Video Transcript : Lets see how we can apply Send Effects & Insert Effect in Reason. I’m actually using Reason 5 right now, but this will apply to all the earlier versions of Reason also.

First, lets add the Mixer. As a sidenote, its always a good practice to actually start from a template project, which already has the mastering suite and the mixer going, so we could work on adding more instrument based devices.

Ok now to add the mixer, right click and select 14:1 which is a 14 channel mixer. Now lets add some effects so we could send in effects from each of these 14 channels. So lets add a delay, reverb & chorus. These 3 effects would basically be the standard to every project that we work with. The reason we call send effects is because we are actually sending the effects from our channel to the effects and by doing this we save a lot of CPU power. Lets see how these send works. When you press the tab key, you can see how the mixer and the effect units are wired. As you can see, the Aux channel sends the effects to the effect unit and this in this case, aux1 is connected to the delay unit, aux 2 is connected to the reverb unit and aux 3 is connected to the chorus unit. Each of these units output is again connected back to the aux return channels.

When you press tab, you’ll get back to the front panel of these devices. Now these are the return effect channels which corresponds to those 4 Aux channels here.

Lets see a small example of how we could apply these effects.

Let create an instrument and select a patch. I already have one of those String patch in my fav list. So I’ll select that. You can even audition by selecting the patch.

This is how it sounds dry, without any effect applied. Now let me add some delay to it. Now lets add some reverb. & finally chorus. So this is how you could apply send effects and its lot easier and a neat way to use effects onto your instrument patches.

Now lets see what Inserts effects are. Well, they are almost the same, except that you get to apply the effect directly on the Instrument, which means your applying it right onto the signal chain itself. So the more insert effects you add, the more you would need to have the processing power. Of course, there will be instances were you would need to add Insert effects, on top of the Send effects that we already saw.

Now lets select the same instrument and load the delay effect onto it. Now you can see the delay unit attached to the instrument. Press tab again and you can see the instrument is routed to the delay unit and then it goes to the mixer for further processing. Thats why its called an Insert effect.

Hope you guys liked the video. Please do check out my other videos and also please do subscribe to see all music production video & tutorials. Making music from the Home Studio is fun and drop me a line if you’ve something to share.

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Home StudioSound Composition – End Credit Theme Music Composition using Reason 4 & Refills (Virtual Instruments)

Composed & Arranged by : Swamay aka Kitcha

Instruments used : Bass, Pads, Strings, Brass

Program used : Reason 4 & Refills

When it comes to Theme Music, I’m a huge huge fan of John Williams and Hans zimmer. I don’t know how many times I would have heard the theme music of Jurassic Park, ET, Gladiator, Schindlers list, Star wars, The Lion King, Sherlock Holmes etc., I think they have also inspired directors like Spielberg, James cameroon to conceive visuals for Theme music in most of their movies. Truly, their music has always been Classical, Royal and Theatrical.

So here is just a small tune that came to my mind and I tried to arrange it in a way that it would sound like a theme and theatrical . Its great fun to make music from Home Studio. About this theme music, think like it features during the end credits of a movie, where a huge ship is shown sailing in a big ocean from a top wide angle shot . haha Well, the imagination is up to you but I only hope you would like it .

Please do pass on your comments folks. Thanks.

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This is a rhythm track that I made with Reason 4 using the ReDrum device. ReDrum is an amazing program and the amount of beats and rhythm structures you can make is limitless.

Pls Subscribe to my site to know more about making Music from HomeStudio using Music Production softwares like Reason, Reason Refills, Native Instruments, Pro Tools DAW.

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ReDrum Instrument in Reason 4 is the Drum Machine/Computer, that allows to add Rhythmic/Drum patterns to tracks of a song. With the amount of drum patterns you can create, the possibility of composing a song like the pros can be endless. ReDrum also has lots of Drum Kit Patches right out of the box. I personally love to use ReDrum and I always end up using it in all of my song compositions.

Take a look at the video above on “How to Compose a Song Using ReDrum in Reason 4“. You will agree with me that using ReDrum is so easy and powerful, which allows us to create great sounding songs backed by stunning beats. Plus, drawing drum patterns into the Sequencer/Arrange window is a breeze to use.

Pass on your comments on the videos and feel free to share the video. Also, if you’ve any songs you made using ReDrum, please share the link in the comments section.

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Welcome to HomeStudioSound.com

We are going to see the Audio Preferences in Reason 4. Before you get to start recording Music, it is always advisable that you get to know the music software that you are working with. Watch the video above to see “Audio Preferences in Reason 4“

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Welcome to HomeStudioSound.com

We are going to see how we can add loops during the process of music creation, in Propellerhead’s Reason 4. Looping, according to me is one of the best feature and a key feature in music production softwares. I love Reason’s looping feature as it lets us achieve the results, easily and quickly.

With so many track options available in all the major DAW sequencers these days, looping actually helps us utlize and create that many tracks, to make a particular session sound full and rich. Once you know your tempo of the song and arrange your looping to follow the tempo, the rest of the arrangement becomes so easy, so we can add music in a well controlled manner. Basically looping helps you to adapt to the song in terms of pitching it right with instruments & vocals.

Now, lets try a sample looping session in this video. I’m actually going to take the example of Billie Jean from Michael Jacksons thriller album and play just the looping part in the beginning of the song, so you can understand how easy it is to loop in Reason 4.

Watch the video above to see “How to Loop Tracks in Propellerhead’s Reason 4“

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