Getting Started Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Installation
- Setting Up
- Guided Tour
- About this Chapter
- Guided Tour
- The Rack
- The Back
- The Transport Panel
- The Sequencer
- The Tool window
- The Devices
- Reason Hardware Interface
- Combinator
- Mixer 14:2
- Line Mixer 6:2
- Subtractor Analog Synthesizer
- Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
- Malström Synthesizer
- NN-19 Digital Sampler
- NN-XT Digital Sampler
- Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
- Redrum Drum Computer
- Kong Drum Designer
- MClass Mastering effects
- BV512 Vocoder
- Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
- RV7000 Advanced Reverb
- RV-7 Digital Reverb
- DDL Digital Delay Line
- D-11 Foldback Distortion
- ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter
- CF-101 Chorus/Flanger
- PH-90 Phaser
- UN-16 Unison
- COMP-01 Compressor
- PEQ2 Two Band Parametric EQ
- Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
- Spider CV Merger & Splitter
- The Matrix Pattern Sequencer
- RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
- ReBirth Input Machine
- Tutorial 1 - Playing a Song
- Tutorial 2 - Playing devices and selecting sounds
- Tutorial 3 - Creating a drum pattern
- Tutorial 4 - Recording a bass line
- Tutorial 5 - Adding a REX loop
- Tutorial 6 - Adding an arpeggio
- Index
GUIDED TOUR
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The Matrix Pattern Sequencer
The Matrix is a stand-alone pattern sequencer, somewhat similar to a vintage analog sequencer. A Matrix
pattern can have between 1 and 32 steps, and for each step you can specify which control voltage levels
should be sent out from the three separate CV outputs on the back of the device. If you like, you could view
this as having three separate pattern sequencers in one.
By connecting the Matrix to e.g. a synth device, you can have the pattern sequencer play the device (for a
repeating synth pattern), or control various parameters, for rhythmic effects that you cannot obtain using
the synth device alone.
RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
An arpeggiator generates rhythmic note patterns (arpeggios) from notes or chords. Similarly to the Matrix,
connecting the RPG-8 to e.g. a synth device, means the arpeggiator can play the device (for a repeating
arpeggio), or control various parameters.The RPG-8 Arpeggiator has innovative features like musically log-
ical pattern variations and a Pattern editor for even more rhythmic variation.
ReBirth Input Machine
This device allows you to use Reason in conjunction with Propellerheads’ classic ReBirth application. The
audio from ReBirth will be “streamed” via the ReWire protocol into Reason. By routing the different outputs
on the ReBirth Input Machine to different mixer channels, you can mix the sound of ReBirth with the sound
of Reason, add effects to separate ReBirth sounds, etc.