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You may also want to add some effects to the music. In this song, there are
two effect devices connected: a delay and a chorus/flanger. These are con-
nected as send effects from the mixer, allowing you to specify how much of
each mixer channel signal should be sent to each effect.
13. Raise the Aux send level knobs at the top of a mixer channel.
Send 1 is connected to the delay, while send 2 goes to the chorus/
flanger.
The Aux sends.
Finally, let’s try tweaking some controls on an actual instrument device, to
change the sound. In this example we will use the Subtractor synthesizer de-
vice, but all devices have parameters that can be adjusted on the device
panels in the same way.
Unless you have a very large screen, the Subtractor device isn’t visible right
now. You could use the scrollbar to scroll the rack down, but here’s a quicker
way:
14. In the sequencer area (above the transport panel), click on the name
“Subtractor” in the track list to the left.
The rack is automatically scrolled to bring the Subtractor device into
view.
15. Try adjusting some parameters while the song is playing.
You may for example want to tweak the “Filter 1 Freq” slider, to change
the brightness of the synth bass sound.
That concludes the first tutorial! Now, let’s move on to creating a Reason
song from scratch.
Creating a new song
1. If you like, close the current song by selecting Close from the File
menu.
You can have several song documents open in Reason at the same time,
but each song uses some memory and computing power, so it’s good
practice to close songs you don’t need.
2. Pull down the File menu and select Open.
3. Navigate to the Reason program folder and open the Template
Songs folder.
4. Select the file “Empty Rack.rns” and click Open.
A song document window appears. This consists of an (almost) empty
rack and there are no tracks in the sequencer.
!
Normally when you create a new song, you would select “New”
from the File menu. This command opens a default song with a few
devices (see page 85). In this tutorial we start with an empty rack in-
stead, to let you add your own devices “from scratch”.
5. Pull down the Create menu and select Mixer 14:2.
A mixer device is created in the rack.
!
The reason why you should start with a mixer device, is that all sub-
sequent devices you add will then automatically be connected to a
mixer channel.
6. Pull down the Create menu and select Subtractor Analog Synth, and
then Redrum Drum Computer.
You have now added two instrument devices to the rack. If you look in
the sequencer, you will note that two tracks have automatically been
added, one for the synthesizer and one for the drum machine.
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