Producing Music Fast in Reason

[@kangolsublife5296]

thank you for the video helped hopefully take away the mystery of producing a song. I have alot of beats and loops hopefully I can move into another realm here.

[@willsims2009]

This is real cool. I produce a lot of smooth jazz on Reason 8. I plan on incorporating electronic sounds and producing using blocks. Thanks for sharing!

[@ErikHawk]

Thanks for watching! Reason 11, aka Reason Studios, is an amazing upgrade from 8 :-)

[@willsims2009]

Erik Hawk cool, is it compatible with older macs? I El Capitan and my interface is the Steinberg UR22.

[@ErikHawk]

@@willsims2009 Yes Reason Studios/Reason 11 works with OSX 10.11. I've got this same setup. Here are the system requirements, www.reasonstudios.com/en/reason/faq

[@Wizardatwill]

nie work!! been using reason since they cme out but never used block mode!! This is cool ! Thank you for sharing the knowledge!

[@ErikHawk]

Thanks for watching. Glad you found it helpful! :-)

[@williamlucas1951]

Great video ! Very helpful in creating a song.

[@bobbiejohnson4607]

Thank you so much! The Blocks workflow is much easier to get a good flow going! Great video.

[@ErikHawk]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching, glad it helped. Yeah, the Block workflow is pretty cool.

[@RaspberryRockOffGridCabin]

That was really f'n cool man. I would have liked to hear the final version.

[@jujusaudioreads]

Got it. Great video! This will be my process. Thank you!

[@ErikHawk]

You got it! :-) Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@theoversouls]

Excellent video! Very useful info presented really well. Thanks for posting.

[@treDay-s5v]

Very helpful tips as always! 👏

[@ErikHawk]

Thanks for watching!

[@MideaMusic]

Fantastic video! Thank you very much!

[@ErikHawk]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@EarJuice]

I really like video because like good.

[@ErikHawk]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@elimarcos]

First producer guy that I see using the right tempo, most guys just put a 130 bpm and makes a song in 65 bpm 8/8 LOL, and when I correct them they just don't trow me punches cause this is in the internet, not real life and as a musician I really don't know what's the difficult to set the right tempo... btw cool video, I liked how this can be very pratical, I am considering to use reason and ableton live as my two main DAW's in the future, I like ableton for producing and reason for mixing and audio tuning, what ableton it's not great...

[@ErikHawk]

Ha ha, yeah count the 1/4 notes people, that's your tempo! If you are counting half-time all of your tempo grid calculations will be off. I'm always explaining this to students. Glad you noticed! Thanks for watching :-)

[@simonedemarchi5735]

Very interesting video! Thank you for sharing! :)

[@ErikHawk]

Thanks for watching!

[@ivanvelez7668]

hi Eric, nice video. I noticed that you use a Nektar Panorama P4 midi keyboard. How you like using it with Reason?

[@ErikHawk]

It's fantastic, I love it. It's a little more complicated to use than other standard MIDI controllers but once you get it all set up you've got really deep control over Reason. Plus, Nektar is great. I had the P4 for a few years and all the rubber started getting sticky. I emailed tech support and they sent me out a complete new package of all the knobs, faders, and even the Pitch and Mod Wheels. How about that for customer service?

[@ivanvelez7668]

@@ErikHawk wow that is great service. I do have the P4 myself now for almost 2 years. I also think its a great product. still getting used to its features. Im also a reason user too. I just recently started viewing your videos and so far I have enjoyed them.

[@wesheriveaux9325]

what sound did you use for that top line? great video by the way

[@ErikHawk]

Arp 1971 .thor

[@wesheriveaux9325]

awesome thanks

[@RamiRomeromusic]

Just im curious ! you use the reason samplers or you use another library ? like loopmaster for example?

[@ErikHawk]

I use the Reason samplers. When I'm working in Reason I really enjoy using all of the Reason samplers (NN-XT, NN-19, Redrum, Kong, Dor. Octo REX). You can do anything with them! For sounds I use the stock samples or samples from my collection of WAV files that I've amassed over the years.

[@carlreynolds1111]

Do you need a keyboard? Or just a computer?

[@ErikHawk]

I always recommend a MIDI controller keyboard. But Reason has a computer QWERTY keyboard mode too, so you can play notes from your computer keyboard. I'm not going to say it's ideal but it can be done without a MIDI controller.

[@carlreynolds1111]

Erik Hawk thanks much cheers

[@Milan____]

"Here's how to produce quickly" * takes 4 hours to move across the screen because he uses touchpad like a poor person * * moved markers manually instead of using Ctrl-Click and Alt-Click * * uses blocks when you could just Ctrl-D whole sections *

[@ErikHawk]

You are correct, those are excellent shortcuts and serious users of Reason Studios should make these shortcuts part of their workflow. Shortcuts can really help speed up your operations. Though doing a tutorial in which I just use shortcuts doesn’t allow people to see the process, it just shows off how fast I can execute a command where literally nobody watching knows what I did. So yeah, there’s that. Your suggestions are actually really relevant so I’m going to leave your comment, but if I might make a suggestion, please try and frame your comments in a less negative and more constructive manner. We really need positivity in the world, especially right now. Thanks for watching.

[@MrBabyBoa]

@@ErikHawk, you were (are) spot-on with your reply! Thank you! There's one in every crowd... ;-)