Propellerhead Reason 10.4 User manual

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Table of Contents

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Introduction 29

Welcome! 30

About this chapter 30

About this manual 30

About the Reason operating system

versions 30

Conventions in the manual 30

The Authorization system 32

Registering Reason 32

Running Reason with Internet Verification 33

Authorizing your Computer/Ignition Key (for off-line use)

33

About deauthorizing the computer/Ignition Key 34

Running Reason on an authorized computer - or with an

authorized Ignition Key hardware 34

Running Reason in Demo Mode 35

Managing additional content 36

Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac

OS X 37

About automatic program updates 38

Common Operations and

Concepts 41

About this chapter 42

Areas, windows and basic navigation 42

Song window overview 42

The Browser 43

The Main Mixer 44

The Tutorial area 44

The Rack 45

The Sequencer 46

The Transport Panel 46

The ReGroove Mixer 47

Navigating between the areas 47

Showing/hiding the Navigators 47

About different Themes 48

Using several Reason Song windows 49

The Tool Window 49

The On-screen Piano Keys window 50

General window techniques 51

Resizing 51

Scrolling 52

Zooming in the Sequencer 53

Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 54

Editing parameters 55

Knobs 55

Faders and sliders 56

Buttons 56

Fold/Unfold buttons 57

Multi Mode selectors 57

Numerical controls 58

Alpha-numeric controls 58

Numerical segment displays 59

Tool Tips 60

Context menus 61

Parameter context menus 61

Device context menus 62

Main Mixer channel strip context menu 63

Rack “background” context menu 64

Main Mixer “background” context menu 64

Sequencer context menus 64

Undo and Redo 65

On-screen Piano Keys 67

About this chapter 68

Using the On-screen Piano Keys 68

Opening the Piano Keys window 68

Mouse mode 69

Computer Keys mode 70

Audio Basics 73

About this chapter 74

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How Reason communicates with your

audio hardware 74

Manual audio routing 75

Audio quality 75

Audio settings 76

About audio levels 78

System signal paths 81

Audio Track signal paths 81

Instrument Track signal paths 82

General information about audio and

computers 83

About latency 83

About processors 84

About RAM 84

Sequencer Functions 85

About this chapter 86

Introduction 86

Sequencer area overview 86

Song View and Edit Mode 87

Toolbar overview 88

Track List overview 88

Tracks overview 89

Lanes overview 89

Clips overview 90

Inspector overview 90

Ruler overview 90

Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 90

Track scrollbar overview 91

Song Navigator overview 91

Transport Panel overview 91

Track details 92

Track definition 92

The relationship between the track, the rack and the

Main Mixer 93

Master Keyboard Input 98

The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events

99

Track types 99

Track List elements 101

Creating tracks 101

Selecting tracks 105

Moving tracks 106

Deleting tracks 106

Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 107

Coloring tracks 108

Naming tracks 108

Folding tracks 108

Muting tracks 109

Soloing tracks 109

Lane details 110

Audio lane 110

Note lane 111

Parameter automation lane 112

Pattern lane 113

Creating/adding lanes 114

Deleting lanes 116

Moving note lanes 117

Copying (duplicating) note lanes 117

Muting lanes 118

Clip basics 118

Clip types 118

Toolbar details 119

Toolbar tools 119

Alternate tools 121

Edit Mode buttons 122

Snap 122

Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 124

Ruler details 124

Transport Panel details 125

Transport keyboard commands 128

About the Inspector 130

About subticks in the Position and Length displays 130

About the “Match Values” function 130

Recording in the Sequencer

131

About this chapter 132

General recording functions 132

Record enabling 132

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Click and Pre-count 136

Loop mode 138

General recording procedure 139

Undoing a recording 140

Recording tips 140

Audio recording details 140

Setting up the audio track 140

Recording audio 145

Recording audio in Loop mode 147

Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 148

Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 148

Recording over or into an existing audio clip 149

Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 150

Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 152

Note recording details 156

Setting up the instrument track 156

Recording notes 156

Recording notes in Loop mode 156

Recording over or into an existing note clip 157

Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 158

Parameter automation recording details

160

Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation

160

Recording performance controller automation 161

Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 162

Recording performance controller automation over or

into an existing clip 162

About performance controller automation on multiple

lanes 163

Recording parameter automation 163

Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 164

Recording parameter automation over or into an existing

clip 165

Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live

mode” 166

Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 166

Pattern automation recording details 167

Recording pattern automation 167

Tempo automation recording 168

Recording tempo automation 168

Arranging in the Sequencer

171

About this chapter 172

Clip handling 172

Creating Clips 172

Selecting clips 172

Setting audio clip Level and Fades 175

Deleting clips 176

Resizing (masking) clips 177

About masked recordings and events 178

Tempo scaling clips 180

Moving clips 182

About overlapping clips 184

Duplicating clips 184

Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 184

Naming clips 185

Coloring clips 185

Splitting clips 186

Joining clips 187

Reversing clips 188

Muting clips 189

Merging clips on note lanes 189

Bounce in Place 190

Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 192

Inserting bars 194

Removing bars 194

About removing bars that contain audio recordings 195

Audio Editing in the

Sequencer 197

About this chapter 198

Edit Modes, Stretch & Transpose Types

and Clip Types 198

Edit Modes 198

Selecting Stretch and Transpose Type 198

Clip Types 199

Opening audio clips for editing 200

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Editing audio in Slice Edit mode 201

Audio clip elements in Slice Edit mode 201

Slice Edit mode tools 201

Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 202

Adding Slice Markers 203

Deleting Slice Markers 204

Repositioning Slice Markers 204

Moving/stretching Slices 204

Nudging Slices 206

Quantizing audio 206

Split at Slices 207

Bounce Clip to REX Loop 207

Revert All Slices 208

Editing audio in Pitch Edit mode 209

Pitch Editor elements 209

Selecting notes 210

Auditioning notes 210

Correcting pitches 211

Changing transposition 211

Resetting pitches 211

Splitting the clip at notes 211

Reverting all notes 211

Attenuating pitch drift/vibrato 212

Editing transition times 212

Moving notes and changing note lengths 213

Quantizing notes 214

Splitting and joining notes 214

About switching from Pitch Edit mode to Slice Edit mode

215

Audio pitch editing in the Inspector 215

Editing audio in the Comp Editor 217

Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 217

The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and

Recordings 221

Comp Editor window handling 223

Comp Editor audio editing tools 223

Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip

224

Selecting Comp Rows 225

Deleting Comp Rows 226

Moving Comp Rows 226

Duplicating Comp Rows 226

Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 227

Adjusting the Comp Row Level 227

Adjusting the Recording Offset 228

Comping audio 229

Adding Cuts 229

Adding Segments 230

Adding Crossfades to Cuts 230

Deleting Cuts 231

Moving Cuts 231

Changing Comp Row assignments 232

Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 233

Creating a comped audio clip 234

Common audio editing functions 238

Delete Unused Recordings 238

Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 238

Bouncing audio to MIDI notes 238

Normalizing audio clips 240

Reversing audio clips 241

Changing the tempo and transposition of

the audio 242

Tempo scaling Clips 242

Transposing Audio Clips 243

Audio and tempo matching 245

Matching imported audio to the song tempo 245

Editing audio using the Inspector 246

Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 246

Matching audio values using the "Match Values"

function 246

Note and Automation Editing

249

About this chapter 250

The Edit Mode 250

Selecting what to edit 251

Opening note and automation clips for editing 251

Edit Mode elements 253

Edit Mode window handling 255

Note Edit Modes 255

Creating empty clips 258

Tool Window editing tools 259

Note editing 260

Selecting notes 260

Drawing notes 261

Deleting notes 263

Resizing notes 263

Splitting notes 266

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Moving notes 267

Duplicating notes 270

Using Cut, Copy and Paste 271

Quantize 272

Pitch (Transpose) 275

Extract Notes to Lanes 276

Scale Tempo 279

Editing note velocity 280

Reverse 282

Multi Lanes editing 284

Overview 284

Selecting multiple lanes for editing 284

Editing notes in Multi Lanes mode 285

Automation editing 286

Overview 286

Editing parameter automation 286

Drawing parameter automation events 289

Deleting automation events 290

Reversing automation events 290

Editing performance controller automation 290

About Automation Cleanup 292

Editing pattern automation 293

Drawing pattern automation 294

Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips

295

Deleting pattern automation clips 295

The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 296

Editing tempo automation 296

About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio

tracks 297

Automating time signature 298

Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature

automation clips 299

Deleting time signature automation clips 299

Note and automation editing in the

Inspector 300

Editing notes and events in the Inspector 300

Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”

function 300

Working with Blocks in the

Sequencer 303

About this chapter 304

Introduction 304

The idea behind Blocks 304

Arrangement Views 305

Song View (with Blocks disabled) 305

Song View (with Blocks enabled) 305

Block View 306

Editing Blocks in the Block View 306

Selecting a Block for editing 306

Renaming Blocks 307

Defining the Block length 307

Changing Block color 307

Recording in the Block View 307

Editing clips in the Block View 307

Arranging clips in the Block View 308

Arranging Blocks in the Song View 308

Creating Block Automation Clips 308

Resizing Block Automation Clips 310

Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 310

Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 311

Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 313

Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 315

Working with the Rack 319

About this chapter 320

Rack device procedures 320

Navigating in the rack 320

Resizing and detaching the rack 321

About Device Groups 322

Creating devices 324

Selecting devices 326

Deleting devices 328

Re-ordering devices 328

Re-routing devices 330

Creating new rack columns 330

About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 330

Replacing devices 331

Duplicating devices 332

Cut, Copy and Paste devices 332

Naming devices 333

Folding and unfolding devices 334

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Working with Players 335

About this chapter 336

Overview 336

General recording methods 337

Using Players 338

Creating Players 338

Chaining Players 338

Replacing Players 338

Deleting Players 338

Naming Players 338

About Players in Combinators 339

Common Player device parameters 339

Dual Arpeggio 340

The Display sections 342

Note Echo 348

Scales & Chords 349

Scales 349

Filter Notes 350

Chords 351

Tips & Tricks 354

Generating scale-correct arpeggios from single notes

354

Generating chord arpeggios 354

Creating parallel chords 354

Using a Scales & Chords device as a “MIDI Note monitor”

355

Working with Rack Extensions

357

About this chapter 358

What are Rack Extensions? 358

Future compatibility 358

Trying and buying Rack Extensions 358

Trial versions of Rack Extensions 358

Buying Rack Extensions 358

Installing and managing Rack

Extensions 359

Using Rack Extensions in Reason 360

About missing Rack Extensions 362

Working with VST Plugins 363

About this chapter 364

About VST plugins 364

VST compatibility in Reason 364

Installing and enabling VST plugins 364

About VST licenses 364

Installing VST plugins under Windows 364

Installing VST plugins under Mac 365

Enabling VST plugins in Reason 365

Using VST plugins in Reason 366

Adding VSTs to the rack 366

The Plugin Rack Device 367

Front panel 367

Rear panel 368

About auto-routing of VSTs in the rack 369

The Plugin Window 369

Editing the VST parameters 371

Automating VST parameters 371

CV modulation of VST parameters 372

Remote controlling VST parameters 375

Selecting VST programs 377

About saving songs that contain VSTs 377

Combining VST plugins in Combinator devices 377

About missing VST plugins 378

Managing VST plugins 378

Plugin Status 379

Defining custom VST folders 380

Sounds, Patches and the

Browser 381

About this chapter 382

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About patches 382

Reason devices that use patches 382

Loading patches 383

Setting browse focus 386

Saving patches 387

Copying and pasting patches between devices 388

Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 388

About ReFills 389

Using the Browser 390

Opening the browser 391

Browser elements 392

Navigating in the Browser 396

Using Locations and Favorites 398

Favorites Lists 398

Selecting and auditioning samples and REX loops 401

Selecting multiple files 401

Cross-browsing patch files 402

Create Instrument/Create Effect 403

About patch formats and sampler devices 403

Using the “Search” function 404

Loading files 404

About browse lists 405

Handling Missing Sounds 406

Reason file formats 408

Routing Audio and CV 411

About this chapter 412

Signal types 412

Audio signals 412

CV/Gate signals 412

P-LAN signals 413

About MIDI routing 413

About cables 413

Cable appearance 413

Checking and following cable connections 414

Cable color 415

Automatic routing 415

Auto-routing of audio input signals 415

Auto-routing of Instrument devices 416

Auto-routing of Effect devices 416

Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 417

Auto-routing devices after they have been created 417

About re-routing devices in songs created in Reason

Version 5 or earlier 418

Manual routing 419

Connecting cables 420

Connecting cables using pop-up menus 420

Disconnecting cables 421

Disconnecting devices 421

Using CV and Gate 422

Routing CV and Gate signals 422

About CV Trim knobs 422

The Main Mixer 423

About this chapter 424

Overview 424

The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 425

The Mix Channel device and channel strip 426

The Master Section device and mixer strip 427

Navigating in the Main Mixer 428

Viewing the Main Mixer area 428

Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 428

Showing and hiding channel strip sections 429

Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks

430

Managing mixer channels 431

Creating and deleting channels 431

Selecting channels 431

Moving channels 432

Copying and duplicating channels 432

Copy channel settings 433

Resetting channel settings 433

Naming mixer channels 433

Coloring mixer channels 434

The channel strip 435

Input section 435

Dynamics section 436

EQ section 439

The Spectrum EQ Window 440

Insert FX section 443

FX Sends section 444

Fader section 445

Channel Header section 447

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The Master Section strip 448

Master Compressor section 449

FX Send section 450

Master Inserts section 451

FX Return section 452

Master Fader section 453

Master Section Header 454

Automating mixer parameters 454

Working with effects 454

Insert FX 454

Send FX 459

Output Busses 462

Creating an Output Bus 462

Deleting an Output Bus 464

Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 465

Parallel Channels 466

Creating Parallel Channels 466

Deleting Parallel Channels 469

Naming Parallel Channels 469

Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 470

Solo and Mute logic 470

Send FX level and mute logic 472

Remote controlling the Main Mixer 474

Remote controlling a single mixer channel 474

Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 474

Advanced routing tips and tricks 477

Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices

477

Using compression sidechaining 479

Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct

Outs 480

Creating an input channel for recording with effects 481

Delay Compensation 485

About this chapter 486

About Delay Compensation in Reason

486

Activating the Delay Compensation 486

Delay Compensation rules and limitations 487

How the Delay Compensation works 490

Delay Compensation in individual mixer channels 490

Delay Compensation with Busses and Parallel Channels

494

Delay Compensation to Send FX busses 495

About the Master Insert FX 495

Problematic configurations 496

About using the Direct Out connections of the mixer

channels 500

About the Metronome Click 500

Recording with Delay Compensation 500

Playing and monitoring with Delay Compensation 500

About bouncing mixer channels 500

Song File Handling 501

About this chapter 502

Opening Songs 502

Opening a Reason or Record Song 502

Opening a Reason Demo Song 503

Opening the last Song at program launch 503

Closing Songs 504

Closing a Song 504

Creating Songs 504

Creating a new Song 504

Setting up a Default Song 504

Creating a new Song from a template 505

Saving Songs 505

Saving a Song 505

Saving and optimizing a Song 506

Including Song Information 506

About Self-Contained Songs 507

Making a Song appear as a Template Song 508

A note about saving Songs as audio files 508

Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 509

About audio data in Song files 509

Changing Scratch Disk folder location 509

About “Orphan Audio Streams” 510

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Importing and exporting Standard MIDI

Files 510

Importing Standard MIDI Files 510

Exporting Standard MIDI Files 511

Importing and Exporting

Audio 513

About this chapter 514

Importing audio 514

Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 514

About tempo matching imported audio 514

Importing audio to the sequencer 515

Exporting audio 518

Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 518

Bouncing Mixer Channels 520

Bouncing Audio Clips 522

Sampling 525

About this chapter 526

Overview 526

One-click sampling 526

The Edit Sample window 526

About sample format, rate and resolution 527

General sampling functions 527

Setting up for sampling 527

Sampling 529

The Sample buttons 529

Sampling procedure 529

The Song Samples location 532

Editing samples 534

The Edit Sample window 534

Setting Sample Start and End 536

Cropping samples 538

Normalizing samples 538

Reversing samples 538

Fading in/out samples 539

Looping samples 540

Saving edited samples 542

Renaming samples 542

Sample management 543

About Assigned and Unassigned samples 543

Saving samples in a song 544

Deleting samples from a song 544

Loading samples into a device 545

Duplicating samples 546

Exporting samples 547

About self-contained samples 549

The ReGroove Mixer 551

Introduction 552

ReGroove basics 552

The ReGroove Mixer 553

Global parameters 553

Channel parameters 554

Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 558

Groove Settings 559

Working with grooves 562

Applying grooves to your music 562

Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”

565

Creating your own ReGroove patches 566

Groovy tips & tricks 567

ReGroove patches in the Factory Sounds

bank 568

Remote - Playing and

Controlling Devices 569

About the various MIDI inputs 570

About Remote 570

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Setting up 571

Automatic set-up using the Easy MIDI Inputs function

571

Adding a specific control surface or keyboard 572

Other functions 575

Example Setups 575

Remote basics 576

About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 576

About mapping variations 576

Locking a surface to a device 578

Locking a surface 578

Unlocking a surface 580

Remote Override 581

Activating Remote Override Edit mode 581

Remote Override mapping 582

Additional Remote Overrides... 585

Assigning Additional Overrides 586

Keyboard Control 587

Enabling Keyboard Control 587

Editing Keyboard Control 587

Saving Remote Setups 588

ReWire 589

About this chapter 590

Why use Reason with ReWire? 590

Introducing ReWire! 590

In ReWire version 1 590

In ReWire 2 590

How does it work? 590

Terminology 591

About system requirements 591

About synchronization 591

Launching and quitting applications 591

Using the Transport and Tempo controls

592

Routing audio 592

Preparations in Reason 592

Routing in the ReWire host application 593

Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 593

Converting ReWire channels to audio

tracks 594

Synchronization and

Advanced MIDI 595

About this chapter 596

Synchronization to MIDI Clock 596

ReWire users – read this! 596

What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 596

Using Reason as MIDI Clock Host 596

Syncing Reason to an external MIDI application or

instrument 598

Syncing Reason to another program on the same

computer 598

External synchronization considerations 599

Synchronization using Ableton Link 601

About Ableton Link 601

Synchronizing Reason’s sequencer with Ableton Link

601

Advanced MIDI - The External Control

Bus inputs 603

About the External Control Bus inputs 603

Routing MIDI to devices 604

Receiving Controller data via MIDI 604

About recording Pattern Changes 604

Optimizing Performance 605

Introduction 606

Checking Processing Power 606

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Optimization and latency reduction 606

About Latency Compensation 607

Optimizing your computer system 608

Optimizing Songs 610

RAM requirements 612

Hardware Interface 613

Introduction 614

About using ReWire 615

Sampling Input section 615

Advanced MIDI Device 616

More Audio 616

The Big Meter 617

Kong Drum Designer 619

Introduction 620

Overview 620

The Pad Section 620

The Drum Control Panel 621

The Drum and FX Section 621

About using custom backdrops 621

About file formats 621

Using patches 622

Loading a Kit Patch 622

Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 623

Creating a new Kit Patch 623

Creating an empty Kit Patch 624

Saving Kit Patches 624

Pad Settings 625

Assigning Drums to Pads 625

Renaming Pads 626

Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 626

Assigning Hit Type to Pads 626

Muting and Soloing Pads 627

Working with Pad Groups 628

The Drum and FX section 629

Signal flow 630

The Drum Control Panel 632

Sampling in Kong 634

The Drum Module slot 634

The FX slots 635

The Drum modules 636

NN-Nano Sampler 636

Nurse Rex Loop Player 640

Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 645

Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 647

Synth Hi-hat 648

The Support Generator modules 649

Noise Generator 649

Tone Generator 650

The FX modules 651

Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX

parameters 651

Drum Room Reverb 652

Transient Shaper 652

Compressor 653

Filter 654

Parametric EQ 654

Ring Modulator 655

Rattler 656

Tape Echo 656

Overdrive/Resonator 657

Connections 658

Sequencer Control 658

Modulation Input 658

Aux Send Out 658

Gate In and Out 659

Audio Out 3-16 659

Main Audio Out 659

Using Kong as an effect device 659

Using external effects with Kong 660

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Redrum Drum Computer 661

Introduction 662

Sampling in Redrum 662

About file formats 663

Using patches 664

Loading a patch 664

Checking the sounds in a patch 664

Creating a new patch 665

Creating an empty patch 665

Programming patterns 666

Pattern basics 666

Pattern tutorial 667

Setting pattern length 668

Setting pattern resolution 669

Step dynamics 669

Pattern Shuffle 670

Flam 670

The Pattern Enable switch 671

The Enable Pattern Section switch 671

Pattern functions 672

Chaining patterns 672

Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer

673

Redrum parameters 674

Drum sound settings 674

Global settings 677

Using Redrum as a sound module 678

Connections 679

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 681

Introduction 682

ReCycled Loops 682

About REX file formats 683

Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches

683

About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 683

About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex

devices 683

Playing Loops 684

Switching playback between Loop Slots 684

Adding Loops 685

Loading Loops “On the Fly” 686

Removing Loops 686

Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 686

Playing individual Loop Slices 686

Creating sequencer notes 687

Slice handling 690

Selecting Slices 690

Editing individual Slices 690

Editing in the Waveform Display 691

The Slice Edit Mode 692

Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 693

Pitch and Mod wheels 693

Trig Next Loop 693

Note To Slot 693

Loop Slot buttons 694

Enable Loop Playback and Run 695

Volume 695

Global Transpose 695

Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 696

Select Loop & Load Slot 696

Loop Transpose 696

Loop Level 697

Oscillator section 697

Mod. Wheel 698

Velocity section 698

The Filter Section 699

Envelope section 700

LFO section 701

Pitch Bend Range 702

Setting number of voices - polyphony 703

Audio Quality settings 703

Connections 703

Modulation Inputs 704

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Modulation Outputs 704

Gate Inputs 704

Gate Output 704

Slice Outputs 704

Main Outputs 704

Europa Shapeshifting

Synthesizer 705

Introduction 706

Panel overview 707

Signal flow 708

Playing and using Europa 709

Loading and saving patches 709

Global output controls 709

Global performance and “play” controls 709

Panel reference 711

Sound Engines On/Off and Edit Focus section 711

The Oscillator section 711

The Modifiers section 714

The Spectral Filter 716

The Harmonics section 718

The Unison section 720

The User Wave and Mixer section 721

The Filter section 722

The Amplifier section 724

The Envelopes section 726

The LFO section 730

The Effects section 731

The Modulation Bus section 734

Connections 738

Sequencer Control inputs 738

CV Modulation inputs and outputs 738

Audio Output 738

Tips and Tricks 739

Creating an individual “pre amp envelope” for a Sound

Engine 739

Recording display movements in the sequencer 740

Grain Sample Manipulator 741

Introduction 742

A few words about granular synthesis 742

Panel overview 744

Playing and using Grain 745

Loading and saving patches 745

Global performance and “play” controls 745

Global output controls 746

Panel reference 747

The Sample section 747

The Playback Algorithms section 749

The Oscillator section 754

The Filter section 755

The Amplifier section 756

The Envelopes section 757

The LFO section 761

The Effects section 761

The Modulation Bus section 765

Connections 769

Sequencer Control inputs 769

CV Modulation inputs and outputs 769

Audio Output 769

Tips and Tricks 770

Automating sample playback parameters from the

sequencer 770

Thor Polysonic Synthesizer

773

Introduction 774

Loading and Saving Patches 774

Thor elements 775

The Controller panel 776

Using the Programmer 778

Basic connections - a tutorial 779

The Oscillator section 782

Mix section 789

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Filter slots 789

Shaper 793

Amp section 793

LFO 1 794

Envelope sections 795

Global section 796

Modulation bus routing section 798

Step Sequencer 807

Basic operation 807

Connections 811

Subtractor Synthesizer 813

Introduction 814

Loading and Saving Patches 814

The Oscillator Section 815

Oscillator 1 Waveform 815

Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent

817

Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 817

Using Oscillator 2 817

Oscillator 2 Waveform 818

Noise Generator 818

Phase Offset Modulation 819

Frequency Modulation (FM) 821

Ring Modulation 822

The Filter Section 823

Filter 1 Type 823

Filter 1 Frequency 826

Resonance 826

Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 826

Filter 2 827

Envelopes - General 828

Amplitude Envelope 829

Filter Envelope 829

Mod Envelope 830

LFO Section 831

LFO 1 Parameters 831

LFO 2 Parameters 832

Play Parameters 833

Velocity Control 833

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 834

Legato 835

Retrig 835

Portamento (Time) 835

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 836

About the Low Bandwidth button 836

External Modulation 836

Connections 837

Audio Output 837

Sequencer Control 837

Modulation Inputs 838

Modulation Outputs 838

Gate Inputs 838

Malström Synthesizer 839

Introduction 840

Features 840

Theory of operation 841

Loading and Saving Patches 841

The Oscillator section 842

Setting oscillator frequency 843

Controlling playback of the graintable 843

The amplitude envelopes 844

The Modulator section 845

Modulator parameters 845

Destinations 846

The Filter section 847

The Filters 848

The Filter Envelope 850

The Shaper 851

Routing 853

Routing examples 854

The output controls 857

The play controls 857

Polyphony - setting the number of voices 858

Porta (portamento) 858

Legato 858

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The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 859

The Velocity controls 859

The Modulation wheel controls 860

Connections 861

Audio Output 861

Audio Input 861

Sequencer Control 861

Gate Input 862

Modulation Input 862

Modulation Output 862

Routing external audio to the filters 863

ID8 Instrument Device 865

Introduction 866

The Sounds 866

The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 866

Using the ID8 867

Selecting Sounds 867

Controlling Sounds 867

About saving edited Sounds 868

Radical Piano 869

Introduction 870

The pianos 870

Using Radical Piano 872

Loading and saving patches 872

Selecting piano sound sets 872

Character 872

Volume 873

Velocity Response 873

Tune 874

Sustain 874

Resonance 875

Envelope 875

Mechanics 876

EQ 876

Ambience 877

Output 877

Connections 878

Sequencer Control 878

Modulation In 878

Audio In 878

Audio Out 878

Additional external control 879

Klang Tuned Percussion 881

Introduction 882

Panel overview 882

Using Klang 883

Loading and saving patches 883

Global performance and “play” controls

883

Panel controls 884

The Instruments section 884

The Filter section 889

The Amp section 891

The Delay section 892

The Reverb section 894

Connections 895

Sequencer Control inputs 895

Modulation Inputs 895

Audio Out 895

Pangea World Instruments

897

Introduction 898

Panel overview 898

Using Pangea 899

Loading and saving patches 899

Global performance and “play” controls

899

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Panel controls 900

The Instruments section 900

The Filter section 905

The Amp section 907

The Delay section 909

The Reverb section 910

Connections 912

Sequencer Control inputs 912

Modulation Inputs 912

Audio Out 912

Humana Vocal Ensemble 913

Introduction 914

Panel overview 914

Using Humana 915

Loading and saving patches 915

Global performance and “play” controls

915

Panel controls 916

The Instruments section 916

The Filter section 922

The Amp section 924

The Delay section 926

The Reverb section 927

Connections 929

Sequencer Control inputs 929

Modulation Inputs 929

Audio Out 929

NN-XT Sampler 931

Introduction 932

Sampling in NN-XT 932

Panel overview 933

The main panel 933

The Remote Editor panel 933

Loading complete Patches and REX files

934

Loading NN-XT Patches 934

Loading NN-19 Patches 934

Loading SoundFonts 935

Loading complete REX files as Patches 935

Using the main panel 936

The Pitch and Modulation wheels 936

The External Control wheel 936

High Quality Interpolation 937

Global Controls 937

Overview of the Remote Editor panel 939

The Key Map display 939

Sample parameters 940

Group parameters 940

Synth Parameters 941

About Samples and Zones 941

Selections and Edit Focus 942

Selecting Zones 943

Moving Edit Focus 945

Adjusting parameters 945

Adjusting Synth parameters 945

Adjusting Group parameters 945

Sample parameters 946

Managing Zones and Samples 947

Creating a Key Map 947

About file formats and REX slices 948

Adding more samples to the Key Map 948

Replacing a sample 948

Quick browsing through samples 949

Removing samples 949

Auditioning samples 949

Adding empty Zones 949

Duplicating Zones 950

Removing Zones 950

Rearranging Zones in the List 950

Working with Grouping 950

About Groups 950

Creating a Group 950

Moving a Group to another position in the List 951

Moving a Zone from one Group to another 951

Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 952

The Group Parameters 952

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Working with Key Ranges 952

About Key Ranges 952

Setting up Key Ranges 952

About the Lock Root Keys function 956

About the Solo Sample function 957

Sorting Zones by Note 958

Setting Root Notes and Tuning 959

About the Root Key 959

Setting the Root Note manually 959

Tuning samples manually 959

Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection

960

About changing the pitch of samples 960

Using Automap 960

Layered, crossfaded and velocity

switched sounds 961

Creating layered sounds 961

About velocity ranges 961

Setting velocity range for a Zone 963

About Crossfading Between Zones 963

Setting crossfading for a Zone 965

Using Alternate 965

About the Alternate function 965

Sample parameters 966

Root Note and Tune 966

Sample Start and End 966

Loop Start and End 966

Play Mode 967

Lo Key and Hi Key 967

Lo Vel and Hi Vel 967

Fade In and Fade Out 967

Alt 967

Out 967

Group parameters 968

Key Poly 968

Legato and Retrig 969

LFO 1 Rate 969

Portamento 969

Synth parameters 970

The Modulation controls 970

The Velocity controls 972

The Pitch section 973

The Filter section 974

The Modulation Envelope 975

The Amplitude Envelope 977

The LFOs 978

Connections 981

Sequencer Control 981

Modulation Input 981

Gate Input 981

Audio Output 981

NN-19 Sampler 983

Introduction 984

General sampling principles 984

Background 984

Multisampling vs. single samples 984

About audio file formats 985

Loading a Sample Patch 985

Loading REX Files as Patches 986

Sampling in NN-19 986

About Key Zones and samples 987

Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 987

Loading SoundFont samples 988

Loading REX slices as samples 988

Creating Key Zones 988

Selecting Key Zones 989

Setting the Key Zone Range 989

Deleting a Key Zone 990

About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples

990

Adding sample(s) to a Key Map 990

Setting the Root Key 991

Removing sample(s) from a Key Map 991

Removing all unassigned samples 991

Rearranging samples in a Key Map 991

Setting Sample Level 991

Tuning samples 991

Looping Samples 992

About the Solo Sample function 992

Automap Samples 993

Mapping samples without Root Key or Tuning

information 993

How Mapping Information is saved 993

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