Multi-Effects
Building Combinator Effects by Simon Price
In last month’s SOS we looked at how the new Combinator device works and walked through the steps needed to create a new instrument patch. Basic instrument patches in Combinator are typically layered sounds from Reason’s other synths and samplers, with dedicated effects, modulation routings and some useful or cunning front-panel control assignments. This month, we’ll show that the Combinator can also be used to design your own new effects devices. Let’s have a quick recap for those who missed last month: the Combinator is an (initially) empty shell in the rack that can house any number of other Reason devices. The unit has its own audio inputs and outputs that connect its internal workings to the main Reason environment, and it can receive and distribute MIDI data to devices inside. Its front-panel knobs and buttons can be mapped to the controls of the ‘combined’ devices, so a Combinator can therefore be used to create a complicated multi-device configuration, with its own signal flow and CV patching, and collapse it all into a single ‘black box’.
DIY Effects In Reason by Simon Price
For me, Reason’s most appealing feature is the ability to cable devices together in almost limitless combinations to create new sound sources, modulation assignments and signal-processing chains. Reason 4′s new synth, Thor, promises to take this concept to a new level, featuring audio inputs and a routing matrix so you can process audio through its many modules. However, there’s plenty we can do while we wait for our upgrades, and this month we’ll look at several techniques for filtering audio signals using both the ECF filter unit and the Malström synth. We’ll work towards creating a new effect device: an envelope-controlled filter, complete with all the controls you’d expect to find on this effect.
Patches and ReFills
Record + Reason FX Soundbank by Propellerhead Software
As a bonus for our beloved, dedicated Reason users we have put together a special sound bank for Record containing a number of effects patches that makes use of many of the devices in Reason that are not included with Record standalone.So, for you who have Reason already and just purchased Record, the Record + Reason FX Soundbank offers a collection of insert and send effect patches, such as Auto Panning, Vocoder Effects, EQ Sweeps and many other desirable effects not obtainable in Record alone.
Space! by Suzy Wong
Manipulate, annihilate, gate, flange, filter, widen and destroy your productions with the ultimate in FX refills. Space! utilizes combined FX chains to deliver extreme sonic manipulation with unparalleled finesse. A concept device featuring gate, autopan, chorus, filter, delay, EQ and reverb, carefully melded into one sublime work of audio trickery
Revolution ReFill by Flandersh Vibes
Flandersh Vibes once again provides CombinatorHQ the opportunity to host another incredibly rich refill to our community. The ReVolution refill is jam packed with effect patches of every sort. It contains dozens of Combinator patches simulating various amps, gates, compressors, filters, verbs and analyzer tools to get the most out of your production.
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