Sweet. I still haven’t jumped to 13 yet. How are you finding it?

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate that. I’ve done some work with Ableton, but switched to Maschine a few years ago. I have a free lite licence for Ableton, but didn’t want to buy a licence as I was upgrading Reason regularly. I tend to use Izotope tools as VST in Reason for mastering, and haven’t really used Ableton for mastering. Do you own a licence for Ableton?

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it.

@@ivanvelez7668 thanks. Yes I’m so glad a purchased the P4, although I’m tempted by the new black case version. But I’ll probably stick with the first version. Yes. I know what you mean re the screen.

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Oh, ok I didn't know they had a black version of the P4. One question for you, are you using mac or pc? If your on a mac, what OS are you using with the P4? I'm on Mojave but I might upgrade my computer system to a more newer system where I'll be Sonoma OS.

@ivanvelez7668 sorry I should have said it is called a T4, not P4. All my other gear is black and I haven’t looked into the comparison of the T4 to P4. I’m on Windows. Here is a link to the T4. www.thomann.co.uk/nektar_panorama_t4.htm?glp=1&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADuDMCXwO5QQmfHNSibQZLF8GFLAZ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwuG1BhCnARIsAFWBUC3pzqE-glPO1Eq8UQtSASiWtLAYgZyC_3qK5H0ey7tfggOsqOYZxXgaAo6hEALw_wcB%23gad_source#gad_source=1

@@andrewgreatorexmusic oh cool, no worries. Keep doing what you're doing. 👍🏽

@ivanvelez7668 thank you.

Hi, thanks for the message. To be honest I only have the time to put out videos when I get chance. There are lots of resources produced by Reason Producers on KZbin. I can share some I use if that would be useful? Good luck with your Reason journey. I’ve been on board since v1. Loved it all the way. #reasongang

Appreciate the feedback. Thank you.

Thanks. I remember thinking these demos are great. I can learn from these. #reasongang

Thanks for the comment. I must try that. I don’t often work with mp3 or wav in Reason (sometimes with samples or vocals). I get what you are trying to achieve, I’ll have a play with that this week. As you say pen tool is the only way I’d achieve that, but my preference would be to do that with my controller.

Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. Enjoy your Reason journey #reasongang

If you use the curve section and wire the pitch bend from your device into the curve CV on the matrix you can play with the pitch. I like to use the octave setting on Robotic Beans - Sequences though as it has way more options than the MPS. Hope that helps. Thanks for the question.

Apologies, I thought this was on MPS! I’ll check on propulsion. MPS and Sequences can do this though.

Glad it was helpful!

Are you clicking and holding the click so it creates the wav form and then you drag it into Reason 12. If you click and hold it will tell you to keep the music clicked while it does it's stuff :)

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Well... Cookydukes. I am sorry that I wasted your time. I feel kind of silly that I didn't figure that out. I truly appreciate that you took a moment to give a spot of help. Cheers to you friend.

@@carlosrobles4599 not a problem at all. I’m hoping to do a follow up on Reason and Maschine. Struggling for time at the moment though.

Thanks for the feedback. Not me. But I need to listen to that now!

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate that.

I have my reference track routed so it doesn’t go through the mastering chain. I only have my mix go through the mastering chain. The reference is left as is. I’ll share the wiring tomorrow for you that I work with.

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Thx for your reply! I think you misunderstood me, when i am mixing i’m trying to have most levels at minus 10-12, drums and bass at about -6 db. So it is basically not that loud as the reference track. When i am mastering, the limiter makes all louder so that i hit near zero. I’m pretty inexperienced in mixing and mastering and I still don’t really know how high the levels have to be 😅

@@micromando4669 ah sorry. I misunderstood. You are not alone there, I find a lot of information around mixing online and it can be confusing. I’ll see if I have a video covering what I do. Overall level I tend to ensure they sit between -6db and -8db so I have plenty of headroom for mastering. In terms of each individual channel, I balance them to ensure the elements I want the loudest stand out in the mix. But also, try to make sure certain channel aren’t jumping out the mix. Let me have a look later. Again, I’m no expert, self taught. Always learning :)

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Yea thank you anyway, so I’m definitely not alone with these topics 😅

@@micromando4669 check this approach for mixing. This is what I do. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYWYf6pjj9R4pKc

Thanks for the feedback.

I still have 2.0 installed. I will always have a great love for that version. I remember being blown away and overwhelmed when I first started using it. #ReasonLife

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Yes I have a cracked version of Reason 2.0 somewhere on one of My hardrives. Indeed I was blown away by it when next door nabor gave Me a copy. Eventually bought a license.

Like that idea. Another one for the Reason wishlist

No, because you’ll need a licence. Search online for reasontalk forum or another forum. People are always selling older versions with licences.

Ebay for about £20 Reason 2 and Reason 4. Reason 11 lite also comes up alot for £10.

Awesome. I still have 2.0 installed and have a play occasionally. Thanks for the message. Enjoy :)

I own Reason 12, and have a Teachers vertion of 4 and a cracked 2.

I’m still on 11 suite, just not enough in the box this time to jump to 12. Zoom is great as a few of the synths I use are quite small. I took part in the BETA testing and the zoom looked good, but other than the new Combinator, I decided to wait for the next release. I normally just each upgrade, but not this time.

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Hi, can you say if reason 2.0 has neptune pitch correction ?

@@deliciousmelody3805 No, it doesn't. Neptune only appeared in Reason around 2010/2011 I believe.

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Thanks a bunch for your reply, I appreciate that very much !

It’s Maschine from Native Instruments. It’s comes with the Maschine hardware.

Good question. That is the only area where Propulsion is lacking. In the past I use automation to activate real time or mute solo individual the relevant lane. Hopefully in the next update ‘send to track’ :)

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Thanks for the info. I tried it out and it seems to work well with instruments that have multiple cv inputs on the back (Kong, Redrum) but with synths like (Europa) with just a single cv you can get different sounds but can't get different notes. Unless I'm doing something wrong. Cheers.

Thanks for the appreciation.

Yes, I have done either in the past, kept it in place in case of change and also removed the MPS when the pattern has been created and sent to the main sequencer. I guess if I dropped a MPS back onto the said device it should inherit the pattern from the main sequencer or series of blocks it exists in. Also, it would be good if it would update the main sequencer across blocks (if desired) when the pattern is the updated in MPS. I guess I’d not thought about it too much more until you mentioned it. I like the idea of layering patterns where MPS is aware of each layer in the main sequencer or block. Suppose it starts to get complicated. Reason wish list!

@@andrewgreatorexmusic I find that I often want to try slightly different patterns fairly late in the process (sometimes as late as when mixing and mastering the song), and at that point, if I change something in a pattern that was already laid down on the main sequencer, I have to copy and paste that change all over the project and it ends up taking a lot of time. But keeping the pattern step sequencer around also feels like a slow down because I need to look in the rack for things that really are part of the sequencing. I guess I'll have to choose - excessive copy/paste or keeping step sequencers around for the arps and bass lines. In contrast, FL Studio handles this elegantly with their patterns that can be copied into the sequencer and then you can right click to "Make Unique" if you want to make individual changes in e.g. transitions.

Reason wish list indeed! Same with automation clips, btw: I wish there was a way to copy any block in the main sequencer and keep a connection to the original block in such a way that altering any of the connected blocks will alter them all (until you deliberately break the connection by choosing Make Unique). That would speed up the workflow in the sequencer considerably. I find Reason's Blocks mode to be way too clumsy for this as it works across multiple tracks and feels more like something designed for creating basic song parts like Chorus, Vers, Bridge etc.

You can pencil in pattern clips into the sequencer and then if you change the corresponding pattern on the device, you’ve effectively changed all of the instances that were penciled into the main sequencer. All you have to do is right+click the pattern buttons on the Matrix and it creates the pattern automation lane in the sequencer. Then switch to the pencil tool to pencil them in. When switched back to the arrow tool, you can click a dropdown menu within the clip to get a menu and assign the desired bank and pattern to that clip.

Thanks for the comment. My favourite thing about Reason is the endless possibilities with all the synths, effects, players and now VST. Not having worked with physical hardware before, I like the endless wiring options and chaining of devices. I have used Ableton before, but found Reason to be more user friendly, I guess it's because I've used Reason for so long now, I just know how to do things with it. I think opening it up to VST has paved a better future for Reason, but I'm on the fence about the recent subscription model that has be provided. As I use Reason for a hobby I find PAYG a better option for me. I'm hoping the future model includes the subscription and the standalone options. I think many people showed their thoughts when Reason+ was released recently.

Thanks very much for feedback. Much appreciated. I'll certainly reach out on IG. #respect

Guess what, you can open Reason 1.0 RNS in Reason 12.

@benn No, haven't used sound cloud in over a year.

@benn No I'm not going to be using Soundcloud any time soon, I dont like the platform to difficult to grow on there, infact I dont like youtube for the same reason lol.

@benn I read your message on soundcloud and no I cant send you 2, I can send the Reason 1.0 demo to you though. However you will have to wait because I dont know where it is.

@benn Soundcloud dont recognise My Email so I cant send messages or do anything on there.

Yeah, the blocks feature is something I've stuck with since I discovered it. The context menus where my bad! I didn't realise OBS studio wasn't capturing the content menus. I've solved that now. :)

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Was it because OBS was capturing aplication and not screen? I never encountered this issue when I was recording stuff - just curious :)

@@Artek604 yeah, it was application window, but I just assumed it would capture context menus as well.

Thanks for the comment. Appreciate it. There are changes happening in the UI if you’ve seen a couple of images in the 20 goodie bag. Not sure if the layout will be in the mix though. Do you have any wishes of how it may be done in terms of layout? Cheers

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Basically I'd love to be able to organize the workspaces (mixer, rack, sequencer) any way I like on a single screen, for example like this: i.ibb.co/wMvFFPv/reason.jpg

@@Artek604 the best I do with this is using Windows + left or right cursor key to arrange them on my widescreen monitor. Rack and sequencer on one side and SSL on the other. At some point I'd like to go back to rack vertical on a wide screen monitor.

@@andrewgreatorexmusic Yeah, I know that windows can be detached and then arranged, but a) they look inconsistent with different border styles, transport & browser doubled, b) what's worse you need to re-do it every time. Obviously it's not a huge thing, but with time I get annoyed having to switch the views constantly on a laptop in particular.

@Carlos Bradley Lately I have been using FlixZone. Just search on google for it =)

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it. I have corrected that for future videos.

Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah I do need to sort that! Working from home has meant a rearrange of my space. I plan to look into that when I put it all back together.