11.3
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Overview
- Audio and MIDI Basics
- Using Reason Rack Plugin as an Instrument
- Using Reason Rack Plugin as an Effect
- Working in the Rack
- Routing Audio and CV
- Sounds, Patches and the Browser
- The I/O device
- Kong Drum Designer
- Introduction
- Overview
- About file formats
- Using patches
- Pad Settings
- The Drum and FX section
- The Drum modules
- The Support Generator modules
- The FX modules
- Connections
- Using Kong as an effect device
- Using external effects with Kong
- Redrum Drum Computer
- Introduction
- About file formats
- Using patches
- Programming patterns
- Redrum parameters
- Using Redrum as a sound module
- Connections
- Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
- Introduction
- About REX file formats
- Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches
- Playing Loops
- Adding Loops
- Playing individual Loop Slices
- Slice handling
- Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters
- Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters
- Connections
- Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
- Introduction
- Panel overview
- Signal flow
- Playing and using Europa
- Panel reference
- Sound Engines On/Off and Edit Focus section
- The Oscillator section
- The Modifiers section
- The Spectral Filter
- The Harmonics section
- The Unison section
- The User Wave and Mixer section
- The Filter section
- The Amplifier section
- The Envelopes section
- Envelope 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Preset
- Adding a Sustain stage
- Adding and removing envelope points
- Changing the envelope curve shape
- Looping the envelope
- Editing levels only
- Creating “free form” envelope curves
- Using the Envelope 3 and Envelope 4 curves as Sound Engine waveforms
- Using the Envelope 4 curve as a Spectral Filter curve
- The LFO section
- The Effects section
- The Modulation Bus section
- Connections
- Tips and Tricks
- Grain Sample Manipulator
- Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
- Subtractor Synthesizer
- Malström Synthesizer
- Monotone Bass Synthesizer
- ID8 Instrument Device
- Rytmik Drum Machine
- Radical Piano
- Klang Tuned Percussion
- Pangea World Instruments
- Humana Vocal Ensemble
- NN-XT Sampler
- Introduction
- Panel overview
- Loading complete Patches and REX files
- Using the main panel
- Overview of the Remote Editor panel
- About Samples and Zones
- Selections and Edit Focus
- Adjusting parameters
- Managing Zones and Samples
- Working with Grouping
- Working with Key Ranges
- Setting Root Notes and Tuning
- Using Automap
- Layered, crossfaded and velocity switched sounds
- Using Alternate
- Sample parameters
- Group parameters
- Synth parameters
- Connections
- NN-19 Sampler
- Introduction
- General sampling principles
- About audio file formats
- About Key Zones and samples
- Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19
- Loading SoundFont samples
- Loading REX slices as samples
- Creating Key Zones
- Selecting Key Zones
- Setting the Key Zone Range
- Deleting a Key Zone
- About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples
- Adding sample(s) to a Key Map
- Setting the Root Key
- Removing sample(s) from a Key Map
- Removing all unassigned samples
- Rearranging samples in a Key Map
- Setting Sample Level
- Tuning samples
- Looping Samples
- About the Solo Sample function
- Automap Samples
- NN-19 synth parameters
- Play Parameters
- Connections
- MIDI Out Device
- Quartet Chorus Ensemble
- Sweeper Modulation Effect
- Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
- Pulveriser
- The Echo
- Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
- BV512 Vocoder
- Introduction
- Setting up for vocoding
- Using the BV512 as an equalizer
- BV512 parameters
- Connections
- Tips and tricks
- RV7000 Mk II Advanced Reverb
- Neptune Pitch Adjuster and Voice Synth
- Introduction
- Overview and basic concepts
- Setting up for pitch processing
- Using pitch correction
- Using pitch shifting (Transpose)
- Using Formant control
- Using the Voice Synth
- Panel parameters
- Connections
- Softube Amps
- Audiomatic Retro Transformer
- Channel Dynamics Compressor & Gate
- Channel EQ Equalizer
- Master Bus Compressor
- Synchronous Timed Effect Modulator
- The MClass Effects
- Half-Rack Effects
- The Combinator
- Pulsar Dual LFO
- RPG-8 Arpeggiator
- Matrix Pattern Sequencer
- Mixer 14:2
- The Line Mixer 6:2
- Working with Players
- Settings
- The Reason Rack Plugin Settings dialog
- Index
KONG DRUM DESIGNER91
The Drum Control Panel
The Drum Control Panel at the bottom left of the panel shows the name and “macro parameter” settings for the se-
lected pad in the pad section. From the Drum Control Panel you can also load and save Drum Patches. See “The
Drum Control Panel”.
The Drum and FX Section
By clicking the Programmer button below at the bottom of the Drum Control Panel you can bring up the Drum and
FX Section. Here is where you can edit your drum sounds and combine with various types of sound processors and
FX. See “The Drum and FX section”.
About using custom backdrops
As with the Combinator device, it is possible to customize the Kong front panel graphics with a user-designed skin. In
the Reason Download section at the Reason Studios website is the “Combi and Kong Backdrop Templates” zip file,
which can be used as starting point for designing your own Kong panel graphics. See the “Read Me.txt” file in the
Backdrops folder for more details. Note that you should use separate backdrops for folded vs. unfolded states.
About file formats
Kong can read the following file types:
Kit Patches
A Kong Kit Patch (Windows extension “.kong”) contains all settings for all 16 Drum sound channels, including file ref-
erences to any used drum samples (but not the actual samples themselves). Switching patches is the same as se-
lecting a new drum kit.
Drum Patches
A Kong Drum Patch (Windows extension “.drum”) contains all settings for the selected Drum sound channel, includ-
ing file references to any used drum samples (but not the actual samples themselves). Switching Drum Patches is
the same as selecting a new drum sound.
Drum Samples
The audio file format support differs depending on which computer OS you are using.
The NN-Nano Sampler module in Kong can read and play back sample files of the following formats:
•In Windows:
.wav, .aif, .mp3, .aac, .m4a and .wma.
•In macOS:
.wav, .aiff, .3g2, .3gp, .mp1, .mp2, .mp3, .mpeg, .mpa, .snd, .au, .sd2, .ac3, .aac, .adts, .amr, .caf, .m4a .m4r and .mp4.
• SoundFonts (.sf2)
SoundFonts are an open standard for wavetable synthesized audio, developed by E-mu systems and Creative
Technologies.
• REX file slices (.rx2, .rex, .rcy)
REX files are music loops created in the ReCycle program or when editing audio clips inline in Reason. The NN-
Nano lets you load separate slices from REX files as individual samples.