the cosmic pimp wrote:reason is a head ****
Because of the type of music you make I think if you sat with just reason for a week or so to figure it out you'd go insane with it. You rewire into ableton and the sound customization with different effects and cv gates and custom patches leaves anyone with endless amounts of creativity. Its not that big of a deal, but I know when I release any song made with reason synths in it, that those sounds are one of a kind.
My tip for reason user that have mpc's today is this:
If you wanna make dark ambient background tones or basses for atmosphere, chose a nice thick synth, I usually go thor for control purposes, then create a melody at twice the speed of the tempo that the mpc is set. Then make another one at 3x the tempo speed with a different sound. I'lll plug both into the rv7000 reverb and a distortion. re sample each one into the mpc. detune till they match the tempo of the beat and you get this airy, grimed up sound once you adjust filters and volume. Its my favorite thing to do. Create in reason and then record into the mpc and detune to fit, it just adds more color to the sounds IMO
this is an example where i use that. The drums were done in the mpc and the piano is from the motif, but the background breath sound and the synth are detuned samples i created in reason. And I dont' just sample notes, I find it best to resample whole 8 bar melodies and loop or chop.
