52 Reason / Record Tips - Week 31: Using Neptune on an Already Talented Singer

[JONREFUZION]

good tutorial great song



[cemmastajay]

wow, great

[surgeyX]

5:50 -- that sounds *amazing* great tutorial!

[mcRioRemedy]

great tip number 31

[anthonypucino]

wow, he's really good without the neptune, much less with it. haha

[Breakonthroughyou]

#nice.

[dayv619]

help me anyone

i have my usb mixer connected to my laptop and i have my microphone connected to my usb mixer

for w.e reason when i try to record on record 1.5 its not reading ...

i changed the audio prefences to the usb mixer already n when i speak to the mixer the lights go on but its not showing up in record

when i try it to garage band it work just fine so i dont know what im doing wrong with record ?

help!!

[ShiftIV]

@dayv619

Have you selected your mixer as the audio input device in edit>preferences?

[ShiftIV]

@dayv619

Sorry, it should be Reason>preferences

[mnash3]

Hi James,

Please disregard my prior post.

The questions were answered in Week 30 when you were working on your own vocals.

It created a different question which is... does Neptune have a feature that automatically creates recommended 3 part harmonies? I know of another software that has that feature, but my goal is to do everything in Record/Reason.

It appears that it is possible to lay entire vocals in Record. Is that doable or is it better to lay vocals in Protools?

Mark

[mnash3]

Hi James,

I too also enjoyed the video.

My question relates to clarification on the harmony.

When creating the track with the Neptune and verifying the voice synth is selected, did the new track create the actual harmony to the original or were you playing the new harmony part on your keyboard?

Also, the track sounded great! What are your thoughts on how to create a 3 part harmony track or have you found that to even be an issue in the industry e.g. is two part harmony the norm? Thx

[fortgreene31]

Yes I just got my free update with Reason Record 1.5. Good thing i'm a register user from propellerhead. Nice info james keep it going with the knowledge with reason. Hope to meet you 1 day.

[synclab]

beautiful track, beutiful tips.

[aaronian]

I have an unusual question for you that has nothing to do with Reason or Record itself, but rather, the .rsn files.

Having been a producer for a number of years yourself, you probably have hundreds of song files on your computer as I do. My question is, what do you do personally to organize them? Often times I'm overwhelmed when I'm looking for a song that I never gave a proper name or just forgot the name of entirely. Any tips would be appreciated it by you or anyone else!

[fernyjbh]

@aaronian I dont know if its a little too late, but, I personally organice my reason files the same way I organice my entire stuff, in Folders.. I organice them by year & month, & I put a kind of tag at the end of the file, with the Genre of the song/track.. so I have a folder exclusivelly for every project, with the recordings etc inside (and the reason file) and everything I export to mp3 128kbps, & load it in a custom playlist in itunes, so I can search easly for a song/track or jingle ;)

[slapnpop826]

This was great.

[SplinterCell37]

Never realised how much of an effect light pitch correction could have. This tutorial is amazing. Thankyou!

[Meteotrance]

that's great James ! Can you show to us how to used neptune as a CV note control for using synth or sampler ? It could be very usefull for me, i want to control some synth with my voice, like the CV drum replacement tutorial you show on other video.

[deanc2000]

Wait. "A" is in your scale. How did you know it was off pitch?

[leckopfannie]

Nice example and a really beautiful song. Just listened to the whole track on his myspace site.

[elementofart]

Another very good week.

[tokyojoe01]

hopefully this may persuade some of the Neptune haters that it actually does work when used sparingly and tastefully.

[jolandda1]

Good !

[Koshdukai]

Very good example. Great song, voice, explanation and video :)

[CARD1publications]

" This week is all about using Neptune tastefully ..."

so i guess the way i use Neptune is distasteful?

lol

thnx for the tuts!

CARD MFn1

[djcoolyg]

I like that track

[mykldxn]

very good!

[Denzilmac]

Great work JB. I'm so very tempted by Record...

[0tto777]

@Denzilmac Do it.

[Denzilmac]

@0tto777 I've grabbed the demo and it looks great, but I'm really struggling with screen space - I'm constantly switching views and scrolling around with 1600x1280 resolution. I'll persevere and maybe it'll begin to feel more comfortable. I love the integration with Reason though..

[0tto777]

@Denzilmac Well I've got a 13" mac and I guess it's not ideal but you get used to it pretty fast especially when the mixer is collapsable along with everything else and you just need F5, F6 and F7 to flick between mixer, rack and sequencer so it's not too bad :)

[WittyBoiBeatz]

Sounds Very Clean!!! Nice one JB...

[SyedShah01]

Have you rewired Reason to pro tools? Also.. how do u get neptune ? is it a vst plugin? any help...

[nickvasko]

@SyedShah01 record 1.5

[KidWuzi]

@SyedShah01 Reason / Record it says in the title

[SyedShah01]

This looks and sounds reallly good!

[retsofnalanosaj]

Thanks James. Sounds great.

[astrophonix]

Great video, JB, especially as I will be avoiding the T-Pain-style digital yodelling effect as much as humanly possible! I hope you can find time to do a video sometime on the Neptune's pitch to CV ability to have the voice controlling a synth, as it seems to be wobbling all over the place when I try it!

[jamesbernardmusic]

@astrophonix I will definitely be covering the pitch to CV.. just had to show the basic functionality first before I get into all the wonderful tweaky stuff you can do with Neptune (and there is a lot of it!).

[Gameboygenius]

@astrophonix It may not be directly obvious, but you can't use that CV output with regular CV inputs; rather you need to use with the "pitch" input on a Thor oscillator. Create a Thor. Init patch. Route Neptune "Amplitude" to Thor "Gate". Route N. "Pitch" to T. "CV 1". In Thor's modulation matrix, choose source: CV In 1, Amount 100, dest Osc 1 pitch.