Drum Samples with Reason's Redrum
If you're after an all-in-one music production environment, Propellerheads' Reason has got you. It includes Redrum, which is a premium drum samples sequencer and manipulation tool. It's really easy to use, too!
There are ten drum channels in one instance of Redrum, each one with multiple modulation filters and options, such as velocity and panning. Along with panning, another regular is the level rotary knob, which simply controls the level or volume. You can mix and match the volume of all ten drum samples until you have a good internal balance. The master level then controls the volume of every drum sound inside Redrum as it pertains to the global project as a whole. What a great way to mix micro and macro with such ease, huh?
Looking at the channel strips available in Redrum, we can see that some knobs and levels are more self-explanatory than certain others. One of the more straightforward controls is the length. What does the length control pertain to? It affects the length of any of the drum samples. If you find that one of the hi-hats has an unnecessary reverb tail, you can cut it off by lowering the length (turn the knob to the left). This will help you sculpt samples creatively.
Going a bit further in our analysis, we're presented with the Pan control. This really speaks for itself; it pans the drum samples! In an early mixing stage, you can organize your drums as they pertain to panning - and quite easily so. Another great feature of Redrum is that everything is on the same screen. Have you ever gotten frustrated going through twenty different menus looking for something? Not with Redrum - it's all on the same page. While it can be confusing to some people that have not used it extensively, it quickly becomes a necessity - something you won't be able to forget when trying different programs out in the future.
Picking out sample after sample can be a very boring and mundane task. Wouldn't it be easier if somebody had already picked out a whole bunch of samples that go great together? Well, set your faces to stunned, because Reason includes more than a hundred different soundsets for Redrum. All the drum samples included in these Refills are chosen for their coherence. So you will rarely venture outside of these sound-packs looking for other samples. You can practically get to work right away! Focusing on the music and not sample selection can be great for creativity. Nothing is worse than spending thirty minutes looking for drum samples!
The last major thing about the Redrum interface is the step sequencer that sits at the bottom of the device in every single view. This is where you can click in drum samples if you're not recording input with MIDI hardware at this point. While you cannot ever see all patterns at once, it's not a bad thing. It's actually good because you're training your ear to keep an eye out, to see where new drum samples could be injected and so on. In fact, it works so much like real hardware that aspiring audio engineers would do well to look at Reason and Redrum as their learning platform. - 18418
There are ten drum channels in one instance of Redrum, each one with multiple modulation filters and options, such as velocity and panning. Along with panning, another regular is the level rotary knob, which simply controls the level or volume. You can mix and match the volume of all ten drum samples until you have a good internal balance. The master level then controls the volume of every drum sound inside Redrum as it pertains to the global project as a whole. What a great way to mix micro and macro with such ease, huh?
Looking at the channel strips available in Redrum, we can see that some knobs and levels are more self-explanatory than certain others. One of the more straightforward controls is the length. What does the length control pertain to? It affects the length of any of the drum samples. If you find that one of the hi-hats has an unnecessary reverb tail, you can cut it off by lowering the length (turn the knob to the left). This will help you sculpt samples creatively.
Going a bit further in our analysis, we're presented with the Pan control. This really speaks for itself; it pans the drum samples! In an early mixing stage, you can organize your drums as they pertain to panning - and quite easily so. Another great feature of Redrum is that everything is on the same screen. Have you ever gotten frustrated going through twenty different menus looking for something? Not with Redrum - it's all on the same page. While it can be confusing to some people that have not used it extensively, it quickly becomes a necessity - something you won't be able to forget when trying different programs out in the future.
Picking out sample after sample can be a very boring and mundane task. Wouldn't it be easier if somebody had already picked out a whole bunch of samples that go great together? Well, set your faces to stunned, because Reason includes more than a hundred different soundsets for Redrum. All the drum samples included in these Refills are chosen for their coherence. So you will rarely venture outside of these sound-packs looking for other samples. You can practically get to work right away! Focusing on the music and not sample selection can be great for creativity. Nothing is worse than spending thirty minutes looking for drum samples!
The last major thing about the Redrum interface is the step sequencer that sits at the bottom of the device in every single view. This is where you can click in drum samples if you're not recording input with MIDI hardware at this point. While you cannot ever see all patterns at once, it's not a bad thing. It's actually good because you're training your ear to keep an eye out, to see where new drum samples could be injected and so on. In fact, it works so much like real hardware that aspiring audio engineers would do well to look at Reason and Redrum as their learning platform. - 18418
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