Friktion Modeled Strings: Getting Started in the Reason Rack

[@Dangerousdaze]

The team at Reason Studios come up with some of the most imaginative musical tools out there - and they don't just sound great but they're also a ton of fun to use. I just decided to come back to it and I can't believe how much it's come on since its early days. Thanks, Ryan, for another inspiring tutorial!

[@BennyCalloway]

I have all all of their string RE, Refills and instruments but this is truly what I've looking for

[@nobless_oblige_dignitas]

Reason is the most useful and FUN collection of audio tools available on the market for the price.

[@marcom.]

This new Rack Extension is amazing. Congrats, people at Reason Studios, you did an awesome job!

[@Drfresh1402]

Been using this for a week. Purchased now too. My final verdict? You will not know the power of this plugin until you break it in. It can do anything you want to do with strings. It’s like dialing in reverb, but you are dialing in the exact sound of the strings you want.

[@andrewmack4829]

I’m excited to get this when I get off work. Reason’s DAW just makes the most sense to me and Ryan has been instrumental in teaching how to use the program. We need more “Ryan’s Quick Tips”.

[@AndreyAtapin]

I'm surprised how decisions made by the Reason team a decade ago build more powerful framework with every new release. In love with Reason since 2004

[@Truthasvictim]

I can't help but salivate over this, sonics and control over so many aspects make it totally seductive to me. Plus, kudos to Ryan for putting together such a concise and musical introduction.

[@ScottcurtsMusic]

This has got to be the most expressive and deep string vst I've ever laid my hands on in my studio. I'm still amazed. And I've spent some $$$$ on sample libraries over and over. But, I'm just amazed!!

[@alimamriba641]

The way you make every tutorial easy, it's amazing... Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, reason really make things easy. I'm good because of you guys propellerhead.

[@presskeytoplay]

The best rack created since Europa and Grain. If this is in Reason 12, it will be hard not to leave 10 to go to 12 xD (Especially if you add video player support, or at least, a sync with VLC or other video players)

[@ojmsn]

Exactly the one thing I’ve been asking for for years.

[@hygotron]

YES

[@atropiperio]

ITS NOT

[@cajunchampagne2469]

When i got the email and seen this vid, I ran over to my PC and bought it immediately, and i must say i am HAPPY AF with my purchase lol WTG Reason!!!!

[@michaelgrijak8623]

The great Ryan Harlan taking care of business as usual!

[@mmmusicc777]

they out done them self I've been hoping for an instrument like this for 15 years

[@jaivkoltun4948]

This is truly inspiring, way beyond the best samples, playing with both hands for maximum expression, so lifelike. . . I´m in. . .

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Wow I loved reasons strings as they where but this is stunning.

[@alainterieur794]

I absolutely love Friktion!

[@aero2graph]

Nice one!

[@MikeTheSoundGuyDotCA]

This looks INCREDIBLE.

[@Drfresh1402]

This is one sick plugin. Just demoed. I’ll be getting it in the next 3 days.

[@dimi86g]

really nice explantion about how strings work i really appreciate it

[@BenedictRoffMarsh]

I have been working on doing quite a lot of this Articulation using Europa & Parsec for Brass & Strings for many albums now but this looks so much better suited overall.

[@dekoningtan]

Will Reason ever do Modeled Winds / Brass and such? That'd be awesome.

[@ysink]

Seaboard Support would ROCK with this thing!!!

[@timmacdonald8141]

this is the coolest freaking thing all of us have been looking for. a realnlive string player. cept they also made 80 other kick butt instruments. this js 2020s best instrument vst......probably the best instrument in 8 years. I love it. it gives slides and staccato and errors...and plucking and articulatiom and its about the realist string playing program ever.

[@FUTURESTRADINGUNI]

omg that pluck sequence at 6:28

[@cominup85]

I just love string sounds so this announcement was quite exciting for me

[@muxima2004]

Damn! This is what I've been looking for, it's a wow!!!!💗 I'm in love with it. Thank you very much

[@bforeman1]

Might be their best RE yet!

[@dougroyce5784]

Between this an Algorithm it’s hard to decide.

[@pepinillosazucarados6743]

finally physical modelling is gaining presence in the vst world !!!

[@hysyanzrecords]

"is the finger doing the plucking or are they smacking their wood up against it" Now why did I giggle at that. 😁

[@shitmandood]

Because you have a dirty mind.

[@Triosounds]

I love how they managed to add the human touch to it. With very little automation, it sounds as if someone is actually playing. It takes a bit of learning though, to create that realistic sound.

[@atomictraveller]

and short examples not too much ;)

[@Professor_Pat]

You sold me.

[@SefNitty]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀 lets gooooooo!!!! #ReasonGang

[@gatorgoforth3097]

Can’t wait to hear what you do with this.

[@SefNitty]

@@gatorgoforth3097 this gonna be my next upload

[@g.s3550]

Sefnitty!! #TheReasonGod 🤘🏾💯

[@SefNitty]

@@g.s3550 💯🤘🏾

[@wesheriveaux9325]

Awesome starting at 6:15 OMG

[@maus3454]

Fantastic instrument. Well done Reason!!!!!!!

[@usedusermoser]

I have a feeling the MPE support is coming in Reason as this is perfect to play with my roli.

[@ldandco]

Well, I actually got the opposity feeling after watching this video, when they explicitly tell you, that you don't need MPE instruments to get the same level of expression You only need the mod wheel, to achieve that level of expression, which almost every single regular MIDI has included nowadays

[@usedusermoser]

electronicbits sure, just like they have said you don’t need VST’s ;). I guess you haven’t tried any MPE controller yet which btw has just recently became the standard and that’s to make the mod wheel obsolete.

[@RussDnB]

I was just thinking, this is crying out for MPE

[@ldandco]

@@usedusermoser have in fact tried the roli and is awful to play, if you are used to keyboards and who said you don't need VSTs ? first time i've heard of that ;) have tried the expressive e as well... meh If you've got an Android tablet, you can connect it to your PC as a MIDI instrument, download a MPE software and you will get very very similar functionality that those new modules are giving you... for a fraction of the cost.

[@SIRROBERTTHEKEYTARMINATOR]

Man I hope so!

[@rcssaxby]

Wow this looks incredible.

[@wesheriveaux9325]

I definitely need this for one of my songs

[@constantismedia857]

just AMAZING !!! Love you guys!

[@UltimateMoralizer]

This rack looks really good. I’m thinking of getting it.

[@weststarr2046]

Ooow...my goodness, this CRAZY AWESOME 👈🏾🧢!!!! The 8th symphony of REASON RACKS RE..🎩😆

[@jeanbedo]

Great video !

[@bigfarma6757]

This is incredible !

[@johnmorga]

Sickkkkkkkkk. Screaming distorted lead guitar. If this isn't the fastest way to channel our fallen Eddy Van Halen (RIP), I'm not sure what is. Drop the Friktion in a combinator with the Scream 4 distortion. Set Friktion to Hybrid Fretless / pluck and set the Scream 4 to Distortion. Then experiment with the Vibrato and the Glide on the Friktion along with the Scream's P1, P2, and Body knobs. Even the Scream's Auto knob (auto-wah) is awesome. I've been searching for this for a long time. The Harmonics on the Friktion is also insane.

[@andifeel_for7529]

This is good and cool! Thank you

[@fabiofazzi6720]

Amazing... it’s what I am looking for

[@MatthewJ.Tinney]

This is GREAT!!!!!

[@Rome.Monroe]

Now this is exciting!

[@VANDYKEDAN]

How is Reason Studio NOT the most Creative DAW of them ALL?!!!! 😲

[@PhylaMedia]

Because bitwig exists. Try out the grid. This is where creativity lives.

[@ButterflyCrash]

@@PhylaMedia Wrong. DAWs are there to support your creativity. For you it's Bitwig, for many users it's Live, for me and others it's Reason.

[@PhylaMedia]

Butterfly Crash , the comment was how is reason not the most creative DAW. Yes the semi modular nature of reason is creative from the aspect of the daw. The grid is very creative. The devs at bitwig gave users a playground. Node base synthesis that works with bigwigs modularity is pretty damn creative. Sure the rest of bitwig is a rehash of what ableton has been doing. But Reason hasn’t added an original feature in quite a while. And don’t even say players. I don’t want to automate making music. Reason has been trying to catchup with the other DAWs for years. And with the last few updates, they’ve gotten desperate for more users, implementing features that abandon their core users and attract those of other DAWs. If reason continued to be creative and innovative they never would have lost the users they are trying to get back.

[@ButterflyCrash]

@@PhylaMedia I get where you're coming from. But still, your creative workflow may not be like others' creative workflow and I think we know it was a rhetorical question (it's a comment about Reason on a Reason video). Btw, the node based approach may be on a modern level, but it's not new. Just think of NI Reaktor. Personally I'm not interested in that too much. For me it's a creativity blocker. I just want to make music my way and I've always found my way back to Reason, because of it's compact and modular nature and the way it simulates an "endless" rack. Don't get me wrong, Bitwig is super cool and it's your favorite DAW, that's perfect - you found what you were looking for. And just like you and me any other artist has to find it on their own.

[@WARDISWARD]

@@PhylaMedia Where feedback loops are restricted to the bufer size lol , iow you can't build phasers or karplus strong algoritms in the the grid becasuue of this restriction You need a 1 unit sample feedback for algortims that rely on feedback ( like filters , phasers etc...) , thank god there is serious software like reaktor and max msp

[@aresoltero]

Congratulations for the fantastic work you did in Fraktion. The UI is truly intuitive and easy to use. Although I have a question which can become also a suggestion. Is there any way to change the scales in microtonal modes? For people like me (we are millions) who produce western music as well as world / ethnic this addition could be a fantastic tool in our hands. An instrument so expressive like this I found it's really a shame to stay limited inside the borders of the western music living out the rest of the globe.

[@Joey_Headset]

Very cool video.

[@СтаниславР-в7и]

I Love Reason. Reason of my Love ? It's simple and it's perfect

[@bitegoatie]

This looks really good. Thanks for the video and thanks to the company for doing a real synth instrument and not another damned ROMploid one-trick cash cow. When they put their minds to it, they're still great developers. There has been real progress here, despite the silly name change. We're getting on a bit of a roll now. Props to RS for another good rack tool.

[@kingpinronin9223]

I like it. However, having bought individual REs from Reason in the past only to have them become a part of the mainline Reason/Suite a year or two later makes me hesitant to buy another individual RE... I don't want to end up paying twice for something in a future upgrade.

[@hamtramckchronicles]

Yes, but you still get the use of it while it's not a part of the Suite. Reason studios pricing structure is very fair. I own Suite 11. Suite 11 has several instruments in it that I bought when they were individual paid RE's. Am I upset that they bundled instruments that I paid for into Suite 11? No, because I still got to use them for all that time that they were NOT a part of any suite. The Reason Studios Value for Money is among the highest in the music industry considering what you get for that money. The only other company that comes close is Native Instruments IMHO.

[@BenedictRoffMarsh]

If you have all/enough of those things you don't need to be in the Suite path, just use the Reason Normal path.

[@hamtramckchronicles]

@@BenedictRoffMarsh I didn't have ALL of them, just some of them, so I calculated that my upgrade price from Reason 10 Standard to Reason 11 Suite was well worth it, so I went for it. I do not regret it. I'm a Reason user for life. Good people.

[@kingpinronin9223]

It is my main DAW, for sure, but, because of this uncertainty, I go with VSTs before REs. If I'm on the fence about purchasing an RE, I'll just wait to see if it will be part of suite in the next update or so. I'm not disparaging Reason as a product, but... Been burned a few times in purchases, so, this one can wait.

[@Truthasvictim]

@@kingpinronin9223 I'm with you, but man, Fiiktion looks like it's on another planet in terms of having a string instrument that you can play that's really convincing. For the most part, I can;t stand any samplers for strings. I just find they all sound so wooden and lacking in any vitality. I've not bothered going from 10 to 11 yet, but I'm also unsure I can resist this thing given the amount of real time controls you have and its sonic properties.

[@DionteBOOMstudio]

Yea this is impressive.

[@nishantnerurkar402]

Loved it!! ❤️❤️

[@exclusivetommy5678]

Reasons the best digital by far! Looking for the Reason 12 release for 2021 - Lets kick ass !!!

[@cubeuhhgaming5034]

Love youreason guys

[@KnzoVortex]

Looks great! Definitely a well thought out instrument. Are there plans in the future to have coupling of resonating bodies? (like AAS chromaphone, where one can feed into the other, or they simply play in parallel) something like that will be able to exponentially multiply the sound design possibilities of something like this. Thanks!

[@MartotheMartian]

Excellent! Must have

[@mrkevboto]

These videos are as funny as they are informative. Now I know how to write true crime drama themes 🤣

[@BrandNWMN]

Beautiful!

[@RealmsOfThePossible]

"911 what's your emergency?" "I've done it again, I've done it again...I've bought another rack extension"

[@MR.SKANDAL0121]

😂😂

[@GloveBunniesVideos]

Man, I always forget about that Combinator!

[@HazyJ28]

This.... This actually looks better than IL's Sakura 😍

[@ashleygustafsson1586]

This... Is awesome!

[@kuhliloach8842]

I'd like to pause at 1:14 and just talk about something for a moment. I own lots strings scattered about. And I'm sure Friktion is a wonderful instrument. But something is really concerning to me. Reason's core tools and UI for sequencing, locating, and organizing string instruments and patches has remained mostly ignored for years now. Yet here we are with another instrument for sale. But then the launching of Ableton in this video instead of Reason. A DAW I don't own that Reason is implying be used for sequencing. Gotta say it guys, no matter how good Friktion is, I'm shaking my head here.

[@ezrashanti]

Reason vst is great. They gave up on being a daw. Features too weak compared to competitors.

[@DJPiEssE]

@@ezrashanti agree Ezra, and it's not a coincidence they are launching Reason Rack in Ableton and marketizing it...that's the roadmap in Propeller to my understanding. Question is now: why i should pay for a Reason sequencer? Just launch it as stack of instruments lowering the price ;)

[@yaBoyRome]

@@ezrashanti weak? You must be a noob lol

[@BigClaudeGaming]

You guys should make one for flutes.

[@LandOfBits]

this sounds really good and i don't dislike the UI ...

[@suadcokljat1045]

I'm impressed! Yamaha VL1 on stereoids ;-)

[@84legit]

Hella impressed!!

[@gwugluud]

Who knows why I've seldom looked up any Reason tutorials, lol. I guess because adulting and therefore not a ton of free time to investigate my hobby of making noises to much of a useful degree. So, now I think I have a less vague idea of what a "Combinator" is. Now for clarifying to myself why a couple of the racks are seemingly redundant mixers and audio channels, and why would I need them, when there's already a fantastic SSL desk sim right there. This strings synth looks great. I'm not even into strings, but I'm now GASing for it, go figure. I did work out what the "players" are, and am stunned with their usefulness. I need to get the "chords and scales" one. What havoc I could make while dialing in random settings just to see how whack things can get, lol.

[@cubeuhhgaming5034]

Awesome song. 1st one

[@Dogboy73]

Wow! I'm all over this. Amazing. Will it be part of the Suite? As the 'Reasons' to go that package are getting warmer & warmer ;-)

[@ReasonStudios]

Glad you're excited! Friktion is not a part of Suite though. Cheers! -Stefan

[@bandersong4650]

Reason Studios should be

[@Artek604]

Damn, that's pretty tempting! Don't like the look of it (colours) but it sound lovely and very powerful! :o

[@JanSandahl]

Sounds pretty good, at least in brief chunks like this.

[@cubeuhhgaming5034]

Would really love to see more ethnic hand drum percussion drum kit added as well as maybe although I did notice that after purchasing all the sounds that are available and the reason that I didn’t notice that most of the sounds that was basically looking for are there if you do it just sounds like I noticed piano and guitar and violin and even saxophone sounding since which may have been based off of those SMS in the first place but call Adderall not sure but I did notice which we get enough we can get those sound but it would be nice to see maybe another sound kids added that just has the sound as a default as brass saxophone violin classicalKusic guitar electric guitar or added in one or maybe a few more sound packs I would easily buy them without thinking twice I find your app to be the easiest to understand easiest to get things done I feel touchscreen with music is awesome I’m so happy that you guys made this up

[@Motor-City_Ben-Diesel]

Amazing!!!!!

[@ShelLuser]

Now imagine adding Polar behind this one ;) Oh wait, I don't have to imagine, that's what I did and well... it's as awesome as it looks :)

[@sandnerdaniel]

Looks promising. Is it really modeling the sound or modifying samples? Good presentation by the way

[@brane32x32]

Hope to get it with Reason 12 Suite

[@KingGrio]

Although I love the concept: a savvy Europa user can basically achieve the same sounds with a combinator and some careful matrix routing and sound design

[@CarlitoBTS]

I hope these sounds he creates with the effects and players in this video are in the patches folder. 😁

[@Meteotrance]

i definitly buy this for the expressive solo effect, but please released a real Woodwind and Horn based modeling stuff !!!

[@brianmi40]

Looking forward to Fricktion, and what else, in Reason 12?

[@rainbowkittycat627]

I'm obsessed with the sound at min 1:00, how did you make it?

[@BootlegBil]

Banjo reveal = 8:52 approx! For a split second. (Tuesday chat going, 'ah', wishing for more!) - Could I get a 'resonator-banjo' hybrid? Or other hybrids?

[@user_i.d]

SOLD 🔨

[@mcmike89]

Music is infinite! :D

[@nuvaboy]

The next stream's gonna be about Friktion, isn't it? --,

[@ReasonStudios]

It is!

[@julianokhoshaba1]

Do I need reason rack to play friktion or can I just play friktion in my cubase as vst with out reason rack ?

[@hallobinn112]

👍 Ryan

[@stephentrott]

What a fantastic instrument. Amazing video as ever. Is it a paid extension of a part of 11?

[@ReasonStudios]

Hey Stephen, this is a separately available Rack Extension in our shop. /ryan

[@stephentrott]

@@ReasonStudios thanks ryan. Worth the pennies I'd say!

[@Sol_Keez]

I have Reason Lite Rack, I want to be sure I can use it in there if I purchase this rack extension?

[@daffycarter8390]

Yeah reason 12 is coming

[@anupjsebastian]

One of the devs (Mattias) confirmed that it will not come this year for sure, but from past releases you could expect it to be out between april and august 2021. He also mentioned that there might not be a suite version in the next release, but the rigs bundles provide better value than the suite upgrades anyway.

[@СтаниславР-в7и]

Reason - secret music weapon

[@mikesamuel1138]

Can you get it to have that 70's disco sound?

[@ysink]

I _need_ to try this with Quad Note Generator!

[@Bokehstbuzzkill]

My thoughts exactly. A few pulsars changing up articulation and a quad note generator and we could make some seriously dynamic sounds

[@RaulAmezcua94]

Reason!! 🤩👍