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Post your Reason song files here. That thread should grow and grow and you all should contribute to it and make it awesome. As for tempo changes, you can't in Reason unless it's automated using Rewire. However, a lot of people get around this by cutting and pasting wave files together and various other techniques.

You need something to bump this with. Where are all of my fellow OCR Idol competitors? I think a good half of that competition used Reason.

'deed it does. And I know it. I will be the first to admit that I was completely over reacting for dramatic purposes... Everyone was fooled. You know what this means - your acting skills RoX0rs!!!

Yeah, everyone should donate to VGDJ!

I can probably safely say that looking at the Reason source file for this track has helped me bridge the gap between "absolutely horrible, never should see the light of day" tracks to "sounds okay, but it's nothing great or anything" tracks. The source was extremely educational. SGX, how did you ever get so h4wt? Of course, the reason I chose this song was because it was yet another one of those SGX songs that sucked me in with its melodic lines and awesome breakbeat section. It's not exactly the most innovative SGX piece out there but it's definitely a keeper. Two years later, I still love it.

I think you just drag and drop patches into the list. You have to do it one patch at a time, so it doesn't make it very useful to me. I usually use the folders too.

THere's a good Propellerheads tutorial on Combinators (and other Reason devices) as well, with example songs. http://www.propellerheads.se/home/discover/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaymain There is actually a rather large lack of Reason tutorials on the Internet. I was working on writing a Reason tutorial for n00bs, but never finished it.

Did you buy Reason or are you playing with the demo? The demo does not come with the help files (for some reason). Maybe I'll write up a short summary of the devices some time, but until then, here's a slight tip: From top to bottom you have: ----- Combinator (doesn't make sound, combines other devices) ----- Mixers: a big one, and a small one. Mixer 14:2. Contains 14 channels and contains room for up to 4 send effects. Use this for your main mixer. Line Mixer 6:2. Contains 6 channels and contains room for up to 1 send effect. Usually used in a combinator when you want to save some space. ----- Things that make sound: Subtractor Analog Synthesizer: A substractive synthesizer. Malstrom "Graintable" Synthesizer: A "graintable synthesizer" (the oscillators use "grains" or little samples). NN19 Digital Sampler: A simple sampler (I think this is deprecated, use the NN-XT instead.) NN-XT Advanced Sampler: Advanced Sampler. Dr.REX Loop Player: A loop machine, good for drum loops. Redrum Drum Computer: A drum machine with step sequencer. ----- The MClass Mastering tools MClass Mastering Suite: Your big combinator comtaining everything. Usually you put this between your mixer and the hardware interface. MClass Equalizer: Parametric EQ. MClass Stereo Imager: Stereo Expander/Imager. MClass Compressor: A pretty standard compressor. MClass Maximizer: A limiter/maximizer. Great for preventing clipping. ------ Advanced effects: RV-7000: An advanted reverb unit. Scream 4: a distortion unit. BF512: a vocoder. ----- Simple Effects. The names are acronyms, which should help when you look at them. RV-7: Reverb (it's crappy, use the RV-7000 instead) DDL-1: Digital Delay Line for delay D-11: Distortion (it's also crappy, use the Scream 4 instead) ECF-42: Envelope controlled filter CF-101: Chorus/Flanger PF-90: Phaser UN-16: Unison COMP-01: Compressor (Crappy, use the MClass Compressor instead) PEQ-2L Parametric EQ (crappy, use the MClass EQ instead) ----- The Spider units can combine and split signals into one line... great for making automated CV effects and cool audio sonds. Spider Audio Merger/Splitter: Used to merge and split audio signals. Spider CV Merger/Splitter: Used to merge and split CV signals. ----- This is kind of the miscellaneous section. Matrix Pattern Sequencer: Really cool sequencer. Control things with CV using it. You can also use the Dr.REX and the Redrum for other ways to control using CV (most synths with an LFO also have a CV out for that). Rebirth Input Machine: Used if you have Rebirth and want to plug it into Reason, chances are it doesn't apply to you. Other basic Reason functions: To make a sequencer track: create a device that makes sound. To start drawing notes: select a track and hit Shift-TAB (or click on the Red/Yellow/Blue bars on the toolbar). This is called Edit Mode. Draw stuff in on the piano roll. Switch-switch Pencil and Arrow: Press and hold ALT to toggle between the two tools. To use automation: Right-click on what you want to automate and select "Edit Automation". (There are other ways to automate too, but that's the simplest one). To edit note velocity: Click on the notes with the pencil at the velocity you want. To edit only some notes at the same time, select them with the arrow and Shift-click on the notes. Only selected notes will be edited. If you want to learn more about knobs and stuff, the most complex devices are the sound generation devices. However zircon wrote an introduction to synthesis that applies to the Subtractor in Reason (and a bunch of its other devices, too). http://www.ocremix.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=62065 Hope that helps. Edit: There's also a realyl good book out there called "Reason 2.5 Power!" that I learned a bunch of Reason from. Very nice way to learn and it's meant for beginners. Zircon recommended this to me a while back and it was really good. There might be a 3.0 version out now, not sure. Anyway keep an eye out for that.

Well if your POS Mac didn't keep crashing all the time ON TOP OF the fact that your shitty connection was shitty, I would have many less things to worry about. Also the show could be edited faster since everything would be in sync with it being 1 long take. I would suggest you not quitting YOUR day job so you can afford a decent piece of gear. I don't see how this pertains to what I was talking about. I wasn't talking about using Fusion, I was talking about being blamed for using fusion, when I dont' think there is cause for blame. SEE the PS. BUT ANYWAYS. If you MUST: My piece of gear is fine. I need software that I can't afford that won't conflict with each other. That's it. Oh no! Aurora and Rayza are having conflicts - arguing over their common enemy, Fusion2004! This, combined with TheWingless's painful confession that he no longer can pursue Aurora's love has our beautiful heroine in a mess! But what about the involvement of the sweet and innocent pixietricks, who passed on a woman with a harp and cookies to a suspicious-looking Price Azuzu? The resident detective Mythril Nazgul has suspicions that this Prince is actually Rayza in disguise! What could he possibly want with our dear voice of the heavens? FIND OUT NEXT TIME, ON VGDJ EPISODE #014!!!!

Maybe I'll send a clip... some time... get myself heard... what can I rant about... I laugh a lot at work listening to VGDJ. I don't even remember what I laugh at, but I'm sure my officemates have learned to ignore me by now.

Or wangless, I'm sure... She just insulted your manhood! znaps. u gon tak dat? I propose... A SING-OFF.

As far as I know, you can't. Reason can only operate as a Rewire Slave. It cannot operate as a Rewire host.

Naturally, all OCR forum members will have unlimited free access to these libraries...naturally I said this in IRC the other day! Great minds think alike!

So, before people jump on you for hacking FL: If you bought it, and *still have your license key*, you are actually legally allowed to download it or install it from a friend, provided that you give the same license key you had when you bought it. I would wager that FLStudio offers product registration and that you can get your key online from their database. Who knows. Image-Line might even send you a new copy of the CD (for maybe something like $10) if you can prove that you're a legitimate owner. As for your actual problem, I don't use FL so I can't actually help you. However, I would place my money on a bad installation. Hacked copies are notoriously bad for being totally crappy when it comes to having things work. Plugins are missing, files disappear, samples aren't included...

You can go on a Mac, presumably, from 6 to 32 busses, each of which contains 16 channels. So that's a total of 26 times 16 devices, which is over 400 devices (416 to be exact). Chances are that Logic would wrap around from bus 32 to bus 1 if needed, so you'd have something like 512 devices altogether. In Reason, the Combinator counts as an object, as does the Hardware Interface. Also, I don't think you can can have more than 64 audio connections in the Hardware Interface (as far as I know), which means that you can't send more 16 audio channels to the host sequencer for mixing. There's room for 64 connections... and then because you need a stereo L/R, that means there's potential for 32 stereo audio devices that you'd mix down in Logic. It's worth noting that in Logic, the audio channels count up way past 64 (but are shaded out), suggesting that the Rewire protocol has support for something like 256 devices at least. I'm not sure about the instances of Reason. On MacOS X, you can't explicitly tell it to open more than one instance of an application (but you can open as many windows of that app as you want). Based on my experiments, if you have one Reason song open in Rewire, then open another one, Logic will take the Rewire settings from the one that was the most recently opened. In any case, the point is that Rewire isn't really that limiting at all if your host is properly designed. I'm using Logic as a host and Reason as my massive sound module right now. For $350 I don't think you can get a more complete set of sounds to start out with.

The demo gives you 20 minutes to look at Malcos' songs!

Microlab Refill Pack 1 is a free download at: http://www.microlab.se/index2.html. Hmm, I'll post a mix, too, even though I'm hardly an excellent remixer and I'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who should use my work as a basis for their own. The Wayfarer's Road is my OCR Idol Round 2 entry. There are a number of problems with the song in its current condition but I don't see myself redoing it for a while. Again, it's not an OC Remix but someone might check it out and see what kind of things can be done to it. Edit: Malcos, wow, I didn't realise that some of your remixes didn't involve that many tracks at all. I'm going to have to check out some of the sequencing and stuff that you use there. I have to confess that I like to see a lot of sample songs and all of that in the programs I use because it helps me get ideas, but even for things that are seen as generic or "staple" of whatever genre it is, I start to learn techniques and ideas. Still, there's definitely nothing like doing. Looking without trying anything yourself won't get you anywhere.

I would have added captions for everyone else's pics too except... they're not my pics.

I vote Liontamer. OHSNAP

Great atmosphere going on here... Daniel's done a lot of good work on this track, which was improved with Jillian's excellent ambient singing. Top it off with instrumentation flourishes and mastering by GrayLightning, and you have a trio of definite skill delivering an awe-inspiring mix. You can definitely hear a lot of the improvements compared to the initial version that was posted in the Work-in-Progress forums. Very full instrumentation, great singing, and awesome use of reverb. Great way to transport yourself to a new world. Highly recommended.

The MClass Equalizer in Reason 3.0 is pretty decent. Kicks the snot out of the little tiny red EQ. You know how there's that rumoured Rewire limitation - first 16 devices (and only in the order they're created?). I don't know who here uses Reason rewired as a setup, but today I was working with Logic and Reason (on a Mac of course) and I didn't encounter the limitation. However, it takes a bit of forethought. When you Rewire (in Logic, at least), you specify a Rewire Instrument object and give it a Bus and a Channel. On Mac, Bus 6 corresponds to Reason (for some reason I don't know the details of). When you do this, the channel then ends up listing the devices you have in your rack by name. However, there's only 16 channels (which means 16 devices). If you need to work with more than 16 devices? When you use a new Rewire object, set it to use Bus 7. The next 16 devices will appear in the channel. Presumably this'll work all the way to Channel 32 (and maybe even wrap around to Channels 1), which should be WAY more than enough devices.

By the way, the Reason 3.0.3 upgrade is well worth it. Lots of problems fixed (at least on Mac). Uses less CPU, fewer audio problems, and it doesn't freeze anymore if I try to load Audacity while Reason's running. Very smooth, very good incremental upgrade.

Bah, it wasn't as bad as you guys thought. Yeah sure you get talking a bit at the end but it was funny. Good work! P.S. The stinger was SO AWESOME. TOTALLY MADE THE SHOW.

Mention OCR Idol Rounds 4 and 5 next time! Hopefully voting for OCR Idol ROund 5 will start next week some time. Thread here: CHA CHING!! http://www.ocremix.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=60229 And oh my God, Aurora you alcoholic.

Hey, you guys should mention OCR Idol next time. We finished Round 4 and came up with some pretty decent entries. And then there's Round 5, which was submitted and has yet to be judged, but they'll be up soon and the remixers could really use feedback. Talk to Suzu if you want some information... hm, Sir Nuts, TO, Rama, and Gray are judging that one. This might end up being covered by ThaSauce but hey, a mention never hurt. Will listen to 008 today when I get to work.