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I am Hydlide of Reason experts. In this article, I am going to create a combinator that would be similar as an approach to how the NNXT internally works. Since I have heard a lot of times, we need a better sampler inside Reason. Yet at this point, we have a better sampler since Reason 10, Grain sample manipulator.

I want to demystify most of the features that are existing inside of the Grain sample manipulator. While I haven't really focussed on this device that much, because of issues that were in Grain and Europa since Reason 10 was released. While they were fixed in Reason 10.1 (thanx to yours truly) I decided to wait to write down an in-depth article about this device. Since I wanted to analyze a lot of different segments on what this device can do, unscrew the screws on the Grain engine itself just to see what lies under the hood, and program it in many different ways so I can call myself a Grain Expert too...

In the following video series I will touch the surface on how to get started with Propellerhead Reason 10. This project is a follow up on an article I wrote a few days back. While I had the idea to make a video series like this long ago (reason 9 even) I skipped doing it because Reason 10 was already announced by the time Reason 9.5 was just released. While I think that R10 will be here to stay for about 18 months or so, it felt proper to do yet another introduction series on what Reason can do, how it works and how to get started with it quickly. Make note, this is a beginners guide, so I won't be showing too many fancy tricks. The whole goal here is to get started quick with this series.

Welcome to a new video series about Thor in Propellerhead Reason. In this series I will touch different elements on how to do sound design in Reason. This complete series will be going through some basic elements first trying to answer most of the 'basic' questions that people may be having when looking at a device like Thor for the very first time. 

I'll be going in depth about the following items to start with:
Oscillators
Filters
Envelopes and LFOs

Welcome back to another video series about Propellerhead Reason. In this series I am going to display a wide range of different options to product a genre like Goa Trance music in Reason. In this series I am going to talk you through a wide variety of different options regarding to drums, bass lines, melodies, leads and effects. While the examples I am giving in the following series are just a 'few' methods to create Goa Trance, it should be a nice starting point to get things going. What is even better, I am going to provide all the material given in this video as a Reason 9 file.

In our previous article, we high lighted the idea on how chemical beats are originally created. While normally the origin is based on hip hop beat. While hip hop beats are played by artists, it will not be a surprise that you can (if you want to) build a chemical beat from the ground up. In theory it is still based on loose samples that get chopped. Thus we can also use static content (lets say: bass drums, snare drums, hi hats, wood blocks, claps and so on) to create a complete beat from scratch. The only real "tricky" part to this is to make it feel groovy. Since with out the groovy part the whole idea is quite lost and it feels soulless. Kind of like mortal kombat (your soul is mine), but then different.

Before Reason 6 the devices were all stock devices. In 2012, Reason 6.5 was released. And this came with its own unique platform called Rack Extensions. While Rack Extensions work only in Propellerhead Reason, there are some successful VST ports. A good example is the Legend from Synapse came as a VST and Reason Rack Extension. Same thing could be said about Predator from Rob Papen. While Rack Extension System Development Kit is still being developed, there are new features added per release. A good example is loading up wave tables in Reason 9.2 (which has been added since January 2017) and Panels in the SDK 2.0 (Reason 7). It shows over time that the platform of RE is getting more mature while time progresses.

VST in Reason is something people have been requested a lot of times. It has been stated back in the days that Propellerhead will not integrate the VST format. Nor are there any plans regarding integrating VSTs in the Digital Audio Workstation called Reason (yes, we can call it a DAW). At some point in time when Reason 6.5 got released the program got its own unique platform for external plugins. Which is a great step forward. Most of the external plugins as Rack Extensions work seamless in the workflow of the program itself. While this has been there for quite some time there is still an outcry for VST support in Reason. For those who really want to use VST support in Reason, this topic might be for you.