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Table of Contents
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4
Introduction 23
Welcome! 24
About this chapter 24
About this manual 24
About the Reason operating system
versions 24
Conventions in the manual 24
Authorization 26
Registering and authorizing Reason 26
About deauthorizing the computer 27
Running Reason on an authorized computer - or with an
Ignition Key hardware 28
Running Reason with Internet Verification 28
Running Reason in Demo Mode 29
Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac
OS X 30
Common Operations and
Concepts 33
About this chapter 34
Areas, windows and basic navigation 34
Song window overview 34
The Main Mixer 35
The Rack 36
The Sequencer 37
The Transport Panel 38
The ReGroove Mixer 38
Navigating between the areas 39
Showing/hiding the Navigators 39
Using several Reason Song windows 39
The Tool Window 40
The On-screen Piano Keys window 41
General window techniques 42
Resizing 42
Scrolling 43
Zooming in the Sequencer 44
Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 45
Editing parameters 46
Knobs 46
Faders and sliders 46
Buttons 47
Fold/Unfold buttons 47
Multi Mode selectors 48
Numerical controls 48
Alpha-numeric controls 49
Numerical segment displays 50
Tool Tips 51
Context menus 52
Parameter context menus 52
Device context menus 53
Main Mixer channel strip context menu 54
Rack “background” context menu 55
Main Mixer “background” context menu 55
Sequencer context menus 55
Undo and Redo 56
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 communicates with your
audio hardware 66
Manual audio routing 67
Audio quality 67
Audio settings 68
About audio levels 70
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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 Navigator 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
Moving tracks 98
Deleting tracks 98
Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 99
Coloring tracks 100
Naming tracks 100
Folding tracks 100
Muting tracks 101
Soloing tracks 101
Lane details 102
Audio lane 102
Note lane 103
Parameter automation lane 104
Pattern lane 105
Creating/adding lanes 106
Deleting lanes 108
Moving note lanes 109
Copying (duplicating) note lanes 109
Muting lanes 110
Clip basics 110
Clip types 110
Toolbar details 111
Toolbar tools 111
Alternate tools 113
Snap 114
Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 115
Ruler details 115
Transport Panel details 116
Transport keyboard commands 119
About the Inspector 120
About subticks in the Position and Length displays 120
About the “Match Values” function 120
Recording in the Sequencer
121
About this chapter 122
General recording functions 122
Record enabling 122
Click and Pre-count 126
Loop mode 128
General recording procedure 129
Undoing a recording 130
Recording tips 130
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Audio recording details 130
Setting up the audio track 130
Recording audio 135
Recording audio in Loop mode 137
Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 138
Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 138
Recording over or into an existing audio clip 139
Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 140
Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 142
Note recording details 146
Setting up the instrument track 146
Recording notes 146
Recording notes in Loop mode 146
Recording over or into an existing note clip 147
Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 148
Parameter automation recording details
150
Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation
150
Recording performance controller automation 151
Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 152
Recording performance controller automation over or
into an existing clip 152
About performance controller automation on multiple
lanes 153
Recording parameter automation 153
Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 154
Recording parameter automation over or into an existing
clip 155
Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live
mode” 156
Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 156
Pattern automation recording details 157
Recording pattern automation 157
Tempo automation recording 158
Recording tempo automation 158
Arranging in the Sequencer
161
About this chapter 162
Clip handling 162
Selecting clips 162
Setting audio clip Level and Fades 164
Deleting clips 165
Resizing (masking) clips 166
About masked recordings and events 167
Tempo scaling clips 169
Moving clips 171
About overlapping clips 173
Duplicating clips 173
Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 173
Naming clips 174
Coloring clips 174
Splitting clips 175
Joining clips 176
Muting clips 178
Merging clips on note lanes 178
Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 179
Inserting bars 181
Removing bars 181
About removing bars that contain audio recordings 182
Audio Editing in the
Sequencer 183
About this chapter 184
Clip Modes and Editing 184
Inline editing vs. the Comp Editor (Edit Mode) 184
Clip Modes 184
Opening audio clips for editing 185
Editing audio inline 186
Preparing audio clips for inline editing 186
Audio clip elements inline 187
Inline audio editing tools 187
Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 188
Adding Slice Markers 189
Deleting Slice Markers 189
Repositioning Slice Markers 190
Moving/stretching Slices 190
Nudging Slices 192
Quantizing audio 192
Split at Slices 193
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Bounce Clip to REX Loop 193
Revert Slices 194
Editing audio in the Comp Editor 195
Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 195
The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and
Recordings 199
Comp Editor window handling 201
Comp Editor audio editing tools 201
Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip
202
Selecting Comp Rows 203
Deleting Comp Rows 204
Moving Comp Rows 204
Duplicating Comp Rows 204
Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 205
Adjusting the Comp Row Level 205
Adjusting the Recording Offset 206
Delete Unused Recordings 206
Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 207
Normalizing Clips 208
Reversing Clips 209
Comping audio 210
Adding Cuts 210
Adding Segments 211
Adding Crossfades to Cuts 211
Deleting Cuts 212
Moving Cuts 212
Changing Comp Row assignments 213
Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 214
Creating a comped audio clip 215
Turning Comp clips into Single Take clips 219
Changing the tempo and transposition of
the audio 219
Selecting Stretch and Transpose Type 219
Tempo scaling Clips 219
Transposing Audio Clips 221
Audio and tempo matching 223
Matching an imported audio clip to the song tempo 223
Editing audio using the Inspector 224
Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 224
Matching audio values using the "Match Values"
function 224
Note and Automation Editing
227
About this chapter 228
The Edit Mode 228
Selecting what to edit 229
Opening note and automation clips for editing 229
Edit Mode elements 231
Edit Mode window handling 233
Note Edit Modes 233
Creating empty clips 236
Tool Window editing tools 237
Note editing 238
Selecting notes 238
Deleting notes 238
Drawing notes 239
Resizing notes 241
Moving notes 244
Duplicating notes 247
Using Cut, Copy and Paste 248
Quantize 249
Pitch (Transpose) 252
Extract Notes to Lanes 253
Scale Tempo 256
Editing note velocity 257
Automation editing 259
Overview 259
Editing parameter automation 259
Drawing parameter automation events 262
Deleting automation events 263
Editing performance controller automation 263
About Automation Cleanup 265
Editing pattern automation 266
Drawing pattern automation 267
Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips
268
Deleting pattern automation clips 268
The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 269
Editing tempo automation 269
About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio
tracks 270
Automating time signature 271
Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature
automation clips 272
Deleting time signature automation clips 272
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Note and automation editing in the
Inspector 273
Editing notes and events in the Inspector 273
Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”
function 273
Working with Blocks in the
Sequencer 277
About this chapter 278
Introduction 278
The idea behind Blocks 278
Arrangement Views 279
Song View (with Blocks disabled) 279
Song View (with Blocks enabled) 280
Block View 281
Editing Blocks in the Block View 281
Selecting a Block for editing 281
Renaming Blocks 282
Defining the Block length 282
Changing Block color 282
Recording in the Block View 283
Editing clips in the Block View 283
Arranging clips in the Block View 283
Arranging Blocks in the Song View 283
Creating Block Automation Clips 283
Resizing Block Automation Clips 285
Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 285
Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 286
Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 288
Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 290
Working with the Rack 293
About this chapter 294
Rack device procedures 294
Navigating in the rack 294
Resizing and detaching the rack 295
About Device Groups 295
Creating devices 297
Selecting devices 299
Deleting devices 300
Re-ordering devices 300
Creating new rack columns 302
About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 302
Duplicating devices 303
Cut, Copy and Paste devices 303
Naming devices 304
Folding and unfolding devices 305
Working with Rack Extensions
307
About this chapter 308
What are Rack Extensions? 308
Future compatibility 308
Trying and buying Rack Extensions 308
Trial versions of Rack Extensions 308
Buying Rack Extensions 308
Installing and managing Rack
Extensions 309
Using Rack Extensions in Reason 310
About missing Rack Extensions 312
Sounds and Patches 313
About this chapter 314
About patches 314
Reason devices that use patches 314
Loading patches 315
Saving patches 316
Copying and pasting patches between devices 317
Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 317
About ReFills 318
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Using the Browser 319
Opening the browser 320
Browser elements 321
Navigating in the Browser 324
Using Locations and Favorites 326
Favorites Lists 326
Selecting and auditioning patches 329
Selecting and auditioning samples 329
Selecting multiple files 329
Cross-browsing patch files 330
Create Instrument/Create Effect 331
About patch formats and sampler devices 331
Using the “Search” function 332
Opening files 333
About browse lists 333
Handling Missing Sounds 334
The Missing Sounds dialog 335
Reason file formats 337
Routing Audio and CV 341
About this chapter 342
Signal types 342
Audio signals 342
CV/Gate signals 342
P-LAN signals 343
About MIDI routing 343
About cables 343
Cable appearance 343
Checking and following cable connections 344
Cable color 345
Automatic routing 345
Auto-routing of audio input signals 345
Auto-routing of Instrument devices 346
Auto-routing of Effect devices 346
Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 347
Auto-routing devices after they have been created 347
About re-routing devices in Reason Version 5 (or earlier)
songs 348
Manual routing 349
Connecting cables 350
Connecting cables using pop-up menus 350
Disconnecting cables 351
Disconnecting devices 351
Using CV and Gate 352
Routing CV and Gate signals 352
About CV Trim knobs 352
The Main Mixer 353
About this chapter 354
Overview 354
The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 355
The Mix Channel device and channel strip 356
The Master Section device and mixer strip 357
Navigating in the Main Mixer 358
Viewing the Main Mixer area 358
Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 358
Showing and hiding channel strip sections 359
Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks
360
Managing mixer channels 361
Creating and deleting channels 361
Selecting channels 361
Moving channels 362
Copying and duplicating channels 362
Copy channel settings 363
Resetting channel settings 363
Naming mixer channels 363
Coloring mixer channels 364
The channel strip 365
Input section 365
Dynamics section 366
EQ section 369
The Spectrum EQ Window 370
Insert FX section 373
FX Sends section 374
Fader section 375
Channel Header section 376
The Master Section strip 377
Master Compressor section 378
FX Send section 379
Master Inserts section 380
FX Return section 381
Master Fader section 382
Master Section Header 383
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Automating mixer parameters 383
Working with effects 383
Insert FX 383
Send FX 388
Output Busses 391
Creating an Output Bus 391
Deleting an Output Bus 393
Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 394
Parallel Channels 395
Creating Parallel Channels 395
Deleting Parallel Channels 398
Naming Parallel Channels 398
Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 399
Solo and Mute logic 399
Send FX level and mute logic 401
Remote controlling the Main Mixer 403
Remote controlling a single mixer channel 403
Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 403
Advanced routing tips and tricks 406
Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices
406
Using compression sidechaining 408
Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct
Outs 409
Creating an input channel for recording with effects 410
Song File Handling 413
About this chapter 414
Opening Songs 414
Opening a Reason or Record Song 414
Opening a Reason Demo Song 415
Opening the last Song at program launch 415
Closing Songs 415
Closing a Song 415
Creating Songs 416
Creating a new empty Song 416
Setting up the Default Song 416
Creating a new Song from a template 416
Saving Songs 417
Saving a Song 417
Saving and optimizing a Song 417
Including Song Information 418
About Self-Contained Songs 419
Making a Song appear as a Template Song 420
A note about saving Songs as audio files 420
Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 421
About audio data in Song files 421
Changing Scratch Disk folder location 421
About “Orphan Audio Streams” 422
Importing and exporting Standard MIDI
Files 422
Importing Standard MIDI Files 422
Exporting Standard MIDI Files 423
Importing and Exporting
Audio 425
About this chapter 426
Importing audio 426
Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 426
About tempo matching imported audio 426
Importing audio to the sequencer 427
Exporting audio 429
Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 429
Bouncing Mixer Channels 431
Bouncing Audio Clips 433
Sampling 435
About this chapter 436
Overview 436
One-click sampling 436
The Edit Sample window 436
About sample format, rate and resolution 437
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General sampling functions 437
Setting up for sampling 437
Sampling 439
The Sample buttons 439
Sampling procedure 439
The Song Samples tab 442
Editing samples 444
The Edit Sample window 444
Setting Sample Start and End 446
Cropping samples 448
Normalizing samples 448
Reversing samples 448
Fading in/out samples 449
Looping samples 450
Saving edited samples 452
Renaming samples 452
Sample management 453
About Assigned and Unassigned samples 453
Saving samples in a song 454
Deleting samples from a song 454
Loading samples into a device 455
Duplicating samples 456
Exporting samples 457
About self-contained samples 459
The ReGroove Mixer 461
Introduction 462
ReGroove basics 462
The ReGroove Mixer 463
Global parameters 463
Channel parameters 464
Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 468
Groove Settings 469
Working with grooves 472
Applying grooves to your music 472
Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”
475
Creating your own ReGroove patches 476
Groovy tips & tricks 477
ReGroove patches in the Factory Sound
Bank 478
Remote - Playing and
Controlling Devices 479
About the various MIDI inputs 480
About Remote 480
Setting up 481
Adding a control surface or keyboard 481
Other functions 483
Example Setups 483
Remote basics 484
About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 485
About mapping variations 485
Locking a surface to a device 486
Locking a surface 486
Unlocking a surface 488
Remote Override 489
Activating Remote Override Edit mode 489
Remote Override mapping 490
Additional Remote Overrides... 493
Assigning Additional Overrides 494
Keyboard Control 495
Enabling Keyboard Control 495
Editing Keyboard Control 495
Saving Remote Setups 496
ReWire 497
About this chapter 498
Why use Reason with ReWire? 498
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Introducing ReWire! 498
In ReWire version 1 498
In ReWire 2 498
How does it work? 498
Terminology 499
About system requirements 499
About synchronization 499
Launching and quitting applications 499
Using the Transport and Tempo controls
500
Routing audio 500
Preparations in Reason 500
Routing in the ReWire host application 501
Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 501
Converting ReWire channels to audio
tracks 502
Details about various ReWire hosts 502
Synchronization and
Advanced MIDI 503
About this chapter 504
Synchronization to MIDI Clock 504
ReWire users – read this! 504
What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 504
Using Reason as MIDI Clock master 504
Slaving Reason to an external MIDI application or
instrument 505
Slaving Reason to another program on the same
computer 506
External synchronization considerations 506
Advanced MIDI - The External Control
Bus inputs 508
About the External Control Bus inputs 508
Routing MIDI to devices 509
Receiving Controller data via MIDI 509
About recording Pattern Changes 509
Optimizing Performance 511
Introduction 512
Checking Processing Power 512
Optimization and latency reduction 512
About Latency Compensation 513
Optimizing your computer system 514
Optimizing Songs 516
RAM requirements 518
Hardware Interface 519
Introduction 520
About using ReWire 521
Sampling Input section 521
Advanced MIDI Device 522
More Audio 522
The Big Meter 523
The Combinator 525
Introduction 526
Creating Combinator devices 527
Combinator elements 528
About internal and external connections
529
About External Routing 529
Adding devices to a Combi 531
About the Insertion line 531
Creating new devices in a Combi 531
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Adding devices using drag and drop 532
Adding devices using copy/paste 533
Adding a Combi to a Combi 533
Combining two Combis 533
Combining devices in a Combi with devices in the rack
533
Combi handling 533
Moving the entire Combi 533
Moving devices within a Combi 534
Moving devices out of a Combi 534
Deleting devices in a Combi 534
Uncombining devices 534
Sequencer tracks and playing Combis
534
The Controller panel 535
Select backdrop... 536
Using the Programmer 537
Key Mapping instrument devices 538
Setting Velocity Ranges for instrument devices 539
Using Modulation Routing 540
CV Connections 543
Mixer 14:2 545
Introduction 546
The Channel Strip 546
Channel Strip Controls 547
The Mixer signal flow 548
About the EQ modes 548
The Auxiliary Return Section 549
The Master Fader 549
Connections 549
Chaining several Mixer 14:2 devices 551
The Line Mixer 6:2 553
Introduction 554
Channel parameters 554
The Auxiliary Return section 554
Master level 554
Connections 555
ID8 Instrument Device 557
Introduction 558
The Sounds 558
The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 558
Using the ID8 559
Selecting Sounds 559
Controlling Sounds 559
About saving edited Sounds 560
Subtractor Synthesizer 561
Introduction 562
Loading and Saving Patches 562
The Oscillator Section 563
Oscillator 1 Waveform 563
Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent
565
Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 565
Using Oscillator 2 565
Oscillator 2 Waveform 566
Noise Generator 566
Phase Offset Modulation 567
Frequency Modulation (FM) 569
Ring Modulation 570
The Filter Section 571
Filter 1 Type 571
Filter 1 Frequency 574
Resonance 574
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Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 574
Filter 2 575
Envelopes - General 576
Amplitude Envelope 577
Filter Envelope 577
Mod Envelope 578
LFO Section 579
LFO 1 Parameters 579
LFO 2 Parameters 580
Play Parameters 581
Velocity Control 581
Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 582
Legato 583
Retrig 583
Portamento (Time) 583
Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 584
About the Low Bandwidth button 584
External Modulation 584
Connections 585
Audio Output 585
Sequencer Control 585
Modulation Inputs 586
Modulation Outputs 586
Gate Inputs 586
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
587
Introduction 588
Loading and Saving Patches 588
Thor elements 589
The Controller panel 590
Using the Programmer 592
Basic connections - a tutorial 593
The Oscillator section 596
Mix section 603
Filter slots 603
Shaper 607
Amp section 607
LFO 1 608
Envelope sections 609
Global section 610
Modulation bus routing section 612
Step Sequencer 621
Basic operation 621
Connections 625
Malström Synthesizer 627
Introduction 628
Features 628
Theory of operation 629
Loading and Saving Patches 629
The Oscillator section 630
Setting oscillator frequency 631
Controlling playback of the graintable 631
The amplitude envelopes 632
The Modulator section 633
Modulator parameters 633
Destinations 634
The Filter section 635
The Filters 636
The Filter Envelope 638
The Shaper 639
Routing 641
Routing examples 642
The output controls 645
The play controls 645
Polyphony - setting the number of voices 646
Porta (portamento) 646
Legato 646
The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 647
The Velocity controls 647
The Modulation wheel controls 648
Connections 649
Audio Output 649
Audio Input 649
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Sequencer Control 649
Gate Input 650
Modulation Input 650
Modulation Output 650
Routing external audio to the filters 651
NN-19 Sampler 653
Introduction 654
General sampling principles 654
Background 654
Multisampling vs. single samples 654
About audio file formats 655
Loading a Sample Patch 655
Loading REX Files as Patches 656
Sampling in NN-19 656
About Key Zones and samples 657
Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 657
Loading SoundFont samples 658
Loading REX slices as samples 658
Creating Key Zones 658
Selecting Key Zones 659
Setting the Key Zone Range 659
Deleting a Key Zone 659
About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples
660
Adding sample(s) to a Key Map 660
Setting the Root Key 660
Removing sample(s) from a Key Map 661
Removing all unassigned samples 661
Rearranging samples in a Key Map 661
Setting Sample Level 661
Tuning samples 661
Looping Samples 661
About the Solo Sample function 662
Automap Samples 662
Mapping samples without Root Key or Tuning
information 662
How Mapping Information is saved 663
NN-19 synth parameters 663
The Oscillator Section 663
The Filter Section 664
Envelope Section 666
LFO Section 667
Play Parameters 668
Velocity Control 669
Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 669
Legato 670
Retrig 670
Portamento (Time) 670
Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 670
Voice Spread 671
Low Bandwidth 671
Controller Section 671
Connections 671
Audio Outputs 672
Mono Sequencer Control 672
Modulation Inputs 672
Modulation Outputs 672
Gate Inputs 672
NN-XT Sampler 673
Introduction 674
Sampling in NN-XT 674
Panel overview 675
The main panel 675
The Remote Editor panel 675
Loading complete Patches and REX files
676
Loading NN-XT Patches 676
Loading NN-19 Patches 676
Loading SoundFonts 676
Loading complete REX files as Patches 677
Using the main panel 678
The Pitch and Modulation wheels 678
The External Control wheel 678
High Quality Interpolation 679
Global Controls 679
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Overview of the Remote Editor panel 681
The Key Map display 681
Sample parameters 682
Group parameters 682
Synth Parameters 683
About Samples and Zones 683
Selections and Edit Focus 684
Selecting Zones 685
Moving Edit Focus 687
Adjusting parameters 687
Adjusting Synth parameters 687
Adjusting Group parameters 687
Sample parameters 688
Managing Zones and Samples 689
Creating a Key Map 689
About file formats and REX slices 690
Adding more samples to the Key Map 690
Replacing a sample 690
Quick browsing through samples 691
Removing samples 691
Auditioning samples 691
Adding empty Zones 691
Duplicating Zones 691
Removing Zones 692
Rearranging Zones in the List 692
Working with Grouping 692
About Groups 692
Creating a Group 692
Moving a Group to another position in the List 693
Moving a Zone from one Group to another 693
Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 694
The Group Parameters 694
Working with Key Ranges 694
About Key Ranges 694
Setting up Key Ranges 694
About the Lock Root Keys function 698
About the Solo Sample function 699
Sorting Zones by Note 700
Setting Root Notes and Tuning 701
About the Root Key 701
Setting the Root Note manually 701
Tuning samples manually 701
Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection
702
About changing the pitch of samples 702
Using Automap 702
Layered, crossfaded and velocity
switched sounds 703
Creating layered sounds 703
About velocity ranges 703
Setting velocity range for a Zone 705
About Crossfading Between Zones 705
Setting crossfading for a Zone 707
Using Alternate 707
About the Alternate function 707
Sample parameters 708
Root Note and Tune 708
Sample Start and End 708
Loop Start and End 708
Play Mode 709
Lo Key and Hi Key 709
Lo Vel and Hi Vel 709
Fade In and Fade Out 709
Alt 709
Out 709
Group parameters 710
Key Poly 710
Legato and Retrig 711
LFO 1 Rate 711
Portamento 711
Synth parameters 712
The Modulation controls 712
The Velocity controls 714
The Pitch section 715
The Filter section 716
The Modulation Envelope 717
The Amplitude Envelope 719
The LFOs 720
Connections 722
Sequencer Control 722
Modulation Input 722
Gate Input 723
Audio Output 723
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Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 725
Introduction 726
ReCycled Loops 726
About REX file formats 727
Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches
727
About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 727
About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex
devices 727
Playing Loops 728
Switching playback between Loop Slots 728
Adding Loops 729
Loading Loops “On the Fly” 730
Removing Loops 730
Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 730
Playing individual Loop Slices 730
Creating sequencer notes 731
Slice handling 734
Selecting Slices 734
Editing individual Slices 734
Editing in the Waveform Display 735
The Slice Edit Mode 736
Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 737
Pitch and Mod wheels 737
Trig Next Loop 737
Note To Slot 737
Loop Slot buttons 738
Enable Loop Playback and Run 739
Volume 739
Global Transpose 739
Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 740
Select Loop & Load Slot 740
Loop Transpose 740
Loop Level 741
Oscillator section 741
Mod. Wheel 742
Velocity section 742
The Filter Section 743
Envelope section 744
LFO section 745
Pitch Bend Range 746
Setting number of voices - polyphony 747
Audio Quality settings 747
Connections 747
Modulation Inputs 748
Modulation Outputs 748
Gate Inputs 748
Gate Output 748
Slice Outputs 748
Main Outputs 748
Redrum Drum Computer 749
Introduction 750
Sampling in Redrum 750
About file formats 751
Using patches 752
Loading a patch 752
Checking the sounds in a patch 752
Creating a new patch 753
Creating an empty patch 753
Programming patterns 753
Pattern basics 753
Pattern tutorial 755
Setting pattern length 756
Setting pattern resolution 757
Step dynamics 757
Pattern Shuffle 758
Flam 758
The Pattern Enable switch 759
The Enable Pattern Section switch 759
Pattern functions 760
Chaining patterns 760
Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer
761
Redrum parameters 762
Drum sound settings 762
Global settings 765
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Using Redrum as a sound module 766
Connections 767
Kong Drum Designer 769
Introduction 770
Overview 770
The Pad Section 770
The Drum Control Panel 771
The Drum and FX Section 771
About using custom backdrops 771
About file formats 771
Using patches 772
Loading a Kit Patch 772
Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 773
Creating a new Kit Patch 773
Creating an empty Kit Patch 774
Saving Kit Patches 774
Pad Settings 775
Assigning Drums to Pads 775
Renaming Pads 776
Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 776
Assigning Hit Type to Pads 776
Muting and Soloing Pads 777
Working with Pad Groups 778
The Drum and FX section 779
Signal flow 780
The Drum Control Panel 782
Sampling in Kong 784
The Drum Module slot 784
The FX slots 785
The Drum modules 786
NN-Nano Sampler 786
Nurse Rex Loop Player 789
Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 794
Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 796
Synth Hi-hat 797
The Support Generator modules 798
Noise Generator 798
Tone Generator 799
The FX modules 800
Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX
parameters 800
Drum Room Reverb 801
Transient Shaper 801
Compressor 802
Filter 803
Parametric EQ 803
Ring Modulator 804
Rattler 805
Tape Echo 805
Overdrive/Resonator 806
Connections 807
Sequencer Control 807
Modulation Input 807
Aux Send Out 807
Gate In and Out 808
Audio Out 3-16 808
Main Audio Out 808
Using Kong as an effect device 808
Using external effects with Kong 809
External MIDI Instrument 811
Introduction 812
Using the External MIDI Instrument 812
Setting up for controlling an external MIDI instrument
812
Controlling the sound of your external MIDI instrument
813
Using MIDI Program Change 813
Recording MIDI Controller automation 814
Connections 819
Sequencer Control 819
Assignable CC 819
Tips & Tricks 819
Audio recording of MIDI controlled external instruments
819
TABLE OF CONTENTS
19
The MClass Effects 823
The MClass effects 824
The MClass Equalizer 825
The MClass Stereo Imager 826
The MClass Compressor 827
The MClass Maximizer 830
Line 6 Amps 831
Introduction 832
About the Amp Tones patch format 832
Basic usage 832
Front panel 833
Using the Line 6 Amps 834
Selecting Patches (Amp Tones) 834
Selecting Amp and Cabinet model 835
About the Amp/Cabinet models 836
Amp Parameters 836
Additional parameters 836
Additional Line 6 Amp Models 837
Connections 838
Scream 4 Sound Destruction
Unit 839
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit 840
Parameters 840
CV inputs and outputs 844
Screamy tips and tricks 845
Pulveriser 847
Introduction 848
About the Patch format 848
Parameters 848
Common effect device parameters 848
Signal Routing selector 849
The Squash section 850
The Dirt section 850
The Filter section 851
The Tremor section 852
The Follower section 853
Blend 854
Volume 854
Modulation inputs and outputs 855
CV Modulation inputs 855
Audio Modulation inputs 855
CV Modulation outputs 856
Demolition tips and tricks 856
Beef up your sounds 856
Make your pads tremble 856
Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
857
Introduction 858
About the Patch format 858
Overview and signal flow 858
Parameters 860
Common effect device parameters 860
Pattern section 860
Gate and Amp Envelope 861
Filters and Modulation 862
Effects 864
Mix controls 866
Audio connections 867
Main Inputs and Outputs 867
Separate Outputs 867
CV connections 868
Gate inputs 868
CV Modulation inputs 868
Gate Outputs 868
LFO CV Out 868
The built-in patterns 869
TABLE OF CONTENTS
20
Methods and Tips 870
Playing the Alligator live 870
Playing the gates from Matrix patterns 870
Controlling other sounds and effects 870
RV7000 Advanced Reverb 873
The RV7000 Advanced Reverb 874
Reverb algorithms and parameters 876
The EQ section 882
The Gate section 883
CV Inputs 884
The Echo 885
Introduction 886
About the Patch format 886
Parameters 886
Common effect device parameters 886
The Mode section 887
The Delay section 888
The Feedback section 889
The Color section 890
The Modulation section 891
The Output section 892
CV/Gate inputs 893
The Breakout Jacks 893
Tips and Tricks 894
Using the Roll function 894
Creating “pitched” delay 894
Distorted external feedback 894
BV512 Vocoder 895
Introduction 896
How does a vocoder work? 896
Setting up for basic vocoding 897
Vocoding vocals in real-time 897
Vocoding an existing audio track 899
Using the BV512 as an equalizer 901
BV512 parameters 902
Connections 903
Automation 904
Tips and tricks 905
Choosing a carrier sound 905
Choosing a modulator sound 906
Using the modulator as carrier 907
Controlling the Hold function 908
Using the individual band level connections 908
“Playing” the vocoder from a MIDI keyboard 910
Using the BV512 as a reverb 910
Neptune Pitch Adjuster and
Voice Synth 913
Introduction 914
Typical use cases 914
Overview and basic concepts 915
Sections overview 915
The display 916
Setting up for pitch processing 916
Setting up for pitch processing of recorded audio tracks
916
Setting up for pitch processing of “live” audio 917
Using pitch correction 917
Basic settings for pitch correction 918
Using automatic pitch correction 919
Using manual pitch correction 923
Using pitch shifting (Transpose) 924
Using Formant control 925
What are formants? 925
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