Guide to Reason

By William Mclellan

GUIDE TO REASON

HOW TO OPEN REASON• Click on applications

• Open the music tab

• Click on the Propeller Head ‘Reason’ tab

• Then click ‘run multi- licence’ otherwise your work will not be saved!

Key:Blue shape = ClickRed shape = DO NOT CLICK

HOW TO GET ON TO THE MIXER

Click

HOW TO USE THE MIXER

EQ allows you to boost and cut certain frequencies. Humans can hear between 30hz and 18,000khz. An equalizer will break that up into sections. The most basic will just be a tone control with a bass boost at one end and treble boost at the other. Next most simple is a separate control for bass and treble. Then someone thought of adding a ‘mids’ control to adjust the frequencies that were neither high or low. This is a ‘three band’ equalizer. Most decent amps these days will have at least a five band equalizer. The more bands, the more ‘fine’ control you have over the overall sound.

Master volume controlVolume control

HOW TO GET TO THE DRUMS

Click on the mixer

Click

Click Click

HOW TO USE REDRUMS

Redrum is a ten channel drum machine which uses a pattern sequencer to create drum parts. The number of the steps represent semiquavers and can be adjusted down from 16. Each channel allows you to control the individual patch of the kit, for example pan, bass, treble.

HOW TO CREATE A SAMPLER

Click

The NN-XT is a highly advanced sampler with an impressive list of features and functions to it.

HOW TO USE SAMPLER

Click

Click here to open sampler functions

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HOW TO CREATE A SYNTH TRACK

Click

HOW TO USE A SYNTH TRACK

Oscillator- Oscillation itself is the production of a certain type of waveform which produces a different sound depending on the shape of the waveform.

These are the different types of sounds you can use:Saw wave- shaped like the teeth on a saw blade, this produces a very common sharp, biting tone.Square Wave - looks like a perfect square and produces a hollow sound.Pulse Wave - a variation on the above, the pulse wave is half as wide as a square wave, and has the unique ability to have its width modulated (called ‘Pulse Width Modulation').Triangle Wave - unsurprisingly shaped like a triangle, this sounds somewhere in between a saw wave and a sine wave.Sine Wave - a smooth rising and falling shape (like a horizontal ‘S'), this produces a mild, soft tone.Noise - not exactly a waveform, but a source of sound produced by a certain colour of noise.

HOW TO LOOP

Loop

Click

STEP TIME

1. Click in notes using the mouse.

2. Use the Computer numeric keypad and type the letter keys on the keyboard

3. Use a MIDI Keyboard (or MIDI Controller) and enter the notes and rests one at a time.