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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS4

Introduction 25

Welcome! 26

About this chapter 26

About this manual 26

About the Reason Lite operating system

versions 26

Conventions in the manual 26

The Authorization system 28

Registering Reason Lite 28

Running Reason Lite with Internet Verification 28

Running Reason Lite in Demo Mode 29

Reassigning the Function Keys in macOS

30

About automatic program updates 31

Common Operations and

Concepts 33

About this chapter 34

Areas, windows and basic navigation 34

Song window overview 34

The Browser 35

The Main Mixer 36

The Tutorial area 36

The Rack 37

The Sequencer 38

The Transport Panel 38

The ReGroove Mixer 39

Navigating between the areas 39

Showing/hiding the Navigators 39

About different Themes 40

Using several Reason Lite Song windows 40

The Tool Window 41

The On-screen Piano Keys window 41

General window techniques 43

Resizing 43

Scrolling 44

Zooming in the Sequencer 45

Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 46

Editing parameters 47

Knobs 47

Faders and sliders 48

Buttons 48

Fold/Unfold buttons 49

Multi Mode selectors 49

Numerical controls 50

Alpha-numeric controls 50

Numerical segment displays 51

Tool Tips 52

Context menus 53

Parameter context menus 53

Device context menus 54

Main Mixer channel strip context menu 55

Rack “background” context menu 56

Main Mixer “background” context menu 56

Sequencer context menus 56

Undo and Redo 57

On-screen Piano Keys 59

About this chapter 60

Using the On-screen Piano Keys 60

Opening the Piano Keys window 60

Mouse mode 61

Computer Keys mode 62

Audio Basics 65

About this chapter 66

How Reason Lite communicates with

your audio hardware 66

Manual audio routing 67

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Audio quality 67

Audio settings 68

About audio levels 70

System signal paths 73

Audio Track signal paths 73

Instrument Track signal paths 74

General information about audio and

computers 75

About latency 75

About processors 76

About RAM 76

Sequencer Functions 77

About this chapter 78

Introduction 78

Sequencer area overview 78

Song View and Edit Mode 79

Toolbar overview 80

Track List overview 80

Tracks overview 81

Lanes overview 81

Clips overview 82

Inspector overview 82

Ruler overview 82

Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 82

Track scrollbar overview 83

Song Navigator overview 83

Transport Panel overview 83

Track details 84

Track definition 84

The relationship between the track, the rack and the

Main Mixer 85

Master Keyboard Input 90

The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events

91

Track types 91

Track List elements 93

Creating tracks 93

Selecting tracks 97

Resizing tracks 98

Moving tracks 98

Deleting tracks 99

Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 99

Coloring tracks 100

Naming tracks 101

Folding tracks 101

Muting tracks 101

Soloing tracks 102

Lane details 103

Audio lane 103

Note lane 104

Parameter automation lane 105

Pattern lane 106

Creating/adding lanes 107

Deleting lanes 109

Moving note lanes 110

Copying (duplicating) note lanes 110

Muting lanes 111

Clip basics 111

Clip types 111

Toolbar details 112

Toolbar tools 112

Alternate tools 115

Edit Mode buttons 115

Snap 115

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

Click and Pre-count 130

Loop mode 132

General recording procedure 133

Undoing a recording 134

Recording tips 134

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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

Crossfading audio clips 181

Joining clips 182

Reversing clips 184

Muting clips 184

Merging clips on note lanes 185

Bounce in Place 185

Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 188

Inserting bars 190

Removing bars 190

About removing bars that contain audio recordings 191

Audio Editing in the

Sequencer 193

About this chapter 194

Edit Modes, Stretch & Transpose Types

and Clip Types 194

Edit Modes 194

Selecting Stretch and Transpose Type 194

Clip Types 195

Opening audio clips for editing 196

Editing audio in Slice Edit mode 197

Audio clip elements in Slice Edit mode 197

Slice Edit mode tools 197

Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 198

Adding Slice Markers 199

Deleting Slice Markers 200

Repositioning Slice Markers 200

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Moving/stretching Slices 200

Nudging Slices 202

Quantizing audio 202

Split at Slices 203

Bounce Clip to REX Loop 203

Revert All Slices 204

Editing audio in Pitch Edit mode 205

Pitch Editor elements 205

Selecting notes 206

Auditioning notes 206

Correcting pitches 207

Changing transposition 207

Resetting pitches 207

Splitting the clip at notes 207

Reverting all notes 207

Attenuating pitch drift/vibrato 208

Editing transition times 208

Moving notes and changing note lengths 209

Quantizing notes 210

Splitting and joining notes 210

About switching from Pitch Edit mode to Slice Edit mode

211

Audio pitch editing in the Inspector 211

Editing audio in the Comp Editor 213

Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 213

The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and

Recordings 217

Comp Editor window handling 219

Comp Editor audio editing tools 219

Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip

220

Selecting Comp Rows 221

Deleting Comp Rows 222

Moving Comp Rows 222

Duplicating Comp Rows 222

Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 223

Adjusting the Comp Row Level 223

Adjusting the Recording Offset 224

Comping audio 225

Adding Cuts 225

Adding Segments 226

Adding Crossfades to Cuts 226

Deleting Cuts 227

Moving Cuts 227

Changing Comp Row assignments 228

Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 229

Creating a comped audio clip 230

Common audio editing functions 234

Delete Unused Recordings 234

Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 234

Bouncing audio to MIDI notes 234

Normalizing audio clips 236

Reversing audio clips 237

Changing the tempo and transposition of

the audio 238

Tempo scaling Clips 238

Transposing Audio Clips 239

Audio and tempo matching 241

Matching imported audio to the song tempo 241

Editing audio using the Inspector 242

Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 242

Matching audio values using the "Match Values"

function 242

Note and Automation Editing

245

About this chapter 246

The Edit Mode 246

Selecting what to edit 247

Opening note and automation clips for editing 247

Edit Mode elements 249

Edit Mode window handling 251

Note Edit Modes 251

Creating empty clips 254

Tool Window editing tools 255

Note editing 256

Selecting notes 256

Drawing notes 257

Deleting notes 260

Resizing notes 260

Muting notes 262

Splitting notes 263

Moving notes 264

Duplicating notes 267

Using Cut, Copy and Paste 268

Quantize 269

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Pitch (Transpose) 272

Extract Notes to Lanes 273

Scale Tempo 276

Editing note velocity 277

Reverse 279

Multi Lanes editing 281

Overview 281

Selecting multiple lanes for editing 281

Editing notes in Multi Lanes mode 282

Automation editing 283

Overview 283

Editing parameter automation 283

Drawing parameter automation events 286

Creating curves between automation points 287

Deleting automation events 288

Reversing automation events 288

Editing performance controller automation 288

About Automation Cleanup 290

Editing pattern automation 291

Drawing pattern automation 292

Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips

293

Deleting pattern automation clips 293

The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 294

Editing tempo automation 294

About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio

tracks 295

Automating time signature 296

Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature

automation clips 297

Deleting time signature automation clips 297

Note and automation editing in the

Inspector 298

Editing notes and events in the Inspector 298

Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”

function 298

Working with Blocks in the

Sequencer 301

About this chapter 302

Introduction 302

The idea behind Blocks 302

Arrangement Views 303

Song View (with Blocks disabled) 303

Song View (with Blocks enabled) 303

Block View 304

Editing Blocks in the Block View 304

Selecting a Block for editing 304

Renaming Blocks 305

Defining the Block length 305

Changing Block color 305

Recording in the Block View 305

Editing clips in the Block View 305

Arranging clips in the Block View 306

Arranging Blocks in the Song View 306

Creating Block Automation Clips 306

Resizing Block Automation Clips 308

Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 308

Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 309

Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 311

Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 313

Working with the Rack 317

About this chapter 318

Rack device procedures 318

Navigating in the rack 318

Resizing and detaching the rack 319

About Device Groups 320

Creating devices 322

Selecting devices 324

Deleting devices 326

Re-ordering devices 326

Re-routing devices 328

Creating new rack columns 328

About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 328

Replacing devices 329

Duplicating devices 330

Cut, Copy and Paste devices 330

Naming devices 331

Folding and unfolding devices 332

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Working with Players 333

About this chapter 334

Overview 334

General recording methods 335

Using Players 336

Creating Players 336

Chaining Players 336

Replacing Players 336

Deleting Players 336

Naming Players 336

About Players in Combinators 337

Common Player device parameters 337

Dual Arpeggio 338

The Display sections 340

Note Echo 346

Scales & Chords 347

Scales 347

Filter Notes 348

Chords 349

Tips & Tricks 352

Generating scale-correct arpeggios from single notes

352

Generating chord arpeggios 352

Creating parallel chords 352

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

353

Working with Rack Extensions

355

About this chapter 356

What are Rack Extensions? 356

Future compatibility 356

Trying and buying Rack Extensions 356

Trial versions of Rack Extensions 356

Buying Rack Extensions 356

Installing and managing Rack

Extensions 357

Using Rack Extensions in Reason Lite

358

About missing Rack Extensions 360

Working with VST Plugins 361

About this chapter 362

About VST plugins 362

VST compatibility in Reason Lite 362

Installing and enabling VST plugins 362

About VST licenses 362

Installing VST plugins under Windows 362

Installing VST plugins under Mac 363

Enabling VST plugins in Reason Lite 363

Using VST plugins in Reason Lite 364

Adding VSTs to the rack 364

The Plugin Rack Device 365

Front panel 365

Rear panel 366

About auto-routing of VSTs in the rack 367

The Plugin Window 367

Editing the VST parameters 369

Automating VST parameters 369

CV modulation of VST parameters 370

Remote controlling VST parameters 373

Selecting VST programs 375

About saving songs that contain VSTs 375

Combining VST plugins in Combinator devices 375

About missing VST plugins 376

Managing VST plugins 376

Plugin Status 377

Defining custom VST folders 378

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Sounds, Patches and the

Browser 379

About this chapter 380

About patches 380

Reason Lite devices that use patches 380

Loading patches 381

Setting browse focus 384

Saving patches 385

Copying and pasting patches between devices 386

Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 386

About ReFills 387

Using the Browser 388

Opening the browser 389

Browser elements 390

Navigating in the Browser 394

Using Locations and Favorites 396

Favorites Lists 396

Selecting and auditioning samples and REX loops 399

Selecting multiple files 399

Cross-browsing patch files 400

Create Instrument/Create Effect 401

About patch formats and sampler devices 401

Using the “Search” function 402

Loading files 402

About browse lists 403

Handling Missing Sounds 404

Reason Lite file formats 406

Routing Audio and CV 409

About this chapter 410

Signal types 410

Audio signals 410

CV/Gate signals 410

P-LAN signals 411

About MIDI routing 411

About cables 411

Cable appearance 411

Checking and following cable connections 412

Cable color 413

Automatic routing 413

Auto-routing of audio input signals 413

Auto-routing of Instrument devices 414

Auto-routing of Effect devices 414

Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 415

Auto-routing devices after they have been created 415

Manual routing 417

Connecting cables 418

Connecting cables using pop-up menus 418

Disconnecting cables 419

Disconnecting devices 419

Using CV and Gate 420

Routing CV and Gate signals 420

About CV Trim knobs 420

The Main Mixer 421

About this chapter 422

Overview 422

The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 423

The Mix Channel device and channel strip 424

The Master Section device and mixer strip 425

Navigating in the Main Mixer 426

Viewing the Main Mixer area 426

Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 426

Showing and hiding channel strip sections 427

Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks

428

Managing mixer channels 429

Creating and deleting channels 429

Selecting channels 429

Moving channels 430

Copying and duplicating channels 430

Copy channel settings 431

Resetting channel settings 431

Naming mixer channels 431

Coloring mixer channels 432

The channel strip 433

Input section 433

Dynamics section 434

EQ section 437

The Spectrum EQ Window 438

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Insert FX section 441

FX Sends section 442

Fader section 443

Channel Header section 445

The Master Section strip 446

Master Compressor section 447

FX Send section 448

Master Inserts section 449

FX Return section 450

Master Fader section 451

Master Section Header 452

Automating mixer parameters 452

Working with effects 452

Insert FX 452

Send FX 457

Output Busses 460

Creating an Output Bus 460

Deleting an Output Bus 462

Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 463

Parallel Channels 464

Creating Parallel Channels 464

Deleting Parallel Channels 467

Naming Parallel Channels 467

Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 468

Solo and Mute logic 468

Send FX level and mute logic 470

Remote controlling the Main Mixer 472

Remote controlling a single mixer channel 472

Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 472

Advanced routing tips and tricks 475

Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices

475

Using compression sidechaining 477

Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct

Outs 478

Creating an input channel for recording with effects 479

Delay Compensation 483

About this chapter 484

About Delay Compensation in Reason

Lite 484

Activating the Delay Compensation 484

Delay Compensation rules and limitations 485

How the Delay Compensation works 488

Delay Compensation in individual mixer channels 488

Delay Compensation with Busses and Parallel Channels

492

Delay Compensation to Send FX busses 493

About the Master Insert FX 493

Problematic configurations 494

About using the Direct Out connections of the mixer

channels 498

About the Metronome Click 498

Recording with Delay Compensation 498

Playing and monitoring with Delay Compensation 498

About bouncing mixer channels 498

Song File Handling 499

About this chapter 500

Opening Songs 500

Opening a Reason Lite Song 500

Opening a Reason Lite Demo Song 501

Opening the last Song at program launch 501

Closing Songs 501

Closing a Song 501

Creating Songs 501

Creating a new Song 501

Setting up a Default Song 502

Creating a new Song from a template 502

Saving Songs 503

Saving a Song 503

Saving and optimizing a Song 503

Including Song Information 504

About Self-Contained Songs 505

Making a Song appear as a Template Song 506

A note about saving Songs as audio files 506

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Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 507

About audio data in Song files 507

Changing Scratch Disk folder location 507

About “Orphan Audio Streams” 508

Importing and exporting Standard MIDI

Files 508

Importing Standard MIDI Files 508

Exporting Standard MIDI Files 509

Importing and Exporting

Audio 511

About this chapter 512

Importing audio 512

Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 512

About tempo matching imported audio 512

Importing audio to the sequencer 513

Exporting audio 516

Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 516

Bouncing Mixer Channels 518

Bouncing Audio Clips 520

Sampling 523

About this chapter 524

Overview 524

One-click sampling 524

The Edit Sample window 524

About sample format, rate and resolution 525

General sampling functions 525

Setting up for sampling 525

Sampling 527

The Sample buttons 527

Sampling procedure 527

The Song Samples location 530

Editing samples 532

The Edit Sample window 532

Setting Sample Start and End 534

Cropping samples 536

Normalizing samples 536

Reversing samples 536

Fading in/out samples 537

Looping samples 538

Saving edited samples 540

Renaming samples 540

Sample management 541

About Assigned and Unassigned samples 541

Saving samples in a song 542

Deleting samples from a song 542

Loading samples into a device 543

Duplicating samples 544

Exporting samples 545

About self-contained samples 547

The ReGroove Mixer 549

Introduction 550

ReGroove basics 550

The ReGroove Mixer 551

Global parameters 551

Channel parameters 552

Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 556

Groove Settings 557

Working with grooves 560

Applying grooves to your music 560

Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”

563

Creating your own ReGroove patches 564

Groovy tips & tricks 565

ReGroove patches in the Factory Sounds

bank 566

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Remote - Playing and

Controlling Devices 567

About the various MIDI inputs 568

About Remote 568

Setting up 569

Automatic set-up using the Easy MIDI Inputs function

569

Adding a specific control surface or keyboard 570

Other functions 573

Example Setups 573

Remote basics 574

About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 574

About mapping variations 574

Locking a surface to a device 576

Locking a surface 576

Unlocking a surface 578

Remote Override 579

Activating Remote Override Edit mode 579

Remote Override mapping 580

Additional Remote Overrides... 583

Assigning Additional Overrides 584

Keyboard Control 585

Enabling Keyboard Control 585

Editing Keyboard Control 585

Saving Remote Setups 586

Synchronization and

Advanced MIDI 587

About this chapter 588

Synchronization to MIDI Clock 588

What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 588

Using Reason Lite as MIDI Clock Host 588

Syncing Reason Lite to an external MIDI application or

instrument 590

Syncing Reason Lite to another program on the same

computer 590

External synchronization considerations 591

Synchronization using Ableton Link 593

About Ableton Link 593

Synchronizing Reason Lite’s sequencer with Ableton

Link 593

Advanced MIDI - The External Control

Bus inputs 595

About the External Control Bus inputs 595

Routing MIDI to devices 596

Receiving Controller data via MIDI 596

About recording Pattern Changes 596

Optimizing Performance 597

Introduction 598

Checking Processing Power 598

Optimization and latency reduction 598

About Latency Compensation 599

Optimizing your computer system 600

Optimizing Songs 602

RAM requirements 604

Hardware Interface 605

Introduction 606

Sampling Input section 607

Advanced MIDI Device 608

More Audio 608

The Big Meter 609

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Kong Drum Designer 611

Introduction 612

Overview 612

The Pad Section 612

The Drum Control Panel 613

The Drum and FX Section 613

About using custom backdrops 613

About file formats 613

Using patches 614

Loading a Kit Patch 614

Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 615

Creating a new Kit Patch 615

Creating an empty Kit Patch 616

Saving Kit Patches 616

Pad Settings 617

Assigning Drums to Pads 617

Renaming Pads 618

Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 618

Assigning Hit Type to Pads 618

Muting and Soloing Pads 619

Working with Pad Groups 620

The Drum and FX section 621

Signal flow 622

The Drum Control Panel 624

Sampling in Kong 626

The Drum Module slot 626

The FX slots 627

The Drum modules 628

NN-Nano Sampler 628

Nurse Rex Loop Player 632

Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 637

Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 639

Synth Hi-hat 640

The Support Generator modules 641

Noise Generator 641

Tone Generator 642

The FX modules 643

Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX

parameters 643

Drum Room Reverb 644

Transient Shaper 644

Compressor 645

Filter 646

Parametric EQ 646

Ring Modulator 647

Rattler 648

Tape Echo 648

Overdrive/Resonator 649

Connections 650

Sequencer Control 650

Modulation Input 650

Aux Send Out 650

Gate In and Out 651

Audio Out 3-16 651

Main Audio Out 651

Using Kong as an effect device 651

Using external effects with Kong 652

Redrum Drum Computer 653

Introduction 654

Sampling in Redrum 654

About file formats 655

Using patches 656

Loading a patch 656

Checking the sounds in a patch 656

Creating a new patch 657

Creating an empty patch 657

Programming patterns 658

Pattern basics 658

Pattern tutorial 659

Setting pattern length 660

Setting pattern resolution 661

Step dynamics 661

Pattern Shuffle 662

Flam 662

The Pattern Enable switch 663

The Enable Pattern Section switch 663

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Pattern functions 664

Chaining patterns 664

Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer

665

Redrum parameters 666

Drum sound settings 666

Global settings 669

Using Redrum as a sound module 670

Connections 671

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 673

Introduction 674

ReCycled Loops 674

About REX file formats 675

Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches

675

About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 675

About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex

devices 675

Playing Loops 676

Switching playback between Loop Slots 676

Adding Loops 677

Loading Loops “On the Fly” 678

Removing Loops 678

Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 678

Playing individual Loop Slices 678

Creating sequencer notes 679

Slice handling 682

Selecting Slices 682

Editing individual Slices 682

Editing in the Waveform Display 683

The Slice Edit Mode 684

Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 685

Pitch and Mod wheels 685

Trig Next Loop 685

Note To Slot 685

Loop Slot buttons 686

Enable Loop Playback and Run 687

Volume 687

Global Transpose 687

Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 688

Select Loop & Load Slot 688

Loop Transpose 688

Loop Level 689

Oscillator section 689

Mod. Wheel 689

Velocity section 690

The Filter Section 690

Envelope section 692

LFO section 693

Pitch Bend Range 694

Setting number of voices - polyphony 695

Audio Quality settings 695

Connections 695

Modulation Inputs 696

Modulation Outputs 696

Gate Inputs 696

Gate Output 696

Slice Outputs 696

Main Outputs 696

Europa Shapeshifting

Synthesizer 697

Introduction 698

Panel overview 699

Signal flow 700

Playing and using Europa 701

Loading and saving patches 701

Global output controls 701

Global performance and “play” controls 701

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Panel reference 703

Sound Engines On/Off and Edit Focus section 703

The Oscillator section 703

The Modifiers section 706

The Spectral Filter 708

The Harmonics section 710

The Unison section 712

The User Wave and Mixer section 713

The Filter section 714

The Amplifier section 716

The Envelopes section 718

The LFO section 722

The Effects section 723

The Modulation Bus section 726

Connections 730

Sequencer Control inputs 730

CV Modulation inputs and outputs 730

Audio Output 730

Tips and Tricks 731

Creating an individual “pre amp envelope” for a Sound

Engine 731

Recording display movements in the sequencer 732

Thor Polysonic Synthesizer

733

Introduction 734

Loading and Saving Patches 734

Thor elements 735

The Controller panel 736

Using the Programmer 738

Basic connections - a tutorial 739

The Oscillator section 742

Mix section 749

Filter slots 749

Shaper 753

Amp section 753

LFO 1 754

Envelope sections 755

Global section 756

Modulation bus routing section 758

Step Sequencer 767

Basic operation 767

Connections 771

Subtractor Synthesizer 773

Introduction 774

Loading and Saving Patches 774

The Oscillator Section 775

Oscillator 1 Waveform 775

Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent

777

Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 777

Using Oscillator 2 777

Oscillator 2 Waveform 778

Noise Generator 778

Phase Offset Modulation 779

Frequency Modulation (FM) 781

Ring Modulation 782

The Filter Section 783

Filter 1 Type 783

Filter 1 Frequency 786

Resonance 786

Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 786

Filter 2 787

Envelopes - General 788

Amplitude Envelope 789

Filter Envelope 789

Mod Envelope 790

LFO Section 791

LFO 1 Parameters 791

LFO 2 Parameters 792

Play Parameters 793

Velocity Control 793

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 794

Legato 795

Retrig 795

Portamento (Time) 795

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 796

About the Low Bandwidth button 796

External Modulation 796

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Connections 797

Audio Output 797

Sequencer Control 797

Modulation Inputs 798

Modulation Outputs 798

Gate Inputs 798

Monotone Bass Synthesizer

799

Introduction 800

Panel overview 801

Signal flow 802

Playing and using Monotone 803

Loading and saving patches 803

Global output controls 803

Global performance and “play” controls 803

Panel reference 804

The Oscillator section 804

The Filter section 805

The Amplifier section 807

Chorus 808

Delay 809

The LFO section 809

The Envelope section 810

Connections 811

Sequencer Control inputs 811

Modulation inputs 811

Audio Output 811

ID8 Instrument Device 813

Introduction 814

The Sounds 814

The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 814

Using the ID8 815

Selecting Sounds 815

Controlling Sounds 815

About saving edited Sounds 816

Rytmik Drum Machine 817

Introduction 818

Panel overview 819

Signal flow 820

Global controls 820

Loading and saving patches 820

The Drum Channel sections 821

Auditioning samples 821

Selecting a Drum Channel 821

Muting and soloing Drum Channels 821

Setting the Drum Channel volumes 821

Setting the Send Effect levels 822

The Sample Playback section 822

Selecting Samples 822

Setting the Sample Start and End 823

Setting the Panning 823

Setting the Pitch 823

Setting Fade In and Fade Out 824

The Insert Effects section 824

Distortion 824

Low Cut and Hi Cut Filter 825

The Master FX section 825

Delay 826

Reverb 827

Compressor 828

Master Pitch 830

Master Reverb 830

Master Filter 830

Master Volume 831

Connections 832

Drum Gate In/Out 832

Separate Outputs 832

Main Output L & R 832

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NN-XT Sampler 833

Introduction 834

Sampling in NN-XT 834

Panel overview 835

The main panel 835

The Remote Editor panel 835

Loading complete Patches and REX files

836

Loading NN-XT Patches 836

Loading NN-19 Patches 836

Loading SoundFonts 837

Loading complete REX files as Patches 837

Using the main panel 838

The Pitch and Modulation wheels 838

The External Control wheel 838

High Quality Interpolation 839

Global Controls 839

Overview of the Remote Editor panel 841

The Key Map display 841

Sample parameters 842

Group parameters 842

Synth Parameters 843

About Samples and Zones 843

Selections and Edit Focus 844

Selecting Zones 845

Moving Edit Focus 847

Adjusting parameters 847

Adjusting Synth parameters 847

Adjusting Group parameters 847

Sample parameters 848

Managing Zones and Samples 849

Creating a Key Map 849

About file formats and REX slices 850

Adding more samples to the Key Map 850

Replacing a sample 850

Quick browsing through samples 851

Removing samples 851

Auditioning samples 851

Adding empty Zones 851

Duplicating Zones 852

Removing Zones 852

Rearranging Zones in the List 852

Working with Grouping 852

About Groups 852

Creating a Group 852

Moving a Group to another position in the List 853

Moving a Zone from one Group to another 853

Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 854

The Group Parameters 854

Working with Key Ranges 854

About Key Ranges 854

Setting up Key Ranges 854

About the Lock Root Keys function 858

About the Solo Sample function 859

Sorting Zones by Note 860

Setting Root Notes and Tuning 861

About the Root Key 861

Setting the Root Note manually 861

Tuning samples manually 861

Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection

862

About changing the pitch of samples 862

Using Automap 862

Layered, crossfaded and velocity

switched sounds 863

Creating layered sounds 863

About velocity ranges 863

Setting velocity range for a Zone 865

About Crossfading Between Zones 865

Setting crossfading for a Zone 867

Using Alternate 867

About the Alternate function 867

Sample parameters 868

Root Note and Tune 868

Sample Start and End 868

Loop Start and End 868

Play Mode 869

Lo Key and Hi Key 869

Lo Vel and Hi Vel 869

Fade In and Fade Out 869

Alt 869

Out 869

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Group parameters 870

Key Poly 870

Legato and Retrig 871

LFO 1 Rate 871

Portamento 871

Synth parameters 872

The Modulation controls 872

The Velocity controls 874

The Pitch section 875

The Filter section 876

The Modulation Envelope 877

The Amplitude Envelope 879

The LFOs 880

Connections 883

Sequencer Control 883

Modulation Input 883

Gate Input 883

Audio Output 883

NN-19 Sampler 885

Introduction 886

General sampling principles 886

Background 886

Multisampling vs. single samples 886

About audio file formats 887

Loading a Sample Patch 887

Loading REX Files as Patches 888

Sampling in NN-19 888

About Key Zones and samples 889

Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 889

Loading SoundFont samples 890

Loading REX slices as samples 890

Creating Key Zones 890

Selecting Key Zones 891

Setting the Key Zone Range 891

Deleting a Key Zone 892

About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples

892

Adding sample(s) to a Key Map 892

Setting the Root Key 893

Removing sample(s) from a Key Map 893

Removing all unassigned samples 893

Rearranging samples in a Key Map 893

Setting Sample Level 893

Tuning samples 893

Looping Samples 894

About the Solo Sample function 894

Automap Samples 895

Mapping samples without Root Key or Tuning

information 895

How Mapping Information is saved 895

NN-19 synth parameters 896

The Oscillator Section 896

The Filter Section 897

Envelope Section 898

LFO Section 899

Play Parameters 901

Velocity Control 901

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 901

Legato 902

Retrig 902

Portamento (Time) 902

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 903

Voice Spread 903

Low Bandwidth 903

Controller Section 903

Connections 904

Audio Outputs 904

Mono Sequencer Control 904

Modulation Inputs 904

Modulation Outputs 904

Gate Inputs 905

MIDI Out Device 907

Introduction 908

Using the MIDI Out Device 908

Setting up for controlling an external MIDI instrument

908

Controlling the sound of your external MIDI instrument

909

Using MIDI Program Change 909

Recording MIDI Controller automation 910

Modulating MIDI Controllers from CV signals 915

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Connections 917

Sequencer Control 917

CV In to MIDI CC Out 917

Tips & Tricks 917

Audio recording of MIDI controlled external instruments

917

Audiomatic Retro Transformer

921

Introduction 922

Using Audiomatic Retro Transformer 922

Gain 922

The Presets 923

Transform 924

Dry/Wet 924

Volume 925

Connections 925

CV Modulation In 925

Input L&R 925

Output L&R 925

Softube Amps 927

Introduction 928

Basic usage 928

Front panel 929

Using the Softube Amps 930

Loading and saving patches 930

Selecting Amp and Cabinet model 930

About the Amp and Cabinet models 931

Amp panel controls 932

Connections 933

Scream 4 Sound Destruction

Unit 935

Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit 936

Parameters 936

CV inputs and outputs 940

Screamy tips and tricks 941

RV7000 Mk II Advanced

Reverb 943

Overview 944

About the Patch format 944

Connections 944

The main panel 945

The Remote Programmer 945

Reverb algorithms and parameters 946

Common effect device parameters 946

About the main panel parameters 946

Selecting an algorithm 946

Small Space 947

Room 947

Hall 948

Arena 948

Plate 948

Spring 948

Echo 949

Multi Tap 949

Reverse 950

Convolution 951

The EQ section 954

The Gate section 955

CV Inputs 956

The MClass Effects 957

The MClass effects 958

The MClass Equalizer 959

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