Propellerhead Reason 9.0 User manual

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Table of Contents

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4

Introduction 25

Welcome! 26

About this chapter 26

About this manual 26

About the Reason operating system

versions 26

Conventions in the manual 26

The Authorization system 28

Registering Reason 28

Running Reason with Internet Verification 29

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

29

About deauthorizing the computer/Ignition Key 30

Running Reason on an authorized computer - or with an

authorized Ignition Key hardware 30

Running Reason in Demo Mode 31

Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac

OS X 32

About automatic program updates 33

Common Operations and

Concepts 35

About this chapter 36

Areas, windows and basic navigation 36

Song window overview 36

The Browser 37

The Main Mixer 38

The Rack 39

The Sequencer 40

The Transport Panel 40

The ReGroove Mixer 41

Navigating between the areas 41

Showing/hiding the Navigators 41

About different Themes 42

Using several Reason Song windows 42

The Tool Window 43

The On-screen Piano Keys window 43

General window techniques 45

Resizing 45

Scrolling 46

Zooming in the Sequencer 47

Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 48

Editing parameters 49

Knobs 49

Faders and sliders 50

Buttons 50

Fold/Unfold buttons 51

Multi Mode selectors 51

Numerical controls 52

Alpha-numeric controls 52

Numerical segment displays 53

Tool Tips 54

Context menus 55

Parameter context menus 55

Device context menus 56

Main Mixer channel strip context menu 57

Rack “background” context menu 58

Main Mixer “background” context menu 58

Sequencer context menus 58

Undo and Redo 59

On-screen Piano Keys 61

About this chapter 62

Using the On-screen Piano Keys 62

Opening the Piano Keys window 62

Mouse mode 63

Computer Keys mode 64

Audio Basics 67

About this chapter 68

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How Reason communicates with your

audio hardware 68

Manual audio routing 69

Audio quality 69

Audio settings 70

About audio levels 72

System signal paths 75

Audio Track signal paths 75

Instrument Track signal paths 76

General information about audio and

computers 77

About latency 77

About processors 78

About RAM 78

Sequencer Functions 79

About this chapter 80

Introduction 80

Sequencer area overview 80

Song View and Edit Mode 81

Toolbar overview 82

Track List overview 82

Tracks overview 83

Lanes overview 83

Clips overview 84

Inspector overview 84

Ruler overview 84

Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 84

Track scrollbar overview 85

Song Navigator overview 85

Transport Panel overview 85

Track details 86

Track definition 86

The relationship between the track, the rack and the

Main Mixer 87

Master Keyboard Input 92

The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events

93

Track types 93

Track List elements 95

Creating tracks 95

Selecting tracks 99

Moving tracks 100

Deleting tracks 100

Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 101

Coloring tracks 102

Naming tracks 102

Folding tracks 102

Muting tracks 103

Soloing tracks 103

Lane details 104

Audio lane 104

Note lane 105

Parameter automation lane 106

Pattern lane 107

Creating/adding lanes 108

Deleting lanes 110

Moving note lanes 111

Copying (duplicating) note lanes 111

Muting lanes 112

Clip basics 112

Clip types 112

Toolbar details 113

Toolbar tools 113

Alternate tools 115

Edit Mode buttons 116

Snap 116

Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 117

Ruler details 118

Transport Panel details 118

Transport keyboard commands 122

About the Inspector 123

About subticks in the Position and Length displays 123

About the “Match Values” function 123

Recording in the Sequencer

125

About this chapter 126

General recording functions 126

Record enabling 126

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Click and Pre-count 130

Loop mode 132

General recording procedure 133

Undoing a recording 134

Recording tips 134

Audio recording details 134

Setting up the audio track 134

Recording audio 139

Recording audio in Loop mode 141

Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 142

Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 142

Recording over or into an existing audio clip 143

Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 144

Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 146

Note recording details 150

Setting up the instrument track 150

Recording notes 150

Recording notes in Loop mode 150

Recording over or into an existing note clip 151

Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 152

Parameter automation recording details

154

Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation

154

Recording performance controller automation 155

Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 156

Recording performance controller automation over or

into an existing clip 156

About performance controller automation on multiple

lanes 157

Recording parameter automation 157

Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 158

Recording parameter automation over or into an existing

clip 159

Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live

mode” 160

Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 160

Pattern automation recording details 161

Recording pattern automation 161

Tempo automation recording 162

Recording tempo automation 162

Arranging in the Sequencer

165

About this chapter 166

Clip handling 166

Creating Clips 166

Selecting clips 166

Setting audio clip Level and Fades 169

Deleting clips 170

Resizing (masking) clips 171

About masked recordings and events 172

Tempo scaling clips 174

Moving clips 176

About overlapping clips 178

Duplicating clips 178

Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 178

Naming clips 179

Coloring clips 179

Splitting clips 180

Joining clips 181

Reversing clips 182

Muting clips 183

Merging clips on note lanes 183

Bounce in Place 184

Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 186

Inserting bars 188

Removing bars 188

About removing bars that contain audio recordings 189

Audio Editing in the

Sequencer 191

About this chapter 192

Edit Modes, Stretch & Transpose Types

and Clip Types 192

Edit Modes 192

Selecting Stretch and Transpose Type 192

Clip Types 193

Opening audio clips for editing 194

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Editing audio in Slice Edit mode 195

Audio clip elements in Slice Edit mode 195

Slice Edit mode tools 195

Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 196

Adding Slice Markers 197

Deleting Slice Markers 198

Repositioning Slice Markers 198

Moving/stretching Slices 198

Nudging Slices 200

Quantizing audio 200

Split at Slices 201

Bounce Clip to REX Loop 201

Revert All Slices 202

Editing audio in Pitch Edit mode 203

Pitch Editor elements 203

Selecting notes 204

Auditioning notes 204

Correcting pitches 205

Changing transposition 205

Resetting pitches 205

Splitting the clip at notes 205

Reverting all notes 205

Attenuating pitch drift/vibrato 206

Editing transition times 206

Moving notes and changing note lengths 207

Quantizing notes 208

Splitting and joining notes 208

About switching from Pitch Edit mode to Slice Edit mode

209

Audio pitch editing in the Inspector 209

Editing audio in the Comp Editor 211

Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 211

The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and

Recordings 215

Comp Editor window handling 217

Comp Editor audio editing tools 217

Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip

218

Selecting Comp Rows 219

Deleting Comp Rows 220

Moving Comp Rows 220

Duplicating Comp Rows 220

Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 221

Adjusting the Comp Row Level 221

Adjusting the Recording Offset 222

Comping audio 223

Adding Cuts 223

Adding Segments 224

Adding Crossfades to Cuts 224

Deleting Cuts 225

Moving Cuts 225

Changing Comp Row assignments 226

Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 227

Creating a comped audio clip 228

Common audio editing functions 232

Delete Unused Recordings 232

Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 232

Bouncing audio to MIDI notes 232

Normalizing audio clips 234

Reversing audio clips 235

Changing the tempo and transposition of

the audio 236

Tempo scaling Clips 236

Transposing Audio Clips 237

Audio and tempo matching 239

Matching imported audio to the song tempo 239

Editing audio using the Inspector 240

Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 240

Matching audio values using the "Match Values"

function 240

Note and Automation Editing

243

About this chapter 244

The Edit Mode 244

Selecting what to edit 245

Opening note and automation clips for editing 245

Edit Mode elements 247

Edit Mode window handling 249

Note Edit Modes 249

Creating empty clips 252

Tool Window editing tools 253

Note editing 254

Selecting notes 254

Drawing notes 255

Deleting notes 257

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Resizing notes 257

Splitting notes 260

Moving notes 261

Duplicating notes 264

Using Cut, Copy and Paste 265

Quantize 266

Pitch (Transpose) 269

Extract Notes to Lanes 270

Scale Tempo 273

Editing note velocity 274

Reverse 276

Automation editing 277

Overview 277

Editing parameter automation 278

Drawing parameter automation events 280

Deleting automation events 281

Reversing automation events 281

Editing performance controller automation 281

About Automation Cleanup 283

Editing pattern automation 284

Drawing pattern automation 285

Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips

286

Deleting pattern automation clips 286

The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 287

Editing tempo automation 287

About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio

tracks 288

Automating time signature 289

Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature

automation clips 290

Deleting time signature automation clips 290

Note and automation editing in the

Inspector 291

Editing notes and events in the Inspector 291

Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”

function 291

Working with Blocks in the

Sequencer 295

About this chapter 296

Introduction 296

The idea behind Blocks 296

Arrangement Views 297

Song View (with Blocks disabled) 297

Song View (with Blocks enabled) 297

Block View 298

Editing Blocks in the Block View 298

Selecting a Block for editing 298

Renaming Blocks 299

Defining the Block length 299

Changing Block color 299

Recording in the Block View 299

Editing clips in the Block View 299

Arranging clips in the Block View 300

Arranging Blocks in the Song View 300

Creating Block Automation Clips 300

Resizing Block Automation Clips 302

Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 302

Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 303

Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 305

Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 307

Working with the Rack 311

About this chapter 312

Rack device procedures 312

Navigating in the rack 312

Resizing and detaching the rack 313

About Device Groups 314

Creating devices 316

Selecting devices 318

Deleting devices 320

Re-ordering devices 320

Re-routing devices 322

Creating new rack columns 322

About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 322

Replacing devices 323

Duplicating devices 324

Cut, Copy and Paste devices 324

Naming devices 325

Folding and unfolding devices 326

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Working with Players 327

About this chapter 328

Overview 328

Recording modes 329

Using Players 330

Creating Players 330

Chaining Players 330

Replacing Players 330

Deleting Players 330

Naming Players 330

About Players in Combinators 331

Common Player device parameters 331

Dual Arpeggio 332

The Display sections 334

Note Echo 340

Scales & Chords 341

Scales 341

Filter Notes 342

Chords 343

Tips & Tricks 346

Generating scale-correct arpeggios from single notes

346

Generating chord arpeggios 346

Creating parallel chords 346

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

347

Working with Rack Extensions

349

About this chapter 350

What are Rack Extensions? 350

Future compatibility 350

Trying and buying Rack Extensions 350

Trial versions of Rack Extensions 350

Buying Rack Extensions 350

Installing and managing Rack

Extensions 351

Using Rack Extensions in Reason 352

About missing Rack Extensions 354

Sounds, Patches and the

Browser 355

About this chapter 356

About patches 356

Reason devices that use patches 356

Loading patches 357

Setting browse focus 360

Saving patches 361

Copying and pasting patches between devices 362

Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 362

About ReFills 363

Using the Browser 364

Opening the browser 365

Browser elements 366

Navigating in the Browser 370

Using Locations and Favorites 372

Favorites Lists 372

Selecting and auditioning samples and REX loops 375

Selecting multiple files 375

Cross-browsing patch files 376

Create Instrument/Create Effect 377

About patch formats and sampler devices 377

Using the “Search” function 378

Loading files 378

About browse lists 379

Handling Missing Sounds 380

Reason file formats 382

Routing Audio and CV 385

About this chapter 386

Signal types 386

Audio signals 386

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CV/Gate signals 386

P-LAN signals 387

About MIDI routing 387

About cables 387

Cable appearance 387

Checking and following cable connections 388

Cable color 389

Automatic routing 389

Auto-routing of audio input signals 389

Auto-routing of Instrument devices 390

Auto-routing of Effect devices 390

Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 391

Auto-routing devices after they have been created 391

About re-routing devices in songs created in Reason

Version 5 or earlier 392

Manual routing 393

Connecting cables 394

Connecting cables using pop-up menus 394

Disconnecting cables 395

Disconnecting devices 395

Using CV and Gate 396

Routing CV and Gate signals 396

About CV Trim knobs 396

The Main Mixer 397

About this chapter 398

Overview 398

The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 399

The Mix Channel device and channel strip 400

The Master Section device and mixer strip 401

Navigating in the Main Mixer 402

Viewing the Main Mixer area 402

Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 402

Showing and hiding channel strip sections 403

Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks

404

Managing mixer channels 405

Creating and deleting channels 405

Selecting channels 405

Moving channels 406

Copying and duplicating channels 406

Copy channel settings 407

Resetting channel settings 407

Naming mixer channels 407

Coloring mixer channels 408

The channel strip 409

Input section 409

Dynamics section 410

EQ section 413

The Spectrum EQ Window 414

Insert FX section 417

FX Sends section 418

Fader section 419

Channel Header section 420

The Master Section strip 421

Master Compressor section 422

FX Send section 423

Master Inserts section 424

FX Return section 425

Master Fader section 426

Master Section Header 427

Automating mixer parameters 427

Working with effects 427

Insert FX 427

Send FX 432

Output Busses 435

Creating an Output Bus 435

Deleting an Output Bus 437

Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 438

Parallel Channels 439

Creating Parallel Channels 439

Deleting Parallel Channels 442

Naming Parallel Channels 442

Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 443

Solo and Mute logic 443

Send FX level and mute logic 445

Remote controlling the Main Mixer 447

Remote controlling a single mixer channel 447

Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 447

Advanced routing tips and tricks 450

Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices

450

Using compression sidechaining 452

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Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct

Outs 453

Creating an input channel for recording with effects 454

Song File Handling 457

About this chapter 458

Opening Songs 458

Opening a Reason or Record Song 458

Opening a Reason Demo Song 459

Opening the last Song at program launch 459

Closing Songs 460

Closing a Song 460

Creating Songs 460

Creating a new Song 460

Setting up a Default Song 460

Creating a new Song from a template 461

Saving Songs 461

Saving a Song 461

Saving and optimizing a Song 462

Including Song Information 462

About Self-Contained Songs 463

Making a Song appear as a Template Song 464

A note about saving Songs as audio files 464

Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 465

About audio data in Song files 465

Changing Scratch Disk folder location 465

About “Orphan Audio Streams” 466

Importing and exporting Standard MIDI

Files 466

Importing Standard MIDI Files 466

Exporting Standard MIDI Files 467

Importing and Exporting

Audio 469

About this chapter 470

Importing audio 470

Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 470

About tempo matching imported audio 470

Importing audio to the sequencer 471

Exporting audio 474

Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 474

Bouncing Mixer Channels 476

Bouncing Audio Clips 478

Drop to Allihoopa 480

Sampling 483

About this chapter 484

Overview 484

One-click sampling 484

The Edit Sample window 484

About sample format, rate and resolution 485

General sampling functions 485

Setting up for sampling 485

Sampling 487

The Sample buttons 487

Sampling procedure 487

The Song Samples location 490

Editing samples 492

The Edit Sample window 492

Setting Sample Start and End 494

Cropping samples 496

Normalizing samples 496

Reversing samples 496

Fading in/out samples 497

Looping samples 498

Saving edited samples 500

Renaming samples 500

Sample management 501

About Assigned and Unassigned samples 501

Saving samples in a song 502

Deleting samples from a song 502

Loading samples into a device 503

Duplicating samples 504

Exporting samples 505

About self-contained samples 507

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The ReGroove Mixer 509

Introduction 510

ReGroove basics 510

The ReGroove Mixer 511

Global parameters 511

Channel parameters 512

Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 516

Groove Settings 517

Working with grooves 520

Applying grooves to your music 520

Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”

523

Creating your own ReGroove patches 524

Groovy tips & tricks 525

ReGroove patches in the Factory Sounds

bank 526

Remote - Playing and

Controlling Devices 527

About the various MIDI inputs 528

About Remote 528

Setting up 529

Adding a control surface or keyboard 529

Other functions 531

Example Setups 531

Remote basics 532

About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 533

About mapping variations 533

Locking a surface to a device 534

Locking a surface 534

Unlocking a surface 536

Remote Override 537

Activating Remote Override Edit mode 537

Remote Override mapping 538

Additional Remote Overrides... 541

Assigning Additional Overrides 542

Keyboard Control 543

Enabling Keyboard Control 543

Editing Keyboard Control 543

Saving Remote Setups 544

ReWire 545

About this chapter 546

Why use Reason with ReWire? 546

Introducing ReWire! 546

In ReWire version 1 546

In ReWire 2 546

How does it work? 546

Terminology 547

About system requirements 547

About synchronization 547

Launching and quitting applications 547

Using the Transport and Tempo controls

548

Routing audio 548

Preparations in Reason 548

Routing in the ReWire host application 549

Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 549

Converting ReWire channels to audio

tracks 550

Synchronization and

Advanced MIDI 551

About this chapter 552

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Synchronization to MIDI Clock 552

ReWire users – read this! 552

What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 552

Using Reason as MIDI Clock master 552

Slaving Reason to an external MIDI application or

instrument 554

Slaving Reason to another program on the same

computer 554

External synchronization considerations 555

Synchronization using Ableton Link 557

About Ableton Link 557

Synchronizing Reason’s sequencer with Ableton Link

557

Advanced MIDI - The External Control

Bus inputs 559

About the External Control Bus inputs 559

Routing MIDI to devices 560

Receiving Controller data via MIDI 560

About recording Pattern Changes 560

Optimizing Performance 561

Introduction 562

Checking Processing Power 562

Optimization and latency reduction 562

About Latency Compensation 563

Optimizing your computer system 564

Optimizing Songs 566

RAM requirements 568

Hardware Interface 569

Introduction 570

About using ReWire 571

Sampling Input section 571

Advanced MIDI Device 572

More Audio 572

The Big Meter 573

The Combinator 575

Introduction 576

Creating Combinator devices 577

Combinator elements 578

About internal and external connections

579

About External Routing 579

Adding devices to a Combi 581

About the Insertion line 581

Creating new devices in a Combi 581

Adding devices using drag and drop 582

Adding devices using copy/paste 583

Adding a Combi to a Combi 583

Combining two Combis 583

Combining devices in a Combi with devices in the rack

583

Combi handling 583

Moving the entire Combi 583

Moving devices within a Combi 584

Moving devices out of a Combi 584

Deleting devices in a Combi 584

Uncombining devices 584

Sequencer tracks and playing Combis

584

The Controller panel 585

Select backdrop... 586

Using the Programmer 587

Key Mapping instrument devices 588

Setting Velocity Ranges for instrument devices 589

Using Modulation Routing 590

CV Connections 593

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Mixer 14:2 595

Introduction 596

The Channel Strip 596

Channel Strip Controls 597

The Mixer signal flow 598

About the EQ modes 598

The Auxiliary Return Section 599

The Master Fader 599

Connections 599

Chaining several Mixer 14:2 devices 601

The Line Mixer 6:2 603

Introduction 604

Channel parameters 604

The Auxiliary Return section 604

Master level 604

Connections 605

ID8 Instrument Device 607

Introduction 608

The Sounds 608

The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 608

Using the ID8 609

Selecting Sounds 609

Controlling Sounds 609

About saving edited Sounds 610

Subtractor Synthesizer 611

Introduction 612

Loading and Saving Patches 612

The Oscillator Section 613

Oscillator 1 Waveform 613

Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent

615

Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 615

Using Oscillator 2 615

Oscillator 2 Waveform 616

Noise Generator 616

Phase Offset Modulation 617

Frequency Modulation (FM) 619

Ring Modulation 620

The Filter Section 621

Filter 1 Type 621

Filter 1 Frequency 624

Resonance 624

Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 624

Filter 2 625

Envelopes - General 626

Amplitude Envelope 627

Filter Envelope 627

Mod Envelope 628

LFO Section 629

LFO 1 Parameters 629

LFO 2 Parameters 630

Play Parameters 631

Velocity Control 631

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 632

Legato 633

Retrig 633

Portamento (Time) 633

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 634

About the Low Bandwidth button 634

External Modulation 634

Connections 635

Audio Output 635

Sequencer Control 635

Modulation Inputs 636

Modulation Outputs 636

Gate Inputs 636

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Thor Polysonic Synthesizer

637

Introduction 638

Loading and Saving Patches 638

Thor elements 639

The Controller panel 640

Using the Programmer 642

Basic connections - a tutorial 643

The Oscillator section 646

Mix section 653

Filter slots 653

Shaper 657

Amp section 657

LFO 1 658

Envelope sections 659

Global section 660

Modulation bus routing section 662

Step Sequencer 671

Basic operation 671

Connections 675

Malström Synthesizer 677

Introduction 678

Features 678

Theory of operation 679

Loading and Saving Patches 679

The Oscillator section 680

Setting oscillator frequency 681

Controlling playback of the graintable 681

The amplitude envelopes 682

The Modulator section 683

Modulator parameters 683

Destinations 684

The Filter section 685

The Filters 686

The Filter Envelope 688

The Shaper 689

Routing 691

Routing examples 692

The output controls 695

The play controls 695

Polyphony - setting the number of voices 696

Porta (portamento) 696

Legato 696

The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 697

The Velocity controls 697

The Modulation wheel controls 698

Connections 699

Audio Output 699

Audio Input 699

Sequencer Control 699

Gate Input 700

Modulation Input 700

Modulation Output 700

Routing external audio to the filters 701

NN-19 Sampler 703

Introduction 704

General sampling principles 704

Background 704

Multisampling vs. single samples 704

About audio file formats 705

Loading a Sample Patch 705

Loading REX Files as Patches 706

Sampling in NN-19 706

About Key Zones and samples 707

Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 707

Loading SoundFont samples 708

Loading REX slices as samples 708

Creating Key Zones 708

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Selecting Key Zones 709

Setting the Key Zone Range 709

Deleting a Key Zone 710

About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples

710

Adding sample(s) to a Key Map 710

Setting the Root Key 711

Removing sample(s) from a Key Map 711

Removing all unassigned samples 711

Rearranging samples in a Key Map 711

Setting Sample Level 711

Tuning samples 711

Looping Samples 712

About the Solo Sample function 712

Automap Samples 713

Mapping samples without Root Key or Tuning

information 713

How Mapping Information is saved 713

NN-19 synth parameters 714

The Oscillator Section 714

The Filter Section 715

Envelope Section 716

LFO Section 717

Play Parameters 719

Velocity Control 719

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 719

Legato 720

Retrig 720

Portamento (Time) 720

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 721

Voice Spread 721

Low Bandwidth 721

Controller Section 721

Connections 722

Audio Outputs 722

Mono Sequencer Control 722

Modulation Inputs 722

Modulation Outputs 722

Gate Inputs 723

NN-XT Sampler 725

Introduction 726

Sampling in NN-XT 726

Panel overview 727

The main panel 727

The Remote Editor panel 727

Loading complete Patches and REX files

728

Loading NN-XT Patches 728

Loading NN-19 Patches 728

Loading SoundFonts 729

Loading complete REX files as Patches 729

Using the main panel 730

The Pitch and Modulation wheels 730

The External Control wheel 730

High Quality Interpolation 731

Global Controls 731

Overview of the Remote Editor panel 733

The Key Map display 733

Sample parameters 734

Group parameters 734

Synth Parameters 735

About Samples and Zones 735

Selections and Edit Focus 736

Selecting Zones 737

Moving Edit Focus 739

Adjusting parameters 739

Adjusting Synth parameters 739

Adjusting Group parameters 739

Sample parameters 740

Managing Zones and Samples 741

Creating a Key Map 741

About file formats and REX slices 742

Adding more samples to the Key Map 742

Replacing a sample 742

Quick browsing through samples 743

Removing samples 743

Auditioning samples 743

Adding empty Zones 743

Duplicating Zones 744

Removing Zones 744

Rearranging Zones in the List 744

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Working with Grouping 744

About Groups 744

Creating a Group 744

Moving a Group to another position in the List 745

Moving a Zone from one Group to another 745

Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 746

The Group Parameters 746

Working with Key Ranges 746

About Key Ranges 746

Setting up Key Ranges 746

About the Lock Root Keys function 750

About the Solo Sample function 751

Sorting Zones by Note 752

Setting Root Notes and Tuning 753

About the Root Key 753

Setting the Root Note manually 753

Tuning samples manually 753

Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection

754

About changing the pitch of samples 754

Using Automap 754

Layered, crossfaded and velocity

switched sounds 755

Creating layered sounds 755

About velocity ranges 755

Setting velocity range for a Zone 757

About Crossfading Between Zones 757

Setting crossfading for a Zone 759

Using Alternate 759

About the Alternate function 759

Sample parameters 760

Root Note and Tune 760

Sample Start and End 760

Loop Start and End 760

Play Mode 761

Lo Key and Hi Key 761

Lo Vel and Hi Vel 761

Fade In and Fade Out 761

Alt 761

Out 761

Group parameters 762

Key Poly 762

Legato and Retrig 763

LFO 1 Rate 763

Portamento 763

Synth parameters 764

The Modulation controls 764

The Velocity controls 766

The Pitch section 767

The Filter section 768

The Modulation Envelope 769

The Amplitude Envelope 771

The LFOs 772

Connections 775

Sequencer Control 775

Modulation Input 775

Gate Input 775

Audio Output 775

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 777

Introduction 778

ReCycled Loops 778

About REX file formats 779

Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches

779

About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 779

About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex

devices 779

Playing Loops 780

Switching playback between Loop Slots 780

Adding Loops 781

Loading Loops “On the Fly” 782

Removing Loops 782

Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 782

Playing individual Loop Slices 782

Creating sequencer notes 783

Slice handling 786

Selecting Slices 786

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Editing individual Slices 786

Editing in the Waveform Display 787

The Slice Edit Mode 788

Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 789

Pitch and Mod wheels 789

Trig Next Loop 789

Note To Slot 789

Loop Slot buttons 790

Enable Loop Playback and Run 791

Volume 791

Global Transpose 791

Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 792

Select Loop & Load Slot 792

Loop Transpose 792

Loop Level 793

Oscillator section 793

Mod. Wheel 794

Velocity section 794

The Filter Section 795

Envelope section 796

LFO section 797

Pitch Bend Range 798

Setting number of voices - polyphony 799

Audio Quality settings 799

Connections 799

Modulation Inputs 800

Modulation Outputs 800

Gate Inputs 800

Gate Output 800

Slice Outputs 800

Main Outputs 800

Redrum Drum Computer 801

Introduction 802

Sampling in Redrum 802

About file formats 803

Using patches 804

Loading a patch 804

Checking the sounds in a patch 804

Creating a new patch 805

Creating an empty patch 805

Programming patterns 806

Pattern basics 806

Pattern tutorial 807

Setting pattern length 808

Setting pattern resolution 809

Step dynamics 809

Pattern Shuffle 810

Flam 810

The Pattern Enable switch 811

The Enable Pattern Section switch 811

Pattern functions 812

Chaining patterns 812

Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer

813

Redrum parameters 814

Drum sound settings 814

Global settings 817

Using Redrum as a sound module 818

Connections 819

Kong Drum Designer 821

Introduction 822

Overview 822

The Pad Section 822

The Drum Control Panel 823

The Drum and FX Section 823

About using custom backdrops 823

About file formats 823

Using patches 824

Loading a Kit Patch 824

Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 825

Creating a new Kit Patch 825

Creating an empty Kit Patch 826

Saving Kit Patches 826

Pad Settings 827

Assigning Drums to Pads 827

Renaming Pads 828

Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 828

Assigning Hit Type to Pads 828

Muting and Soloing Pads 829

Working with Pad Groups 830

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The Drum and FX section 831

Signal flow 832

The Drum Control Panel 834

Sampling in Kong 836

The Drum Module slot 836

The FX slots 837

The Drum modules 838

NN-Nano Sampler 838

Nurse Rex Loop Player 842

Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 847

Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 849

Synth Hi-hat 850

The Support Generator modules 851

Noise Generator 851

Tone Generator 852

The FX modules 853

Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX

parameters 853

Drum Room Reverb 854

Transient Shaper 854

Compressor 855

Filter 856

Parametric EQ 856

Ring Modulator 857

Rattler 858

Tape Echo 858

Overdrive/Resonator 859

Connections 860

Sequencer Control 860

Modulation Input 860

Aux Send Out 860

Gate In and Out 861

Audio Out 3-16 861

Main Audio Out 861

Using Kong as an effect device 861

Using external effects with Kong 862

External MIDI Instrument 863

Introduction 864

Using the External MIDI Instrument 864

Setting up for controlling an external MIDI instrument

864

Controlling the sound of your external MIDI instrument

865

Using MIDI Program Change 865

Recording MIDI Controller automation 866

Connections 871

Sequencer Control 871

Assignable CC 871

Tips & Tricks 871

Audio recording of MIDI controlled external instruments

871

The MClass Effects 875

The MClass effects 876

The MClass Equalizer 877

The MClass Stereo Imager 878

The MClass Compressor 879

The MClass Maximizer 882

Softube Amps 883

Introduction 884

Basic usage 884

Front panel 885

Using the Softube Amps 886

Loading and saving patches 886

Selecting Amp and Cabinet model 886

About the Amp and Cabinet models 887

Amp panel controls 888

Connections 889

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Scream 4 Sound Destruction

Unit 891

Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit 892

Parameters 892

CV inputs and outputs 896

Screamy tips and tricks 897

Pulveriser 899

Introduction 900

About the Patch format 900

Parameters 900

Common effect device parameters 900

Signal Routing selector 901

The Squash section 902

The Dirt section 902

The Filter section 903

The Tremor section 904

The Follower section 905

Blend 906

Volume 906

Modulation inputs and outputs 907

CV Modulation inputs 907

Audio Modulation inputs 907

CV Modulation outputs 908

Demolition tips and tricks 908

Beef up your sounds 908

Make your pads tremble 908

Alligator Triple Filtered Gate

909

Introduction 910

About the Patch format 910

Overview and signal flow 910

Parameters 912

Common effect device parameters 912

Pattern section 912

Gate and Amp Envelope 913

Filters and Modulation 914

Effects 916

Mix controls 918

Audio connections 919

Main Inputs and Outputs 919

Separate Outputs 919

CV connections 920

Gate inputs 920

CV Modulation inputs 920

Gate Outputs 920

LFO CV Out 920

The built-in patterns 921

Methods and Tips 922

Playing the Alligator live 922

Playing the gates from Matrix patterns 922

Controlling other sounds and effects 922

RV7000 Mk II Advanced

Reverb 923

Overview 924

About the Patch format 924

Connections 924

The main panel 925

The Remote Programmer 925

Reverb algorithms and parameters 926

Common effect device parameters 926

About the main panel parameters 926

Selecting an algorithm 926

Small Space 927

Room 927

Hall 928

Arena 928

Plate 928

Spring 928

Echo 929

Multi Tap 929

Reverse 930

Convolution 931

The EQ section 934

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