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 = Click

Red 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

http://www.soundonsound.com/

sos/sep10/articles/reason-

technique-0910.htm

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.