Mixer Devices
Getting to Know Reason 4’s Mixer Device by Joel Falconer
Reason’s Mixer is one of the most important devices in the software, but most home musicians don’t pay much attention to it. It’s simple enough to get your head around the basics of leveling devices with a bit of experimentation, but in this tutorial we’re going to go further into the breadth of features this essential and under-appreciated device offers.
How to Use Spider Audio Merger & Splitter by Joel Falconer
Tucked away in the Reason device list is the Spider Audio Merger & Splitter, a small utility device that is infinitely useful to any Reason user. But it often lies dormant even when it could be useful, because very few users of the software actually know what the Spider Audio device does. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use this simple but powerful device.
Itsy Bitsy Spiders: Audio Spiders by Fredrik Hägglund
Let’s face it, the Spider Audio Merger and Splitter and Spider CV Merger and Splitter have very long and interesting names. But you can’t say they work hard. They’re the simplest of all Reason devices; they’re grey, plain, and easily overlooked – all they do is just sit there and wait for other devices to get caught in their webs. But it’s often the simplest things that work wonders, and these babies can fundamentally change and improve your workflow. In this month’s article we’re going spider hunting – bring the magnifying glass and follow us on a field trip to the tangled forest habitat of Spider Audio.
Making The Most Of The Mixer by Simon Price
Most Reason users will be fairly familiar with the Remix mixer — so what hidden depths and tricks can we find associated with this most fundamental of devices? We’ll start with some basics, which might be handy if you could do with a refresher on the functionality of mixers in general, then look at some more advanced concepts and routing techniques.
Using Mixer Automation In Reason by Simon Price
Like most of the heavyweight sequencing environments, Reason allows you to record, edit, and play back control movements made on its mixer (or mixers). There are many reasons for wanting to do this, such as riding the levels of instruments to ‘even out’ volume changes and to allow different parts to take prominence during the song. Automating effect send levels is also common, as is creating a fade-out by automating the master fader.Reason‘s fast and straightforward automation system also makes it simple to use as a compositional tool: mixer automation is sometimes a faster and more spontaneous method of arranging parts of your songs.
ReMix, microMix and Spider Audio by Combinator HQ
If the various instruments of your patch are the “vehicles” of your patch, then these devices are Highways and Interstates the’ll be traveling on. In the pre-planning process, these devices are to be given heavy consideration to what is needed to accomplish your goals. Each of these devices has benefits and restrictions in comparison to each other.
Building Crossfaders using the Combinator by Kurt Kurasaki
One of the basic elements for many live applications is the ability to segue between two audio sources in real-time using a crossfader. The principle is simple where the level of two faders simultaneously change when receiving a single controller event. The fader levels are inversely proportional so as one level increases, the other decreases. This allows convenient blending or transitions between audio sources without having to use two controllers or separate mouse parameter changes
Patches and ReFills
Wet-Dry Control by Dioxide
A simple Combi insert effect that allows you to use any effect as a Wet-Dry control.
Crossfader with Prelisten by Dioxide
A simple cross fader for two channels featuring a prelisten function.
Triple-X Fader by Shultz
Last month on the Propellerhead Users Forum, Shultz (aka E-Note) posted an innovative device that allows a crossfade between four different audio sources. Essentially, as the mod-wheel is moved through its range, the output audio fades between each adjacent input. I would like to try to explain how this device works for the benefit of everyone else.
Quad Fader by EditEd4TV
This design is a 4 source cross-fader. Inside this Combinator you’ll notice that the Shaper Driver values for “CV2″ and “CV3″ Thor units are set for 42, which to my ears extended the fade out time for the mixer faders to a better sounding value.
Videos
How to Use Audio Spiders in Reason by powdermonkeydan
This tutorial explores the ever useful Spider utility, great for splitting off one audio signal into many, and also for merging sounds together to make one channel.
Reason Wizardry Tutorial Demo 2 by Nucleus SoundLab
Reason Wizardry is a series of advanced video tutorials for Propellerhead Reason 4, produced fresh and delivered electronically each month. This is an excerpt of the September 2009 issue. Find out more about Reason Wizardry at nucleus-soundlab.com/wizardry.htm
Routing Instruments by WINKsound
Stoni shows us how to gain full control of our sounds by routing out instruments to individual mixer channels inside of Reason 4.0.
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