Propellerhead Reason 9.5 User manual

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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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