Koshdukai's Music(al) Reason(ing)

Part 1: Exploring the NN-XT Patches Explored ReFill: BITLEY WAY BEYOND FAIRLIGHT.rfl Link: http://bitley.laconicsounds.net/way-beyond-fairlight/ Note : This is the previous release, not the newer WAY BEYOND FAIRLIGHT R2 release.

If you have a controller capable of sending MIDI messages on multiple MIDI Channels, like an M-Audio Axiom 's 4 Keyboard zones (so 4 MIDI Channels from the same keyboard) plus the Pads on Channel 10 or an Arturia BeatStep PRO that can send 2 sequences on their own MIDI Channel (1 and 2) and its Drum sequencer on MIDI Channel 10 plus the controller on, say, MIDI Channel 16, etc,  then you certainly felt the need for a MIDI Channel-aware type of Remote Codec like this one. Taking the BSP example, here's how to get its 4 sources of MIDI into Reason with this Remote Codec+Map. Add a Control Surface per MIDI source  with these 3 easy steps: 1)  Add a Control Surface from the " <Other> " Manufacturer and choose the correct " Generic Controller on MIDI Channel __ /< " Model with the MIDI Channel you'll need 2) Give it a proper name, so you know what's the real controller being used with this generic map (that you ...

Hey all :) I've been asked last week to share my Arturia SparkLE Codec so here it is :) (unofficial) Arturia SparkLE Remote Codec (and partial Map) V1.0.2 ReDrum: Added Drum Channel selection support through the Dial encoder Edit Flam with Select+Loop Button Flam Amount  with  Select+Tempo Encoder Shuffle On/Off through Loop Button Actually, this has been sitting on my Remote projects folder for 2 years now (and far from being alone in there, eh), waiting for me to complete the rest of the Remote Map, because my initial need for it was really just to control Kong, Dr.OctoRex and ReDrum, that's why those are really the ones that got some partial love on the included map. Early this year, due to the improvements added to the ReDrum remoteables s ince Reason 8.2 , I ended up making some editing to support the new ReDrum remoteables :) I'm hoping that anyone wanting to extend it or complete it has enough examples already in the partial map I'm ...

Reason's BV512 Digital Vocoder rack device always had a very useful behavior regarding its use as a MIDI-to-CV utility device. Before the Kong Drum Designer rack device, which is typically the easiest and preferred device to convert a MIDI Note (i.e. Pad hit) into a CV Gate output (each pad has a CV out gate at the back) the BV512 Vocoder was the only rack device offering a similar behavior. How? (RTFM ;) The BV512 MIDI Implementation made it respond to a range of MIDI keyboard note input to control each of its 32 Vocoder Bands. This allows various cools tricks related with directly controlling specific and multiple bands while in Vocoder mode. The 1st 16 of those Vocoder bands, when activated (either by audio modulation or MIDI note input) will have their respective value output as CV at the back of the device. So, as you can see, prior to Kong , this was the perfect way to get at least 16 MIDI Note-to-CV Gate/Vel...

Not sure if anyone noticed, but my red'ish/orange themed blog changed to blue... which, coincidentally matched the color change on PH's Shop :] This was the 1st of a few more changes to this blog. I'm going to slowly "clean" it up of all the extra link sections, now temporarily pushed to the bottom. Already added a "Spare Music Products on eBay" section because I finally went through my license collection and found a few unused spares that should really go to someone that will use them. I have more licenses waiting to be added to that list, but there are some limits to how many/much one can have on sale, so... there's actually a queue behind that section. Next, will be experimenting with AdSense ( configure your own Ad experience here **). Not sure how that works but that's something that I never bothered to try and I guess it's time to, so I'm waiting for the approval thingy. After that, don't be surprised to see som...

WOW! I'm extremely impressed with this initiative from Converse ( yes, that sneakers company, no less!!! ) through their  Converse Rubber Tracks  community-based professional recording studio in Brooklyn, NY. The design of the site, the user experience and interface, the filtering and searching capabilities, proper metadata details ( who did what , where and when , tempo (s), key (s), etc) and obviously the amount and the quality of content are totally amazing. One-Shots , Loops , Stems on lots of genres , playing styles and instrument types . I'll say it again: WOW ! ...and my respect, admiration and inevitable thanks to... a  footwear company  for doing it right :) Twitter results for #RubberTracks Rubber Tracks  @rubbertracksnyc Vernon Reid: «[...] in a way, sampling keeps the idea of older music in our collective consciousness and certain obscure pieces of music can come back again or have a new life or be redi...

Beta 8 squashes all the various bank folder levels into just 1 level per folder mainly on " 7 from the Web " and on most on the "8 Instruments", which I'll be working on a bit more before the final release  of V1.0 of this ReFill. PX7 200K Collection (30102 Uniques) Koshdukai's Slim Version 1b8 ReFill I'm a bit worried with " Tim Garrett's TX7 " folder though, which is now all flattened as a  7789 patches  big folder. It's quite noticeable how Reason's browser takes its time to digest that folder before opening it, even packed inside a ReFill, which is kinda weird and not what I expected out of Reason 8.1's new browser... oh well :/ Still not sure if it's better now, without all of those bank folders with just a couple of patch files in there... guess I'll need feedback on this or else I'll keep doing how I think it's best :) Beta 7 zip download access will be removed soon, btw. 2022/06/19...

Could be an automatic process, right? Well, but it isn't, so here's the next best solution: Manually tempo-map a variable-tempo audio track with no embedded tempo information. " Instead of playing to the click, let's click to the playing " ;) ...which Ryan Harlin explains perfectly.

Excellent quick tutorial explaining and demonstrating why and how to destructively trim unused/unwanted clips from audio tracks: It also briefly explains those, sometimes intriguing, audio clip icons that show up at the bottom right corner of the clips, something I remember seeing a bunch of users asking about in the old forums. For more, you can always check the usual main source of all this knowledge, the Operation Manual  available locally on your computer but also online at the Reason Additional Documentation and Help Files page ;)

When I first heard of the original  Korg Kronos oriented 'dx7_200k_collection' project  I thought that it would be interesting to try and purge it from all the inevitable duplicate Banks and Patches included. This happened a few weeks before the release of Propellerhead's own version, the  PX7-200k-Collection ReFill  for their  PX7 FM Synthesizer . After reaching a point where I already had all duplicate SysEx Bank files removed and was going through each bank sets, performing the conversion to .repatch format using the indispensable Propellerhead's  DX7-PX7 Patch Converter , I realized that the hardest part of this dups removal project was going to be the surprisingly high amount of cases that I had to decide which bank should be considered the "original" so I could remove all the corresponding duplicates from all the others. Well, once PH released their 200K ReFill version, I thought that it really wasn't worth my time...

« On Thursday Jan 22nd , [...] The Propellerhead Forums are not being brought along to the new website, which means this place is going to close next week. » I guess this blog might start getting more posts now :) Why? Well, I don't get along with Facebook (and it doesn't get me either) so this blog is now basically my default place to publicly comment on what's going on in the world of Reason. Along with that, the time I usually spend browsing forum threads for any issues that catch my eye to jump in and try to help will now be spent here. My tendency to comment and provide feedback about Reason in PH own forums was, I see now, a natural act of keeping it in context, within a place where almost all cared about that specific subject, apart from my quick snippets of text on Twitter , trying to express my more immediate opinions on things as they happened (which I'll keep doing, because Twitter is natural to me, unlike Facebook). btw, jus...