Getting Started Guide

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Dr. Rex Loop Player
The Dr.Rex Loop Player plays REX files - audio files created in ReCycle, another Propellerhead Software
product. ReCycle is a program designed especially for working with sampled loops. By “slicing” a loop
and making separate samples of each beat, ReCycle makes it possible to change the tempo of loops
without affecting the pitch and to edit the loop as if it were built up of individual sounds.
After loading a REX file into the Dr. Rex Loop Player, you can play it back in virtually any tempo, make set-
tings for individual slices, extract MIDI playback data and process the loop with the built-in filter, LFO and
envelopes. You can also play the individual slices via MIDI or from the sequencer - each slice has a spe-
cific note number (C1 for the first slice, C#1 for the next and so on). A number of REX files are included
in the Reason Factory Sound Bank.
Redrum Drum Computer
The Redrum is a sample-based drum machine with ten drum sound channels. You can load samples
(Wave, AIFF, SoundFont files and REX slices) individually for each channel, or open patches, which are
complete drum kits (a number of which are included in the Reason Factory Sound Bank). Each sound
channel has settings for pitch, level, velocity response, etc.
There is a built-in pattern sequencer, allowing you to create classic drum machine patterns, complete
with shuffle and flam options. It is also possible to use Redrum as a sound module, playing it live from an
external MIDI controller or from the main Reason sequencer. You may for example have the pattern se-
quencer play a basic drum pattern, and add fills and extras in the main sequencer. As with the Dr.Rex
loop player, each drum sound has a specific note number (C1 for drum sound 1, C#1 for drum sound 2
and so on).