Awesome Advanced Thor Techniques in Reason 4 - Futuristic sounding much?

[hotnovel]

best softsynth ever

[TheAdiPun]

midget enthusiastic

[bboyfabolous1994]

just like daft punk would do

i was looking for this kinda of synths

thanks!!!

[rook1nubZ]

Ahhhh i see what you did at the end there.. the whole "dubstep" joke. Cheeky devil.

[hartistry1957]

I find it hard to initiate a song; kinda like writer's block, on occasion: Anyone have some tricks to get something started; keeping it fresh?

[eddgomezHaHa]

@hartistry1957 Listen to good producers/musicians, leave the DAW for a while, play with old synths from previous songs, listen to a previous song in reverse, (this worked for me once...) change DAWs (fruity loops, ableton, logic pro, etc) or a personal favorite: google chord progressions in whatever key you prefer and use those. (having a chord progression already made will help you kickstart a song)

[hartistry1957]

@eddgomezHaHa Thanks man! Reverse; i get it: kinda like Stuck in reverse, but moving forward. Cool.

[Waterman42069]

These Reason tutorials are the only ones I will watch. If I ever make any money creating electronic music, I will owe this guy at least 10% of whatever I make.

[flyattic]

great vid, i like the touch of sarcasm at the end about dubstep haha.

[BZdaKritta]

what type of school and for what type of degree would someone go to , to learn this type of stuff ??? what are your thought on full sail university ?

[jackmn22]

@BZdaKritta a music composition specialist ofcourse

[BZdaKritta]

did u got to MIT or some shit....?? Damn Sound Scientist. How can anyone know all of that... I cant process that shit -just send me some patches / refills . help I need good reese bass synth

[Weinertastic]

Couldn't tell if the dubstep comment at the end was a joke.

[explatium]

nice video !! thats helpfull! thanks

[antilect]

You're so awesome as always. Love your tuts man. I laughed today btw, because it's so fun when people call techno "futuristic". Because it's SO 80-90-00... I think people in the future are gonna look back at the electronic explosion of material more like something passé than futuristic xD Or like we look at sci-fi's in the 50's. Very few that "cut it" haha. Cheers!

[goblindeejay]

can you make a tutorial on making something like Alphazone, Ralph Novell, Carl Nicholson type of sound (leads, acids, and bases)?

[rebelBodhi]

I can't read any of the digital settings - especially setting up the bass as you have it - can't get anything close to that sound, and I love it! Could you please list them out? Thanks a lot, great stuff

[kingOD182]

hey thanks man

[dynamicdavid]

Awesome vid! Post more, with Reason 5 and how to make Glitch Mob style sounds as well as wobbly Bass grooves like Rusko, BassNectar! I'd also live to see how to make sounds like Wolfgang Gartner and DeadMau5! Thanks! grr8 job!

[ganjaericco]

man i jus gotta say thanks for your time in these tutorials heaven sent for some1 new 2 reason and u say some random funny shit :) haha make me laugh

[MortenBoHansen]

and you mension dubstep haha... joke aside, its awesome how much you can learn. I am doing some (I think) very cool stuff, with Flying Lotus as my main inspiration, i just do my own thing with it. Where when and who should i send it to? And does anybody know where..ANYwhere you can find a producer/sound designer live chat forums.. i'd love to join you guys!

[edouardoFR]

Thor is really an amazing machine, I am discovering it with delight.. Thx 4 the vid. Very helpful and topped with entertaining humor.

[lajungesombre]

Hey solid vid. Informative in that it gave explanations for things, Useful in that it provided a real example, Friendly in that you didn't assume that only sound engineers watched your videos, Academic in that you did introduce concepts such as WAVES and stuff like that. Solid video. Maybe you could do a few more on Thor, just to show more and more of what we can do what that synth, especially the modulation part of Thor

[SpaceMidget6]

Enthusiastic midget? wtf........ why couldn't it be enthusiastic CHINESE PEOPLE?

[misztsz]

Nice one, I was looking for something like this.

[owenotley]

off to listen to some dubstep :D

i can dig that..

sick tunes man

[nick20200]

lolz at the midget

[elrodien]

Nice tutorial with some really nice tips on how to use the Thor. Will be trying out those 'plinky plonk' techniques asap. :)

[lucianoyassuda]

Hey dave ! how you doing man ! I am from brazil and I always watch your videos on you tube but i never found any of them talking about psychedelic trance producing. i would like to see you teaching all the tricks about psy trance production if you can...like the other ones, i beg you to make a 7 day psy trance production man,please. by the way how can I get a real pumpimg psychedelic trance bass and lead sequencer in reason 4?

cheers

[RafMaravilla]

Sweet videos man! How do I make a region for the sequencer in Thor. I know it's not like redrum where you can right click "add pattern to track" but there must be some way to record or patch it so I can turn it into a region.

Cheers!

[GregWilliamBryant]

Your tutorials have got me off to a fantastic start. It would be good if we could get some more going into specific elements of Reason and maybe a set on pure music theory for total music noobs like myself.

[kaotlove]

haha, enthusiastic midget xD But great tutorial. kudos mate

[track072965]

good stuff

[MrHathouse]

Haha, "noone ever gets anywhere in music by making the same sounds again and again right? I'm off to listen to some dubstep!" xD

[GrouEEf]

LOOOOL! microsoft sam runnin through a technical manual LOOOOOOOOL!

[HOTBOY1521]

SKYHIGH WEB DESIGNING HOLLA AT ME

[AdaptorLive]

Thanks for explaining some of the details of how the oscillators and filters work. Funny how you decribe sounds too. Good video!

[wotzhisface]

Dubstep dig at the end lol

[Ciaran55]

it sounds was better when it's bypassed at 0:46

[sbdubs]

enthusiastic midget FTW

[leonjollans]

Informative and clear. Thanks!

[JSpraya]

not clear enough to watch sry

[TimminZ93]

Not clear?? are u russian?

[dudewithpool]

nicely done :) im considering reason 4, but i hate the new sequencing part with making boxes, and the automation lines being more time consuming to make because of those crappy white dots... Reason 3 still wins in userfriendlyness for me. But the Thor is kick ass... ! What to choose.. sigh

[Ciaran55]

hey same with me!!! I used to use Reason 3, but I got 4 a few weeks ago.

When I got started, I decided that the grouping thing was a pain in trhe ass .. but you do get used to it. It does annoy me though that if you click on a different group with the pencil, it clears itself. The automation lines aren't so bad though...

4 does improve though as it has more available, plus you can copy and paste easier in arrange mode

[bergerking1990]

enthusiastic midget hah

[Bluesage2009]

lol errrmm

dude i don't think DNB is mean't to be this flacid...... it sounds limp and piss poor.

[Capeau]

those sound like shit, lol

[georgegoesshikari]

Man its how you get wierd sounds.

[Capeau]

@georgegoesshikari

wierd random sounds are easy its the carefully engineered usefull sounds that are tricky

[RosettaLurch]

Cool vid man, learned a lot from it :)

And the song you got there was awesome from what I could hear!

[philoubm]

All ur videos are very interesting !!

Thank u !

[GyuJazz]

"Enthusiastic midget"?

Hilarious :D

[SpaceMidget6]

@GyuJazz -_-

[myfaceispurple]

hey Dave, how come on most of these synths ur putting the oscillators through the 2 & 3 slots and not the 1& 2? is the first oscillator slot unique compared to the other 2?

[KillerCheezeburgers]

I think it's just easier to change the volume of the oscillators....

[mindlessranter]

Thank you for making a great video!

[rabbitspliff]

holy shitting daisy chainguns, i just figured how to record changing the position of the formant filter over a track i made in the stretching metal preset. i dunno how to describe it any better than an 80's apocalyptic sci-fi soundtrack sound. i've only had reason 4 a week , but it's already fun as hell learning how to use it :D

[haibertdude]

Enthusiastic midget LMFAO

[TheRealCritique]

I own a juno106 and have been looking for lots of analog keyboards. However, last night I spent a good four hours tweaking with filter automation inside of Thor and got some AWESOME sounds out of it. ADding in the reverbs from the RV1000 and using the EQ is the mastering makes it even better. Anybody who acts like analog is everything and digital is nothing is a purist douche as far as I'm concerned. This is one powerful piece of software...

[SirSedricMusic]

I agree!

It's a damn good system and is damn close to analog in a lot of scenarios. I've heard some really impressive stuff coming from Reason.

[AiBoyJeLeeft]

can i have that techno song plz

[SirSedricMusic]

I did a tutorial on using Thor as a switchable filter in a combinator patch, if you want to check it out. It's less about sound design and more about the process of routing it properly.

I like your tutorials, good explanations and good flow. Keep it up!

[BRAKESUK80]

QUESTION...how did u make the pad, was it with chords or single keys?

[BRAKESUK80]

enthusiastic midget .nice :)

[myfaceispurple]

how did you get the "pump bass"(as i like to call it) pump on the off beat.....LFO 1 only has 8th notes and 16th notes and stuff....but no offbeat setting...how'd you fix that? =D

[wwwboyinabandcom]

There's a delay knob which is perfect for that :D

[myfaceispurple]

yea i figured that out right after i commented on the video =D thanks man!! hey you made a comment about "th0rn93's" dubstep beat and i went and looked at it...and his wobble bass sounds BAD ASS!!! can you make a tut on how to get it to sound like his.....cuz no offense but the one you had us make(i thinks) need to be beefed up a little more....sounds a little plain ^_^

[bcojones0]

@wwwboyinabandcom 

[MeloDeeBeatz]

@wwwboyinabandcom is this not normally called sidechaining dude ???? when and instrument bounces at the off beat?

[MarFreq]

@myfaceispurple A much better way to make a Bass line pump, or "breathe" as i call it, is to avoid the delay knobs and simply use a Compression sidechain. split the audio from your drum kick(or make a new redrum and use the main out to keep the kick silent) and route it to the sidechain input on the compressor on your bass(turn your ratio up and threshold down. Put in a kick pattern and the bass will lessen as the kick hits, causing a cool effect and giving your kick more room in the mix.

[myfaceispurple]

@MarFreq yea i've figured this out now...........this comment was 8 months ago xD i've gotten SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better......another thing that helps sidechain compression is to turn the attack all the way down and the release to about 3/8's of the way up =) but the delay knob worked great for what i was doing at the time(hardstyle) because sidechaining is like a breathing effect....the LFO is RIGHT away...but i do electro/house now so i sidechain all the time xD

[richymoore]

@myfaceispurple Or you can invert your filter envelope to reverse the signal

[valax300]

@myfaceispurple I know its wayyy late, but you use the side-chaining technique. Open up a new redrum and put a kick on the 1,5,9,13. Then press "tab" and youll see a "Chaining Aux" area in the back of your mixer. Use a spider splitter and wire the redrum into there. It gives you that Benny Benassi "pumping" that sounds killer. Hope that helped.

[myfaceispurple]

@valax300 ya man wow....this just made me realize how good of a producer i've become in just a year......i've already stopped using reason and use ableton now haha.........when i watched this video i was know one......now im gigging in LA......thanks for giving me an eye opener =D

[valax300]

@myfaceispurple Ha, I know right - I feel the same way when I listen to my first tracks from about a year ago. Btw Ive been wondering this for a while... I started making music with reason 4 and thats all Ive ever really used....since youve used both, do you like ableton better? Im thinkin i might get ableton and switch over

[frosty1115]

@myfaceispurple If you change the LFO mod value to -100 instead of 100 the wave swells on the off-beat

[waynuuuuus]

@myfaceispurple Turn the LFO the other way?

[filmjunkie011]

Enthusiastic midget!!!!!

[mattmandudeman]

Hey man love your tutorials, they've taught me a whole lot about mixing with Reason.

I was messing around with panning effects, and was wondering if you're supposed to keep the wawas and other bass synths in the middle? Or will you not lose any bumpin' if you pan them off to the sides a bit?

[wwwboyinabandcom]

Generally if you want something to be more powerful, either have it in the center or have it both left *and* right :) Stereo Imaging (with the MClass stereo imager in reason) is a good way to do that!

Panning left and right is usually for creative purposes or putting less prominent effects somewhere other than the center of the mix to make it clearer :)

[LexasMusic]

actually scratch what i said before, HQ doesnt improve the quality, still i can tell whats going on so its not a problem for me...

[cmp865]

.... and I completely meant its not it's. Please excuse this grotesque grammar mistake..... man..... I can't believe that shit just happened

[wwwboyinabandcom]

:D You made my day by correcting that!

[cmp865]

Wow great vid Dave! I get better at using reason and it's features with each one, thanks again!

[imnotsickimjustaboy]

nice vid u couldn't do a cover for an owl city song could you! thanks

[Tracformers]

nice one dave!

im just starting out and following all your vidz, very helpful

[bmd77]

great one !

[SeanLazer]

Great tutorial, wish you would publish these in High Def as well though, it's sometimes hard to see what you're doing.

[LexasMusic]

It is in HQ it just takes a day or two for it to come up

[jdkbriggs]

enthusiastic midget... too funny!

Thanks!

[aaronaaronattack]

sweeet tutorial as always :)