Propellerhead Reason Lite 10.3 Operating instructions

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Table of Contents

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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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