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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS4

Introduction 29

Welcome! 30

About this chapter 30

About this manual 30

About the Reason operating system

versions 30

Conventions in the manual 30

The Authorization system 32

Registering Reason 32

Running Reason with Internet Verification 33

Authorizing your Computer/Ignition Key (for off-line use)

33

About deauthorizing the computer/Ignition Key 34

Running Reason on an authorized computer - or with an

authorized Ignition Key hardware 34

Running Reason in Demo Mode 35

Managing additional content 36

Reassigning the Function Keys in macOS

37

About automatic program updates 38

Common Operations and

Concepts 41

About this chapter 42

Areas, windows and basic navigation 42

Song window overview 42

The Browser 43

The Main Mixer 44

The Tutorial area 44

The Rack 45

The Sequencer 46

The Transport Panel 46

The ReGroove Mixer 47

Navigating between the areas 47

Showing/hiding the Navigators 47

About different Themes 48

Using several Reason Song windows 49

The Tool Window 49

The On-screen Piano Keys window 50

General window techniques 51

Resizing 51

Scrolling 52

Zooming in the Sequencer 53

Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 54

Editing parameters 55

Knobs 55

Faders and sliders 56

Buttons 56

Fold/Unfold buttons 57

Multi Mode selectors 57

Numerical controls 58

Alpha-numeric controls 58

Numerical segment displays 59

Tool Tips 60

Context menus 61

Parameter context menus 61

Device context menus 62

Main Mixer channel strip context menu 63

Rack “background” context menu 64

Main Mixer “background” context menu 64

Sequencer context menus 64

Undo and Redo 65

On-screen Piano Keys 67

About this chapter 68

Using the On-screen Piano Keys 68

Opening the Piano Keys window 68

Mouse mode 69

Computer Keys mode 70

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Audio Basics 73

About this chapter 74

How Reason communicates with your

audio hardware 74

Manual audio routing 75

Audio quality 75

Audio settings 76

About audio levels 78

System signal paths 81

Audio Track signal paths 81

Instrument Track signal paths 82

General information about audio and

computers 83

About latency 83

About processors 84

About RAM 84

Sequencer Functions 85

About this chapter 86

Introduction 86

Sequencer area overview 86

Song View and Edit Mode 87

Toolbar overview 88

Track List overview 88

Tracks overview 89

Lanes overview 89

Clips overview 90

Inspector overview 90

Ruler overview 90

Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 90

Track scrollbar overview 91

Song Navigator overview 91

Transport Panel overview 91

Track details 92

Track definition 92

The relationship between the track, the rack and the

Main Mixer 93

Master Keyboard Input 98

The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events

99

Track types 99

Track List elements 101

Creating tracks 101

Selecting tracks 105

Resizing tracks 106

Moving tracks 106

Deleting tracks 107

Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 107

Coloring tracks 108

Naming tracks 109

Folding tracks 109

Muting tracks 110

Soloing tracks 110

Lane details 111

Audio lane 111

Note lane 112

Parameter automation lane 113

Pattern lane 114

Creating/adding lanes 115

Deleting lanes 117

Moving note lanes 118

Copying (duplicating) note lanes 118

Muting lanes 119

Clip basics 119

Clip types 119

Toolbar details 120

Toolbar tools 120

Alternate tools 123

Edit Mode buttons 123

Snap 123

Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 125

Ruler details 126

Transport Panel details 126

Transport keyboard commands 130

About the Inspector 131

About subticks in the Position and Length displays 131

About the “Match Values” function 131

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Recording in the Sequencer

133

About this chapter 134

General recording functions 134

Record enabling 134

Click and Pre-count 138

Loop mode 140

General recording procedure 141

Undoing a recording 142

Recording tips 142

Audio recording details 142

Setting up the audio track 142

Recording audio 147

Recording audio in Loop mode 149

Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 150

Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 150

Recording over or into an existing audio clip 151

Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 152

Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 154

Note recording details 158

Setting up the instrument track 158

Recording notes 158

Recording notes in Loop mode 158

Recording over or into an existing note clip 159

Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 160

Parameter automation recording details

162

Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation

162

Recording performance controller automation 163

Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 164

Recording performance controller automation over or

into an existing clip 164

About performance controller automation on multiple

lanes 165

Recording parameter automation 165

Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 166

Recording parameter automation over or into an existing

clip 167

Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live

mode” 168

Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 168

Pattern automation recording details 169

Recording pattern automation 169

Tempo automation recording 170

Recording tempo automation 170

Arranging in the Sequencer

173

About this chapter 174

Clip handling 174

Creating Clips 174

Selecting clips 174

Setting audio clip Level and Fades 177

Deleting clips 178

Resizing (masking) clips 179

About masked recordings and events 180

Tempo scaling clips 182

Moving clips 184

About overlapping clips 186

Duplicating clips 186

Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 186

Naming clips 187

Coloring clips 187

Splitting clips 188

Crossfading audio clips 189

Joining clips 190

Reversing clips 192

Muting clips 192

Merging clips on note lanes 193

Bounce in Place 193

Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 196

Inserting bars 198

Removing bars 198

About removing bars that contain audio recordings 199

Audio Editing in the

Sequencer 201

About this chapter 202

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Edit Modes, Stretch & Transpose Types

and Clip Types 202

Edit Modes 202

Selecting Stretch and Transpose Type 202

Clip Types 203

Opening audio clips for editing 204

Editing audio in Slice Edit mode 205

Audio clip elements in Slice Edit mode 205

Slice Edit mode tools 205

Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 206

Adding Slice Markers 207

Deleting Slice Markers 208

Repositioning Slice Markers 208

Moving/stretching Slices 208

Nudging Slices 210

Quantizing audio 210

Split at Slices 211

Bounce Clip to REX Loop 211

Revert All Slices 212

Editing audio in Pitch Edit mode 213

Pitch Editor elements 213

Selecting notes 214

Auditioning notes 214

Correcting pitches 215

Changing transposition 215

Resetting pitches 215

Splitting the clip at notes 215

Reverting all notes 215

Attenuating pitch drift/vibrato 216

Editing transition times 216

Moving notes and changing note lengths 217

Quantizing notes 218

Splitting and joining notes 218

About switching from Pitch Edit mode to Slice Edit mode

219

Audio pitch editing in the Inspector 219

Editing audio in the Comp Editor 221

Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 221

The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and

Recordings 225

Comp Editor window handling 227

Comp Editor audio editing tools 227

Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip

228

Selecting Comp Rows 229

Deleting Comp Rows 230

Moving Comp Rows 230

Duplicating Comp Rows 230

Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 231

Adjusting the Comp Row Level 231

Adjusting the Recording Offset 232

Comping audio 233

Adding Cuts 233

Adding Segments 234

Adding Crossfades to Cuts 234

Deleting Cuts 235

Moving Cuts 235

Changing Comp Row assignments 236

Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 237

Creating a comped audio clip 238

Common audio editing functions 242

Delete Unused Recordings 242

Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 242

Bouncing audio to MIDI notes 242

Normalizing audio clips 244

Reversing audio clips 245

Changing the tempo and transposition of

the audio 246

Tempo scaling Clips 246

Transposing Audio Clips 247

Audio and tempo matching 249

Matching imported audio to the song tempo 249

Editing audio using the Inspector 250

Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 250

Matching audio values using the "Match Values"

function 250

Note and Automation Editing

253

About this chapter 254

The Edit Mode 254

Selecting what to edit 255

Opening note and automation clips for editing 255

Edit Mode elements 257

Edit Mode window handling 259

Note Edit Modes 259

Creating empty clips 262

Tool Window editing tools 263

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Note editing 264

Selecting notes 264

Drawing notes 265

Deleting notes 268

Resizing notes 268

Muting notes 270

Splitting notes 271

Moving notes 272

Duplicating notes 275

Using Cut, Copy and Paste 276

Quantize 277

Pitch (Transpose) 280

Extract Notes to Lanes 281

Scale Tempo 284

Editing note velocity 285

Reverse 287

Multi Lanes editing 289

Overview 289

Selecting multiple lanes for editing 289

Editing notes in Multi Lanes mode 290

Automation editing 291

Overview 291

Editing parameter automation 291

Drawing parameter automation events 294

Creating curves between automation points 295

Deleting automation events 296

Reversing automation events 296

Editing performance controller automation 296

About Automation Cleanup 298

Editing pattern automation 299

Drawing pattern automation 300

Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips

301

Deleting pattern automation clips 301

The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 302

Editing tempo automation 302

About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio

tracks 303

Automating time signature 304

Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature

automation clips 305

Deleting time signature automation clips 305

Note and automation editing in the

Inspector 306

Editing notes and events in the Inspector 306

Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”

function 306

Working with Blocks in the

Sequencer 309

About this chapter 310

Introduction 310

The idea behind Blocks 310

Arrangement Views 311

Song View (with Blocks disabled) 311

Song View (with Blocks enabled) 311

Block View 312

Editing Blocks in the Block View 312

Selecting a Block for editing 312

Renaming Blocks 313

Defining the Block length 313

Changing Block color 313

Recording in the Block View 313

Editing clips in the Block View 313

Arranging clips in the Block View 314

Arranging Blocks in the Song View 314

Creating Block Automation Clips 314

Resizing Block Automation Clips 316

Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 316

Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 317

Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 319

Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 321

Working with the Rack 325

About this chapter 326

Rack device procedures 326

Navigating in the rack 326

Resizing and detaching the rack 327

About Device Groups 328

Creating devices 330

Selecting devices 332

Deleting devices 334

Re-ordering devices 334

Re-routing devices 336

Creating new rack columns 336

About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 336

Replacing devices 337

Duplicating devices 338

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Cut, Copy and Paste devices 338

Naming devices 339

Folding and unfolding devices 340

Working with Players 341

About this chapter 342

Overview 342

General recording methods 343

Using Players 344

Creating Players 344

Chaining Players 344

Replacing Players 344

Deleting Players 344

Naming Players 344

About Players in Combinators 345

Common Player device parameters 345

Dual Arpeggio 346

The Display sections 348

Note Echo 354

Scales & Chords 355

Scales 355

Filter Notes 356

Chords 357

Tips & Tricks 360

Generating scale-correct arpeggios from single notes

360

Generating chord arpeggios 360

Creating parallel chords 360

Using a Scales & Chords device as a “MIDI Note monitor”

361

Working with Rack Extensions

363

About this chapter 364

What are Rack Extensions? 364

Future compatibility 364

Trying and buying Rack Extensions 364

Trial versions of Rack Extensions 364

Buying Rack Extensions 364

Installing and managing Rack

Extensions 365

Using Rack Extensions in Reason 366

About missing Rack Extensions 368

Working with VST Plugins 369

About this chapter 370

About VST plugins 370

VST compatibility in Reason 370

Installing and enabling VST plugins 370

About VST licenses 370

Installing VST plugins under Windows 370

Installing VST plugins under Mac 371

Enabling VST plugins in Reason 371

Using VST plugins in Reason 372

Adding VSTs to the rack 372

The Plugin Rack Device 373

Front panel 373

Rear panel 374

About auto-routing of VSTs in the rack 375

The Plugin Window 375

Editing the VST parameters 377

Automating VST parameters 377

CV modulation of VST parameters 378

Remote controlling VST parameters 381

Selecting VST programs 383

About saving songs that contain VSTs 383

Combining VST plugins in Combinator devices 383

About missing VST plugins 384

Managing VST plugins 384

Plugin Status 385

Defining custom VST folders 386

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Sounds, Patches and the

Browser 387

About this chapter 388

About patches 388

Reason devices that use patches 388

Loading patches 389

Setting browse focus 392

Saving patches 393

Copying and pasting patches between devices 394

Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 394

About ReFills 395

Using the Browser 396

Opening the browser 397

Browser elements 398

Navigating in the Browser 402

Using Locations and Favorites 404

Favorites Lists 404

Selecting and auditioning samples and REX loops 407

Selecting multiple files 407

Cross-browsing patch files 408

Create Instrument/Create Effect 409

About patch formats and sampler devices 409

Using the “Search” function 410

Loading files 410

About browse lists 411

Handling Missing Sounds 412

Reason file formats 414

Routing Audio and CV 417

About this chapter 418

Signal types 418

Audio signals 418

CV/Gate signals 418

P-LAN signals 419

About MIDI routing 419

About cables 419

Cable appearance 419

Checking and following cable connections 420

Cable color 421

Automatic routing 421

Auto-routing of audio input signals 421

Auto-routing of Instrument devices 422

Auto-routing of Effect devices 422

Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 423

Auto-routing devices after they have been created 423

About re-routing devices in songs created in Reason

Version 5 or earlier 424

Manual routing 425

Connecting cables 426

Connecting cables using pop-up menus 426

Disconnecting cables 427

Disconnecting devices 427

Using CV and Gate 428

Routing CV and Gate signals 428

About CV Trim knobs 428

The Main Mixer 429

About this chapter 430

Overview 430

The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 431

The Mix Channel device and channel strip 432

The Master Section device and mixer strip 433

Navigating in the Main Mixer 434

Viewing the Main Mixer area 434

Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 434

Showing and hiding channel strip sections 435

Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks

436

Managing mixer channels 437

Creating and deleting channels 437

Selecting channels 437

Moving channels 438

Copying and duplicating channels 438

Copy channel settings 439

Resetting channel settings 439

Naming mixer channels 439

Coloring mixer channels 440

The channel strip 441

Input section 441

Dynamics section 442

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EQ section 445

The Spectrum EQ Window 446

Insert FX section 449

FX Sends section 450

Fader section 451

Channel Header section 453

The Master Section strip 454

Master Compressor section 455

FX Send section 456

Master Inserts section 457

FX Return section 458

Master Fader section 459

Master Section Header 460

Automating mixer parameters 460

Working with effects 460

Insert FX 460

Send FX 465

Output Busses 468

Creating an Output Bus 468

Deleting an Output Bus 470

Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 471

Parallel Channels 472

Creating Parallel Channels 472

Deleting Parallel Channels 475

Naming Parallel Channels 475

Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 476

Solo and Mute logic 476

Send FX level and mute logic 478

Remote controlling the Main Mixer 480

Remote controlling a single mixer channel 480

Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 480

Advanced routing tips and tricks 483

Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices

483

Using compression sidechaining 485

Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct

Outs 486

Creating an input channel for recording with effects 487

Delay Compensation 491

About this chapter 492

About Delay Compensation in Reason

492

Activating the Delay Compensation 492

Delay Compensation rules and limitations 493

How the Delay Compensation works 496

Delay Compensation in individual mixer channels 496

Delay Compensation with Busses and Parallel Channels

500

Delay Compensation to Send FX busses 501

About the Master Insert FX 501

Problematic configurations 502

About using the Direct Out connections of the mixer

channels 506

About the Metronome Click 506

Recording with Delay Compensation 506

Playing and monitoring with Delay Compensation 506

About bouncing mixer channels 506

Song File Handling 507

About this chapter 508

Opening Songs 508

Opening a Reason or Record Song 508

Opening a Reason Demo Song 509

Opening the last Song at program launch 509

Closing Songs 510

Closing a Song 510

Creating Songs 510

Creating a new Song 510

Setting up a Default Song 510

Creating a new Song from a template 511

Saving Songs 511

Saving a Song 511

Saving and optimizing a Song 512

Including Song Information 512

About Self-Contained Songs 513

Making a Song appear as a Template Song 514

A note about saving Songs as audio files 514

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Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 515

About audio data in Song files 515

Changing Scratch Disk folder location 515

About “Orphan Audio Streams” 516

Importing and exporting Standard MIDI

Files 516

Importing Standard MIDI Files 516

Exporting Standard MIDI Files 517

Importing and Exporting

Audio 519

About this chapter 520

Importing audio 520

Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 520

About tempo matching imported audio 520

Importing audio to the sequencer 521

Exporting audio 524

Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 524

Bouncing Mixer Channels 526

Bouncing Audio Clips 528

Sampling 531

About this chapter 532

Overview 532

One-click sampling 532

The Edit Sample window 532

About sample format, rate and resolution 533

General sampling functions 533

Setting up for sampling 533

Sampling 535

The Sample buttons 535

Sampling procedure 535

The Song Samples location 538

Editing samples 540

The Edit Sample window 540

Setting Sample Start and End 542

Cropping samples 544

Normalizing samples 544

Reversing samples 544

Fading in/out samples 545

Looping samples 546

Saving edited samples 548

Renaming samples 548

Sample management 549

About Assigned and Unassigned samples 549

Saving samples in a song 550

Deleting samples from a song 550

Loading samples into a device 551

Duplicating samples 552

Exporting samples 553

About self-contained samples 555

The ReGroove Mixer 557

Introduction 558

ReGroove basics 558

The ReGroove Mixer 559

Global parameters 559

Channel parameters 560

Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 564

Groove Settings 565

Working with grooves 568

Applying grooves to your music 568

Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”

571

Creating your own ReGroove patches 572

Groovy tips & tricks 573

ReGroove patches in the Factory Sounds

bank 574

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Remote - Playing and

Controlling Devices 575

About the various MIDI inputs 576

About Remote 576

Setting up 577

Automatic set-up using the Easy MIDI Inputs function

577

Adding a specific control surface or keyboard 578

Other functions 581

Example Setups 581

Remote basics 582

About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 582

About mapping variations 582

Locking a surface to a device 584

Locking a surface 584

Unlocking a surface 586

Remote Override 587

Activating Remote Override Edit mode 587

Remote Override mapping 588

Additional Remote Overrides... 591

Assigning Additional Overrides 592

Keyboard Control 593

Enabling Keyboard Control 593

Editing Keyboard Control 593

Saving Remote Setups 594

Synchronization and

Advanced MIDI 595

About this chapter 596

Synchronization to MIDI Clock 596

What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 596

Using Reason as MIDI Clock Host 596

Syncing Reason to an external MIDI application or

instrument 598

Syncing Reason to another program on the same

computer 598

External synchronization considerations 599

Synchronization using Ableton Link 601

About Ableton Link 601

Synchronizing Reason’s sequencer with Ableton Link

601

Advanced MIDI - The External Control

Bus inputs 603

About the External Control Bus inputs 603

Routing MIDI to devices 604

Receiving Controller data via MIDI 604

About recording Pattern Changes 604

Optimizing Performance 605

Introduction 606

Checking Processing Power 606

Optimization and latency reduction 606

About Latency Compensation 607

Optimizing your computer system 608

Optimizing Songs 610

RAM requirements 612

Hardware Interface 613

Introduction 614

Sampling Input section 615

Advanced MIDI Device 616

More Audio 616

The Big Meter 617

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Kong Drum Designer 619

Introduction 620

Overview 620

The Pad Section 620

The Drum Control Panel 621

The Drum and FX Section 621

About using custom backdrops 621

About file formats 621

Using patches 622

Loading a Kit Patch 622

Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 623

Creating a new Kit Patch 623

Creating an empty Kit Patch 624

Saving Kit Patches 624

Pad Settings 625

Assigning Drums to Pads 625

Renaming Pads 626

Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 626

Assigning Hit Type to Pads 626

Muting and Soloing Pads 627

Working with Pad Groups 628

The Drum and FX section 629

Signal flow 630

The Drum Control Panel 632

Sampling in Kong 634

The Drum Module slot 634

The FX slots 635

The Drum modules 636

NN-Nano Sampler 636

Nurse Rex Loop Player 640

Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 645

Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 647

Synth Hi-hat 648

The Support Generator modules 649

Noise Generator 649

Tone Generator 650

The FX modules 651

Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX

parameters 651

Drum Room Reverb 652

Transient Shaper 652

Compressor 653

Filter 654

Parametric EQ 654

Ring Modulator 655

Rattler 656

Tape Echo 656

Overdrive/Resonator 657

Connections 658

Sequencer Control 658

Modulation Input 658

Aux Send Out 658

Gate In and Out 659

Audio Out 3-16 659

Main Audio Out 659

Using Kong as an effect device 659

Using external effects with Kong 660

Redrum Drum Computer 661

Introduction 662

Sampling in Redrum 662

About file formats 663

Using patches 664

Loading a patch 664

Checking the sounds in a patch 664

Creating a new patch 665

Creating an empty patch 665

Programming patterns 666

Pattern basics 666

Pattern tutorial 667

Setting pattern length 668

Setting pattern resolution 669

Step dynamics 669

Pattern Shuffle 670

Flam 670

The Pattern Enable switch 671

The Enable Pattern Section switch 671

Pattern functions 672

Chaining patterns 672

Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer

673

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Redrum parameters 674

Drum sound settings 674

Global settings 677

Using Redrum as a sound module 678

Connections 679

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 681

Introduction 682

ReCycled Loops 682

About REX file formats 683

Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches

683

About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 683

About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex

devices 683

Playing Loops 684

Switching playback between Loop Slots 684

Adding Loops 685

Loading Loops “On the Fly” 686

Removing Loops 686

Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 686

Playing individual Loop Slices 686

Creating sequencer notes 687

Slice handling 690

Selecting Slices 690

Editing individual Slices 690

Editing in the Waveform Display 691

The Slice Edit Mode 692

Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 693

Pitch and Mod wheels 693

Trig Next Loop 693

Note To Slot 693

Loop Slot buttons 694

Enable Loop Playback and Run 695

Volume 695

Global Transpose 695

Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 696

Select Loop & Load Slot 696

Loop Transpose 696

Loop Level 697

Oscillator section 697

Mod. Wheel 698

Velocity section 698

The Filter Section 699

Envelope section 700

LFO section 701

Pitch Bend Range 702

Setting number of voices - polyphony 703

Audio Quality settings 703

Connections 703

Modulation Inputs 704

Modulation Outputs 704

Gate Inputs 704

Gate Output 704

Slice Outputs 704

Main Outputs 704

Europa Shapeshifting

Synthesizer 705

Introduction 706

Panel overview 707

Signal flow 708

Playing and using Europa 709

Loading and saving patches 709

Global output controls 709

Global performance and “play” controls 709

Panel reference 711

Sound Engines On/Off and Edit Focus section 711

The Oscillator section 711

The Modifiers section 714

The Spectral Filter 716

The Harmonics section 718

The Unison section 720

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The User Wave and Mixer section 721

The Filter section 722

The Amplifier section 724

The Envelopes section 726

The LFO section 730

The Effects section 731

The Modulation Bus section 734

Connections 738

Sequencer Control inputs 738

CV Modulation inputs and outputs 738

Audio Output 738

Tips and Tricks 739

Creating an individual “pre amp envelope” for a Sound

Engine 739

Recording display movements in the sequencer 740

Grain Sample Manipulator 741

Introduction 742

A few words about granular synthesis 742

Panel overview 744

Playing and using Grain 745

Loading and saving patches 745

Global performance and “play” controls 745

Global output controls 746

Panel reference 747

The Sample section 747

The Playback Algorithms section 749

The Oscillator section 754

The Filter section 755

The Amplifier section 756

The Envelopes section 757

The LFO section 761

The Effects section 761

The Modulation Bus section 765

Connections 769

Sequencer Control inputs 769

CV Modulation inputs and outputs 769

Audio Output 769

Tips and Tricks 770

Automating sample playback parameters from the

sequencer 770

Thor Polysonic Synthesizer

773

Introduction 774

Loading and Saving Patches 774

Thor elements 775

The Controller panel 776

Using the Programmer 778

Basic connections - a tutorial 779

The Oscillator section 782

Mix section 789

Filter slots 789

Shaper 793

Amp section 793

LFO 1 794

Envelope sections 795

Global section 796

Modulation bus routing section 798

Step Sequencer 807

Basic operation 807

Connections 811

Subtractor Synthesizer 813

Introduction 814

Loading and Saving Patches 814

The Oscillator Section 815

Oscillator 1 Waveform 815

Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent

817

Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 817

Using Oscillator 2 817

Oscillator 2 Waveform 818

Noise Generator 818

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Phase Offset Modulation 819

Frequency Modulation (FM) 821

Ring Modulation 822

The Filter Section 823

Filter 1 Type 823

Filter 1 Frequency 826

Resonance 826

Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 826

Filter 2 827

Envelopes - General 828

Amplitude Envelope 829

Filter Envelope 829

Mod Envelope 830

LFO Section 831

LFO 1 Parameters 831

LFO 2 Parameters 832

Play Parameters 833

Velocity Control 833

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 834

Legato 835

Retrig 835

Portamento (Time) 835

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 836

About the Low Bandwidth button 836

External Modulation 836

Connections 837

Audio Output 837

Sequencer Control 837

Modulation Inputs 838

Modulation Outputs 838

Gate Inputs 838

Malström Synthesizer 839

Introduction 840

Features 840

Theory of operation 841

Loading and Saving Patches 841

The Oscillator section 842

Setting oscillator frequency 843

Controlling playback of the graintable 843

The amplitude envelopes 844

The Modulator section 845

Modulator parameters 845

Destinations 846

The Filter section 847

The Filters 848

The Filter Envelope 850

The Shaper 851

Routing 853

Routing examples 854

The output controls 857

The play controls 857

Polyphony - setting the number of voices 858

Porta (portamento) 858

Legato 858

The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 859

The Velocity controls 859

The Modulation wheel controls 860

Connections 861

Audio Output 861

Audio Input 861

Sequencer Control 861

Gate Input 862

Modulation Input 862

Modulation Output 862

Routing external audio to the filters 863

Monotone Bass Synthesizer

865

Introduction 866

Panel overview 867

Signal flow 868

Playing and using Monotone 869

Loading and saving patches 869

Global output controls 869

Global performance and “play” controls 869

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Panel reference 870

The Oscillator section 870

The Filter section 871

The Amplifier section 873

Chorus 874

Delay 875

The LFO section 875

The Envelope section 876

Connections 877

Sequencer Control inputs 877

Modulation inputs 877

Audio Output 877

ID8 Instrument Device 879

Introduction 880

The Sounds 880

The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 880

Using the ID8 881

Selecting Sounds 881

Controlling Sounds 881

About saving edited Sounds 882

Rytmik Drum Machine 883

Introduction 884

Panel overview 885

Signal flow 886

Global controls 886

Loading and saving patches 886

The Drum Channel sections 887

Auditioning samples 887

Selecting a Drum Channel 887

Muting and soloing Drum Channels 887

Setting the Drum Channel volumes 887

Setting the Send Effect levels 888

The Sample Playback section 888

Selecting Samples 888

Setting the Sample Start and End 889

Setting the Panning 889

Setting the Pitch 889

Setting Fade In and Fade Out 890

The Insert Effects section 890

Distortion 890

Low Cut and Hi Cut Filter 891

The Master FX section 891

Delay 892

Reverb 893

Compressor 894

Master Pitch 896

Master Reverb 896

Master Filter 896

Master Volume 897

Connections 898

Drum Gate In/Out 898

Separate Outputs 898

Main Output L & R 898

Radical Piano 899

Introduction 900

The pianos 900

Using Radical Piano 902

Loading and saving patches 902

Selecting piano sound sets 902

Character 902

Volume 903

Velocity Response 903

Tune 904

Sustain 904

Resonance 905

Envelope 905

Mechanics 906

EQ 906

Ambience 907

Output 907

Connections 908

Sequencer Control 908

Modulation In 908

Audio In 908

Audio Out 908

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Additional external control 909

Klang Tuned Percussion 911

Introduction 912

Panel overview 912

Using Klang 913

Loading and saving patches 913

Global performance and “play” controls

913

Panel controls 914

The Instruments section 914

The Filter section 919

The Amp section 921

The Delay section 922

The Reverb section 924

Connections 925

Sequencer Control inputs 925

Modulation Inputs 925

Audio Out 925

Pangea World Instruments

927

Introduction 928

Panel overview 928

Using Pangea 929

Loading and saving patches 929

Global performance and “play” controls

929

Panel controls 930

The Instruments section 930

The Filter section 935

The Amp section 937

The Delay section 939

The Reverb section 940

Connections 942

Sequencer Control inputs 942

Modulation Inputs 942

Audio Out 942

Humana Vocal Ensemble 943

Introduction 944

Panel overview 944

Using Humana 945

Loading and saving patches 945

Global performance and “play” controls

945

Panel controls 946

The Instruments section 946

The Filter section 952

The Amp section 954

The Delay section 956

The Reverb section 957

Connections 959

Sequencer Control inputs 959

Modulation Inputs 959

Audio Out 959

NN-XT Sampler 961

Introduction 962

Sampling in NN-XT 962

Panel overview 963

The main panel 963

The Remote Editor panel 963

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Loading complete Patches and REX files

964

Loading NN-XT Patches 964

Loading NN-19 Patches 964

Loading SoundFonts 965

Loading complete REX files as Patches 965

Using the main panel 966

The Pitch and Modulation wheels 966

The External Control wheel 966

High Quality Interpolation 967

Global Controls 967

Overview of the Remote Editor panel 969

The Key Map display 969

Sample parameters 970

Group parameters 970

Synth Parameters 971

About Samples and Zones 971

Selections and Edit Focus 972

Selecting Zones 973

Moving Edit Focus 975

Adjusting parameters 975

Adjusting Synth parameters 975

Adjusting Group parameters 975

Sample parameters 976

Managing Zones and Samples 977

Creating a Key Map 977

About file formats and REX slices 978

Adding more samples to the Key Map 978

Replacing a sample 978

Quick browsing through samples 979

Removing samples 979

Auditioning samples 979

Adding empty Zones 979

Duplicating Zones 980

Removing Zones 980

Rearranging Zones in the List 980

Working with Grouping 980

About Groups 980

Creating a Group 980

Moving a Group to another position in the List 981

Moving a Zone from one Group to another 981

Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 982

The Group Parameters 982

Working with Key Ranges 982

About Key Ranges 982

Setting up Key Ranges 982

About the Lock Root Keys function 986

About the Solo Sample function 987

Sorting Zones by Note 988

Setting Root Notes and Tuning 989

About the Root Key 989

Setting the Root Note manually 989

Tuning samples manually 989

Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection

990

About changing the pitch of samples 990

Using Automap 990

Layered, crossfaded and velocity

switched sounds 991

Creating layered sounds 991

About velocity ranges 991

Setting velocity range for a Zone 993

About Crossfading Between Zones 993

Setting crossfading for a Zone 995

Using Alternate 995

About the Alternate function 995

Sample parameters 996

Root Note and Tune 996

Sample Start and End 996

Loop Start and End 996

Play Mode 997

Lo Key and Hi Key 997

Lo Vel and Hi Vel 997

Fade In and Fade Out 997

Alt 997

Out 997

Group parameters 998

Key Poly 998

Legato and Retrig 999

LFO 1 Rate 999

Portamento 999

Synth parameters 1000

The Modulation controls 1000

The Velocity controls 1002

The Pitch section 1003

The Filter section 1004

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