Koshdukai's Music(al) Reason(ing)

Update : Maybe you should just skip all this and jump right into Part III  since there's a link to ready made Remote Templates and some explanation on how to use them :) But... if you still want to know how those Templates were made, here's some details that helped achieve that: So, we finally got 3rd party devices inside "THE RACK" uh? :) After all the fuss, hype...iness, trying every available Rack Extension possible and buying the "must have" ones, there's an issue related with the Remote side of each one of these new devices inside our Reason 6.5 rack: The only Rack Extension supported by default on all the "factory" provided Remote Codecs+Maps is Propellerhead's own Radical Piano. Yup... so now what ? Here's some tricks for every Remote Dev/"hacker"/enthusiast and/or power user that knows how to or likes to keep their own customized versions of their controller Remote Codecs and Maps. Q1 : What...

...and iOS Figure debut :) ...and here's my Propellerhead Rack Extensions related videos playlist

uh... well... users kept asking me if this'n'that was possible, so, while explaining how to do it I ended up adding stuff to the Codec, namely, it even sends MIDI Program Change now :] Here I'm showing the larger note range: 104 notes now, from C-1 to G7 through the use of 4 Codec instances, each controlling 32 note segments, like shown at the end of the video. These technical demos are always a bit boring, I know, especially non-voiced over ones (and with lame note/chord sequences ;), but I'm in a noisy room at the moment so... I preferred doing yet another "silent" video with just the synths output being recorded. Sorry :) oh, and I keep using VSTi's just because it's easier to capture everything on screen, but any external hardware device could be the target of the MIDI output. Then you can simply record its audio into a Reason audi track, et voila'!

Hi ! :) Made this little demo video today, showing something I tried a while back just to see if it was possible and... yeah, it is, but quite cumbersome and limited of course... Aaaanway, since I mentioned it on a Prop forum thread about MIDI out , I felt like I should at least show I wasn't crazy or lying ;) But... I won't waste any more time on this. I prefer to wait for a proper MIDI output solution from Propellerhead, like I did wait for a proper solution for Audio Input, Sampling and Recording.

FYI : Reason 6.5 and above includes a newer version of TE OP-1 Remote Codec & Map! You can read jump to the Quick Reference Guide down below to get some info about it :) ---x--- Hey! :) You're a  Reason 6  user and you just installed the recent Reason 6.0.2 update  ? (No? What are you waiting for!?!?) Do you have a  TE OP-1  ? (Yeah? Congratz! ;) ...and if you still haven't upgraded your OP-1's firmware to at least OS #12234 (or newer), you should really update your OP-1's OS  ASAP!:) Yeah, so now you can use your OP-1 as a Control Surface for Reason  ! Neat uh ? :) V.1.2 update Before going into some quick basics about this new functionality, let me tell you that there's a newer version of this  TE OP-1's  Remote Map . It's basically a maintenance release to fix a couple of bugs I've noticed and fixed after the first release. This (or a higher) version will surely be included in fut...

Last August, Rob ( PhiSequence ) asked me if I was willing to join this collaboration project that Ben ( 3rdFloorSound ) started, where all proceeds would go towards the Bernard Childcare Trust . It was going to be a tough call for me, but I just had to fit this one in, between all the other projects I was involved at the time, so I could only say yes, of course :) As Kurt ( Peff ) explains on his blog post , this is one way that our community can show their support through the established trust account for James and Nicole’s four children. So, to give back something to those that are willing to help and show their support to JB's family, a bunch of Sound Designers started working on this new ReFill project. The Bernard Childcare Trust ReFill It includes instrument and effect patches, REX loops and samples from 3rdFloorSound , DrDist/odarmonix , EditEd4TV , PhiSequence , RobbNeu and me . More were willing to help but due to their own time constraints wer...

http://www.propellerheads.se/paywhatyouwant/ uh?! w00t!??!? but, but, but... ?!?! That was basically my first 3 seconds of reaction as soon as I bumped into that announcement today. Being a Record Reason Duo user always made me look at Reason 6 upgrade with less enthusiasm than Record 1.0 or 1.5 only users or Reason 1 through Reason 5 only users, because most of the giant upgrading jump was going to happen to them and not to R+R users. Ok, so... there's The Echo , Alligator and Pulveriser which it may be just a nice or a huge upgrade, depending on how much you're an effect devices geek and how much you depend on effects in your music style. On top of that, there's the monster expansion done to Reason's Factory Sound Bank , which is also a huge upgrade to those that rely or know how to take advantage of the preset patches either as-is or as starting points to customize, tweak and make them their own patches. The FSB is also a natural ground to learn ...