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Table of Contents
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4
Introduction 25
Welcome! 26
About this chapter 26
About this manual 26
About the Reason operating system
versions 26
Conventions in the manual 26
The Authorization system 28
Registering Reason 28
Running Reason with Internet Verification 29
Authorizing your Computer/Ignition Key (for off-line use)
29
About deauthorizing the computer/Ignition Key 30
Running Reason on an authorized computer - or with an
authorized Ignition Key hardware 30
Running Reason in Demo Mode 31
Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac
OS X 32
About automatic program updates 33
Common Operations and
Concepts 35
About this chapter 36
Areas, windows and basic navigation 36
Song window overview 36
The Browser 37
The Main Mixer 38
The Rack 39
The Sequencer 40
The Transport Panel 40
The ReGroove Mixer 41
Navigating between the areas 41
Showing/hiding the Navigators 41
About different Themes 42
Using several Reason Song windows 42
The Tool Window 43
The On-screen Piano Keys window 43
General window techniques 45
Resizing 45
Scrolling 46
Zooming in the Sequencer 47
Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 48
Editing parameters 49
Knobs 49
Faders and sliders 50
Buttons 50
Fold/Unfold buttons 51
Multi Mode selectors 51
Numerical controls 52
Alpha-numeric controls 52
Numerical segment displays 53
Tool Tips 54
Context menus 55
Parameter context menus 55
Device context menus 56
Main Mixer channel strip context menu 57
Rack “background” context menu 58
Main Mixer “background” context menu 58
Sequencer context menus 58
Undo and Redo 59
On-screen Piano Keys 61
About this chapter 62
Using the On-screen Piano Keys 62
Opening the Piano Keys window 62
Mouse mode 63
Computer Keys mode 64
Audio Basics 67
About this chapter 68
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How Reason communicates with your
audio hardware 68
Manual audio routing 69
Audio quality 69
Audio settings 70
About audio levels 72
System signal paths 75
Audio Track signal paths 75
Instrument Track signal paths 76
General information about audio and
computers 77
About latency 77
About processors 78
About RAM 78
Sequencer Functions 79
About this chapter 80
Introduction 80
Sequencer area overview 80
Song View and Edit Mode 81
Toolbar overview 82
Track List overview 82
Tracks overview 83
Lanes overview 83
Clips overview 84
Inspector overview 84
Ruler overview 84
Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 84
Track scrollbar overview 85
Song Navigator overview 85
Transport Panel overview 85
Track details 86
Track definition 86
The relationship between the track, the rack and the
Main Mixer 87
Master Keyboard Input 92
The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events
93
Track types 93
Track List elements 95
Creating tracks 95
Selecting tracks 99
Moving tracks 100
Deleting tracks 100
Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 101
Coloring tracks 102
Naming tracks 102
Folding tracks 102
Muting tracks 103
Soloing tracks 103
Lane details 104
Audio lane 104
Note lane 105
Parameter automation lane 106
Pattern lane 107
Creating/adding lanes 108
Deleting lanes 110
Moving note lanes 111
Copying (duplicating) note lanes 111
Muting lanes 112
Clip basics 112
Clip types 112
Toolbar details 113
Toolbar tools 113
Alternate tools 115
Edit Mode buttons 116
Snap 116
Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 117
Ruler details 118
Transport Panel details 118
Transport keyboard commands 122
About the Inspector 123
About subticks in the Position and Length displays 123
About the “Match Values” function 123
Recording in the Sequencer
125
About this chapter 126
General recording functions 126
Record enabling 126
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Click and Pre-count 130
Loop mode 132
General recording procedure 133
Undoing a recording 134
Recording tips 134
Audio recording details 134
Setting up the audio track 134
Recording audio 139
Recording audio in Loop mode 141
Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 142
Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 142
Recording over or into an existing audio clip 143
Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 144
Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 146
Note recording details 150
Setting up the instrument track 150
Recording notes 150
Recording notes in Loop mode 150
Recording over or into an existing note clip 151
Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 152
Parameter automation recording details
154
Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation
154
Recording performance controller automation 155
Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 156
Recording performance controller automation over or
into an existing clip 156
About performance controller automation on multiple
lanes 157
Recording parameter automation 157
Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 158
Recording parameter automation over or into an existing
clip 159
Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live
mode” 160
Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 160
Pattern automation recording details 161
Recording pattern automation 161
Tempo automation recording 162
Recording tempo automation 162
Arranging in the Sequencer
165
About this chapter 166
Clip handling 166
Creating Clips 166
Selecting clips 166
Setting audio clip Level and Fades 169
Deleting clips 170
Resizing (masking) clips 171
About masked recordings and events 172
Tempo scaling clips 174
Moving clips 176
About overlapping clips 178
Duplicating clips 178
Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 178
Naming clips 179
Coloring clips 179
Splitting clips 180
Joining clips 181
Reversing clips 182
Muting clips 183
Merging clips on note lanes 183
Bounce in Place 184
Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 186
Inserting bars 188
Removing bars 188
About removing bars that contain audio recordings 189
Audio Editing in the
Sequencer 191
About this chapter 192
Edit Modes, Stretch & Transpose Types
and Clip Types 192
Edit Modes 192
Selecting Stretch and Transpose Type 192
Clip Types 193
Opening audio clips for editing 194
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Editing audio in Slice Edit mode 195
Audio clip elements in Slice Edit mode 195
Slice Edit mode tools 195
Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 196
Adding Slice Markers 197
Deleting Slice Markers 198
Repositioning Slice Markers 198
Moving/stretching Slices 198
Nudging Slices 200
Quantizing audio 200
Split at Slices 201
Bounce Clip to REX Loop 201
Revert All Slices 202
Editing audio in Pitch Edit mode 203
Pitch Editor elements 203
Selecting notes 204
Auditioning notes 204
Correcting pitches 205
Changing transposition 205
Resetting pitches 205
Splitting the clip at notes 205
Reverting all notes 205
Attenuating pitch drift/vibrato 206
Editing transition times 206
Moving notes and changing note lengths 207
Quantizing notes 208
Splitting and joining notes 208
About switching from Pitch Edit mode to Slice Edit mode
209
Audio pitch editing in the Inspector 209
Editing audio in the Comp Editor 211
Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 211
The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and
Recordings 215
Comp Editor window handling 217
Comp Editor audio editing tools 217
Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip
218
Selecting Comp Rows 219
Deleting Comp Rows 220
Moving Comp Rows 220
Duplicating Comp Rows 220
Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 221
Adjusting the Comp Row Level 221
Adjusting the Recording Offset 222
Comping audio 223
Adding Cuts 223
Adding Segments 224
Adding Crossfades to Cuts 224
Deleting Cuts 225
Moving Cuts 225
Changing Comp Row assignments 226
Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 227
Creating a comped audio clip 228
Common audio editing functions 232
Delete Unused Recordings 232
Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 232
Bouncing audio to MIDI notes 232
Normalizing audio clips 234
Reversing audio clips 235
Changing the tempo and transposition of
the audio 236
Tempo scaling Clips 236
Transposing Audio Clips 237
Audio and tempo matching 239
Matching imported audio to the song tempo 239
Editing audio using the Inspector 240
Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 240
Matching audio values using the "Match Values"
function 240
Note and Automation Editing
243
About this chapter 244
The Edit Mode 244
Selecting what to edit 245
Opening note and automation clips for editing 245
Edit Mode elements 247
Edit Mode window handling 249
Note Edit Modes 249
Creating empty clips 252
Tool Window editing tools 253
Note editing 254
Selecting notes 254
Drawing notes 255
Deleting notes 257
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Resizing notes 257
Splitting notes 260
Moving notes 261
Duplicating notes 264
Using Cut, Copy and Paste 265
Quantize 266
Pitch (Transpose) 269
Extract Notes to Lanes 270
Scale Tempo 273
Editing note velocity 274
Reverse 276
Automation editing 277
Overview 277
Editing parameter automation 278
Drawing parameter automation events 280
Deleting automation events 281
Reversing automation events 281
Editing performance controller automation 281
About Automation Cleanup 283
Editing pattern automation 284
Drawing pattern automation 285
Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips
286
Deleting pattern automation clips 286
The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 287
Editing tempo automation 287
About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio
tracks 288
Automating time signature 289
Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature
automation clips 290
Deleting time signature automation clips 290
Note and automation editing in the
Inspector 291
Editing notes and events in the Inspector 291
Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”
function 291
Working with Blocks in the
Sequencer 295
About this chapter 296
Introduction 296
The idea behind Blocks 296
Arrangement Views 297
Song View (with Blocks disabled) 297
Song View (with Blocks enabled) 297
Block View 298
Editing Blocks in the Block View 298
Selecting a Block for editing 298
Renaming Blocks 299
Defining the Block length 299
Changing Block color 299
Recording in the Block View 299
Editing clips in the Block View 299
Arranging clips in the Block View 300
Arranging Blocks in the Song View 300
Creating Block Automation Clips 300
Resizing Block Automation Clips 302
Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 302
Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 303
Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 305
Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 307
Working with the Rack 311
About this chapter 312
Rack device procedures 312
Navigating in the rack 312
Resizing and detaching the rack 313
About Device Groups 314
Creating devices 316
Selecting devices 318
Deleting devices 320
Re-ordering devices 320
Re-routing devices 322
Creating new rack columns 322
About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 322
Replacing devices 323
Duplicating devices 324
Cut, Copy and Paste devices 324
Naming devices 325
Folding and unfolding devices 326
Working with Players 327
About this chapter 328
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Overview 328
Recording modes 329
Using Players 330
Creating Players 330
Chaining Players 330
Replacing Players 330
Deleting Players 330
Naming Players 330
About Players in Combinators 331
Common Player device parameters 331
Dual Arpeggio 332
The Display sections 334
Note Echo 340
Scales & Chords 341
Scales 341
Filter Notes 342
Chords 343
Tips & Tricks 346
Generating scale-correct arpeggios from single notes
346
Generating chord arpeggios 346
Creating parallel chords 346
Using a Scales & Chords device as a “MIDI Note monitor”
347
Working with Rack Extensions
349
About this chapter 350
What are Rack Extensions? 350
Future compatibility 350
Trying and buying Rack Extensions 350
Trial versions of Rack Extensions 350
Buying Rack Extensions 350
Installing and managing Rack
Extensions 351
Using Rack Extensions in Reason 352
About missing Rack Extensions 354
Working with VST Plugins 355
About this chapter 356
About VST plugins 356
VST compatibility in Reason 356
Installing and enabling VST plugins 356
About VST licenses 356
Installing VST plugins under Windows 356
Installing VST plugins under Mac 357
Enabling VST plugins in Reason 357
Using VST plugins in Reason 358
Adding VSTs to the rack 358
The Plugin Rack Device 359
Front panel 359
Rear panel 360
About auto-routing of VSTs in the rack 361
The Plugin Window 361
Editing the VST parameters 363
Automating VST parameters 364
CV modulation of VST parameters 364
Remote controlling VST parameters 367
Selecting VST programs 369
About saving songs that contain VSTs 369
Combining VST plugins in Combinator devices 369
About missing VST plugins 370
Managing VST plugins 370
Plugin Status 371
Defining custom VST folders 372
Sounds, Patches and the
Browser 373
About this chapter 374
About patches 374
Reason devices that use patches 374
Loading patches 375
Setting browse focus 378
Saving patches 379
Copying and pasting patches between devices 380
Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 380
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About ReFills 381
Using the Browser 382
Opening the browser 383
Browser elements 384
Navigating in the Browser 388
Using Locations and Favorites 390
Favorites Lists 390
Selecting and auditioning samples and REX loops 393
Selecting multiple files 393
Cross-browsing patch files 394
Create Instrument/Create Effect 395
About patch formats and sampler devices 395
Using the “Search” function 396
Loading files 396
About browse lists 397
Handling Missing Sounds 398
Reason file formats 400
Routing Audio and CV 403
About this chapter 404
Signal types 404
Audio signals 404
CV/Gate signals 404
P-LAN signals 405
About MIDI routing 405
About cables 405
Cable appearance 405
Checking and following cable connections 406
Cable color 407
Automatic routing 407
Auto-routing of audio input signals 407
Auto-routing of Instrument devices 408
Auto-routing of Effect devices 408
Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 409
Auto-routing devices after they have been created 409
About re-routing devices in songs created in Reason
Version 5 or earlier 410
Manual routing 411
Connecting cables 412
Connecting cables using pop-up menus 412
Disconnecting cables 413
Disconnecting devices 413
Using CV and Gate 414
Routing CV and Gate signals 414
About CV Trim knobs 414
The Main Mixer 415
About this chapter 416
Overview 416
The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 417
The Mix Channel device and channel strip 418
The Master Section device and mixer strip 419
Navigating in the Main Mixer 420
Viewing the Main Mixer area 420
Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 420
Showing and hiding channel strip sections 421
Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks
422
Managing mixer channels 423
Creating and deleting channels 423
Selecting channels 423
Moving channels 424
Copying and duplicating channels 424
Copy channel settings 425
Resetting channel settings 425
Naming mixer channels 425
Coloring mixer channels 426
The channel strip 427
Input section 427
Dynamics section 428
EQ section 431
The Spectrum EQ Window 432
Insert FX section 435
FX Sends section 436
Fader section 437
Channel Header section 438
The Master Section strip 439
Master Compressor section 440
FX Send section 441
Master Inserts section 442
FX Return section 443
Master Fader section 444
Master Section Header 445
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Automating mixer parameters 445
Working with effects 445
Insert FX 445
Send FX 450
Output Busses 453
Creating an Output Bus 453
Deleting an Output Bus 455
Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 456
Parallel Channels 457
Creating Parallel Channels 457
Deleting Parallel Channels 460
Naming Parallel Channels 460
Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 461
Solo and Mute logic 461
Send FX level and mute logic 463
Remote controlling the Main Mixer 465
Remote controlling a single mixer channel 465
Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 465
Advanced routing tips and tricks 468
Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices
468
Using compression sidechaining 470
Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct
Outs 471
Creating an input channel for recording with effects 472
Delay Compensation 475
About this chapter 476
About Delay Compensation in Reason
476
Activating the Delay Compensation 476
Delay Compensation rules and limitations 477
How the Delay Compensation works 480
Delay Compensation in individual mixer channels 480
Delay Compensation with Busses and Parallel Channels
484
Delay Compensation to Send FX busses 485
About the Master Insert FX 485
Problematic configurations 486
About using the Direct Out connections of the mixer
channels 490
About the Metronome Click 490
Recording with Delay Compensation 490
Playing and monitoring with Delay Compensation 490
About bouncing mixer channels 490
Song File Handling 491
About this chapter 492
Opening Songs 492
Opening a Reason or Record Song 492
Opening a Reason Demo Song 493
Opening the last Song at program launch 493
Closing Songs 494
Closing a Song 494
Creating Songs 494
Creating a new Song 494
Setting up a Default Song 494
Creating a new Song from a template 495
Saving Songs 495
Saving a Song 495
Saving and optimizing a Song 496
Including Song Information 496
About Self-Contained Songs 497
Making a Song appear as a Template Song 498
A note about saving Songs as audio files 498
Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 499
About audio data in Song files 499
Changing Scratch Disk folder location 499
About “Orphan Audio Streams” 500
Importing and exporting Standard MIDI
Files 500
Importing Standard MIDI Files 500
Exporting Standard MIDI Files 501
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Importing and Exporting
Audio 503
About this chapter 504
Importing audio 504
Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 504
About tempo matching imported audio 504
Importing audio to the sequencer 505
Exporting audio 508
Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 508
Bouncing Mixer Channels 510
Bouncing Audio Clips 512
Drop to Allihoopa 514
Sampling 517
About this chapter 518
Overview 518
One-click sampling 518
The Edit Sample window 518
About sample format, rate and resolution 519
General sampling functions 519
Setting up for sampling 519
Sampling 521
The Sample buttons 521
Sampling procedure 521
The Song Samples location 524
Editing samples 526
The Edit Sample window 526
Setting Sample Start and End 528
Cropping samples 530
Normalizing samples 530
Reversing samples 530
Fading in/out samples 531
Looping samples 532
Saving edited samples 534
Renaming samples 534
Sample management 535
About Assigned and Unassigned samples 535
Saving samples in a song 536
Deleting samples from a song 536
Loading samples into a device 537
Duplicating samples 538
Exporting samples 539
About self-contained samples 541
The ReGroove Mixer 543
Introduction 544
ReGroove basics 544
The ReGroove Mixer 545
Global parameters 545
Channel parameters 546
Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 550
Groove Settings 551
Working with grooves 554
Applying grooves to your music 554
Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”
557
Creating your own ReGroove patches 558
Groovy tips & tricks 559
ReGroove patches in the Factory Sounds
bank 560
Remote - Playing and
Controlling Devices 561
About the various MIDI inputs 562
About Remote 562
Setting up 563
Adding a control surface or keyboard 563
Other functions 565
Example Setups 565
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Remote basics 566
About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 567
About mapping variations 567
Locking a surface to a device 568
Locking a surface 568
Unlocking a surface 570
Remote Override 571
Activating Remote Override Edit mode 571
Remote Override mapping 572
Additional Remote Overrides... 575
Assigning Additional Overrides 576
Keyboard Control 577
Enabling Keyboard Control 577
Editing Keyboard Control 577
Saving Remote Setups 578
ReWire 579
About this chapter 580
Why use Reason with ReWire? 580
Introducing ReWire! 580
In ReWire version 1 580
In ReWire 2 580
How does it work? 580
Terminology 581
About system requirements 581
About synchronization 581
Launching and quitting applications 581
Using the Transport and Tempo controls
582
Routing audio 582
Preparations in Reason 582
Routing in the ReWire host application 583
Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 583
Converting ReWire channels to audio
tracks 584
Synchronization and
Advanced MIDI 585
About this chapter 586
Synchronization to MIDI Clock 586
ReWire users – read this! 586
What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 586
Using Reason as MIDI Clock master 586
Slaving Reason to an external MIDI application or
instrument 588
Slaving Reason to another program on the same
computer 588
External synchronization considerations 589
Synchronization using Ableton Link 591
About Ableton Link 591
Synchronizing Reason’s sequencer with Ableton Link
591
Advanced MIDI - The External Control
Bus inputs 593
About the External Control Bus inputs 593
Routing MIDI to devices 594
Receiving Controller data via MIDI 594
About recording Pattern Changes 594
Optimizing Performance 595
Introduction 596
Checking Processing Power 596
Optimization and latency reduction 596
About Latency Compensation 597
Optimizing your computer system 598
Optimizing Songs 600
RAM requirements 602
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Hardware Interface 603
Introduction 604
About using ReWire 605
Sampling Input section 605
Advanced MIDI Device 606
More Audio 606
The Big Meter 607
The Combinator 609
Introduction 610
Creating Combinator devices 611
Combinator elements 612
About internal and external connections
613
About External Routing 613
Adding devices to a Combi 615
About the Insertion line 615
Creating new devices in a Combi 615
Adding devices using drag and drop 616
Adding devices using copy/paste 617
Adding a Combi to a Combi 617
Combining two Combis 617
Combining devices in a Combi with devices in the rack
617
Combi handling 617
Moving the entire Combi 617
Moving devices within a Combi 618
Moving devices out of a Combi 618
Deleting devices in a Combi 618
Uncombining devices 618
Sequencer tracks and playing Combis
618
The Controller panel 619
Select backdrop... 620
Using the Programmer 621
Key Mapping instrument devices 622
Setting Velocity Ranges for instrument devices 623
Using Modulation Routing 624
CV Connections 627
Mixer 14:2 629
Introduction 630
The Channel Strip 630
Channel Strip Controls 631
The Mixer signal flow 632
About the EQ modes 632
The Auxiliary Return Section 633
The Master Fader 633
Connections 633
Chaining several Mixer 14:2 devices 635
The Line Mixer 6:2 637
Introduction 638
Channel parameters 638
The Auxiliary Return section 638
Master level 638
Connections 639
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ID8 Instrument Device 641
Introduction 642
The Sounds 642
The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 642
Using the ID8 643
Selecting Sounds 643
Controlling Sounds 643
About saving edited Sounds 644
Subtractor Synthesizer 645
Introduction 646
Loading and Saving Patches 646
The Oscillator Section 647
Oscillator 1 Waveform 647
Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent
649
Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 649
Using Oscillator 2 649
Oscillator 2 Waveform 650
Noise Generator 650
Phase Offset Modulation 651
Frequency Modulation (FM) 653
Ring Modulation 654
The Filter Section 655
Filter 1 Type 655
Filter 1 Frequency 658
Resonance 658
Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 658
Filter 2 659
Envelopes - General 660
Amplitude Envelope 661
Filter Envelope 661
Mod Envelope 662
LFO Section 663
LFO 1 Parameters 663
LFO 2 Parameters 664
Play Parameters 665
Velocity Control 665
Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 666
Legato 667
Retrig 667
Portamento (Time) 667
Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 668
About the Low Bandwidth button 668
External Modulation 668
Connections 669
Audio Output 669
Sequencer Control 669
Modulation Inputs 670
Modulation Outputs 670
Gate Inputs 670
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
671
Introduction 672
Loading and Saving Patches 672
Thor elements 673
The Controller panel 674
Using the Programmer 676
Basic connections - a tutorial 677
The Oscillator section 680
Mix section 687
Filter slots 687
Shaper 691
Amp section 691
LFO 1 692
Envelope sections 693
Global section 694
Modulation bus routing section 696
Step Sequencer 705
Basic operation 705
Connections 709
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Malström Synthesizer 711
Introduction 712
Features 712
Theory of operation 713
Loading and Saving Patches 713
The Oscillator section 714
Setting oscillator frequency 715
Controlling playback of the graintable 715
The amplitude envelopes 716
The Modulator section 717
Modulator parameters 717
Destinations 718
The Filter section 719
The Filters 720
The Filter Envelope 722
The Shaper 723
Routing 725
Routing examples 726
The output controls 729
The play controls 729
Polyphony - setting the number of voices 730
Porta (portamento) 730
Legato 730
The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 731
The Velocity controls 731
The Modulation wheel controls 732
Connections 733
Audio Output 733
Audio Input 733
Sequencer Control 733
Gate Input 734
Modulation Input 734
Modulation Output 734
Routing external audio to the filters 735
NN-19 Sampler 737
Introduction 738
General sampling principles 738
Background 738
Multisampling vs. single samples 738
About audio file formats 739
Loading a Sample Patch 739
Loading REX Files as Patches 740
Sampling in NN-19 740
About Key Zones and samples 741
Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 741
Loading SoundFont samples 742
Loading REX slices as samples 742
Creating Key Zones 742
Selecting Key Zones 743
Setting the Key Zone Range 743
Deleting a Key Zone 744
About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples
744
Adding sample(s) to a Key Map 744
Setting the Root Key 745
Removing sample(s) from a Key Map 745
Removing all unassigned samples 745
Rearranging samples in a Key Map 745
Setting Sample Level 745
Tuning samples 745
Looping Samples 746
About the Solo Sample function 746
Automap Samples 747
Mapping samples without Root Key or Tuning
information 747
How Mapping Information is saved 747
NN-19 synth parameters 748
The Oscillator Section 748
The Filter Section 749
Envelope Section 750
LFO Section 751
Play Parameters 753
Velocity Control 753
Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 753
Legato 754
Retrig 754
Portamento (Time) 754
Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 755
Voice Spread 755
Low Bandwidth 755
Controller Section 755
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Connections 756
Audio Outputs 756
Mono Sequencer Control 756
Modulation Inputs 756
Modulation Outputs 756
Gate Inputs 757
NN-XT Sampler 759
Introduction 760
Sampling in NN-XT 760
Panel overview 761
The main panel 761
The Remote Editor panel 761
Loading complete Patches and REX files
762
Loading NN-XT Patches 762
Loading NN-19 Patches 762
Loading SoundFonts 763
Loading complete REX files as Patches 763
Using the main panel 764
The Pitch and Modulation wheels 764
The External Control wheel 764
High Quality Interpolation 765
Global Controls 765
Overview of the Remote Editor panel 767
The Key Map display 767
Sample parameters 768
Group parameters 768
Synth Parameters 769
About Samples and Zones 769
Selections and Edit Focus 770
Selecting Zones 771
Moving Edit Focus 773
Adjusting parameters 773
Adjusting Synth parameters 773
Adjusting Group parameters 773
Sample parameters 774
Managing Zones and Samples 775
Creating a Key Map 775
About file formats and REX slices 776
Adding more samples to the Key Map 776
Replacing a sample 776
Quick browsing through samples 777
Removing samples 777
Auditioning samples 777
Adding empty Zones 777
Duplicating Zones 778
Removing Zones 778
Rearranging Zones in the List 778
Working with Grouping 778
About Groups 778
Creating a Group 778
Moving a Group to another position in the List 779
Moving a Zone from one Group to another 779
Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 780
The Group Parameters 780
Working with Key Ranges 780
About Key Ranges 780
Setting up Key Ranges 780
About the Lock Root Keys function 784
About the Solo Sample function 785
Sorting Zones by Note 786
Setting Root Notes and Tuning 787
About the Root Key 787
Setting the Root Note manually 787
Tuning samples manually 787
Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection
788
About changing the pitch of samples 788
Using Automap 788
Layered, crossfaded and velocity
switched sounds 789
Creating layered sounds 789
About velocity ranges 789
Setting velocity range for a Zone 791
About Crossfading Between Zones 791
Setting crossfading for a Zone 793
Using Alternate 793
About the Alternate function 793
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Sample parameters 794
Root Note and Tune 794
Sample Start and End 794
Loop Start and End 794
Play Mode 795
Lo Key and Hi Key 795
Lo Vel and Hi Vel 795
Fade In and Fade Out 795
Alt 795
Out 795
Group parameters 796
Key Poly 796
Legato and Retrig 797
LFO 1 Rate 797
Portamento 797
Synth parameters 798
The Modulation controls 798
The Velocity controls 800
The Pitch section 801
The Filter section 802
The Modulation Envelope 803
The Amplitude Envelope 805
The LFOs 806
Connections 809
Sequencer Control 809
Modulation Input 809
Gate Input 809
Audio Output 809
Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 811
Introduction 812
ReCycled Loops 812
About REX file formats 813
Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches
813
About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 813
About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex
devices 813
Playing Loops 814
Switching playback between Loop Slots 814
Adding Loops 815
Loading Loops “On the Fly” 816
Removing Loops 816
Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 816
Playing individual Loop Slices 816
Creating sequencer notes 817
Slice handling 820
Selecting Slices 820
Editing individual Slices 820
Editing in the Waveform Display 821
The Slice Edit Mode 822
Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 823
Pitch and Mod wheels 823
Trig Next Loop 823
Note To Slot 823
Loop Slot buttons 824
Enable Loop Playback and Run 825
Volume 825
Global Transpose 825
Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 826
Select Loop & Load Slot 826
Loop Transpose 826
Loop Level 827
Oscillator section 827
Mod. Wheel 828
Velocity section 828
The Filter Section 829
Envelope section 830
LFO section 831
Pitch Bend Range 832
Setting number of voices - polyphony 833
Audio Quality settings 833
Connections 833
Modulation Inputs 834
Modulation Outputs 834
Gate Inputs 834
Gate Output 834
Slice Outputs 834
Main Outputs 834
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Redrum Drum Computer 835
Introduction 836
Sampling in Redrum 836
About file formats 837
Using patches 838
Loading a patch 838
Checking the sounds in a patch 838
Creating a new patch 839
Creating an empty patch 839
Programming patterns 840
Pattern basics 840
Pattern tutorial 841
Setting pattern length 842
Setting pattern resolution 843
Step dynamics 843
Pattern Shuffle 844
Flam 844
The Pattern Enable switch 845
The Enable Pattern Section switch 845
Pattern functions 846
Chaining patterns 846
Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer
847
Redrum parameters 848
Drum sound settings 848
Global settings 851
Using Redrum as a sound module 852
Connections 853
Kong Drum Designer 855
Introduction 856
Overview 856
The Pad Section 856
The Drum Control Panel 857
The Drum and FX Section 857
About using custom backdrops 857
About file formats 857
Using patches 858
Loading a Kit Patch 858
Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 859
Creating a new Kit Patch 859
Creating an empty Kit Patch 860
Saving Kit Patches 860
Pad Settings 861
Assigning Drums to Pads 861
Renaming Pads 862
Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 862
Assigning Hit Type to Pads 862
Muting and Soloing Pads 863
Working with Pad Groups 864
The Drum and FX section 865
Signal flow 866
The Drum Control Panel 868
Sampling in Kong 870
The Drum Module slot 870
The FX slots 871
The Drum modules 872
NN-Nano Sampler 872
Nurse Rex Loop Player 876
Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 881
Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 883
Synth Hi-hat 884
The Support Generator modules 885
Noise Generator 885
Tone Generator 886
The FX modules 887
Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX
parameters 887
Drum Room Reverb 888
Transient Shaper 888
Compressor 889
Filter 890
Parametric EQ 890
Ring Modulator 891
Rattler 892
Tape Echo 892
Overdrive/Resonator 893
Connections 894
Sequencer Control 894
Modulation Input 894
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Aux Send Out 894
Gate In and Out 895
Audio Out 3-16 895
Main Audio Out 895
Using Kong as an effect device 895
Using external effects with Kong 896
External MIDI Instrument 897
Introduction 898
Using the External MIDI Instrument 898
Setting up for controlling an external MIDI instrument
898
Controlling the sound of your external MIDI instrument
899
Using MIDI Program Change 899
Recording MIDI Controller automation 900
Connections 905
Sequencer Control 905
Assignable CC 905
Tips & Tricks 905
Audio recording of MIDI controlled external instruments
905
The MClass Effects 909
The MClass effects 910
The MClass Equalizer 911
The MClass Stereo Imager 912
The MClass Compressor 913
The MClass Maximizer 916
Softube Amps 917
Introduction 918
Basic usage 918
Front panel 919
Using the Softube Amps 920
Loading and saving patches 920
Selecting Amp and Cabinet model 920
About the Amp and Cabinet models 921
Amp panel controls 922
Connections 923
Scream 4 Sound Destruction
Unit 925
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit 926
Parameters 926
CV inputs and outputs 930
Screamy tips and tricks 931
Pulveriser 933
Introduction 934
About the Patch format 934
Parameters 934
Common effect device parameters 934
Signal Routing selector 935
The Squash section 936
The Dirt section 936
The Filter section 937
The Tremor section 938
The Follower section 939
Blend 940
Volume 940
Modulation inputs and outputs 941
CV Modulation inputs 941
Audio Modulation inputs 941
CV Modulation outputs 942
Demolition tips and tricks 942
Beef up your sounds 942
Make your pads tremble 942
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