Propellerhead Reason Essentials 2.0 Operating instructions

OPERATION MANUAL

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Table of Contents

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Introduction 19

Welcome! 20

About this chapter 20

About this manual 20

About the Reason Essentials operating

system versions 20

Conventions in the manual 20

Authorization 22

Registering and authorizing Reason Essentials 22

About deauthorizing the computer 24

Running Reason Essentials on an authorized computer -

or with an Ignition Key hardware 24

Running Reason Essentials with Internet Verification 24

Running Reason Essentials in demo mode 25

Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac

OS X 26

Common Operations and

Concepts 29

About this chapter 30

Areas, windows and basic navigation 30

Song window overview 30

The Main Mixer 31

The Rack 32

The Sequencer 33

The Transport Panel 34

The ReGroove Mixer 34

Navigating between the areas 35

Showing/hiding the Navigators 35

Using several Reason Essentials Song windows 35

The Tool Window 36

The On-screen Piano Keys window 37

General window techniques 38

Resizing 38

Scrolling 39

Zooming in the Sequencer 40

Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 41

Editing parameters 42

Knobs 42

Faders and sliders 42

Buttons 43

Fold/Unfold buttons 43

Multi Mode selectors 44

Numerical controls 44

Alpha-numeric controls 45

Numerical segment displays 46

Tool Tips 47

Context menus 48

Parameter context menus 48

Device context menus 49

Main Mixer channel strip context menu 50

Rack “background” context menu 51

Main Mixer “background” context menu 51

Sequencer context menus 51

Undo and Redo 52

On-screen Piano Keys 55

About this chapter 56

Using the On-screen Piano Keys 56

Opening the Piano Keys window 56

Mouse mode 57

Computer Keys mode 58

Audio Basics 61

About this chapter 62

How Reason Essentials communicates

with your audio hardware 62

Manual audio routing 63

Audio quality 63

Audio settings 64

About audio levels 67

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System signal paths 69

Audio Track signal paths 69

Instrument Track signal paths 70

General information about audio and

computers 71

About latency 71

About processors 72

About RAM 72

Sequencer Functions 73

About this chapter 74

Introduction 74

Sequencer area overview 74

Arrange Mode and Edit Mode 74

Toolbar overview 75

Track List overview 76

Tracks overview 76

Lanes overview 76

Clips overview 77

Inspector overview 77

Ruler overview 77

Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 77

Track Navigator overview 78

Song Navigator overview 78

Transport Panel overview 78

Track details 79

Track definition 79

The relationship between the track, the rack and the

Main Mixer 80

Master Keyboard Input 84

The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events

85

Track types 85

Track List elements 87

Creating tracks 87

Selecting tracks 91

Moving tracks 92

Deleting tracks 92

Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 93

Coloring tracks 94

Naming tracks 94

Folding tracks 94

Muting tracks 95

Soloing tracks 95

Lane details 96

Audio lane 96

Note lane 97

Parameter automation lane 98

Pattern lane 99

Creating/adding lanes 100

Deleting lanes 102

Moving note lanes 103

Copying (duplicating) note lanes 103

Muting lanes 104

Clip basics 104

Clip types 104

Toolbar details 105

Toolbar tools 105

Alternate tools 107

Snap 108

Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 109

Ruler details 109

Transport Panel details 110

Transport keyboard commands 113

About the Inspector 114

About subticks in the Position and Length displays 114

About the “Match Values” function 114

Recording in the Sequencer

115

About this chapter 116

General recording functions 116

Record enabling 116

Click and Pre-count 120

Loop mode 121

General recording procedure 122

Undoing a recording 123

Recording tips 123

Audio recording details 123

Setting up the audio track 123

Recording audio 128

Recording audio in Loop mode 130

Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 131

Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 131

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Recording over or into an existing audio clip 132

Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 133

Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 135

Note recording details 139

Setting up the instrument track 139

Recording notes 139

Recording notes in Loop mode 139

Recording over or into an existing note clip 140

Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 141

Parameter automation recording details

143

Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation

143

Recording performance controller automation 144

Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 145

Recording performance controller automation over or

into an existing clip 145

About performance controller automation on multiple

lanes 146

Recording parameter automation 146

Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 147

Recording parameter automation over or into an existing

clip 148

Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live

mode” 149

Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 149

Pattern automation recording details 150

Recording pattern automation 150

Tempo automation recording 151

Recording tempo automation 151

Arranging in the Sequencer

153

About this chapter 154

Clip handling 154

Selecting clips 154

Setting audio clip Level and Fades 156

Deleting clips 157

Resizing (masking) clips 158

About masked recordings and events 159

Tempo scaling clips 161

Moving clips 163

About overlapping clips 165

Duplicating clips 165

Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 165

Naming clips 166

Coloring clips 166

Splitting clips 167

Joining clips 168

Muting clips 170

Merging clips on note lanes 170

Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 171

Inserting bars 173

Removing bars 173

About removing bars that contain audio recordings 174

Audio Editing in the

Sequencer 175

About this chapter 176

Clip Modes and Editing 176

Inline editing vs. the Comp Editor (Edit Mode) 176

Clip Modes 176

Opening audio clips for editing 177

Editing audio inline 178

Preparing audio clips for inline editing 178

Audio clip elements inline 179

Inline audio editing tools 179

Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 180

Adding Slice Markers 181

Deleting Slice Markers 181

Repositioning Slice Markers 182

Moving/stretching Slices 182

Nudging Slices 184

Quantizing audio 184

Split at Slices 185

Bounce Clip to REX Loop 185

Revert Slices 186

Editing audio in the Comp Editor 187

Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 187

The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and

Recordings 191

Comp Editor window handling 193

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Comp Editor audio editing tools 193

Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip

194

Selecting Comp Rows 195

Deleting Comp Rows 196

Moving Comp Rows 196

Duplicating Comp Rows 196

Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 197

Adjusting the Comp Row Level 197

Adjusting the Recording Offset 198

Delete Unused Recordings 198

Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 199

Normalizing Clips 200

Reversing Clips 201

Comping audio 202

Adding Cuts 202

Adding Segments 203

Adding Crossfades to Cuts 203

Deleting Cuts 204

Moving Cuts 204

Changing Comp Row assignments 205

Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 206

Creating a comped audio clip 207

Turning Comp clips into Single Take clips 211

Changing the tempo of the audio 211

Selecting Stretch Type 211

Tempo scaling Clips 211

Audio and tempo matching 213

Matching an imported audio clip to the song tempo 213

Editing audio using the Inspector 214

Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 214

Matching audio values using the "Match Values"

function 214

Note and Automation Editing

217

About this chapter 218

The Edit Mode 218

Selecting what to edit 219

Opening note and automation clips for editing 219

Edit Mode elements 221

Edit Mode window handling 223

Note Edit Modes 223

Creating empty clips 226

Tool Window editing tools 227

Note editing 228

Selecting notes 228

Deleting notes 228

Drawing notes 229

Resizing notes 231

Moving notes 234

Duplicating notes 237

Using Cut, Copy and Paste 238

Quantize 239

Pitch (Transposing) 242

Extract Notes to Lanes 243

Scale Tempo 246

Editing note velocity 247

Automation editing 249

Overview 249

Editing parameter automation 249

Drawing parameter automation events 252

Deleting automation events 253

Editing performance controller automation 253

About Automation Cleanup 255

Editing pattern automation 256

Drawing pattern automation 257

Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips

258

Deleting pattern automation clips 258

The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 259

Editing tempo automation 259

About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio

tracks 260

Automating time signature 260

Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature

automation clips 261

Deleting time signature automation clips 262

Note and automation editing in the

Inspector 262

Editing notes and events in the Inspector 262

Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”

function 263

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Working with the Rack 267

About this chapter 268

Rack device procedures 268

Navigating in the rack 268

Resizing and detaching the rack 269

About Device Groups 269

Creating devices 271

Selecting devices 273

Deleting devices 274

Re-ordering devices 274

Creating new rack columns 276

About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 276

Duplicating devices 277

Cut, Copy and Paste devices 277

Naming devices 278

Folding and unfolding devices 279

Working with Rack Extensions

281

About this chapter 282

What are Rack Extensions? 282

Future compatibility 282

Trying and buying Rack Extensions 282

Trial versions of Rack Extensions 282

Buying Rack Extensions 282

Installing and managing Rack

Extensions 283

Using Rack Extensions in Reason

Essentials 284

About missing Rack Extensions 286

Sounds and Patches 287

About this chapter 288

About patches 288

Reason devices that use patches 288

Loading patches 289

Saving patches 290

Copying and pasting patches between devices 291

Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 292

About ReFills 292

Using the Browser 293

Opening the browser 294

Browser elements 295

Navigating in the Browser 298

Using Locations and Favorites 300

Favorites Lists 300

Selecting and auditioning patches 303

Selecting and auditioning samples 303

Selecting multiple files 303

Cross-browsing patch files 304

Create Instrument/Create Effect 305

About patch formats and sampler devices 305

Using the “Search” function 306

Opening files 307

About browse lists 307

Handling Missing Sounds 308

The Missing Sounds dialog 309

Reason Essentials file formats 311

Routing Audio and CV 313

About this chapter 314

Signal types 314

Audio signals 314

CV/Gate signals 314

About P-LAN signals 315

About MIDI routing 315

About cables 315

Cable appearance 315

Checking and following cable connections 316

Cable color 317

Automatic routing 317

Auto-routing of audio input signals 317

Auto-routing of Instrument devices 318

Auto-routing of Effect devices 318

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Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 319

Auto-routing devices after they have been created 319

Manual routing 320

Connecting cables 321

Connecting cables using pop-up menus 321

Disconnecting cables 322

Disconnecting devices 322

Using CV and Gate 322

Routing CV and Gate signals 322

About CV Trim knobs 322

The Main Mixer 323

About this chapter 324

Overview 324

The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 325

The Mix Channel device and channel strip 326

The Master Section device mixer strip 327

Navigating in the Main Mixer 328

Viewing the Main Mixer area 328

Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 328

Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks

329

Managing mixer channels 330

Creating and deleting channels 330

Selecting channels 330

Moving channels 330

Copying and duplicating channels 331

Copy channel settings 331

Resetting channel settings 332

Naming mixer channels 332

Coloring mixer channels 332

The channel strip 334

Input section 334

EQ section 334

Insert FX section 335

FX Sends section 335

Fader section 336

Channel Header section 337

The Master Section strip 338

Master Compressor section 339

Master Inserts section 340

FX Return section 341

Master Fader section 342

Master Section Header 342

Automating mixer parameters 343

Working with effects 343

Insert FX 343

Send FX 347

Remote controlling the Main Mixer 350

Remote controlling a single mixer channel 350

Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 350

Advanced routing tips and tricks 353

Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices

353

Splitting signals using the Insert FX Out 355

Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct

Outs 356

Creating an input channel for recording with effects 357

Creating a sub-mixer 359

Song File Handling 363

About this chapter 364

Opening Songs 364

Opening a Reason Essentials Song 364

Opening a Reason Essentials Demo Song 365

Opening the last Song at program launch 365

Closing Songs 365

Closing a Song 365

Creating Songs 366

Creating a new empty Song 366

Setting up the Default Song 366

Creating a new Song from a template 366

Saving Songs 367

Saving a Song 367

Saving and optimizing a Song 367

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Including Song Information 368

About Self-Contained Songs 369

Making a Song appear as a Template Song 370

A note about saving Songs as audio files 370

Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 371

About audio data in Song files 371

Changing Scratch Disk folder location 371

About “Orphan Audio Streams” 372

Importing and exporting Standard MIDI

Files 372

Importing Standard MIDI Files 372

Exporting Standard MIDI Files 373

Importing and Exporting

Audio 375

About this chapter 376

Importing audio 376

Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 376

About tempo matching imported audio 376

Importing audio to the sequencer 377

Importing audio to sample-based devices 378

Exporting audio 379

Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 379

Bouncing Mixer Channels 380

Bouncing Audio Clips 383

Sampling 385

About this chapter 386

Overview 386

One-click sampling 386

The Edit Sample window 386

About sample format, rate and resolution 387

General sampling functions 387

Setting up for sampling 387

Sampling 389

The Sample buttons 389

Sampling procedure 389

The Song Samples tab 392

Editing samples 394

The Edit Sample window 394

Setting Sample Start and End 396

Cropping samples 398

Normalizing samples 398

Reversing samples 398

Fading in/out samples 399

Looping samples 400

Saving edited samples 402

Renaming samples 402

Sample management 403

About Assigned and Unassigned samples 403

Saving samples in a song 404

Deleting samples from a song 404

Loading samples into a device 405

Duplicating samples 406

Exporting samples 407

About self-contained samples 409

The ReGroove Mixer 411

Introduction 412

ReGroove basics 412

The ReGroove Mixer 413

Global parameters 413

Channel parameters 414

Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 418

Groove Settings 419

Working with grooves 422

Applying grooves to your music 422

Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”

425

Creating your own ReGroove patches 426

Groovy tips & tricks 427

ReGroove patches in the Reason

Essentials Sound Bank 428

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Remote - Playing and

Controlling Devices 429

About the various MIDI inputs 430

About Remote 430

Setting up 431

Adding a control surface or keyboard 431

Other functions 433

Example Setups 433

Remote basics 434

About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 435

About mapping variations 435

Locking a surface to a device 436

Locking a surface 436

Unlocking a surface 438

Remote Override 439

Activating Remote Override Edit mode 439

Remote Override mapping 440

Additional Remote Overrides... 443

Assigning Additional Overrides 444

Keyboard Control 445

Enabling Keyboard Control 445

Editing Keyboard Control 445

Saving Remote Setups 446

ReWire 447

About this chapter 448

Why use Reason Essentials with

ReWire? 448

Introducing ReWire! 448

In ReWire version 1 448

In ReWire 2 448

How does it work? 448

Terminology 449

About system requirements 449

About synchronization 449

Launching and quitting applications 449

Using the Transport and Tempo controls

450

Routing audio 450

Preparations in Reason Essentials 450

Routing in the ReWire host application 451

Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 451

Converting ReWire channels to audio

tracks 452

Details about various ReWire hosts 452

Synchronization and

Advanced MIDI 453

About this chapter 454

Synchronization to MIDI Clock 454

ReWire users – read this! 454

What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 454

Slaving Reason Essentials to an external MIDI

application or instrument 454

Slaving Reason Essentials to another program on the

same computer 455

Synchronization considerations 455

Advanced MIDI - The External Control

Bus inputs 457

About the External Control Bus inputs 457

Routing MIDI to devices 458

Receiving Controller data via MIDI 458

About recording Pattern Changes 458

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Optimizing Performance 459

Introduction 460

Checking Processing Power 460

Optimization and Latency reduction 460

About Latency Compensation 461

Optimizing your computer system 462

Optimizing Songs 464

RAM requirements 466

Hardware Interface 467

Introduction 468

About using ReWire 469

Sampling Input section 469

Advanced MIDI Device 470

More Audio 470

The Big Meter 471

The Combinator 473

Introduction 474

Creating Combinator devices 475

Combinator elements 476

About internal and external connections

477

About External Routing 477

Adding devices to a Combi 479

About the Insertion line 479

Creating new devices in a Combi 479

Adding devices using drag and drop 480

Adding devices using copy/paste 481

Adding a Combi to a Combi 481

Combining two Combis 481

Combining devices in a Combi with devices in the rack

481

Combi handling 481

Moving the entire Combi 481

Moving devices within a Combi 482

Moving devices out of a Combi 482

Deleting devices in a Combi 482

Uncombining devices 482

Sequencer tracks and playing Combis

482

The Controller panel 483

Select backdrop... 484

Using the Programmer 485

Key Mapping instrument devices 486

Setting Velocity Ranges for instrument devices 487

Using Modulation Routing 488

CV Connections 491

Mixer 14:2 493

Introduction 494

The Channel Strip 494

Channel Strip Controls 495

The Mixer signal flow 496

About the EQ modes 496

The Auxiliary Return Section 497

The Master Fader 497

Connections 497

Chaining several Mixer 14:2 devices 499

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The Line Mixer 6:2 501

Introduction 502

Channel parameters 502

The Auxiliary Return section 502

Master level 502

Connections 503

ID8 Instrument Device 505

Introduction 506

The Sounds 506

The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 506

Using the ID8 507

Selecting Sounds 507

Controlling Sounds 508

About saving edited Sounds 508

Subtractor Synthesizer 509

Introduction 510

Loading and Saving Patches 510

The Oscillator Section 511

Oscillator 1 Waveform 511

Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent

513

Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 513

Using Oscillator 2 513

Oscillator 2 Waveform 514

Noise Generator 514

Phase Offset Modulation 515

Frequency Modulation (FM) 517

Ring Modulation 518

The Filter Section 519

Filter 1 Type 519

Filter 1 Frequency 522

Resonance 522

Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 522

Filter 2 523

Envelopes - General 524

Amplitude Envelope 525

Filter Envelope 525

Mod Envelope 526

LFO Section 527

LFO 1 Parameters 527

LFO 2 Parameters 528

Play Parameters 529

Velocity Control 529

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 530

Legato 531

Retrig 531

Portamento (Time) 531

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 532

About the Low Bandwidth button 532

External Modulation 532

Connections 533

Audio Output 533

Sequencer Control 533

Modulation Inputs 534

Modulation Outputs 534

Gate Inputs 534

NN-XT Sampler 535

Introduction 536

Sampling in NN-XT 536

Panel overview 537

The main panel 537

The Remote Editor panel 537

Loading complete Patches and REX files

538

Loading NN-XT Patches 538

Loading NN19 Patches 538

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Loading SoundFonts 538

Loading complete REX files as Patches 539

Using the main panel 540

The Pitch and Modulation wheels 540

The External Control wheel 540

High Quality Interpolation 541

Global Controls 542

Overview of the Remote Editor panel 543

The Key Map display 543

Sample parameters 544

Group parameters 544

Synth Parameters 545

About Samples and Zones 545

Selections and Edit Focus 546

Selecting Zones 547

Moving Edit Focus 549

Adjusting parameters 549

Adjusting Synth parameters 549

Adjusting Group parameters 549

Sample parameters 550

Managing Zones and Samples 551

Creating a Key Map 551

About file formats and REX slices 552

Adding more samples to the Key Map 552

Replacing a sample 552

Quick browsing through samples 553

Removing samples 553

Auditioning samples 553

Adding empty Zones 553

Duplicating Zones 553

Removing Zones 554

Rearranging Zones in the List 554

Working with Grouping 554

About Groups 554

Creating a Group 554

Moving a Group to another position in the List 555

Moving a Zone from one Group to another 555

Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 556

The Group Parameters 556

Working with Key Ranges 556

About Key Ranges 556

Setting up Key Ranges 556

About the Lock Root Keys function 560

About the Solo Sample function 561

Sorting Zones by Note 562

Setting Root Notes and Tuning 563

About the Root Key 563

Setting the Root Note manually 563

Tuning samples manually 563

Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection

564

About changing the pitch of samples 564

Using Automap 564

Layered, crossfaded and velocity

switched sounds 565

Creating layered sounds 565

About velocity ranges 565

Setting velocity range for a Zone 567

About Crossfading Between Zones 567

Setting crossfading for a Zone 569

Using Alternate 569

About the Alternate function 569

Sample parameters 570

Root Note and Tune 570

Sample Start and End 570

Loop Start and End 570

Play Mode 571

Lo Key and Hi Key 571

Lo Vel and Hi Vel 571

Fade In and Fade Out 571

Alt 571

Out 571

Group parameters 572

Key Poly 572

Legato and Retrig 573

LFO 1 Rate 573

Portamento 573

Synth parameters 574

The Modulation controls 574

The Velocity controls 576

The Pitch section 577

The Filter section 578

The Modulation Envelope 579

The Amplitude Envelope 581

The LFOs 582

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Connections 584

Sequencer Control 584

Modulation Input 585

Gate Input 585

Audio Output 585

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 587

Introduction 588

ReCycled Loops 588

About REX file formats 589

Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches

589

About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 589

Playing Loops 590

Switching playback between Loop Slots 590

Adding Loops 591

Loading Loops “On the Fly” 592

Removing Loops 592

Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 592

Playing individual Loop Slices 592

Creating sequencer notes 593

Slice handling 596

Selecting Slices 596

Editing individual Slices 596

Editing in the Waveform Display 597

The Slice Edit Mode 598

Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 599

Pitch and Mod wheels 599

Trig Next Loop 599

Note To Slot 599

Loop Slot buttons 600

Enable Loop Playback and Run 601

Volume 601

Global Transpose 601

Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 602

Select Loop & Load Slot 602

Loop Transpose 602

Loop Level 603

Oscillator section 603

Mod. Wheel 603

Velocity section 604

The Filter Section 604

Envelope section 606

LFO section 607

Pitch Bend Range 608

Setting number of voices - polyphony 608

Audio Quality settings 609

Connections 609

Modulation Inputs 609

Modulation Outputs 610

Gate Inputs 610

Gate Output 610

Slice Outputs 610

Main Outputs 610

Redrum Drum Computer 611

Introduction 612

Sampling in Redrum 612

About file formats 613

Using patches 614

Loading a patch 614

Checking the sounds in a patch 614

Creating a new patch 615

Creating an empty patch 615

Programming patterns 615

Pattern basics 615

Pattern tutorial 617

Setting pattern length 618

Setting pattern resolution 619

Step dynamics 619

Pattern Shuffle 620

Flam 620

The Pattern Enable switch 621

The Enable Pattern Section switch 621

Pattern functions 622

Chaining patterns 622

Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer

623

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Redrum parameters 624

Drum sound settings 624

Global settings 627

Using Redrum as a sound module 628

Connections 629

The MClass Effects 631

The MClass effects 632

The MClass Equalizer 633

The MClass Stereo Imager 634

The MClass Compressor 635

The MClass Maximizer 638

Line 6 Amps 639

Introduction 640

About the Amp Tones patch format 640

Basic usage 640

Front panel 641

Using the Line 6 Amps 642

Selecting Patches (Amp Tones) 642

Selecting Amp and Cabinet model 643

About the Amp/Cabinet models 644

Amp Parameters 644

Additional parameters 644

Additional Line 6 Amp Models 645

Connections 646

RV7000

Advanced Reverb 647

The RV7000 Advanced Reverb 648

Reverb algorithms and parameters 650

The EQ section 656

The Gate section 657

CV Inputs 658

Scream 4 Sound Destruction

Unit 659

Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit 660

Parameters 660

CV inputs and outputs 664

Screamy tips and tricks 665

Half-Rack Effects 667

Common effect device features 668

DDL-1 Digital Delay Line 670

CF-101 Chorus/Flanger 671

Spider Audio Merger & Splitter 673

Spider CV Merger & Splitter 675

Matrix Pattern Sequencer 679

Introduction 680

About the three Output types 680

Programming patterns 681

Pattern basics 681

Tutorial 684

Using Curve Patterns 686

Setting Pattern Length 687

Using Tied Notes 687

Setting Pattern Resolution 688

Pattern Shuffle 688

Pattern Mute 688

Pattern Functions 689

Chaining Patterns 689

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Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer

690

Example usage 691

Using the Matrix for modulation 691

Programming “Acid Style” lead lines 692

Triggering samples 692

Menu and Dialog Reference

693

Reason Essentials menu (Mac OS X) 694

File menu 695

Edit menu 699

Preferences – General 715

Preferences – Audio 718

Preferences – Control Surfaces 722

Preferences – Advanced 726

Preferences - Keyboard 728

Preferences - Language (Windows only) 729

Create menu 730

Options menu 731

Window menu (Windows version) 735

Window menu (Mac OS X version) 737

Help menu 739

Index 741

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Chapter 1

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

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Welcome!

This is the Operation Manual for Propellerhead’s Reason Essentials music production software. The information in

this manual is also available as html files in the built-in Reason Essentials Help system.

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to check out the Video Tutorials web site, which can be accessed from the Help

menu in Reason Essentials.

Also, be sure to regularly check out the Propellerhead web site at www.propellerheads.se for the latest news!

About this chapter

The Introduction chapter describes some of the general conventions used throughout the Reason Essentials refer-

ence manual. It also contains instructions on how to utilize the Reason Essentials protection system.

About this manual

In this Operation Manual, all aspects of the Reason Essentials program are described in detail. The first chapters deal

with general methods and techniques, e.g. how to connect audio sources, mix and record. Then follow descriptions of

all rack devices in Reason Essentials.

About the Reason Essentials operating system

versions

Propellerhead Reason Essentials comes in two platform versions: one for Windows 7 or later and one for Mac OS X

10.7 or later. The screenshots in this manual were taken from both platform versions of Reason Essentials, and some

screenshots remain from older versions of Reason Essentials. Since the program layout is more or less identical in

these versions, there shouldn’t be any problem following the instructions.

Conventions in the manual

This manual describes both the Windows and Mac OS X versions of Reason Essentials; wherever the versions differ

this is clearly stated in the text.

Text conventions

The text conventions are pretty straightforward. The examples below describe when certain text styles are used:

D This style instructs the user to perform the task(s) described in the sentence.

! This text style means IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Read carefully to avoid problems!

q This text style is used for tips and additional info.

Key command conventions

In the manual, computer keyboard commands are indicated with brackets. For example:

D Hold down [Shift] and press [C].

However, some modifier keys are different on Windows and Mac computers. Whenever this is the case, the manual

separates the commands with “(Win)” and “(Mac)” indications as in the following example:

D Hold down [Ctrl](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) and press [S] to save your song.

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