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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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