To use Reason, click on the Reason icon or search for it. Run the multi license version to be able to save work between lessons. Multi license allows multiple simultaneous users unlike a single demo license. The mixer allows controlling volume, EQ which cuts or boosts frequencies, panning left or right, and the master volume. EQ splits sound into frequency bands for finer control. Redrum is a drum machine with 10 channels that uses patterns to create beats. Patterns can be adjusted to change time signatures. Sampler allows importing sounds and assigning them to keys. Synths generate sound using oscillators that produce different waveforms to create varied tones.

1. How to use Reason

2. How to turn on
Reason
Firstly click on the reason icon or search for it on the spotlight.
Then run multi licence other wise with the demo selection you will not be able to
save your work this would be bad because you would not be able to carry with your
work in the next lesson.
Multi license is better for schools as it runs multiple licenses rather than just one.
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3. How to get on to the MixerClick
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4. Bass
channel
(EQ)
Pan is when
you can
automate
the stereo
field so the
track can go
left or right.
Master
volume
control
Treble
channel
boosting
and
cutting
(EQ)
Volume
control
How to use the Mixer
“EQ allows you to boost/cut certain frequencies. Human's can hear between 30hz
and 18000khz (thereabouts). An equalizer will break up that into sections.”
“The most basic will just be a tone control with 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 day
will have at least a five band equalizer. The more bands the more 'fine' control you
have over the overall sound.”

5. How to get on the drums
Click on
the
mixer.
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6. 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 (one bar of 4/4 – 16 semiquavers) to, for example, 12 (one bar of 3/4 -
12 semiquavers). Each channel allows you to control the individual patch of the kit,
for example pan, bass and treble. As with the Dr. REX loop player, the patches are
also mapped to your keyboard – again starting at C1 (channel one) and rising e.g.
(channel 2).”
This is very good because it give a lot of options. However it does not seem very easy
to change the amount of beats in a bar.

7. How to create a sampler
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8. How to use sampler
Click to import
sound
Pick a sound
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Double click
somewhere in this
region to add key

9. 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
It is more musical, if playing it in with the
keyboard or an instrument. Where as it is more
precise using the mouse.

10. How to import a audio file
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11. MIDI
A MIDI is a computerised piece of music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYAT19RTTT0

12. How to import a MIDIClick
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13. How to loop
Right click
This will
pop up
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14. How to create a synth
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15. How to use the Synth
Oscillator – “Oscillation itself is the production of a certain type of waveform,
which produces a different sound depending on the shape of the waveform.”
Saw Wave - shaped like the teeth on a saw blade, this produces a very common sharp, biting tone.
Square Wave - looks like a (near) perfect square, produces a reedy, 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.
You can adapt and change
the sound very well. I do not
think it is vey student friendly
as there is no text by it to
explain it.