ulrichburke Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Dear Anyone. I'm so new to Reason that I don't even know what to look for in the tutorials to help me, so just pointing me in the right direction might help, if you're too busy to answer. 2 questions, might be interlinked, might not. 1. How do you get Soft Buzzy Strings/ backing sounds? I'm trying to write New Age, piano'n'strings, flute'n'strings, strings with everything!! If you listen to Richard Clayderman or anyone like that, gentle New Age in general, the strings are lovely, misty and buzzy background sounds. My strings sound like the shower scene from Psycho! What is it that makes 'em buzz and sound soft, without sounding so quiet they're inaudible? (I want loud softness, loudness without harshness). 2.) There IS a nice string sound called buzzstrings. But if you do a long string chord - anything over 2 beats - it has this crescendo effect that seems built-in. It just keeps on getting louder. How do I set it to the level I want and KEEP IT THERE without the crescendo effect cutting in? If anyone has any other tips on keeping things soft, like every piece of New Age anyone's ever heard, I'd love to know them. (Keeping pads sounding soft and warm, adding fuzziness to flutes, anything like that.) If there's a lesson on this in the tutorial section somewheres, rub my nose in it! I'm so new I don't even know what I'm looking for Yours with a gentle smile ulrichburke P.S. I know about Reverb, I also know, from the professional pieces I've heard, there's more going on in their softness than tons of reverb. I just don't know what it is or how to reproduce it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moseph Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 BuzzStrings has a slow attack, meaning it takes a while for the sound to reach its full volume. To fix this, there's a knob on the NN-XT labeled "Attack." Turn that to the left, which reduces the attack time, and this should fix the crescendo problem. One thing you could try for getting a soft sound in addition to reverb is an equalizer. If you reduce some of the higher frequencies, there will be less of an edge to the sound. If you're not sure how to use a equalizer to do this -- add a PEQ-2 after your NN-XT and turn the frequency knob all the way up, the Q knob all the way down, and the gain knob all the way down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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