Reason 13: Sidechain, Gain, and Stereo Tool Walk-Through

[@DeejayAfro]

Also, All Other company's don't have a Ryan Harlin ! this is the main Reason, why reason is so loved, the way of explaining things this guy has is unbeatable !

[@hankheegaye4490]

Ryan is the GOAT. I miss the funny videos we had back in the days tho.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

He was the one making and recording the videos back when James Bernard was around and when He left Ryan went from not only those roles but the public face of Reason Studios. He got to his position because of his hard work so good for Him. He has My respect.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@hankheegaye4490 Those Hank video where Written and recorded and produced by Ryan. Hank was paid voice actor but all He did was read Ryans Script.

[@hankheegaye4490]

@@HOLLASOUNDS Thé voice over was hilarious.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@hankheegaye4490 Its had its time Frank went off to narrate Wildlife documentarys for Discovery, and other networks I believe.

[@jerzboybeats]

Wow this makes me understand side chaining even more. The fact that you can flip the channel rack and use like you’re in an analog world is awesome

[@Bokehstbuzzkill]

It's always been Reason's greatest strength to me. I feel like I'm learning organically in what feels like real studio.

[@jerzboybeats]

@@Bokehstbuzzkill even to the SSL mixing board emulation

[@7vensoundz851]

@@Bokehstbuzzkill The most underrated gift Ill always thank Reason for.

[@LeonKorteweg]

Wow reason has come so far the past few years. Development is slow but VERY consistent. And these video's are super helpful and fun to watch. Thanks Ryan 👊🏻

[@PhilipGarciaReacts]

That sidechain tool has got me crazy!!! Finally!

[@PeterAries]

Reason13 looks to be one of the greatest upgrades of any previous Reason versions thanks to all of these very well thought through devices, instruments and workflow changes. I'm happy I chose Reason as my main daw since V1. Thank you Reason Studios & Ryan!

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Yes they apear to of been listening to all the feedback and requests from reason 12 critics. They have put alot of effort into the new UI.

[@deafmouse-]

They didn’t listen to us at all.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@deafmouse- Well they cant please everyone.

[@deafmouse-]

@@HOLLASOUNDS let me rephrase, they didn’t list to most of us and brought nothing we asked for years….. no vst midi out, no track grouping in sequencer still, no folding notes or midi clip looping or scales in the seq…… I’m amazed you can say they listened to all out requests

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@deafmouse- I said Reason 12 critics, We know they took years to implement stuff but many of the requests from 12 users, and implemented them in 13.

[@ueberlicht_]

Best DAW imo

[@barrakingbeatz7794]

Still needs a few little things 1 offline processing 2 retrospective recording 3 a way to save automation blocks

[@coldskoolbeatz]

Reason is a DAW? Could've fooled me.

[@MatthewParkerTunes]

Been doing the exact same thing as Stereo Tool with Kilohearts Comb Filter on stereo mode for quite some time! It's a good way to get *some* stereo width. Glad it's coming in an even more convenient package here and to all Reason users!

[@TheValueOfN]

Kilohearts Comb Filter is free, so it's readily available to all Reason users.

[@MatthewParkerTunes]

@@TheValueOfN You’re right but this will be in the software already so even easier

[@TheValueOfN]

@@MatthewParkerTunes I'd rather not pay for things that I already have. There should be more than option when upgrading: I'd like an option where I can choose to forego devices for a reduced price.

[@DNGMaestro]

By far the best new features on R13.

[@F-Andre]

Ryan is now i such a great shape, like the new Reason :)

[@Caelo_music]

These tools are amazing. This is also the first time I see visual feedback from the device when using CV routing in the back. e.g. the small dot over the X-Fader or the stereo width display in stereo tool. I wish there would be more visual feedback like this when using CV cables. Great to see it now.

[@photophob]

YES! Super handy little helpers ... honestly, i see myself using ALL new devices in R13 a lot. Very useful update for my needs. Can't wait 😎

[@spinup7860]

Thanks for these tools! I tried ableton recently and reason is just so much more fun!! It also works better for my looping workflow

[@DeejayAfro]

The thing is, that there's company's that have all that, but not as simple and intuitive as Reason, Damn, you win always guys, ALWAYS !

[@pmascaros]

Eres un grande, Ryan. Menudo trabajazo te estás pegando para promocionar Reason 13. ¡¡Estoy deseando que llegue el 13 para bajármelo!! You're amazing, Ryan. What a great job you're doing promoting Reason 13. I can't wait for the 18th to download it!

[@JAEFORDbeats]

These are what I've been most excited for. As an avid user of the Pump RE, Sidechain Tool looks VERY enticing!

[@beansfordummies]

So happy that you guys made more useful tools for workflow. Huge shoutout to Sonicpump doing us so good for so many years! Congrats team

[@zodiac909]

Thanks for this tutorial! I have not used Reason in over 10 years but nice to see that they simplified the sidechaining process!

[@ohcibi]

That thing indicating modulation by the backside CV input in Gain Tool: Need that for all devices with backside CV inputs!!

[@robtronik]

I’m really happy and excited for this release. Well done Propellerheads!! ❤

[@NozUrbina]

I've been waiting for Sidechain tool for YEARS and you excited my expectations 🎉❤🎉

[@NeilDonkin]

Pump is a free Rack Extension that does the same thing

[@somuchfortalent]

@@NeilDonkin Pump is great. But I'm sold on sidechain tool. Reason took it to another level.

[@deafmouse-]

@@somuchfortalenthow does one take volume ducking to the next level? It does the exact same thing as all side chain tools

[@ontheruntonowhere]

@@deafmouse- No sidechain tools offer three trigger modes with EQ, ducking curves and CV controls. I bet you also complain that all distortions and compressors are the exact same. @daftmouse

[@NeilDonkin]

@@somuchfortalent Yeah, I agree. The aditional features in the sidechain tool are fantastic

[@mistersweatbandmusic]

So glad to have a sum to mono button now. We need a built in DeEsser next.

[@zelbarnap]

Yes DeEsser please!

[@mimikova390]

I understand wanting one built in but I will never give up Sibilance by waves. sofa king good.

[@mistersweatbandmusic]

@@mimikova390 it is a good one but I hate how Waves always changes its licenses. I have Ovox and they always do that

[@mistersweatbandmusic]

@@mimikova390 it is good. I wish Waves didn’t change their licenses all the time. I have Ovox and that has happened to me.

[@OTR392]

RYAN! RYAN! RYAN! RYAN! Love your videos man! awesome!!!

[@rawsunmusic]

Some of these tools I already have the equivalent to in either rack or vst form… but I’m still eager to test these new ones out. Who knows maybe they’ll truly replace my other choices. 👍🎶

[@samuhoglund4928]

This is so good in depth video! Ryan's videos are always perfect and full of inspiration and a layman like me can also understand. 😅

[@audiomon]

Very well-thought-out utilities!

[@TrevorOuellette]

That stereo tool is seriously impressive!

[@johnisrael5183]

man that panning on the Gain tool......NICE!!!!!

[@ProdbearUK]

Super useful

[@derrickjhines6215]

Epic! Thanks for this; I never use side chain effects because I never quite understood, That will now change. 🤓

[@AdjacentGander]

These tools look amazing. Love the depth of the sidechain tool and the x-fade ability of the gain tool 💯

[@Caelo_music]

great devices! really hope the "tool" devices become a small family and even more are added over time. They are so simple yet useful.

[@_CharlieHarper]

THIS IS COOOOL !

[@atmadsen]

Excellent additions - particularly the sidechain send function. These will speed up my workflow considerably. Thank you for the great description Ryan. Big fan of your production values in regards to your videos.

[@audian666]

again baffled by what i see! i can't wait for next tuesday!!

[@courtlaw1]

I didn't know what reason 13 would be and I will say I love it. I can't wait to see what they have planned for the 13 release cycle.

[@FredKennedyIV]

Very nice additions

[@adamwisz]

SOLD

[@_20nine_]

Stereo tool is so rad! Love it, can't wait! only a few more days now

[@patwebb882]

Shhhiii These Reason Studio Guys Are Something Serious Y’all🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@FirstTouchBand]

Ryan ist the goat host out there, very entertaining and pro, his musicality is top notch. The Stereotool got me, it makes a cheap sound sound expensive, holly shit, I need that tool!

[@MarcoRaaphorst]

Thanks. Super nifty stuff!

[@zajecer]

Amazing video !! Thank you Reason !

[@crystalcvt]

I appreciate that they're not trying to say these things are something they aren't. they're not new techniques or approaches that you can't currently do, but they're very convenient. I don't know if I'll be upgrading, but I'd definitely consider these if they were available as RE's

[@MusicaMercy]

Interesting, great!

[@Avalahwava]

Hope we can get stem separation on the 13.1 update don’t seem to be happening on the new release

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Thats what I want, If they did that it would show they are ready to be a competitor DAW to the more faster growing in popularity DAWs.

[@overseastom]

Sidechain Tool: 1:23 Gain Tool: 9:12 Stereo Tool: 13:04

[@madwurmz]

Very cool! It would’ve been awesome if the sidechain would allow drawing multiple gates into one measurement, allowing for matching asymmetric bassdrum rhythms without trigger.

[@TBX12]

Well damn, i've made some old school hardtechno tracks back in the days with Reason 4.5, but this made me really think about getting back in the game. Let's get back to making some Chris Liebing-esk pumping beats with sidechaintool, fuck i want to get back to producing again!

[@lokologico]

I'm very xcited for Reason 13. Bummed no MPE yet, but I'm sure its on their radar.... I hope!

[@Rome.Monroe]

That Stereo Tool must be insane for vocal recording.

[@jasonjbundy]

Stereo Tool is very interesting and I will get a ton of use out of it with my analog gear! It did remind me of Voxengo’s Stereo Touch; which is a pseudo stereo effect that is also mono compatible (and free). These utilities are a welcome addition to the rack!

[@JoshVanNoord]

Combinator patches: *.cmb .. Some are effects and some are instruments .. well I'd like a way to convert back and forth in case I saved it while it was an effect but now I want it to be an instrument. Had some success with a hex editor .. managed to make the FX icon on it be an [i] but it still browses only effects after I've dropped it over an instrument combi :)

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

I normally do pulsing ducking manually recorded modulation, and just copy paste that, but I use Pump Like.

[@plusheldergod]

Is there a way to dock the new (floating) browser window into the existing browser window on the left?

[@Vi_Ta_Lee]

Two things. 1. People stopped the video to search where this Benassi patch from. 2. I need this update.

[@krissavagelive]

Reason Studios cooked with this one 🔥

[@touchthatdial]

Great video again Ryan, thank you. So the Gain Tool X-Fade and Router options essentially put an Elektron Octatrack crossfader into the rack, yes? That could be a lot of fun if you MIDI map those two crossfaders to a physical crossfader on a MIDI controller...

[@bomubomuboi]

Ryan hook up a pulsar to the frequency knob of Stereo Tool now!! New iridescent chorus effect

[@pixelbender5897]

Decades for side-chain to show up, this is good. I filled out bug reports for the media browser several times and still have update problems when i add new material to my sounds folder - i dearly hope this has been fixed, that is why i switched to Reaper DAW and now use Reason as a VST rarely. In Reason my VST windows disappear when I click on other areas of the screen, drives me absolutely nuts. Why on earth does it do that? "keep window on top" doesn't work..... Appreciate YOU though, very much....thank you

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Side chain has been available for over a decade in Reason you just send audio or a LFO signal into the M class compressor or M class Equaliser.

[@pixelbender5897]

@@HOLLASOUNDS Right, but check out the tutorials online, 11-20 minute videos showing how to do it. In Ableton and several other DAWs it take seconds as it's a feature available in every track. In Reaper I route any track into another track, taking seconds. No dealing with TAB and plugging in cables, etc.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@pixelbender5897 Yes thats a good point but thats what Reason was bassed off, which was Analog gear and with that comes the more realistic system to route things. They could of made some Combinators tht could do it.

[@Kaitain]

I wonder what a stereo widened banjo sounds like

[@2BMATHYK]

I love the background music till 1:24 , who made it?

[@ManmadhanKesavan]

That was a dreamy acoustic guitar sound. What guitar was that? Love it

[@fiddlestickzmuzik]

4 more days FTW !!!!!

[@JonnyJericko]

Please make a volume control (pre-fader ) on the audio track itself on the sequencer panel , so that you don 't have to go into the combinator ....And please make it possible to turn off the project in the background so that you don't have to constantly download the project and wait for it to load .....

[@aw93053]

why does it say "sidchain" (without the e) on the front panel?

[@papi.nando.9]

Reason 13🎉

[@glennfrederick8521]

Hello, Adding the Sidechain to the send effects is great but what if I want to use the kick and the snare at the same time as my sidechain triggers how would I do that? This has always been an issue in Reason?

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Hi Can you make at minimum 13 different Combinators, with great desighn and cool sound design techniques using these new devices? Show us dirrectly with Combinators exactly how We can use these.

[@ruslanr.6171]

at first I've thought "meh" looking at those 3 devices because I already have same or better tools as vsts. Now I can see myself using them because they are deep enough and still simple and useful. They feel not like "devices again" but QOL improvement.

[@watchclark6482]

Very nice stuff. Did I miss the part where he talks about the Gain functionality of the Gain Tool?

[@dougroyce5784]

9:12

[@watchclark6482]

@@dougroyce5784 So... it's just another volume knob in the chain? I get all the other stuff, but... what's the advantage of having this gain control in and of itself?

[@dougroyce5784]

Instrument patch or sample too low. Thing is, many of us already have a device like it. I personally have a few. @@watchclark6482

[@paulsarodh5460]

Suprb 🤗😊😍💞🤗👍

[@ninjasharkstudiosandmerch]

You look great Ryan! If you don't mind me asking, how did you lose the weight? I'm struggling lol.

[@MattandHolly920]

5:00 Can you control the trigger threshold for the sidechain input with a dial instead of the mouse? If anyone knows please let me know.

[@15peter20jo]

Mclass mastering suite plus combinator can already do all of this.

[@amalshakur]

I don't think that's the point. You could do all of this IRL before Reason. It's about streamlining and upping the quality.

[@zelbarnap]

QOL is worth it

[@ThomasTornevall]

Trying to figure out how in the world this works with redrum and the compressor tool.

[@Daring2Win]

A NORMAL way for swing quantize? HUi support for old Pro Tools compatible interfaces?

[@specialightsound]

Will we have more exporting sample & bit rates.

[@Anci3ntRobot]

me thinking this one gonna be a simple video : turned out its another classic Reason video .

[@entyce66]

Reason is like the ex you want back😊❤

[@GRIFTYRODRIGUEZ]

How does stereo tool sound on high transient sounds like drum breaks??

[@raedius_music]

can we get a hide instrtument utility function so i can have my favourite instruments at hand easier as this program bulks up

[@mcmattt1]

why do aux sends get sent straight to the master instead of going back through channel like q real mixers?

[@Artek604]

Does Sidechain Tool's *Send* mode works well when only ducking the low-end? Filtering typically shifts phase, so cancelling of the original sound via send wouldn't normally work. But maybe there's some clever compensation used?

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Send the signal out of the side chain to a compressor input or to a EQ and then it will duck.

[@Artek604]

@@HOLLASOUNDSI don't think you understand how send mode works... It plays the signal that's sent to it with a gain proportional to send amount and IN OPPOSITE PHASE to cancel out the original sound. For this to work, the return signal needs to be audio-rate accurate. My concern is that if the return is e.g. low passed to only affect the bass, then low pass filters always shift phase a bit, thus disturbing the accuracy. I was wondering if they took that into account in any way.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@Artek604 Well I do side chain style ducking sound manually modulation using a M class Equaliser. I suppose you could go onto the website and look at the full list of what each device does.

[@RV3RS]

To be completely honest we need more players and new daw skins I’m sure we all have vsts that do these same things I’m mostly excited about the browser

[@schipbreukeling]

9:02 Wait you can hide sendknobs in the mixer. Like 5 on top of the faders. take my money :)

[@ragimvideo]

why don't we have "playback from the last position" in Reason ?, similar to how it is done in Logic and Studio One

[@RomanHaussener]

There is already an option in the preferences. General -> Return to last start position on stop

[@ragimvideo]

@@RomanHaussenerThank you. I didn't know that

[@monkeyplusplus]

Ohhhhhhhhh the sidechain tool in send mode just sends a phase inverted signal to the master bus? Weeeeeeird, I'm gonna have to try that. I usually do this by adding a compressor to a bus and sending whatever I want ducked to that.

[@robbiemichaels2347]

That stereo tool is insane - I'm not a huge fan of the whole of the update because I still feel that some basics have not yet been addressed.

[@ramikhandakji3710]

How could you use the new tools to create Anyma type sound cuts? Be gr8 if you could show how these common modern sounds are made.

[@busywl69]

I'll get 13 when its $69 for the upgrade. I have enough synths and effects. The housekeeping updates are what the money is worth. The tagging features. Now fix Mimix!

[@AllenNewMann]

Wow! I'm the first to comment on this post.

[@tothefinlandstation]

Surprised the gain tool doesn't have a R only and L only option (sometimes taking only the one side and sending it to both outputs is a better option than summing them together and sending it to both outputs when you want mono).

[@nueschi]

🔥😎

[@taplubambhos2869]

Can we buy all this without upgrading? The browser is fucked

[@XeloX58]

I would’ve liked reason to have mpe by now. Then I’d buy it!

[@cla.pmusic]

Merecia recycle 3 mkIII

[@zakaroonetwork777]

If You are Local to S.F. Could You Please offer us Some Reason Lecture Classes at “Pyramind Studios “ S.F.

[@chakko007]

Rule #1 in marketing today: Get someone totally freaked out and neurotic as a presenter.

[@guerriyero]

We need a professional eq and a multiband compressor

[@spinup7860]

Would be nice, TdR nova is free a vst for that if you dont have it yet. Would be better in the rack tho

[@ryanjohnjackson]

I've always been baffled by sidechain but funny enough, the frequency way to use it is how I'd want to use it. Well, an additional way. I will use the other ways as well.

[@reddenstudio]

4 more days to R13! I wonder if I can get in 3.5 days by using a VPN out of Japan. :D