Propellerhead Reason 7.0 User manual

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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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