The Reason Q&A Thread

[brettheaslewood]

is there a way to reverse automation clips in R6?

annoyingly, i don't think there is

[drift]

Iv heard people often have the Tape Distortion (speed at 5 o clock / compression at 7 o clock) on their master in Reason to try and remove the digital sound.

Anyone else do this or have any comments on it?

babu from dilated peoples does something similar...

[ehbes]

is there anyway to route the frequency of an eq to thor so that it can automate on its own.

[RmoniK]

As in, route an LFO to it? Sure there is buddy. Put them both in the same combinator. In thor, in the bus routing section, make LFO1 go to CV output 1 with amount to 100, then rout that output to the combinator's CV input 1, then in the combinator programmer, choose CV input1 to modulate the frequency knob on the EQ. You can basically modulate every automatable. knob in reason this way.

[RmoniK]

Here's a little patch, in case you didn't understand what i meant.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7r68m30az1093ne

[ehbes]

Nah man I got it cheers!

[Volatile Psycle]

I've created a dynamic EQ combi and Frequency specific sidechain compressor combi.
Also made a noice parallel/NYC comp combi too

If anyone is interested drop me a pm

[RmoniK]

What's the difference between NYC and parallel compression? I thought those were just synonyms.

[Volatile Psycle]

What's the difference between NYC and parallel compression? I thought those were just synonyms.

nothing...just depends on what side you sit on the atlantic sized fence

[AllNightDayDream]

I keep hearing these little "artifacts" in the simplest waveforms and it's driving me crazy... I'm just trying to achieve a very clean tone but there's this noise in the background that never goes away unless I EQ it pretty harshly, but the noise seems to always be in the exact same range as the general timbre of the overall sound. These samples are just bare sine waves with a LP ~700 Hz (just below half), no resonance. The first 2 are from a Subtractor, the second with a decreased decay on the amp env which emphasizes the noise. The third is a sine loaded into thor with the decreased decay. Is there something wrong with my drivers? I have no idea why I can't get a clean sound and it's just bugging me to no end.

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[efence]

I keep hearing these little "artifacts" in the simplest waveforms and it's driving me crazy... I'm just trying to achieve a very clean tone but there's this noise in the background that never goes away unless I EQ it pretty harshly, but the noise seems to always be in the exact same range as the general timbre of the overall sound. These samples are just bare sine waves with a LP ~700 Hz (just below half), no resonance. The first 2 are from a Subtractor, the second with a decreased decay on the amp env which emphasizes the noise. The third is a sine loaded into thor with the decreased decay. Is there something wrong with my drivers? I have no idea why I can't get a clean sound and it's just bugging me to no end.

holly shit i just checked on my end same thing... i found swithing to 16 bit made it more noticable.
i did come up with a quick solution. by slapping a lowpass thats keyboard tracked and lining the frequency up with the note it gets it as pure as reason is going to produce

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

If you put a lowpas filter on at the end of the signal chain I.E filter 3 on thor or right clicking on subtractor and creating an envelope controlled filter and cut it down to like 100- 120 hz it seems to remove it entirely, on my end at least.

[AllNightDayDream]

If you put a lowpas filter on at the end of the signal chain I.E filter 3 on thor or right clicking on subtractor and creating an envelope controlled filter and cut it down to like 100- 120 hz it seems to remove it entirely, on my end at least.

I tried that already, and using the 24 type 1 LP I get semi-decent results, but it almost eliminates the whole tone and is still present in the attack...

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holly shit i just checked on my end same thing... i found swithing to 16 bit made it more noticable.
i did come up with a quick solution. by slapping a lowpass thats keyboard tracked and lining the frequency up with the note it gets it as pure as reason is going to produce

Unfortunately i'm thinking this is where reason's limits are...

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

just sounds like an enveloped sine wave to me.

[AllNightDayDream]

If you turn it up i'm sure you'll hear it

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

That might be the issue im listening quietly because my fam are all asleep

[efence]

track the low pass to keyboard with no envelope. you get the settings right its pretty pure.

[MoonUnit]

Been focusing on teaching myself to more properly use the Scream 4 distortion unit in creative ways and I was wondering how you all get creative with Scream 4.
I've been experimenting with stacking a couple types of distortions, such as fuzz and digital, and routing an LFO via CV to the scale and Parameter knobs on Scream 4.
It adds a quite funky sort of wah to your patch.

In addition, is there a way that I can achieve multiband distortion in Reason? I thought I may be able to use the vocoder some how, but I couldn't figure out how to wire it and google search proved ineffective.

[ehbes]

i use it on my snares a lot, the tape setting is magical... I've got a frequency splitter effect patch if you want, all ull have to do is slap on the effect you want

[skyh]

I like to cut away at sounds with an EQ until I have something light to work with, then I do a scream 4... and eq again to the same effect. I keep doing this process until my bass sounds PHAT AS PHUCK. it takes a lot of time and tweaking but the results can be glorious!