Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The Return of Dr. Rex

  1. Open Reason
  2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
  3. Set Tempo between 80-110
  4. Create Redrum
  5. In Sound 1 on the Redrum, load a Clap and put it on 5 and 13.
  6. In Sound 2 on the Redrum, load a Bass Drum and put it on 1, and a few other boxes (except 5 and 13).
  7. In Sound 3 on the Redrum, load a Hi Hat and put it on boxes that sound good.
  8. In Sound 4 on the Redrum, load a Percussion sound and put it anywhere.
  9. Now, we want to edit steps 17-32.
  10. Change the steps of the Redrum from 16 to 32.
  11. Move the Edit Steps from 1-16 to 17-32.
  12. Select Sound 1 and click on boxes 5 and 13
  13. Select Sound 2 and click on boxes 1 and a few other boxes.
  14. Select Sound 3 and click on the boxes that sound good.
  15. Select Sound 4 and click on any boxes!
  16. Now that you've finished making your pattern, it's time to Copy Pattern To Track.
  17. Right click on the Redrum and select Copy Pattern to Track.
  18. Click on the PATTERN button on the Redrum so that they don't play at the same time.
  19. Now we want to Create a Dr. Rex instrument loop.
  20. Go to the Create menu and Create a Dr. Rex Loop Player.
  21. We need to load a loop, so click on the folder in the upper left hand corner of the loop player.
  22. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Dr. Rex Instrument Loops: and select any of the folders: choose a loop.
  23. On The Dr. Rex, click "TO TRACK"
  24. Now, let's add a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop.
  25. Go to CREATE: Dr. Rex.
  26. Click on the Folder in the upper left hand corner of the Dr. Rex.
  27. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank:Dr. Rex Percussion Loops: Choose any of the folders: choose any of the loops.
  28. Click "TO TRACK" on the Dr. Rex
  29. Save your beat in your folder as The Return of Dr. Rex

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