuts 206
Deleting Cuts 207
Moving Cuts 207
Changing Comp Row assignments 208
Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 209
Creating a comped audio clip 210
Audio and tempo matching 214
Matching an imported audio clip to the song tempo 214
Moving a snare hit 215
Editing audio using the Inspector 218
Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 218
Matching audio values using the "Match Values"
function 218
Note and Automation Editing
221
About this chapter 222
The Edit Mode 222
Selecting what to edit 223
Opening note and automation clips for editing 223
Edit Mode elements 225
Edit Mode window handling 227
Note Edit Modes 227
Creating empty clips 230
Tool Window editing tools 231
Note editing 232
Selecting notes 232
Deleting notes 232
Drawing notes 233
Resizing notes 235
Moving notes 238
Duplicating notes 241
Using Cut, Copy and Paste 242
Quantizing notes 243
Pitch (Transpose) 246
Extract Notes to Lanes 247
Scale Tempo 250
Editing note velocity 251
Automation editing 253
Overview 253
Editing parameter automation 253
Drawing parameter automation events 256
Deleting automation events 257
Editing performance controller automation 257
About Automation Cleanup 259
Editing pattern automation 260
Drawing pattern automation 261
Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips
262
Deleting pattern automation clips 262
The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 263
Editing tempo automation 263
About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio
tracks 264
Automating time signature 265
Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature
automation clips 266
Deleting time signature automation clips 266
Note and automation editing in the
Inspector 267
Editing notes and events in the Inspector 267
Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”
function 267
Working with Blocks in the
Sequencer 271
About this chapter 272
Introduction 272
The idea behind Blocks 272
Arrangement Views 273
Song View (with Blocks disabled) 273
Song View (with Blocks enabled) 274
Block View 275
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Editing Blocks in the Block View 275
Selecting a Block for editing 275
Renaming Blocks 276
Defining the Block length 276
Changing Block color 276
Recording in the Block View 277
Editing clips in the Block View 277
Arranging clips in the Block View 277
Arranging Blocks in the Song View 277
Creating Block Automation Clips 277
Resizing Block Automation Clips 279
Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 279
Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 280
Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 282
Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 284
Working with the Rack 287
About this chapter 288
Rack device procedures 288
Navigating in the rack 288
Resizing and detaching the rack 289
About Device Groups 289
Creating devices 291
Selecting devices 293
Deleting devices 294
Re-ordering devices 294
Creating new rack columns 296
About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 296
Duplicating devices 297
Cut, Copy and Paste devices 297
Naming devices 298
Folding and unfolding devices 299
Working with Rack Extensions
301
About this chapter 302
What are Rack Extensions? 302
Future compatibility 302
Trying and buying Rack Extensions 302
Trial versions of Rack Extensions 302
Buying Rack Extensions 302
Installing and managing Rack
Extensions 303
Using Rack Extensions in Reason 304
About missing Rack Extensions 306
Sounds and Patches 307
About this chapter 308
About patches 308
Reason devices that use patches 308
Loading patches 309
Saving patches 310
Copying and pasting patches between devices 311
Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 311
About ReFills 312
Using the Browser 313
Opening the browser 314
Browser elements 315
Navigating in the Browser 318
Using Locations and Favorites 320
Favorites Lists 320
Selecting and auditioning patches 323
Selecting and auditioning samples 323
Selecting multiple files 323
Cross-browsing patch files 324
Create Instrument/Create Effect 325
About patch formats and sampler devices 325
Using the “Search” function 326
Opening files 327
About browse lists 327
Handling Missing Sounds 328
The Missing Sounds dialog 329
Reason file formats 331
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Routing Audio and CV 335
About this chapter 336
Signal types 336
Audio signals 336
CV/Gate signals 336
About P-LAN signals 337
About MIDI routing 337
About cables 337
Cable appearance 337
Checking and following cable connections 338
Cable color 339
Automatic routing 339
Auto-routing of audio input signals 339
Auto-routing of Instrument devices 340
Auto-routing of Effect devices 340
Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 341
Auto-routing devices after they have been created 341
About re-routing devices in Reason Version 5 (or earlier)
songs 342
Manual routing 343
Connecting cables 344
Connecting cables using pop-up menus 344
Disconnecting cables 345
Disconnecting devices 345
Using CV and Gate 346
Routing CV and Gate signals 346
About CV Trim knobs 346
The Main Mixer 347
About this chapter 348
Overview 348
The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 349
The Mix Channel device and channel strip 350
The Master Section device mixer strip 351
Navigating in the Main Mixer 352
Viewing the Main Mixer area 352
Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 352
Showing and hiding channel strip sections 353
Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks
354
Managing mixer channels 355
Creating and deleting channels 355
Selecting channels 355
Moving channels 356
Copying and duplicating channels 356
Copy channel settings 357
Resetting channel settings 358
Naming mixer channels 358
Coloring mixer channels 358
The channel strip 359
Input section 359
Dynamics section 360
EQ section 363
Insert FX section 364
FX Sends section 365
Fader section 366
Channel Header section 367
The Master Section strip 368
Master Compressor section 369
FX Send section 370
Master Inserts section 371
FX Return section 372
Master Fader section 373
Master Section Header 374
Automating mixer parameters 374
Working with effects 374
Insert FX 374
Send FX 378
Remote controlling the Main Mixer 381
Remote controlling a single mixer channel 381
Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 381
Advanced routing tips and tricks 384
Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices
384
Splitting signals using the Insert FX Out 386
Using compression sidechaining 387
Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct
Outs 389
Creating an input channel for recording with effects 389
Creating a sub-mixer 391
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Song File Handling 395
About this chapter 396
Opening Songs 396
Opening a Reason or Record Song 396
Opening a Reason Demo Song 397
Opening the last Song at program launch 397
Closing Songs 397
Closing a Song 397
Creating Songs 398
Creating a new empty Song 398
Setting up the Default Song 398
Creating a new Song from a template 398
Saving Songs 399
Saving a Song 399
Saving and optimizing a Song 399
Including Song Information 400
About Self-Contained Songs 401
Making a Song appear as a Template Song 402
A note about saving Songs as audio files 402
Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 403
About audio data in Song files 403
Changing Scratch Disk folder location 403
About “Orphan Audio Streams” 404
Importing and exporting Standard MIDI
Files 404
Importing Standard MIDI Files 404
Exporting Standard MIDI Files 405
Importing and Exporting
Audio 407
About this chapter 408
Importing audio 408
Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 408
About tempo matching imported audio 408
Importing audio to the sequencer 409
Exporting audio 411
Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 411
Bouncing Mixer Channels 413
Bouncing Audio Clips 415
Sampling 417
About this chapter 418
Overview 418
One-click sampling 418
The Edit Sample window 418
About sample format, rate and resolution 419
General sampling functions 419
Setting up for sampling 419
Sampling 421
The Sample buttons 421
Sampling procedure 421
The Song Samples tab 424
Editing samples 426
The Edit Sample window 426
Setting Sample Start and End 428
Cropping samples 430
Normalizing samples 430
Reversing samples 430
Fading in/out samples 431
Looping samples 432
Saving edited samples 434
Renaming samples 434
Sample management 435
About Assigned and Unassigned samples 435
Saving samples in a song 436
Deleting samples from a song 436
Loading samples into a device 437
Duplicating samples 438
Exporting samples 439
About self-contained samples 441
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The ReGroove Mixer 443
Introduction 444
ReGroove basics 444
The ReGroove Mixer 445
Global parameters 445
Channel parameters 446
Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 450
Groove Settings 451
Working with grooves 454
Applying grooves to your music 454
Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”
457
Creating your own ReGroove patches 458
Groovy tips & tricks 459
ReGroove patches in the Factory Sound
Bank 460
Remote - Playing and
Controlling Devices 461
About the various MIDI inputs 462
About Remote 462
Setting up 463
Adding a control surface or keyboard 463
Other functions 465
Example Setups 465
Remote basics 466
About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 467
About mapping variations 467
Locking a surface to a device 468
Locking a surface 468
Unlocking a surface 470
Remote Override 471
Activating Remote Override Edit mode 471
Remote Override mapping 472
Additional Remote Overrides... 475
Assigning Additional Overrides 476
Keyboard Control 477
Enabling Keyboard Control 477
Editing Keyboard Control 477
Saving Remote Setups 478
ReWire 479
About this chapter 480
Why use Reason with ReWire? 480
Introducing ReWire! 480
In ReWire version 1 480
In ReWire 2 480
How does it work? 480
Terminology 481
About system requirements 481
About synchronization 481
Launching and quitting applications 481
Using the Transport and Tempo controls
482
Routing audio 482
Preparations in Reason 482
Routing in the ReWire host application 483
Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 483
Converting ReWire channels to audio
tracks 484
Details about various ReWire hosts 484
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Synchronization and
Advanced MIDI 485
About this chapter 486
Synchronization to MIDI Clock 486
ReWire users – read this! 486
What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 486
Slaving Reason to an external MIDI application or
instrument 486
Slaving Reason to another program on the same
computer 487
Synchronization considerations 487
Advanced MIDI - The External Control
Bus inputs 489
About the External Control Bus inputs 489
Routing MIDI to devices 490
Sending Controller data via MIDI 490
About recording Pattern Changes 490
Optimizing Performance 491
Introduction 492
Checking Processing Power 492
Optimization and latency reduction 492
About Latency Compensation 493
Optimizing your computer system 494
Optimizing Songs 496
RAM requirements 498
Hardware Interface 499
Introduction 500
About using ReWire 501
Sampling Input section 501
Advanced MIDI Device 502
More Audio 502
The Big Meter 503
The Combinator 505
Introduction 506
Creating Combinator devices 507
Combinator elements 508
About internal and external connections
509
About External Routing 509
Adding devices to a Combi 511
About the Insertion line 511
Creating new devices in a Combi 511
Adding devices using drag and drop 512
Adding devices using copy/paste 513
Adding a Combi to a Combi 513
Combining two Combis 513
Combining devices in a Combi with devices in the rack
513
Combi handling 513
Moving the entire Combi 513
Moving devices within a Combi 514
Moving devices out of a Combi 514
Deleting devices in a Combi 514
Uncombining devices 514
Sequencer tracks and playing Combis
514
The Controller panel 515
Select backdrop... 516
Using the Programmer 517
Key Mapping instrument devices 518
Setting Velocity Ranges for instrument devices 519
Using Modulation Routing 520
CV Connections 523
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Mixer 14:2 525
Introduction 526
The Channel Strip 526
Channel Strip Controls 527
The Mixer signal flow 528
About the EQ modes 528
The Auxiliary Return Section 529
The Master Fader 529
Connections 529
Chaining several Mixer 14:2 devices 531
The Line Mixer 6:2 533
Introduction 534
Channel parameters 534
The Auxiliary Return section 534
Master level 534
Connections 535
ID8 Instrument Device 537
Introduction 538
The Sounds 538
The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 538
Using the ID8 539
Selecting Sounds 539
Controlling Sounds 539
About saving edited Sounds 540
Subtractor Synthesizer 541
Introduction 542
Loading and Saving Patches 542
The Oscillator Section 543
Oscillator 1 Waveform 543
Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent
545
Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 545
Using Oscillator 2 545
Oscillator 2 Waveform 546
Noise Generator 546
Phase Offset Modulation 547
Frequency Modulation (FM) 549
Ring Modulation 550
The Filter Section 551
Filter 1 Type 551
Filter 1 Frequency 554
Resonance 554
Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 554
Filter 2 555
Envelopes - General 556
Amplitude Envelope 557
Filter Envelope 557
Mod Envelope 558
LFO Section 559
LFO 1 Parameters 559
LFO 2 Parameters 560
Play Parameters 561
Velocity Control 561
Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 562
Legato 563
Retrig 563
Portamento (Time) 563
Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 564
About the Low Bandwidth button 564
External Modulation 564
Connections 565
Audio Output 565
Sequencer Control 565
Modulation Inputs 566
Modulation Outputs 566
Gate Inputs 566
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Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
567
Introduction 568
Loading and Saving Patches 568
Thor elements 569
The Controller panel 570
Using the Programmer 572
Basic connections - a tutorial 573
The Oscillator section 576
Mix section 583
Filter slots 583
Shaper 587
Amp section 587
LFO 1 588
Envelope sections 589
Global section 590
Modulation bus routing section 592
Step Sequencer 601
Basic operation 601
Connections 605
Malström Synthesizer 607
Introduction 608
Features 608
Theory of operation 609
Loading and Saving Patches 609
The Oscillator section 610
Setting oscillator frequency 611
Controlling playback of the graintable 611
The amplitude envelopes 612
The Modulator section 613
Modulator parameters 613
Destinations 614
The Filter section 615
The Filters 616
The Filter Envelope 618
The Shaper 619
Routing 621
Routing examples 622
The output controls 625
The play controls 625
Polyphony - setting the number of voices 626
Porta (portamento) 626
Legato 626
The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 627
The Velocity controls 627
The Modulation wheel controls 628
Connections 629
Audio Output 629
Audio Input 629
Sequencer Control 629
Gate Input 630
Modulation Input 630
Modulation Output 630
Routing external audio to the filters 631
NN-19 Sampler 633
Introduction 634
General sampling principles 634
Background 634
Multisampling vs. single samples 634
About audio file formats 635
Loading a Sample Patch 635
Loading REX Files as Patches 636
Sampling in NN-19 636
About Key Zones and samples 637
Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 637
Loading SoundFont samples 638
Loading REX slices as samples 638
Creating Key Zones 638
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Selecting Key Zones 639
Setting the Key Zone Range 639
Deleting a Key Zone 639
About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples
640
Adding sample(s) to a Key Map 640
Setting the Root Key 640
Removing sample(s) from a Key Map 641
Removing all unassigned samples 641
Rearranging samples in a Key Map 641
Setting Sample Level 641
Tuning samples 641
Looping Samples 641
About the Solo Sample function 642
Automap Samples 642
Mapping samples without Root Key or Tuning
information 642
How Mapping Information is saved 643
NN-19 synth parameters 643
The Oscillator Section 643
The Filter Section 644
Envelope Section 646
LFO Section 647
Play Parameters 648
Velocity Control 649
Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 649
Legato 650
Retrig 650
Portamento (Time) 650
Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 650
Voice Spread 651
Low Bandwidth 651
Controller Section 651
Connections 651
Audio Outputs 652
Mono Sequencer Control 652
Modulation Inputs 652
Modulation Outputs 652
Gate Inputs 652
NN-XT Sampler 653
Introduction 654
Sampling in NN-XT 654
Panel overview 655
The main panel 655
The Remote Editor panel 655
Loading complete Patches and REX files
656
Loading NN-XT Patches 656
Loading NN-19 Patches 656
Loading SoundFonts 656
Loading complete REX files as Patches 657
Using the main panel 658
The Pitch and Modulation wheels 658
The External Control wheel 658
High Quality Interpolation 659
Global Controls 659
Overview of the Remote Editor panel 661
The Key Map display 661
Sample parameters 662
Group parameters 662
Synth Parameters 663
About Samples and Zones 663
Selections and Edit Focus 664
Selecting Zones 665
Moving Edit Focus 667
Adjusting parameters 667
Adjusting Synth parameters 667
Adjusting Group parameters 667
Sample parameters 668
Managing Zones and Samples 669
Creating a Key Map 669
About file formats and REX slices 670
Adding more samples to the Key Map 670
Replacing a sample 670
Quick browsing through samples 671
Removing samples 671
Auditioning samples 671
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Adding empty Zones 671
Duplicating Zones 671
Removing Zones 672
Rearranging Zones in the List 672
Working with Grouping 672
About Groups 672
Creating a Group 672
Moving a Group to another position in the List 673
Moving a Zone from one Group to another 673
Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 674
The Group Parameters 674
Working with Key Ranges 674
About Key Ranges 674
Setting up Key Ranges 674
About the Lock Root Keys function 678
About the Solo Sample function 679
Sorting Zones by Note 680
Setting Root Notes and Tuning 681
About the Root Key 681
Setting the Root Note manually 681
Tuning samples manually 681
Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection
682
About changing the pitch of samples 682
Using Automap 682
Layered, crossfaded and velocity
switched sounds 683
Creating layered sounds 683
About velocity ranges 683
Setting velocity range for a Zone 685
About Crossfading Between Zones 685
Setting crossfading for a Zone 687
Using Alternate 687
About the Alternate function 687
Sample parameters 688
Root Note and Tune 688
Sample Start and End 688
Loop Start and End 688
Play Mode 689
Lo Key and Hi Key 689
Lo Vel and Hi Vel 689
Fade In and Fade Out 689
Alt 689
Out 689
Group parameters 690
Key Poly 690
Legato and Retrig 691
LFO 1 Rate 691
Portamento 691
Synth parameters 692
The Modulation controls 692
The Velocity controls 694
The Pitch section 695
The Filter section 696
The Modulation Envelope 697
The Amplitude Envelope 699
The LFOs 700
Connections 702
Sequencer Control 702
Modulation Input 702
Gate Input 703
Audio Output 703
Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 705
Introduction 706
ReCycled Loops 706
About REX file formats 707
Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches
707
About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 707
About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex
devices 707
Playing Loops 708
Switching playback between Loop Slots 708
Adding Loops 709
Loading Loops “On the Fly” 710
Removing Loops 710
Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 710
Playing individual Loop Slices 710
Creating sequencer notes 711
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Slice handling 714
Selecting Slices 714
Editing individual Slices 714
Editing in the Waveform Display 715
The Slice Edit Mode 716
Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 717
Pitch and Mod wheels 717
Trig Next Loop 717
Note To Slot 717
Loop Slot buttons 718
Enable Loop Playback and Run 719
Volume 719
Global Transpose 719
Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 720
Select Loop & Load Slot 720
Loop Transpose 720
Loop Level 721
Oscillator section 721
Mod. Wheel 722
Velocity section 722
The Filter Section 723
Envelope section 724
LFO section 725
Pitch Bend Range 726
Setting number of voices - polyphony 727
Audio Quality settings 727
Connections 727
Modulation Inputs 728
Modulation Outputs 728
Gate Inputs 728
Gate Output 728
Slice Outputs 728
Main Outputs 728
Redrum Drum Computer 729
Introduction 730
Sampling in Redrum 730
About file formats 731
Using patches 732
Loading a patch 732
Checking the sounds in a patch 732
Creating a new patch 732
Creating an empty patch 733
Programming patterns 733
Pattern basics 733
Pattern tutorial 735
Setting pattern length 736
Setting pattern resolution 737
Step dynamics 737
Pattern Shuffle 738
Flam 738
The Pattern Enable switch 739
The Enable Pattern Section switch 739
Pattern functions 740
Chaining patterns 740
Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer
741
Redrum parameters 742
Drum sound settings 742
Global settings 745
Using Redrum as a sound module 746
Connections 747
Kong Drum Designer 749
Introduction 750
Overview 750
The Pad Section 750
The Drum Control Panel 751
The Drum and FX Section 751
About using custom backdrops 751
About file formats 751
Using patches 752
Loading a Kit Patch 752
Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 753
Creating a new Kit Patch 753
Creating an empty Kit Patch 754
Saving Kit Patches 754
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Pad Settings 755
Assigning Drums to Pads 755
Renaming Pads 756
Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 756
Assigning Hit Type to Pads 756
Muting and Soloing Pads 757
Working with Pad Groups 758
The Drum and FX section 759
Signal flow 760
The Drum Control Panel 762
Sampling in Kong 764
The Drum Module slot 764
The FX slots 765
The Drum modules 766
NN-Nano Sampler 766
Nurse Rex Loop Player 770
Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 775
Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 777
Synth Hi-hat 778
The Support Generator modules 779
Noise Generator 779
Tone Generator 780
The FX modules 781
Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX
parameters 781
Drum Room Reverb 782
Transient Shaper 782
Compressor 783
Filter 784
Parametric EQ 784
Ring Modulator 785
Rattler 786
Tape Echo 786
Overdrive/Resonator 787
Connections 788
Sequencer Control 788
Modulation Input 788
Aux Send Out 788
Gate In and Out 789
Audio Out 3-16 789
Main Audio Out 789
Using Kong as an effect device 789
Using external effects with Kong 790
The MClass Effects 791
The MClass effects 792
The MClass Equalizer 793
The MClass Stereo Imager 794
The MClass Compressor 795
The MClass Maximizer 798
Line 6 Amps 799
Introduction 800
About the Amp Tones patch format 800
Basic usage 800
Front panel 801
Using the Line 6 Amps 802
Selecting Patches (Amp Tones) 802
Selecting Amp and Cabinet model 803
About the Amp/Cabinet models 804
Amp Parameters 804
Additional parameters 804
Additional Line 6 Amp Models 805
Connections 806
Scream 4 Sound Destruction
Unit 807
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit 808
Parameters 808
CV inputs and outputs 812
Screamy tips and tricks 813
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Pulveriser 815
Introduction 816
About the Patch format 816
Parameters 816
Common effect device parameters 816
Signal Routing selector 817
The Squash section 818
The Dirt section 818
The Filter section 819
The Tremor section 820
The Follower section 821
Blend 822
Volume 822
Modulation inputs and outputs 823
CV Modulation inputs 823
Audio Modulation inputs 823
CV Modulation outputs 824
Demolition tips and tricks 824
Beef up your sounds 824
Make your pads tremble 824
Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
825
Introduction 826
About the Patch format 826
Overview and signal flow 826
Parameters 828
Common effect device parameters 828
Pattern section 828
Gate and Amp Envelope 829
Filters and Modulation 830
Effects 832
Mix controls 834
Audio connections 835
Main Inputs and Outputs 835
Separate Outputs 835
CV connections 836
Gate inputs 836
CV Modulation inputs 836
Gate Outputs 836
LFO CV Out 836
The built-in patterns 837
Methods and Tips 838
Playing the Alligator live 838
Playing the gates from Matrix patterns 838
Controlling other sounds and effects 838
RV7000 Advanced Reverb 841
The RV7000 Advanced Reverb 842
Reverb algorithms and parameters 844
The EQ section 850
The Gate section 851
CV Inputs 852
The Echo 853
Introduction 854
About the Patch format 854
Parameters 854
Common effect device parameters 854
The Mode section 855
The Delay section 856
The Feedback section 857
The Color section 858
The Modulation section 859
The Output section 860
CV/Gate inputs 861
The Breakout Jacks 861
Tips and Tricks 862
Using the Roll function 862
Creating “pitched” delay 862
Distorted external feedback 862
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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BV512 Vocoder 863
Introduction 864
How does a vocoder work? 864
Setting up for basic vocoding 865
Vocoding vocals in real-time 865
Vocoding an existing audio track 867
Using the BV512 as an equalizer 869
BV512 parameters 870
Connections 871
Automation 872
Tips and tricks 873
Choosing a carrier sound 873
Choosing a modulator sound 874
Using the modulator as carrier 875
Controlling the Hold function 876
Using the individual band level connections 876
“Playing” the vocoder from a MIDI keyboard 878
Using the BV512 as a reverb 878
Neptune Pitch Adjuster and
Voice Synth 881
Introduction 882
Typical use cases 882
Overview and basic concepts 883
Sections overview 883
The display 884
Setting up for pitch processing 884
Setting up for pitch processing of recorded audio tracks
884
Setting up for pitch processing of “live” audio 885
Using pitch correction 885
Basic settings for pitch correction 886
Using automatic pitch correction 887
Using manual pitch correction 891
Using pitch shifting (Transpose) 892
Using Formant control 893
What are formants? 893
Using the Formant function 894
Using the Voice Synth 894
Panel parameters 895
Level Meter and Bypass/On/Off switch 895
Bend and Vibrato wheels 895
Input signal type 896
MIDI Input 896
Pitch Adjust section 897
Transpose section 898
Formant section 898
The Output Mixer section 898
Connections 899
Sequencer Control 899
CV In 899
CV Out 900
Audio In 900
Voice Synth Out 900
Audio Out 900
Pitch adjustment tips and tricks 901
Using automation for temporary pitch correction 901
Hard pitch correction of a vocal track 902
Pitch correction with changed voice character 902
Octave dub 902
Pitch-shifting drums (non-pitched input) 902
Speech effects 903
About “freezing” pitch adjustments on audio tracks 903
Half-Rack Effects 905
Common effect device features 906
DDL-1 Digital Delay Line 908
CF-101 Chorus/Flanger 909
Spider Audio Merger & Splitter 911
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