Specifications

QUICK TUTORIAL
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It’s possible to play the drum machine device via MIDI in the same way, but let’s
try creating a pattern with the built-in pattern sequencer instead:
13. Click the folder button in the lower left corner of the Redrum panel.
This opens the patch browser for the drum machine, allowing you to select a
Redrum patch (a drum kit). Note that there are folder buttons for each drum
sound channel too - these let you add drum samples one by one and create
your own drum kits.
14. Select a Redrum patch in the same way as you selected a Subtrac-
tor patch.
The patches are located in category folders within the folder “Redrum Drum
Kits” in the Reason Factory Sound Bank.
When you have selected a patch, you will note that a sample file name is dis-
played at the top of each drum sound channel in the drum machine. There may
also be different parameter settings for the different drum sounds - all these set-
tings are part of a Redrum patch.
15. Try out the drum sounds by clicking the audition buttons at the top
of each drum sound channel.
Now, let’s start building a pattern. By default, the empty patterns have sixteen
steps, with each step corresponding to a sixteenth note (so that the length of a
pattern is one 4/4 bar). To make things simple, we’ll keep this setting for now.
16. Click the Run button on the Redrum device panel.
The pattern will start playing (as indicated by the running “LED” on the step
buttons at the bottom of the device panel). Nothing will be heard, since you
haven’t added any drum beats yet.
The Select Patch button
Load Sample buttons
The selected patch
Drum sound channels