Reason's Rack Cables - Learning Audio and Control Voltage Patching

[@somuchfortalent]

Didn't realize Skope was free. Nice.

[@ReasonStudios]

Yeah I should've mentioned that! I pinned your comment so others might find out and get it. It's super useful! /ryan

[@skaught64ee]

where can we find this Skope?... thanks...

[@darkstatehk]

What I love about Reason is that you can take a break from making music and just play with the rack. It's very inspirational and often ends up in making new music in the process.

[@amarokker]

How true! My best tracks were born this way, learning something new and experimenting.

[@benja303]

this is what originally attracted me to reason

[@razhmazh]

Ryan has always made the best tutorials on Reason. They're funny, and I love the dry humour. Actually learn something here and there, and it's so much easier to give other newcomers to Reason a link to the videos and I don't have to type in a 2-page word document answer for some of the questions. Thanks again!

[@ShelLuser]

Each to their own, but... I enjoyed the mention of "_that super cool knob that makes my synth sound more agressively, dirtier and thicker_" a lot more when it comes to Pulsar :P Noone does it like the master once did IMO.

[@mzeale]

Dude, Ryan! As an amateur enthusiast, I can't tell you how invaluable your approach and fill-in-the-gaps basic sound design knowledge feed my enthusiasm and understanding of this amazingly powerful creative tool. YOUR RS Videos are far and away the best instructional videos I've ever watched and bookmarked to grow as a music producer, and I can't thank you enough for taking the time to lead us forward, with a better understanding of results that would not otherwise be possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and keep making these, we appreciate you! 😎

[@scottwood6631]

Always love watching your vids. You are a great teacher!

[@NiharSavala]

Thank you Ryan & RS team for putting out these videos with detailed animations.

[@svdl3000]

I know everything of it and used it long time ago on 4,5, 8, 9, 10, 11 12th versions, but I watched this tutorial with such a great pleasure! Ryan's tutorials are always so delicious! And there's no matter if you know this - the way information explained and delivered is the greatest one. RRR - Reason, Ryan, Respect :)

[@tonescapes9673]

I will repeat that I have seen a few that have put reason 12 down,but for me,since moving from reason 4 to 12,all I can say is it's bloody amazing.cheers again to propellorheads.Big thanks to tutorials you all do

[@Caelo_music]

Great tutorials and the high res graphics make the zoom in shoots of Reasons Rack beautiful !!

[@ReasonStudios]

RIGHT?! As a video editor I'm in complete heaven with high res graphics in Reason now. I'm zooming in sometimes further than I should be just BECAUSE I CAN!!!! :) /ryan

[@HazyJ28]

I am your exact demographic for this video. Thank you

[@tommosler]

Pulsar Dual LFO works great as a trigger for Kong. You can get interesting polyrhythms this way. The key is to use square waveform. Level knob then controls velocity. It gets even more interesting when LFO 2 or Env starts to interact with LFO 1 rates and levels.

[@soundstixx852]

this guy is incredible! love the way he explains things! learned a lot! thank you!

[@SsgtHolland]

I love how Ryan always produces some cool sounding music, while explaining Reason concepts. And yes, playing with the backside of the Reason rack is still the best way to break out of producers block or delivery pressure. I bought Reason 2.5 to learn about signal flow. It has taught me so much more along the way.

[@gabrielegelfofx]

This is the power of Reason.

[@gianluigidautilia6417]

Met the Reason guys at Superbooth 23, i have been using reason from day 1. 20 years ago. Rayan as he goes through the rack was one of the reason i started to dig into reason again. Those videos are the best you can get online.

[@PKJ-Music]

ich fange tatsächlich an diese videos zu lieben. Danke dafür.

[@TheBubbaWilks]

Been playing music my whole life but started taking mixing and dub mixing seriously about 4 years ago. These videos are so well made, I return to them often as I progress. The learning part is so much fun... Cheers!

[@dometrushawkins6080]

I owe Reason and you specifically a great deal of gratitude for these wonderful learning opportunities. Thank you tremendously. D-Liberate

[@AD-Dom]

Ryan, man, this is an exceptional piece. Reading the manual made me realize I needed more. You made it un-scary and creative. Can’t wait to try it out tomorrow night.

[@mikebryant4146]

Thanks much. Now I get it! One of the best CV tutorials I’ve seen.

[@gregblue8113]

Another fantastic video - I have not experimented nearly as much as I should with CV cabling - Reason really is a bit of a dream machine for sound designers! Hopefully this means Ryan will eventually tackle a video on advanced CV routing ideas. Thanks so much for these videos, they are really inspiring!

[@ReasonStudios]

Hey Greg! If people want more cabling videos I'll certainly be making more. I always try and balance the line between the hyper-creative side of Reason (the music making part) and the hyper-advanced side of Reason. The best results happen when those two words meet, of course. Thanks for watching and commenting! :) /ryan

[@jawbeatsmusic]

More patching videos would be amazing to watch 😁

[@tonescapes9673]

Keep them coming squire.always rely on clear&easy information

[@zyxyuv1650]

I'm subscribed to around 2000 music production channels and in the past 10 years I've never seen someone make a single video about doing stuff with Reason's rack.

[@pdxfun4888]

Ryan, thank you for another insight to your vast knowledge of both creative and technical tips

[@ItsPBUH]

This man is a treasure... His videos are so dense with information and somehow I'm at the edge of my seat like I'm watching Die Hard in the mid 90s. Bravo!

[@tylersteben]

Love this video-really informative and easy to understand. Would love to see more vids on topics related to the ‘back of the rack.’

[@wizmos74]

Reason Studios you chose right man at this position.Thanks Ryan awesome tutorials you're best,many thanks,keep working !!!

[@artie]

So clear and well expressed. I totally get what your sharing. Thank you for making it easier to understand. You totally unlocked the mystery that haunted most of us. Can’t wait to get back on Pulsar!!! Reason rocks!!!

[@wadecarson3386]

I have used Reason since version 1, and I have never before noticed the "combined" CV output on Pulsar! Ryan's videos are always useful, no matter the user's experience level.

[@Marc_Angel]

its the base...

[@zebbleganubi723]

that bit blew my mind as well haha

[@StephenRybacki]

I never fail to learn something (or many things) new when I watch Ryan's videos.

[@threerecurring]

Excellent and useful tutorial. Really clear explanation and delivery. Thanks!

[@mikevytal]

Bro, thank you very much for this video! I knew about the audio routing basics (nice trick keeping the center open), but always felt intimidated by the CV routing! Thanks to you, I’m about to go have some fun with it! Cause I got the knack, to make a dope track, and when I’m done with that, I’ll report back! 🤣🤣🤣

[@SMEL]

Gratitude... ready to learn more of this now!!! tthis what really separates this daw from all the rest...

[@deanmoore7239]

Another awesome video. Thank you Ryan.

[@overseastom]

I looove the tune that's playing in the background in the first 2 mins of the video.

[@MrBaked-fb4do]

that ending tho!!! idk how i haven't noticed the inverted cv after all this time, and the combined lfo output is great i need to use that more! the possibilities are endless with reason

[@EmilMeijer]

Love these lectures so much. Glad I've chosen Reason just for these.

[@ffb7696]

Thank you so much Ryan, finally I understood what the point of a splitter is and how to wire it properly to get great stereo effects. Especially working with delay is really fun now!

[@RussDnB]

On the button, this has given me something to play with afternoon. Looking forward to the part 2. It’s so good to get this regular content from our main man again.

[@kentbyron7608]

What a skillful communicator. Helpful. Gratitude!❤️👏

[@joshuasmith7518]

Thanks Ryan! It's been a while since I played with CV. Your videos always inspire!

[@marlonblackmon202]

Awesome. Thanks for delivering the tutorials we really need. I wish you offered Reason 1:1 couses on certain topics via zoom. You would make a killing. Producers learn better being taught directly. Your tutorials are top notch but most videos on KZbin are hard to learn from.

[@soleo333]

This is the best CV lesson I’ve received! Thank you!!! Long time reason user, very happy with this kick in the right direction!! I’ve been very cautious to this point!

[@paopis]

Just beautiful! Sometimes I modulate Diva using the matrix from Europa (or Grain). That's awesome!

[@Raphoxonthebeat]

yessssss!! Thanks! Back to the Classic

[@robinminkster]

Weeeeeeee!!!!!! Thanks a bunch. I love Reason and “KZbin University”!!!

[@zander047]

Thanks for this video! You have brought me one step closer to grasping modular.

[@dominickcritelli5631]

Amazingly high quality video as always. Love learning from Ryan. You guys should put chapters in these videos though. This is not a watch once and move on type of video. It would be helpful on repeat watches to know exactly where to jump to when I need to relearn something that didn't stick to my smooth brain.

[@ReasonStudios]

You are SO right. I'll find some time to put chapters in there.

[@Chuck-Bob]

Another great vid Ryan, you've really produced a lot of good content for Reason, thanks.

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

Really informative video. I would just like to add, tab to the back of the rack also works in the Reason Rack Plug-In. 😉

[@ReasonStudios]

That can sometimes depend on the host app, though. For example in Ableton Live they use Tab to switch between their sequencer and "session view" and so it doesn't work there. Since it can be different in different apps, I stuck to always-safe option of clicking the button. But what host are you running the plugin in? I'm sure other people in that DAW would appreciate your tip! /ryan

[@bdxfhsf]

@@ReasonStudios Hey Ryan, that was a top class video. Well presented and put together with the visuals on point, all nicely knitted and easy to understand, thank you.

[@mrmaison4924]

Awesome video! More like this please. Thumbs up!

[@DeejayAfro]

This is what people need !

[@BobDaniel]

Ryan keeps the hope alive!

[@emmanuelkotei649]

Reason is the best in my opinion

[@7vensoundz851]

Much needed content. Great move reasonstudios.

[@miaroscfala]

really wish I had this video 15 years ago.

[@_CharlieHarper]

the trouble with real-life cables is the price per cable. Propellerhead Reason solved this problem for me, that's the Reason I'm with you guys :-)

[@ReasonStudios]

OMG right!? Back when I ran a commercial studio I tried to reduce the cost of real-world cables by buying connectors and bulk wire and soldering them myself but then I just bought nicer connectors and wire until it cost the same as before! :) /ryan

[@HansolJang]

this is so helpful for beginner.

[@stephenrosanelli6164]

Love these videos!

[@marcomonchi9396]

I love your videos very pro, Bros. But I think the best video Will come in the day reason release the vst3 support for the stand alone reason .... Your video diamonds and verywell made to understand the Power of Reason .... waiting for the day to come....thank you sir for all your work.....Marco Monchi Ravenna Italy

[@freshkidblaze]

My favorite thing to do in reason!

[@GlowUrbanX]

Wonderful...You know the future , your a Phsycological Fotune Teller ...Or something that Jim Morison should have been recognised for and that a Peot...Very nice video you made me creative..

[@kostyakonstantinoff]

Great tutorial!

[@peter-davidvanderstraat5991]

That group would be me!! I want to use the cables 😄

[@inonbramy]

Great video!

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Ryan I learned most of what the back of the rack By copying pre made Combinators and switching out the devices for something different.

[@dversnogi]

Очень интересно, Reason имеет огромный задел для экспериментов!

[@jordimoraguesmassanet1179]

Great video. One question: at 11:07, it looks like the amplitude of the gate impulse affects the velocity of the drum sound. Is that so? Does that imply that there isn't a single voltage threshold the pads react to? Thanks.

[@ReasonStudios]

That is a fantastic observation Jordi and you are correct in what you're seeing but there's bit of a "yes, but" answer. Allow me to explain. In the case of sending control voltage in the form of Gate Out CV to a Gate In CV then yes, the amplitude or intensity of the gate signal can be interpreted as velocity by the receiving device (if it wants to on its end, which is the case with Kong's Gate In jacks. Other Gate In jacks might not want to consider velocity, for example The Echo Delay's Trig input just wants to know if the delay should be on or off so it doesn't care about amplitude). In my video I'm showing those blips of gate CV as narrow triangles but the reality is that they're actually instant attack blips. And so yes - for Gate signals, devices can and do interpret velocity. HOWEVER, and here's why this answer wasn't me just giving you a simple "yeah": in that second example where I'm sending a continuous "curve" CV signal from Pulsar into Kong, that's not an instant blip. It's a continuous waveform and so Kong has no method by which to determine velocity and so it reacts via the threshold method that I try to visualize with that dotted line in the graphics. Sending a higher amplitude sin wave won't get you a louder Kong drum velocity because it's triggering down low on the sin wave's path just as it crosses that threshold, not based on the eventual peak amplitude of that sin wave. Does that make sense? So the simple answer is when working with Gate CV in the traditional way, yes velocity can be determined from the gate CV amplitude but when doing weirder hacks and rule-bending between gate and curve CV that isn't the case. Hope that helps! Great question!! /ryan

[@jordimoraguesmassanet1179]

@@ReasonStudios I wasn't aware that the receiving device could do so much "intelligent" processing of different types of incoming gate signal (which I've always visualised as simple pulses), but it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation!

[@jeno.javori_music]

FantasticVideo!

[@Sengin31]

Awesome :). Only thing I can think of to improve this would be a simple setup to show how to use cv + gate to mean "play this pitch at this velocity" (it's almost implied with the different amplitudes of the gate pulses shown). And perhaps tie it back to how it equates to the sequencer telling the track device what note to play (pitch) and how loud (velocity). That makes me think... any chance of a mix channel getting a cv+gate out? Essentially, so that whenever a note comes by in the sequencer, the cv gets pitch info and the gate gets velocity. That would allow the potential of a single sequencer track to control multiple devices simultaneously. You could probably do a bunch of cool stuff with it, such as triggering one or more Alligator gates as a note is played, or merging in pitch information into a filter cutoff LFO.

[@WizWordofficial]

This was a great video.

[@mattwoodman3017]

LOVE THE INSPIRATION OF RYANS VIDEOS! BTW_WHAT SONG IS PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND?? ITS SOO GOOD!! MATTIAS?? IS THAT YOUR DOING??

[@LadyNicola]

Dang. Been trying to get Redrum to talk to Kong for months and it was that simple? 😁

[@BartChilders]

Super helpful!

[@sequentia2]

Asombroso!… 😳 … 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻 … 🙋🏻‍♂️🇲🇽

[@rodoascanio]

Ryan thanks... Please, where can we learn more about control voltage?

[@DigitalCrates]

dope video! thank you!

[@abdulazizalmaa7179]

Switching to Reason asap

[@ragingoracle6239]

Need the HV jack (Hit Voltage) for my songs!

[@kameronfidanza3386]

amazing tutorial, especially for newbies like me lol

[@zhanmr.6996]

What is the song in the backround at the start? We want it!

[@MrKwilliams71]

Thanks Ryan

[@flockytheram]

I thought reason was a graphic design suite. After being in one of the live sessions you guys have, I can see that is not the case.

[@fiddlestickzmuzik]

Please please please for the love of all things can we get Props to give us more than one MIDI sync out port in MIDI preferences...WHY ARE WE STILL ASKING FOR THIS IN 2021..?? every other DAW lets you send MIDI clock to as many MIDI outs as you have on your MIDI interface. Why does Reason only allow us to select one port even though we might have a MIDI interface with 8 outs..????? I have been screaming and asking for this for 10 years nearly and it's ridiculous it still hasn't been fixed.

[@sonicnurse]

Problem with Reasons take on CV has always been that it does not go up to eleven

[@Takaya_Hyogo]

Great!!😁

[@alfredwatkins]

❤️

[@vadimshevchenko8227]

Ryan ♥️

[@MrMallum]

I ♥ Reason

[@nebstaism]

Vst 3 support in reason asap please it’s way overdue!!!!!

[@leslie1526]

Still no Apple M support

[@vipinakon2355]

👌👌🔥

[@thehorsehospital666]

great !!

[@movement6514]

Why Reason is superior

[@TheFjMartinmusic]

Love Reason ,in my friends group,my nick is Reason,but i abandoned for Ableton,pelase Session view and come back

[@ROB1BEATS]

Good.

[@f1rstp3rsonngaming96]

ryan rhymes :)

[@KennyLauderdale]

I'll have to spend time playing with all of these crazy modulators... Sad part is... I'll have to spend so much time LEARNING and less time CREATING

[@ReasonStudios]

On the plus side, I guarantee that while you're learning you'll create little cool things that turn into creations! It's the nice little consequence of experimenting with something new - you end up with something new! :) /ryan

[@nathanwilliams4423]

Wow!!!