Making Your Reason Redrum Beats Better

[djstevebravo]

it really didn't help me erase it .......

[MrJaysuis]

awesome video. I would agree its easier to use Aux sends for effects. But can be confusing whether to turn the amount up on the aux level or whether to leave it and adjust it on the actual effect itself. But this has been very informative. Thanks

[bigdaddyshizane]

Yeah auto correct is a bitch.

[bigdaddyshizane]

If you don't understand why you should route your red rum to its own mixer you haven't gotten very far with your drums. If you do it this way you can add insert effects to your drum channel before it gets to the mixer. Compressor on kick for instance. A must have. Then you use the mixer to turn up and down the kick. Not the red rum level because then your changing the amount sent into your compressor and messing up your settings. How about equine a snare? Do that without a mixer. I made a combi

[cleopigtra]

Hi. i can't make sound the subtractor along with the kick in redrum, in channel 1 of redrum do you have a kick sound on it? I hope you understood what i'm trying to ask. Thanks.

[m1tch3ll1001]

Look someone help me, mitchell_d12@msn.com << my email, will someone please just explain quite simply how to put a pattern onto the timeline, cos no matter what i do, i could even have the timeline empty and when i press play, everything (my drums, synth, bass.. whatever all plays at the same time WHY? :( i just want each one to kick in at a certain time is that so hard? :(

[Killrichengage]

Does the switch board (with the wiring and such) only exsist on the newer version of reason? I can't find it in Reason 3.....

[trapakeepr]

its Re-Drum not Red-Drum

[HitfulVids]

@trapakeepr Propellerhead has at least one tutorial ("Kong Basics") where he pronounces it red-rum. Vindicated!

[aidan21]

@trapakeepr Ahaha and yes Murder has one 'D', which makes him correct and you blind.

Re drum - murd er

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[rellom777]

Yo i get what your saying. Makes sense! That idea came across to me but i never actually acted out on it.Good to see it used. Now i will incorporated too. Thanks

[fortgreene31]

thanks for the info specially like a beginner like me using reason. I love the propellerhead it change my life. I never knew i would be shopping at guitar center these days. Nice peace

[sk6mix]

Hello and thanks for the helpful video. Screw all the haters in these comments. If people don't like this video, why are they watching and commenting and wasting everyone's time. Also, I have a question, when the gate on the ride symbol triggers the Dr. Rex, is that triggering each individual slice of the rex file everytime the ride symbol hits. If so, do the rex slices play in order in a loop? Thanks

[mstbgang89]

oh cool that helped :) thanks alot ^^ pls watch my vids and give me some feedback :) and subscribe ;)

[ghandifeeder]

I couldn't take the video seriously after you said red drum

[BenCheddar2]

@phuturephunk01 Chess club? Who said that?

Btw, I'm not insulting Reason as a software, I'm actually very interested in what it can do and explored many parts of it (that's why I post tutorials on it, you "mudskipper"). I'm just saying it doesn't do to judge one's compositional and musical ability on Reason beats/ songs because it doesn't show real orchestration, scoring, conduction, and human emotion. Reason is a good tool for music technology but it is not the musical do all end all for me.

[phuturephunk01]

@BenCheddar2

Actually Benjamin i can write and read music just fine. Started with the Euphonium when I was about 10 years old, keyboards, guitar by the age of 15....

If you're happy with one particular sound at a time, great.

Unfortunately I get bored easily. I engage multi-faceted thought processes when it comes to music and prefer to explore every possibility. Reason encompasses every possible route, allows you to become any instrument, or even to create your own.....

[BenCheddar2]

@phuturephunk01 I understand that, that's one of the reasons I got into Reason (tehe) too. But I have real musicians on my hands and explore tambres that way. I play jazz in small combos and enjoy every moment of the acoustic, organic feel I get. That's what floats my boat - it's a lot better than Reason, which often sounds a little canned.

Btw, if you think you're something else, post one of your own songs! Let's hear it.

[phuturephunk01]

No Ben. spending more time playing piano makes you.... a better piano player. It doesn't make your 'music' better.

From what I hear on this demo (yes, I realise it's meant to be simple....but) you seem fairly uncomfortable transferring your musical 'talent' (cough) into a digital format.

Your replies on this vid seem somewhat arrogant too.

Post some of your Reason tunes up. Let's have a laugh....

[BenCheddar2]

@phuturephunk01 Yes, having more knowledge of music theory does help my music. Jealous much?

I put up these tutorials to help people, so if you are not being helped by them, just keep your pleasant, mature thoughts to yourself. I have never met you yet I already strongly dislike you. ("Let's have a laugh" - What, are you four years old?)

Composed by me:

watch?v=5ggFQVOsMZE

[44danoc]

@BenCheddar2 great vid keep on teaching bro, I don't know why haters always come on someone page to cause chaos, why don't they do better than you instead of complaining?

[pedrokobuti]

@BenCheddar2 nice response :)

[havnofeardrinkabeer]

why not open up a combinator hook the com. up to your mixer then IN the com. you open up a mixer and a redrum and hook it up that way, that way your rack isnt a big mess

[phuturephunk01]

@havnofeardrinkabeer

Totally agree. In fact you don't even need to have the combinator rigged, just open it disconnected, delete the track for it, create your instrument and fx chain then insert it all into the bare combinator. Minimise once finished and everything is neatly tucked away and labelled.

[bluntmasterflash]

nice vid, and he is pronouncing the word correctly...didn't you guys see the shining?

[supersonicyou]

you sound like you just came from jogging :P but nice vid. thanks

[jodie86ful]

i can't poo

[1DjNewEra]

lol nvm jus found it

[1DjNewEra]

ok but how do you flip the rack tho

[hdub10029]

U PRESS THE TAB BUTTON ON YOUR KEYBOARD

[kzkid2323]

its reeeee drum

[DemonicVictory]

rrrreeeeddrrrRUUUUMM

[ammodomini]

..i wanted to figure some ways to add effect to each individual sample and im guessing this is as good as it get...ive done this before but i used the line 6 mixer but i guess that one better just cause it has 4 aux input.....you can pan in redrum though the only thing you cant do is the effect.bleh

[psy0nyd3]

@ammodomini Redrum has 2 aux. channels as well. S1/2

[theABUBAKRshow]

thx

[skateracl]

Sounds like you're saying "Red Drum" haha

[ThMaleAlwaysGoesThru]

so... what makes you an expert on Reason pronunciation? it's clearly supposed to be a play on words and say "Red rum" as well as "re-drum"

i don't see why it has to be pronounced re-drum.. it's even one word..

[skateracl]

at 8 secs the pop up even says he knows its redrum not red drum

sounds more like a mistake to me cuz he says this vid is over a year old...

[BoldOriginalFlavor]

you people are idiots. it is supposed to be pronounced red rum, like in the shining. it's "murder" spelled backwards.

[DRUMSCIENTIST]

Bless him, he is probably illiterate! It just makes him feel like big shot

[eldudio]

It's also a play on the fact that 'redrum' is 'murder' backwards :)

[stludachris]

@ThMaleAlwaysGoesThru Its actually pronounced R-ED-RUM. And yes, I am a Reason Pronunciation Expert and I can email you my credentials to prove it.

[djdevelope1]

thought the same thing.

[grasshutz]

this is how the pros do it to get exactly the sound they want with the drum. its nessisary if you want to get real illy with it.

[danger0ss]

OR if you want an effect for a drum sound just add reverb/dist/ whatever to that ONE sample and run it as a separate track. thanks for the vid

[jay6157]

again white people talk come on dont understand

[synvazn]

I do it like this too... with mixer it is easier to have effects on seperate drum parts.. connecting effect to drum channels seperately instead of using the sends..

[squeeks1234]

you re stupid as shit, each drum gets its own volume and pan anyways, i can see it on your screen too!

[ChrisPhoenixBMR]

yeah... you're right. it's really not necessary to do this.

i actually do this myself, but just b/c it gives me a better visual view of where my levels are compared to the rest of the mix. also... it makes it very easy to add effects to individual sounds.

[dariunas]

A bit harsh...

Dedicating a mixer channel for each drum sample is more than acceptable - it affords you a much greater level of control and allows you to apply 4 effects to each sample easily. It's not even hard to setup. And the automation possibilities are far reaching.

Danny Adler of SGX uses this technique also (and you simply cannot doubt his level of mastery with Reason...)

[matparkinson]

do you know that redrum has send 1 & 2 on each instrument anyway? what you've done assigning to each channel on the mixer is pretty pointless.

[HigherEnergy]

what do you get when you spell REDRUM backwards !? ;-)

[kyle2point]

FUUUUUUUUUUU-

[dariunas]

LOL

[lushys]

Its RE-DRUM not reDRUM. That's so annoying

[Ca1mdownplz]

no its Red-Rum :P

[scart69net]

good tute for ppl that are starting out, cheers for sharing.

[sal7t5]

good tutorial but id use an nn xt instead because it has more features

[djkrankhoff]

im not going to lie, you have very little charisma i cant listen to this but you sound like you have alot of experience 5*. its boring but gets the point across.

[JSpraya]

man reason is pretty weak, ive had reason 4 for a while now and lol its for starters compared to fl studio , pro tools , sonar Ect. . I only use it as a rewire sound module . some of the sounds are good if u add third party vst's and effects to them

[alfrenium]

reason is not weak, it's just that you need to have something else for mixing. i work in reason and then export to ableton live, this can get a little annoying but Propellerheads RECORD is coming out so it will be just what reason needed!

[Ca1mdownplz]

lol

[kharlos84]

nice

[MegaJuevos]

LOLOL - nice using your head! Boy, you must be all of 18 years old - if that. Youre idea of telling people to route the sounds to the mixer is stupid.

Look, little boy...theres already a dedicated mixer for drum sounds you can and SHOULD use before clogging up your main mixer.

Gee, I bet you thought you were smart - no, you fail.

[BenCheddar2]

Dude, chill. Just create a new mixer, this isn't the main mixer. If you don't like the tip, don't watch. A bunch of people think this is helpful, so there's no problem.

Oh, and I'm 16 years old by the way and a hobbyist, so yeah, I am a "little boy" who probably knows much more about music than you do, a "seasoned producer" who has been sequencing little programmed notes together. Haha, you're probably an old guy who just goes around insulting people. Spend your time elsewhere.

[willywooba]

MegaJuevos, pinche maricon quien no sabe nada! The "dedicated mixer for drum sounds" that is built in to the redrum has limitations, for example, only 2 sends. On top of that the sends just connect the mixer and use its effects (send 1 and 2). If you had any real understanding of the product you would understand the benefits of eq'ing and effecting the drum sounds separately. There are obvious reasons for the separate outs on the Redrum, and one must be a complete tard not to see them.

[kharlos84]

with the mixer you gor more posiblitys but if you liked other way dont see this video then

[saumon]

I don't understand why you use mixer when you can simply use levels and pan from redrum drum computer??? If you want to add some effects you can make it with redrum too so .... like I said I don't see your point.

[BenCheddar2]

I find mixing more intuitive, easier, and more effective (with 4 aux send and returns).

[aRcaneTheProducerr]

ur rite and wrong its not easier but it is more effective and sounds great

[DubzOnFireStudio]

this is really pointless dude...so what r u gonna do now uve only got a couple of tracks left on ur mixer? open a new mixer? u know if u really wanna do it this long ting way..u shud use a couple of line mixers instead, but it is really pointless cos u can pan and add fx , change pitch and more using redrum...and u need to learn how to pronounce that too bro

[BenCheddar2]

Please read annotations and description box ;)

[MegaJuevos]

No youre just a fuckin dumb kid who is "learning" about a music program.

Ive been sequencing beats for 14 years - youre a fuckin noob with your mixer tip

[BenCheddar2]

Haha nice pulling the experience with years thing. I spend most of my time with music theory and piano, which you probably have no clue about. You just press your little buttons and expect things to magically come out and happen.

[83pulse]

@BenCheddar2 lol don't mind him ben... The guy has been sequencing beats for 14 years? Well, that's exactly how he sounds like saying stuff like this, a f*ckin 14 yrs old hahahahah good video anyway ;)

[allooo]

@BenCheddar2 and I suppose because you have clocked in more hours in front of the piano, your music is superior?

[BenCheddar2]

@allooo Yes.

[storytellersunion]

What's the problem with that? Good for him. You're a pathetic, old man who spends time trying to win arguments on the internet. Also, you're lying about your beat history, kind of funny with no evidence.

[jakeboi]

haha fucking LOOOOOOOOOOOSER

[cwhelan74]

it's purely a question of style and workflow. you get better metering and is a larger layout with buttons that are easy to grab and a slider for volume. if you have the processing power to spare, it's a nice luxury. when you get into serious multiple device drum rigs, it's almost a necessity.

[cwhelan74]

still, it's a method. it doesn't make beats better.

[BenCheddar2]

Exactly, it's for workflow, not inspiration.

[willywooba]

How about we just abandon ReDrum for the NN-XT.... Combine an NN-XT and a large mixer, wiring the different groups through different outputs and into the mixer. Even better you could wire say 4 sub groups from the NN-XT each to their own large mixer complete with individual effects and wire those 4 mixers into a small mixer and into the combinator. Quit thinking your way is better. :D

[saumon]

OK! Reason is great and give you options to connect things almost as you want to but it has got any sense only when you can hear it right ? If you technically go very deep just for fun it is OK! But I think that the most important thing is to do SAME sound on the easiest way :]

[willywooba]

Saumon if you go deep enough and learn the program you will learn the problems with using the Redrum. One is like kick drums/other samples you don't want to overlap. I know, you can set it up so that it only plays while a note is pressed but at that point you have to use the sequencer which totally removes the of the Redrum's drum machine interface. If you avoid something because it's harder you don't gain the experience that makes it easier in the long run.

[saumon]

yeah .... you're right :] probably thats the reason why I don't make progres :] peace

[SHAOLINSINZ]

yep your right....NNXT is far better to use than Redrum you can create much skippier off beat drum loops and its not as programmed aswell as having the ability to do far more with your independant samples.

[BenCheddar2]

Agreed, and velocity mapping is a whole lot easier to do. It's not just the 10 channels too. In fact, I use the NN-XT for most of my drum sounds and beats, and its a whole lot better. But there are a lot of beginners who start with the ReDrum and don't want to abandon it, and this video is for them.

[SHAOLINSINZ]

yeah if i was them i'd just start with the nnxt....just like people who would rather learn fruity cause its got a basic interface than reason or logic...you might aswell just learn reason in the long run.

practice makes anything second nature.

[GhostmanOnThird]

good vid man i definitely learned a few things, the triggering is awesome.

beatsnryhms, check out VSTs like EZ Drummer, Addictive Drums, BFD, etc. those sound pretty damn excellent

[BeatsNRhyms]

if you want real sounding drums,buy an mpc,never liked reason,

[bitcheznhos]

if you want real sounding drums, mic a drum set!!!

[BeatsNRhyms]

thats the best way ; )

[alogz]

lol ya dude mpc sounds super fkn real bro! lolol....ur a retard.......

[BeatsNRhyms]

nah haha,im just a producer with real kicks and snares,my videos show that^^

[twrexbaldwin]

Word. what synth sounds do you like to use?

[BenCheddar2]

i program most of my synth sounds using thor. anything is possible on thor that is possible on any other synth except maelstrom. it's fun to experiment

[twrexbaldwin]

I dont get the extra mixer for individual reverb pan level etc. If you create a mixer then create a reverb the reverb is controlled by efx1 on the channel. if you create you redrum, then the S1 on the redrum will send to the reverb as well, plus there is a level knob, and a pan... Good video though. very informitave.

[BenCheddar2]

there 4 aux's on the 14:2 mixer, so there is more control over the number of effects as opposed to the S1 and S2 knobs

[JACEDOWN]

A gate is a device that will "open" and "close" to the threshold that you set. it is used in many applications, like a kick drum, so that signal will only travel thru when the kick drum is hit. helps keep clean recordings so you dont get all that low end muffle from sound bouncing around in the kick drum from the other drums in the set. you can use it to trigger a sound from another device, which i think is more of the answer you were looking for.

[BenCheddar2]

thanks for the more specific description

[Andy41494]

ok please answerwe this. if you have a snare in redrum how do you do it so if you hit your pad on your controller it repeats?

[BenCheddar2]

fill all of the drums in the sequencer completely up, and remote map your pad to the "run" button to the left. solo the drum you want to repeat, or solo a couple if you want. you can remote map the mute and solo buttons to different keys on the keyboard to have more control. change the step amount to more or less if you want the repetitions to be faster or slower.

[chillraph]

man, i cant seem to understand all those spaghettis... but hey, what is the "gate"?

[BenCheddar2]

gate is something that triggers a note on another device, so if you play sixteenth notes on one device it will trigger the other device to play sixteenth notes. it only triggers the note though, doesn't do pitch

[PuCCiPuCCe]

When youre routing the redrum to the mixer to play the drums 1-8 thru mixer chanel 1-8 you take the output of the drum 1 and route to input of mixer channel 1? now if I have 8 channels taken up on the mixer how do I create a new mixer that will hold all the nn-xt, combinator and so forth?

[BenCheddar2]

right click the hardware device at the top and create another mixer. hit tab to turn the rack around and then plug the old mixer's output into the "chaining" input of the new mixer. it should be labeled clearly on the back of the mixer.

[Veliunit]

apparently the video's no longer avaliable, so i dont really know whats happening, but 666gary666, you can easily create a new mixer device, or keep your existing mixer and create a line mixer for simpler things.

[BenCheddar2]

try watching in high quality... it won't be any better quality, but i've tried it for several other videos that had the same message and it worked

[666gary666]

Hey ben, great tutorial ! i was wondering thought, doesnt putting all the samples down each channel in the mixer take up all the slots, leaving no room for other things such as synths etc? Sorry im really new to reason so i might be mistaken, if i am could you explain to me? thanks, gary

[BenCheddar2]

thanks, just right click the first mixer and create another one, then plug all of the rest of the individual redrum channels in

[ganGaZION]

you can put as many mixer you want

[tyron26musikman]

So simple but yet so effective. Great post man!

[day1hustler55]

p.s. i have all of em lol

[day1hustler55]

why not just purchase fl studio and use waves mercury?

[BenCheddar2]

why not stop spamming reason videos with endorsements of some inferior software like fl studio? there is no other software like reason, obviously you havn't explored what it can do.

[day1hustler55]

first off i am not spamming reason videos. obviously if i am here viewing this video then that would mean tht i am interested in becoming more fluent in reason as i am in f.l. there is a big difference in both programs and both shine in their own way. i gurantee that if you tried your reason or any other soft ware -made beat against my f.l. "track" i would make you re consider your judge ment. there is no right or wrong in music or production. Use what is best for you be it reason fl ableton etc

[BenCheddar2]

agreed, sorry for the misconception. i personally perfer reason to fl, as it fits me best for my style. it doesn't really matter how you make the music though, as long as its good, real and authentic

[spasmattack123]

You usually don't need a mixer for each RedRum. ReDrum already has two send lines and some features that the mixer has (pan, level) for each drum. There's more to this video than "you can hook a ReDrum up to a mixer," though.  You can take these concepts and apply them elsewhere. One of the things that makes Reason so powerful is the ability to visually flip your rack of machines around and actually rewire them. Once you understand audio and CV lines, you can do anything.

[BenCheddar2]

sorry for the mistake...

the idea is to create a combinator and have more flexibilities and add more effects... and faders are just better for some reason for me.

and you have the power to then load any sample on the mix, more exact eq, etc.

[picaxu3]

hi BenCheddar2 i need help at 0:39 where do you click to apear the back of the instruments (cables)?

txk

[BenCheddar2]

use the tab key on your keyboard to flip the rack around to view the cables.

[sk6mix]

Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial man. I did get something out of it. Im not sure if im gonna plug each drum into each channel on the mixer, but if i do, couldnt i just create an additional mixer for my other instruments?

[deezeebadman]

POOFTA ON TUTORIAL

[stussyboys]

what what what jesus man have no idea what point u are trying to get across

[rtiztic]

in fl you can create more realistic beats plus you can do everything in fl without using a second or 3rd party,and shure fl stocksounds suck,,but why you download fl studio?if you buy it you get a dvd with really hott samples of diffrent hardware machines!!plus reason is stocksounds all the way,ever effect you have or sound a othr reaosn user has to,and shure you can tweak them sounds,but a other reaosn user can re create your beats exactly,hahahaha so nah dude!!

[BenCheddar2]

that is if you use rex loops in the factory sound bank, and i am a musician, not a dj. this is just used as an example, not a finished piece of music. i doubt fl studio is any more intuative than reason is, as far as composing music. maybe it has a little bit more features, but if you dig down deeper into reason, you will see that there are more creative options for designing your own patches and loading your own samples, not just using the sound bank. that is the easy way out.

[thegreatNEb]

I agree with cheddar...I use reason alot for composing and arranging...I barely use the stock loops/beats at all. And if i do i edit them to my needs. You way you are talking everyone with FL also has the same DVD with the same samples on it etc...

the problem now is all this crap like lil wayne bs are putting out cheesy 1dimensional beats and you all think thats all people can do. There is deep artisit potential in music software......go listen to Frank Zappa's 'Jazz From Hell' album.....

[b68144]

Fruity loops is shit the sounds are terrible and is not professional software

[jreynolds716]

yeah, s1 and s2 is way easier, you are making it way too complicated for yourself.

[BenCheddar2]

yes but it is possible to apply 4 effects with the aux send and return... with s1 and s2you only have two... and i like the faders better than the knobs, but that's just my opinion. you can also balance the overall sound more, and you have more control over volume and pans. i know those knobs are avaliable in the redrum panel, but you have even further control over eq, etc. using the mixer

[charlyoofarly]

COOL thanks for the info but is everything ok with your health man? Sounds like your smacked out or someone is trying to hunt you down and your in hiding or something bad is about to happen man, try smoking a cone or something to bring your nerves back down to normal

haha no, just messin with u man!

thanks for tha elp!'

[DAFUCKINGKING]

ITS RE-DRUM NOT "RED DRUM"

[BenCheddar2]

i was making a reference to the line in that movie called the shining

[BenCheddar2]

...i know

[ookdundundundun]

RED-RUM

[willywooba]

It doesn't matter what you call it. What a trivial comment to make, Dafuckingfag. Ben Cheddar, I like to call it Redrum even though I know it is called Re-drum. I started using this product on my own and had no tutorial to learn the correct way to pronounce it. Oh well. Call it what you want. Hell, we should call it "the drum machine"

[Jettboi93]

nice~~