Samplers
Articles
How to Effectively Layer Drum Sounds by AudioTuts
When you’re working with beats it always pays to know some techniques for creating a larger than life sound. Your drum tracks can be pumped up using a variety of different methods such as parallel processing, heavy compression and transient design but sometimes even these can fall short.
How to Process REX Files Using Reason’s NNX-T Sampler by AudioTuts
In Reason, the dedicated loop player is the Dr. Rex. It plays loops contained in REX files. Dr. Rex features a lot of options for pitching, panning and filtering parts of your loop. Sometimes however, you may want to split up a REX loop to process the slices individually for applying different effects to individual slices or sounds in the loop, for example.
XT-KIT by DannyBeatz
A collection of tools for building NN-XT patches in ReFill format. From drum kits to multisamples.With instructions in rns format it also doubles as a tutorial.
Basic Drumming With Reason’s NN-19 by Josh Carter
Reason is hot. No synth guy or techno composer should be without it. But what about using Reason for drums? Actually, it’s a perfect companion. In the first article I cover basic drum and Reason setup, and using the NN-19 sampler.
Way-Cool Drumming With Reason’s NN-XT by Josh Carter
This article gets into the super-hot NN-XT sampler. I cover lots of useful things drummers will want to do with the NN-XT, with an emphasis on getting acoustic-like sound and responsiveness from your drums.
Using Soundfonts with Reason by Mr1C
Wusup people of youtube here is a tutorial on how to use soundfonts in reason by using the nn-xt sampler
Some Ideas for Tweaking the NN-XT Sampler by One Nil
This is an effective technique to give a more defined stereo image for your sound. Simply separate theLeft and Right outputs of your NN-XT by patching them to two channels of your mixer. Next, usingthe ‘Pan’knob, set the left channel fully left (-64) and the right channel fully right (63).
Becoming an NN-XT Developer by Propellerhead Software
Anyone can develop applications that can read or write NN-XT files – there are no costs or special requirements involved. All we ask is that you give us the means to contact you by supplying us with a valid e-mail address. In return, we will supply the file format details. Having your e-mail address simply makes it possible for us to contact you, should we need to make changes to the file format, etc. The information will not be used in any other way.
Loop-based Composition by Craig Anderton
Many people don’t think of Reason as a digital audio powerhouse, but as more of a MIDI-based sequencing environment. While it certainly is the latter, there are also several applications usually associated with digital audio that are well suited to Reason, and this month we’re going to look at using it for loop-based composition and live performance.
Videos
Introduction to NN19 by Mus261
Loading samples and patches in the Reason NN-19 Sample Player.
Introduction to NN-XT by Mus261
Loading patches and samples in Reason’s NN-XT Sample Player.
Creating Drum Kits in NN-XT by WINKsound
Stoni shows us how to create our own drum kits using Reason 4.0′s NN-XT sampler.
Copying Samples in the Editor by WINKsound
This tutorial explains how to duplicate your samples within the remote editor of the NN-XT sampler inside of Reason4.0.
How To Layer Drums with the NN-XT by WINKsound
In this tutorial learn how to layer samples within the NN-XT to achieve harder sounding drums inside of Reason 4.0.
How To Create a One Shot in the NN-XT by WINKsound
This tutorial explains how to program a One Shot withing the NN-XT inside of Reason 4.0. This technique will allow you to program short sample stings.
Open NN19 patches with NN-XT by WINKsound
This tutorial shows how you can load specific instrument patches with other hosts such as an NN-XT synth patch within an NN-19 sampler inside of Reason 4.0.
WAV sample slicing tutorial with NN-XT
A simple tutorial on how to slice WAV / AIF samples in Reason’s NN-XT sampler, when you don’t have Recycle. Requires Reason 2.0 and higher.

