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Table of Contents
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4
Introduction 23
Welcome! 24
About this chapter 24
About this manual 24
About the Reason Lite operating system
versions 24
Conventions in the manual 24
The Authorization system 26
Registering Reason Lite 26
Running Reason Lite with Internet Verification 26
Running Reason Lite in Demo Mode 27
Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac
OS X 28
About automatic program updates 29
Common Operations and
Concepts 31
About this chapter 32
Areas, windows and basic navigation 32
Song window overview 32
The Browser 33
The Main Mixer 34
The Tutorial area 34
The Rack 35
The Sequencer 36
The Transport Panel 36
The ReGroove Mixer 37
Navigating between the areas 37
Showing/hiding the Navigators 37
About different Themes 38
Using several Reason Lite Song windows 38
The Tool Window 39
The On-screen Piano Keys window 39
General window techniques 41
Resizing 41
Scrolling 42
Zooming in the Sequencer 43
Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 44
Editing parameters 45
Knobs 45
Faders and sliders 46
Buttons 46
Fold/Unfold buttons 47
Multi Mode selectors 47
Numerical controls 48
Alpha-numeric controls 48
Numerical segment displays 49
Tool Tips 50
Context menus 51
Parameter context menus 51
Device context menus 52
Main Mixer channel strip context menu 53
Rack “background” context menu 54
Main Mixer “background” context menu 54
Sequencer context menus 54
Undo and Redo 55
On-screen Piano Keys 57
About this chapter 58
Using the On-screen Piano Keys 58
Opening the Piano Keys window 58
Mouse mode 59
Computer Keys mode 60
Audio Basics 63
About this chapter 64
How Reason Lite communicates with
your audio hardware 64
Manual audio routing 65
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Audio quality 65
Audio settings 66
About audio levels 68
System signal paths 71
Audio Track signal paths 71
Instrument Track signal paths 72
General information about audio and
computers 73
About latency 73
About processors 74
About RAM 74
Sequencer Functions 75
About this chapter 76
Introduction 76
Sequencer area overview 76
Song View and Edit Mode 77
Toolbar overview 78
Track List overview 78
Tracks overview 79
Lanes overview 79
Clips overview 80
Inspector overview 80
Ruler overview 80
Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 80
Track scrollbar overview 81
Song Navigator overview 81
Transport Panel overview 81
Track details 82
Track definition 82
The relationship between the track, the rack and the
Main Mixer 83
Master Keyboard Input 88
The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events
89
Track types 89
Track List elements 91
Creating tracks 91
Selecting tracks 95
Moving tracks 96
Deleting tracks 96
Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 97
Coloring tracks 98
Naming tracks 98
Folding tracks 98
Muting tracks 99
Soloing tracks 99
Lane details 100
Audio lane 100
Note lane 101
Parameter automation lane 102
Pattern lane 103
Creating/adding lanes 104
Deleting lanes 106
Moving note lanes 107
Copying (duplicating) note lanes 107
Muting lanes 108
Clip basics 108
Clip types 108
Toolbar details 109
Toolbar tools 109
Alternate tools 111
Edit Mode buttons 112
Snap 112
Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 114
Ruler details 114
Transport Panel details 115
Transport keyboard commands 118
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
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Audio recording details 130
Setting up the audio track 130
Recording audio 135
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
Creating Clips 162
Selecting clips 162
Setting audio clip Level and Fades 165
Deleting clips 166
Resizing (masking) clips 167
About masked recordings and events 168
Tempo scaling clips 170
Moving clips 172
About overlapping clips 174
Duplicating clips 174
Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 174
Naming clips 175
Coloring clips 175
Splitting clips 176
Joining clips 177
Reversing clips 178
Muting clips 179
Merging clips on note lanes 179
Bounce in Place 180
Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 182
Inserting bars 184
Removing bars 184
About removing bars that contain audio recordings 185
Audio Editing in the
Sequencer 187
About this chapter 188
Edit Modes, Stretch & Transpose Types
and Clip Types 188
Edit Modes 188
Selecting Stretch and Transpose Type 188
Clip Types 189
Opening audio clips for editing 190
Editing audio in Slice Edit mode 191
Audio clip elements in Slice Edit mode 191
Slice Edit mode tools 191
Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 192
Adding Slice Markers 193
Deleting Slice Markers 194
Repositioning Slice Markers 194
Moving/stretching Slices 194
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Nudging Slices 196
Quantizing audio 196
Split at Slices 197
Bounce Clip to REX Loop 197
Revert All Slices 198
Editing audio in Pitch Edit mode 199
Pitch Editor elements 199
Selecting notes 200
Auditioning notes 200
Correcting pitches 201
Changing transposition 201
Resetting pitches 201
Splitting the clip at notes 201
Reverting all notes 201
Attenuating pitch drift/vibrato 202
Editing transition times 202
Moving notes and changing note lengths 203
Quantizing notes 204
Splitting and joining notes 204
About switching from Pitch Edit mode to Slice Edit mode
205
Audio pitch editing in the Inspector 205
Editing audio in the Comp Editor 207
Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 207
The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and
Recordings 211
Comp Editor window handling 213
Comp Editor audio editing tools 213
Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip
214
Selecting Comp Rows 215
Deleting Comp Rows 216
Moving Comp Rows 216
Duplicating Comp Rows 216
Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 217
Adjusting the Comp Row Level 217
Adjusting the Recording Offset 218
Comping audio 219
Adding Cuts 219
Adding Segments 220
Adding Crossfades to Cuts 220
Deleting Cuts 221
Moving Cuts 221
Changing Comp Row assignments 222
Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 223
Creating a comped audio clip 224
Common audio editing functions 228
Delete Unused Recordings 228
Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 228
Bouncing audio to MIDI notes 228
Normalizing audio clips 230
Reversing audio clips 231
Changing the tempo and transposition of
the audio 232
Tempo scaling Clips 232
Transposing Audio Clips 233
Audio and tempo matching 235
Matching imported audio to the song tempo 235
Editing audio using the Inspector 236
Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 236
Matching audio values using the "Match Values"
function 236
Note and Automation Editing
239
About this chapter 240
The Edit Mode 240
Selecting what to edit 241
Opening note and automation clips for editing 241
Edit Mode elements 243
Edit Mode window handling 245
Note Edit Modes 245
Creating empty clips 248
Tool Window editing tools 249
Note editing 250
Selecting notes 250
Drawing notes 251
Deleting notes 253
Resizing notes 253
Splitting notes 256
Moving notes 257
Duplicating notes 260
Using Cut, Copy and Paste 261
Quantize 262
Pitch (Transpose) 265
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Extract Notes to Lanes 266
Scale Tempo 269
Editing note velocity 270
Reverse 272
Multi Lanes editing 274
Overview 274
Selecting multiple lanes for editing 274
Editing notes in Multi Lanes mode 275
Automation editing 276
Overview 276
Editing parameter automation 276
Drawing parameter automation events 279
Deleting automation events 280
Reversing automation events 280
Editing performance controller automation 280
About Automation Cleanup 282
Editing pattern automation 283
Drawing pattern automation 284
Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips
285
Deleting pattern automation clips 285
The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 286
Editing tempo automation 286
About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio
tracks 287
Automating time signature 288
Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature
automation clips 289
Deleting time signature automation clips 289
Note and automation editing in the
Inspector 290
Editing notes and events in the Inspector 290
Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”
function 290
Working with Blocks in the
Sequencer 293
About this chapter 294
Introduction 294
The idea behind Blocks 294
Arrangement Views 295
Song View (with Blocks disabled) 295
Song View (with Blocks enabled) 295
Block View 296
Editing Blocks in the Block View 296
Selecting a Block for editing 296
Renaming Blocks 297
Defining the Block length 297
Changing Block color 297
Recording in the Block View 297
Editing clips in the Block View 297
Arranging clips in the Block View 298
Arranging Blocks in the Song View 298
Creating Block Automation Clips 298
Resizing Block Automation Clips 300
Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 300
Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 301
Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 303
Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 305
Working with the Rack 309
About this chapter 310
Rack device procedures 310
Navigating in the rack 310
Resizing and detaching the rack 311
About Device Groups 312
Creating devices 314
Selecting devices 316
Deleting devices 318
Re-ordering devices 318
Re-routing devices 320
Creating new rack columns 320
About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 320
Replacing devices 321
Duplicating devices 322
Cut, Copy and Paste devices 322
Naming devices 323
Folding and unfolding devices 324
Working with Players 325
About this chapter 326
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Overview 326
General recording methods 327
Using Players 328
Creating Players 328
Chaining Players 328
Replacing Players 328
Deleting Players 328
Naming Players 328
About Players in Combinators 329
Common Player device parameters 329
Dual Arpeggio 330
The Display sections 332
Note Echo 338
Scales & Chords 339
Scales 339
Filter Notes 340
Chords 341
Tips & Tricks 344
Generating scale-correct arpeggios from single notes
344
Generating chord arpeggios 344
Creating parallel chords 344
Using a Scales & Chords device as a “MIDI Note monitor”
345
Working with Rack Extensions
347
About this chapter 348
What are Rack Extensions? 348
Future compatibility 348
Trying and buying Rack Extensions 348
Trial versions of Rack Extensions 348
Buying Rack Extensions 348
Installing and managing Rack
Extensions 349
Using Rack Extensions in Reason Lite
350
About missing Rack Extensions 352
Working with VST Plugins 353
About this chapter 354
About VST plugins 354
VST compatibility in Reason Lite 354
Installing and enabling VST plugins 354
About VST licenses 354
Installing VST plugins under Windows 354
Installing VST plugins under Mac 355
Enabling VST plugins in Reason Lite 355
Using VST plugins in Reason Lite 356
Adding VSTs to the rack 356
The Plugin Rack Device 357
Front panel 357
Rear panel 358
About auto-routing of VSTs in the rack 359
The Plugin Window 359
Editing the VST parameters 361
Automating VST parameters 361
CV modulation of VST parameters 362
Remote controlling VST parameters 365
Selecting VST programs 367
About saving songs that contain VSTs 367
Combining VST plugins in Combinator devices 367
About missing VST plugins 368
Managing VST plugins 368
Plugin Status 369
Defining custom VST folders 370
Sounds, Patches and the
Browser 371
About this chapter 372
About patches 372
Reason Lite devices that use patches 372
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Loading patches 373
Setting browse focus 376
Saving patches 377
Copying and pasting patches between devices 378
Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 378
About ReFills 379
Using the Browser 380
Opening the browser 381
Browser elements 382
Navigating in the Browser 386
Using Locations and Favorites 388
Favorites Lists 388
Selecting and auditioning samples and REX loops 391
Selecting multiple files 391
Cross-browsing patch files 392
Create Instrument/Create Effect 393
About patch formats and sampler devices 393
Using the “Search” function 394
Loading files 394
About browse lists 395
Handling Missing Sounds 396
Reason Lite file formats 398
Routing Audio and CV 401
About this chapter 402
Signal types 402
Audio signals 402
CV/Gate signals 402
P-LAN signals 403
About MIDI routing 403
About cables 403
Cable appearance 403
Checking and following cable connections 404
Cable color 405
Automatic routing 405
Auto-routing of audio input signals 405
Auto-routing of Instrument devices 406
Auto-routing of Effect devices 406
Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 407
Auto-routing devices after they have been created 407
Manual routing 409
Connecting cables 410
Connecting cables using pop-up menus 410
Disconnecting cables 411
Disconnecting devices 411
Using CV and Gate 412
Routing CV and Gate signals 412
About CV Trim knobs 412
The Main Mixer 413
About this chapter 414
Overview 414
The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 415
The Mix Channel device and channel strip 416
The Master Section device and mixer strip 417
Navigating in the Main Mixer 418
Viewing the Main Mixer area 418
Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 418
Showing and hiding channel strip sections 419
Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks
420
Managing mixer channels 421
Creating and deleting channels 421
Selecting channels 421
Moving channels 422
Copying and duplicating channels 422
Copy channel settings 423
Resetting channel settings 423
Naming mixer channels 423
Coloring mixer channels 424
The channel strip 425
Input section 425
Dynamics section 426
EQ section 429
The Spectrum EQ Window 430
Insert FX section 433
FX Sends section 434
Fader section 435
Channel Header section 437
The Master Section strip 438
Master Compressor section 439
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FX Send section 440
Master Inserts section 441
FX Return section 442
Master Fader section 443
Master Section Header 444
Automating mixer parameters 444
Working with effects 444
Insert FX 444
Send FX 449
Output Busses 452
Creating an Output Bus 452
Deleting an Output Bus 454
Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 455
Parallel Channels 456
Creating Parallel Channels 456
Deleting Parallel Channels 459
Naming Parallel Channels 459
Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 460
Solo and Mute logic 460
Send FX level and mute logic 462
Remote controlling the Main Mixer 464
Remote controlling a single mixer channel 464
Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 464
Advanced routing tips and tricks 467
Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices
467
Using compression sidechaining 469
Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct
Outs 470
Creating an input channel for recording with effects 471
Delay Compensation 475
About this chapter 476
About Delay Compensation in Reason
Lite 476
Activating the Delay Compensation 476
Delay Compensation rules and limitations 477
How the Delay Compensation works 480
Delay Compensation in individual mixer channels 480
Delay Compensation with Busses and Parallel Channels
484
Delay Compensation to Send FX busses 485
About the Master Insert FX 485
Problematic configurations 486
About using the Direct Out connections of the mixer
channels 490
About the Metronome Click 490
Recording with Delay Compensation 490
Playing and monitoring with Delay Compensation 490
About bouncing mixer channels 490
Song File Handling 491
About this chapter 492
Opening Songs 492
Opening a Reason Lite Song 492
Opening a Reason Lite Demo Song 493
Opening the last Song at program launch 493
Closing Songs 493
Closing a Song 493
Creating Songs 493
Creating a new Song 493
Setting up a Default Song 494
Creating a new Song from a template 494
Saving Songs 495
Saving a Song 495
Saving and optimizing a Song 495
Including Song Information 496
About Self-Contained Songs 497
Making a Song appear as a Template Song 498
A note about saving Songs as audio files 498
Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 499
About audio data in Song files 499
Changing Scratch Disk folder location 499
About “Orphan Audio Streams” 500
Importing and exporting Standard MIDI
Files 500
Importing Standard MIDI Files 500
Exporting Standard MIDI Files 501
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Importing and Exporting
Audio 503
About this chapter 504
Importing audio 504
Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 504
About tempo matching imported audio 504
Importing audio to the sequencer 505
Exporting audio 508
Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 508
Bouncing Mixer Channels 510
Bouncing Audio Clips 512
Sampling 515
About this chapter 516
Overview 516
One-click sampling 516
The Edit Sample window 516
About sample format, rate and resolution 517
General sampling functions 517
Setting up for sampling 517
Sampling 519
The Sample buttons 519
Sampling procedure 519
The Song Samples location 522
Editing samples 524
The Edit Sample window 524
Setting Sample Start and End 526
Cropping samples 528
Normalizing samples 528
Reversing samples 528
Fading in/out samples 529
Looping samples 530
Saving edited samples 532
Renaming samples 532
Sample management 533
About Assigned and Unassigned samples 533
Saving samples in a song 534
Deleting samples from a song 534
Loading samples into a device 535
Duplicating samples 536
Exporting samples 537
About self-contained samples 539
The ReGroove Mixer 541
Introduction 542
ReGroove basics 542
The ReGroove Mixer 543
Global parameters 543
Channel parameters 544
Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 548
Groove Settings 549
Working with grooves 552
Applying grooves to your music 552
Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”
555
Creating your own ReGroove patches 556
Groovy tips & tricks 557
ReGroove patches in the Factory Sounds
bank 558
Remote - Playing and
Controlling Devices 559
About the various MIDI inputs 560
About Remote 560
Setting up 561
Automatic set-up using the Easy MIDI Inputs function
561
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Adding a specific control surface or keyboard 562
Other functions 565
Example Setups 565
Remote basics 566
About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 566
About mapping variations 566
Locking a surface to a device 568
Locking a surface 568
Unlocking a surface 570
Remote Override 571
Activating Remote Override Edit mode 571
Remote Override mapping 572
Additional Remote Overrides... 575
Assigning Additional Overrides 576
Keyboard Control 577
Enabling Keyboard Control 577
Editing Keyboard Control 577
Saving Remote Setups 578
Synchronization and
Advanced MIDI 579
About this chapter 580
Synchronization to MIDI Clock 580
What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 580
Using Reason Lite as MIDI Clock Host 580
Syncing Reason Lite to an external MIDI application or
instrument 582
Syncing Reason Lite to another program on the same
computer 582
External synchronization considerations 583
Synchronization using Ableton Link 585
About Ableton Link 585
Synchronizing Reason Lite’s sequencer with Ableton
Link 585
Advanced MIDI - The External Control
Bus inputs 587
About the External Control Bus inputs 587
Routing MIDI to devices 588
Receiving Controller data via MIDI 588
About recording Pattern Changes 588
Optimizing Performance 589
Introduction 590
Checking Processing Power 590
Optimization and latency reduction 590
About Latency Compensation 591
Optimizing your computer system 592
Optimizing Songs 594
RAM requirements 596
Hardware Interface 597
Introduction 598
Sampling Input section 599
Advanced MIDI Device 600
More Audio 600
The Big Meter 601
Kong Drum Designer 603
Introduction 604
Overview 604
The Pad Section 604
The Drum Control Panel 605
The Drum and FX Section 605
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About using custom backdrops 605
About file formats 605
Using patches 606
Loading a Kit Patch 606
Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 607
Creating a new Kit Patch 607
Creating an empty Kit Patch 608
Saving Kit Patches 608
Pad Settings 609
Assigning Drums to Pads 609
Renaming Pads 610
Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 610
Assigning Hit Type to Pads 610
Muting and Soloing Pads 611
Working with Pad Groups 612
The Drum and FX section 613
Signal flow 614
The Drum Control Panel 616
Sampling in Kong 618
The Drum Module slot 618
The FX slots 619
The Drum modules 620
NN-Nano Sampler 620
Nurse Rex Loop Player 624
Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 629
Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 631
Synth Hi-hat 632
The Support Generator modules 633
Noise Generator 633
Tone Generator 634
The FX modules 635
Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX
parameters 635
Drum Room Reverb 636
Transient Shaper 636
Compressor 637
Filter 638
Parametric EQ 638
Ring Modulator 639
Rattler 640
Tape Echo 640
Overdrive/Resonator 641
Connections 642
Sequencer Control 642
Modulation Input 642
Aux Send Out 642
Gate In and Out 643
Audio Out 3-16 643
Main Audio Out 643
Using Kong as an effect device 643
Using external effects with Kong 644
Redrum Drum Computer 645
Introduction 646
Sampling in Redrum 646
About file formats 647
Using patches 648
Loading a patch 648
Checking the sounds in a patch 648
Creating a new patch 649
Creating an empty patch 649
Programming patterns 650
Pattern basics 650
Pattern tutorial 651
Setting pattern length 652
Setting pattern resolution 653
Step dynamics 653
Pattern Shuffle 654
Flam 654
The Pattern Enable switch 655
The Enable Pattern Section switch 655
Pattern functions 656
Chaining patterns 656
Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer
657
Redrum parameters 658
Drum sound settings 658
Global settings 661
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Using Redrum as a sound module 662
Connections 663
Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 665
Introduction 666
ReCycled Loops 666
About REX file formats 667
Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches
667
About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 667
About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex
devices 667
Playing Loops 668
Switching playback between Loop Slots 668
Adding Loops 669
Loading Loops “On the Fly” 670
Removing Loops 670
Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 670
Playing individual Loop Slices 670
Creating sequencer notes 671
Slice handling 674
Selecting Slices 674
Editing individual Slices 674
Editing in the Waveform Display 675
The Slice Edit Mode 676
Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 677
Pitch and Mod wheels 677
Trig Next Loop 677
Note To Slot 677
Loop Slot buttons 678
Enable Loop Playback and Run 679
Volume 679
Global Transpose 679
Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 680
Select Loop & Load Slot 680
Loop Transpose 680
Loop Level 681
Oscillator section 681
Mod. Wheel 682
Velocity section 682
The Filter Section 683
Envelope section 684
LFO section 685
Pitch Bend Range 686
Setting number of voices - polyphony 687
Audio Quality settings 687
Connections 687
Modulation Inputs 688
Modulation Outputs 688
Gate Inputs 688
Gate Output 688
Slice Outputs 688
Main Outputs 688
Europa Shapeshifting
Synthesizer 689
Introduction 690
Panel overview 691
Signal flow 692
Playing and using Europa 693
Loading and saving patches 693
Global output controls 693
Global performance and “play” controls 693
Panel reference 695
Sound Engines On/Off and Edit Focus section 695
The Oscillator section 695
The Modifiers section 698
The Spectral Filter 700
The Harmonics section 702
The Unison section 704
The User Wave and Mixer section 705
The Filter section 706
The Amplifier section 708
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The Envelopes section 710
The LFO section 714
The Effects section 715
The Modulation Bus section 718
Connections 722
Sequencer Control inputs 722
CV Modulation inputs and outputs 722
Audio Output 722
Tips and Tricks 723
Creating an individual “pre amp envelope” for a Sound
Engine 723
Recording display movements in the sequencer 724
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
725
Introduction 726
Loading and Saving Patches 726
Thor elements 727
The Controller panel 728
Using the Programmer 730
Basic connections - a tutorial 731
The Oscillator section 734
Mix section 741
Filter slots 741
Shaper 745
Amp section 745
LFO 1 746
Envelope sections 747
Global section 748
Modulation bus routing section 750
Step Sequencer 759
Basic operation 759
Connections 763
Subtractor Synthesizer 765
Introduction 766
Loading and Saving Patches 766
The Oscillator Section 767
Oscillator 1 Waveform 767
Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent
769
Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 769
Using Oscillator 2 769
Oscillator 2 Waveform 770
Noise Generator 770
Phase Offset Modulation 771
Frequency Modulation (FM) 773
Ring Modulation 774
The Filter Section 775
Filter 1 Type 775
Filter 1 Frequency 778
Resonance 778
Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 778
Filter 2 779
Envelopes - General 780
Amplitude Envelope 781
Filter Envelope 781
Mod Envelope 782
LFO Section 783
LFO 1 Parameters 783
LFO 2 Parameters 784
Play Parameters 785
Velocity Control 785
Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 786
Legato 787
Retrig 787
Portamento (Time) 787
Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 788
About the Low Bandwidth button 788
External Modulation 788
Connections 789
Audio Output 789
Sequencer Control 789
Modulation Inputs 790
Modulation Outputs 790
Gate Inputs 790
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ID8 Instrument Device 791
Introduction 792
The Sounds 792
The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 792
Using the ID8 793
Selecting Sounds 793
Controlling Sounds 793
About saving edited Sounds 794
NN-XT Sampler 795
Introduction 796
Sampling in NN-XT 796
Panel overview 797
The main panel 797
The Remote Editor panel 797
Loading complete Patches and REX files
798
Loading NN-XT Patches 798
Loading NN-19 Patches 798
Loading SoundFonts 799
Loading complete REX files as Patches 799
Using the main panel 800
The Pitch and Modulation wheels 800
The External Control wheel 800
High Quality Interpolation 801
Global Controls 801
Overview of the Remote Editor panel 803
The Key Map display 803
Sample parameters 804
Group parameters 804
Synth Parameters 805
About Samples and Zones 805
Selections and Edit Focus 806
Selecting Zones 807
Moving Edit Focus 809
Adjusting parameters 809
Adjusting Synth parameters 809
Adjusting Group parameters 809
Sample parameters 810
Managing Zones and Samples 811
Creating a Key Map 811
About file formats and REX slices 812
Adding more samples to the Key Map 812
Replacing a sample 812
Quick browsing through samples 813
Removing samples 813
Auditioning samples 813
Adding empty Zones 813
Duplicating Zones 814
Removing Zones 814
Rearranging Zones in the List 814
Working with Grouping 814
About Groups 814
Creating a Group 814
Moving a Group to another position in the List 815
Moving a Zone from one Group to another 815
Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 816
The Group Parameters 816
Working with Key Ranges 816
About Key Ranges 816
Setting up Key Ranges 816
About the Lock Root Keys function 820
About the Solo Sample function 821
Sorting Zones by Note 822
Setting Root Notes and Tuning 823
About the Root Key 823
Setting the Root Note manually 823
Tuning samples manually 823
Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection
824
About changing the pitch of samples 824
Using Automap 824
Layered, crossfaded and velocity
switched sounds 825
Creating layered sounds 825
About velocity ranges 825
Setting velocity range for a Zone 827
About Crossfading Between Zones 827
Setting crossfading for a Zone 829
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Using Alternate 829
About the Alternate function 829
Sample parameters 830
Root Note and Tune 830
Sample Start and End 830
Loop Start and End 830
Play Mode 831
Lo Key and Hi Key 831
Lo Vel and Hi Vel 831
Fade In and Fade Out 831
Alt 831
Out 831
Group parameters 832
Key Poly 832
Legato and Retrig 833
LFO 1 Rate 833
Portamento 833
Synth parameters 834
The Modulation controls 834
The Velocity controls 836
The Pitch section 837
The Filter section 838
The Modulation Envelope 839
The Amplitude Envelope 841
The LFOs 842
Connections 845
Sequencer Control 845
Modulation Input 845
Gate Input 845
Audio Output 845
NN-19 Sampler 847
Introduction 848
General sampling principles 848
Background 848
Multisampling vs. single samples 848
About audio file formats 849
Loading a Sample Patch 849
Loading REX Files as Patches 850
Sampling in NN-19 850
About Key Zones and samples 851
Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 851
Loading SoundFont samples 852
Loading REX slices as samples 852
Creating Key Zones 852
Selecting Key Zones 853
Setting the Key Zone Range 853
Deleting a Key Zone 854
About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples
854
Adding sample(s) to a Key Map 854
Setting the Root Key 855
Removing sample(s) from a Key Map 855
Removing all unassigned samples 855
Rearranging samples in a Key Map 855
Setting Sample Level 855
Tuning samples 855
Looping Samples 856
About the Solo Sample function 856
Automap Samples 857
Mapping samples without Root Key or Tuning
information 857
How Mapping Information is saved 857
NN-19 synth parameters 858
The Oscillator Section 858
The Filter Section 859
Envelope Section 860
LFO Section 861
Play Parameters 863
Velocity Control 863
Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 863
Legato 864
Retrig 864
Portamento (Time) 864
Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 865
Voice Spread 865
Low Bandwidth 865
Controller Section 865
Connections 866
Audio Outputs 866
Mono Sequencer Control 866
Modulation Inputs 866
Modulation Outputs 866
Gate Inputs 867
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External MIDI Instrument 869
Introduction 870
Using the External MIDI Instrument 870
Setting up for controlling an external MIDI instrument
870
Controlling the sound of your external MIDI instrument
871
Using MIDI Program Change 871
Recording MIDI Controller automation 872
Connections 877
Sequencer Control 877
Assignable CC 877
Tips & Tricks 877
Audio recording of MIDI controlled external instruments
877
Audiomatic Retro Transformer
881
Introduction 882
Using Audiomatic Retro Transformer 882
Gain 882
The Presets 883
Transform 884
Dry/Wet 884
Volume 885
Connections 885
CV Modulation In 885
Input L&R 885
Output L&R 885
Softube Amps 887
Introduction 888
Basic usage 888
Front panel 889
Using the Softube Amps 890
Loading and saving patches 890
Selecting Amp and Cabinet model 890
About the Amp and Cabinet models 891
Amp panel controls 892
Connections 893
Scream 4 Sound Destruction
Unit 895
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit 896
Parameters 896
CV inputs and outputs 900
Screamy tips and tricks 901
RV7000 Mk II Advanced
Reverb 903
Overview 904
About the Patch format 904
Connections 904
The main panel 905
The Remote Programmer 905
Reverb algorithms and parameters 906
Common effect device parameters 906
About the main panel parameters 906
Selecting an algorithm 906
Small Space 907
Room 907
Hall 908
Arena 908
Plate 908
Spring 908
Echo 909
Multi Tap 909
Reverse 910
Convolution 911
The EQ section 914
The Gate section 915
CV Inputs 916
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The MClass Effects 917
The MClass effects 918
The MClass Equalizer 919
The MClass Stereo Imager 920
The MClass Compressor 921
The MClass Maximizer 924
Half-Rack Effects 925
Common effect device features 926
DDL-1 Digital Delay Line 928
CF-101 Chorus/Flanger 929
Spider Audio Merger & Splitter 931
Spider CV Merger & Splitter 933
The Combinator 937
Introduction 938
Creating Combinator devices 939
Combinator elements 940
About internal and external connections
941
About External Routing 941
Adding devices to a Combi 943
About the Insertion line 943
Creating new devices in a Combi 943
Adding devices using drag and drop 944
Adding devices using copy/paste 945
Adding a Combi to a Combi 945
Combining two Combis 945
Combining devices in a Combi with devices in the rack
945
Combi handling 945
Moving the entire Combi 945
Moving devices within a Combi 946
Moving devices out of a Combi 946
Deleting devices in a Combi 946
Uncombining devices 946
Sequencer tracks and playing Combis
946
The Controller panel 947
Select backdrop... 948
Using the Programmer 949
Key Mapping instrument devices 950
Setting Velocity Ranges for instrument devices 951
Using Modulation Routing 952
CV Connections 955
Pulsar Dual LFO 957
Introduction 958
Panel parameters 958
LFO 1&2 common parameters 958
LFO 1 specific parameters 960
LFO 2 specific parameters 960
LFO 2 to LFO 1 modulation parameters 960
Envelope 961
KBD Follow 963
Modulation inputs and outputs 964
LFO 1&2 input sections 964
LFO 1&2 output sections 965
Output LFO 1+2 965
Envelope connections 965
Tips and Tricks 966
Patch between LFO 1 and LFO 2 on the back for more
flexibility 966
Using Pulsar as a monophonic synth 966
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