Reason 4 Tutorial on Vocoder By The Beatmaking Housewife

[nandalal108]

So thats what that thing does? It is one part of Reason 4 that has always mystified me, the clarity of your demonstration has made all the rest history. I think a lot I have watched before are a bit muddled, too fast, unclear, this is nice and clear. Why don't you live right next door?

[kashclark]

great tutorial :D

[sicbrick]

Great thanks a lot :)

[mcpoopy7000]

Wow, you explained this so much better than everyone else! You should have seen the look on my face when it finally worked. :D

[reticulianoverlord]

I need some help with this. Is there any way to vary the carrier sound (in terms of notes) but keep the modulater on the same note? I want to vocode a sample for a song, and vary the notes of the carrier so it matches the notes of the song, but I don't want the vocals to start from the beginning every time I trigger a new note. Any help please?

[femalebeatmakers]

@reticulianoverlord

If you have Record. I think you can use the Autotune on that to change the notes to match the song. Other than that.. I am not sure how you can change it. If someone else is viewing this they might be able to answer your question.

[reticulianoverlord]

@femalebeatmakers Argh. Autotune. I don't really like the idea of autotune, but I understand I need it if this needs to be done. I just wish I could keep the entire vocode process on Reason.

[reticulianoverlord]

@reticulianoverlord Ah, I figured it out. In my version, I used the Thor as the carrier. What I did is right click on the Thor, and click "Create New Track For Thor" and it creates a separate track for the carrier in which you can change the notes.

[FingaFreex]

Xcellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joshua25fm]

Nice Tutorial. Very clear.

[catgotwasted2]

you sound sexy enough without the beats.

[Theyspeakz]

nice one bruvaaaaaaaaaaaa.....

good video makes sence .

[TheDjdeepbleu]

nicely done

[RosettaLurch]

Thanks for posting this! I like how easy you are to follow and how clear you made all of this, and now my music is one step closer to completion, thanks again :D

[dnbseg]

your a 10 in my book...your smoking hot

[NEROVERWEISS]

thank u :)

[richpickins]

Hi, great vid... I used to use cubase back in the day and I have just loaded reason 4 up. ive not made tunes for a few years...I want to use reason 4 just to mix 5 mp3 tracks together....whats the best way for me to do this? do i import the tracks in?

thanks

[misslaidlaw]

@ richpickins

When you say mix what you do you mean really?

Like a DJ mix or an engineer mix?

[KevinDolin]

@richpickins Reason is a shitty program for working with audio or MP3's. Use a real DAW for this.

Reason is primarily a synth plugin with some basic sequencing functionality so it can be used as a standalone program, but even the Propellerheads will tell you that isn't what it's intended for and you should be using a real DAW if you want to work audio.

[TwilightShade]

@richpickins one way to do this would be to create 5 NN-19 samplers, load the songs (you'll have to convert them to WAV) as a sample (1 per NN-19), and on the sequencer, use the pencil tool to draw a note trigger for each NN-19 (keep it at C3). Manage their volumes with the mixer. You will not be able to edit individual parts in each song this way. To do that you would need the songs in their Reason file formats as well as the sounds themselves. Hope that helps.

[conor909]

i cant get it to work, can only hear the Malstrom? No vocal sample from the NN19 ??

[misslaidlaw]

Try and move the dry/wet knob , you should be able to hear it after. (On the vocoder)

[conor909]

sorry! i had it rewired to logic and was hearing a synth in logics channel, and didnt have the combi going into any channel..

Works fine now! thanks! I am a wally.

[RedSkullthagreat]

OMG misslaidlaw you are SOOOOOOO rare!! Most females won't go near anything like this as they complain of a headache as a result. Will you marry me? LOL You are such a turn on!!

[misslaidlaw]

Thanks RedSkull

[RedSkullthagreat]

@misslaidlaw -Oh your very welcome sweetheart.

[oo77i]

wait!!..For the vocals can you record those directly in??,or do still you have to use stuff like recycle/ record the vocals on cubase and sync it with reason?.

[misslaidlaw]

You can not record vocals directly into Reason unless you have the new program which they brought out recently called RECORD. If you do not have Record then you can rewire with Cubase. Or if you have a wav file throw it in recycle and chop it up or import the whole wav into any of the sampling machines.

[englishhermit]

Good tutorial. No waffle, straight to the point, well explained and simple to understand. Thank you.

[misslaidlaw]

Thanks Mr Hermit

[TURNTHEMUSICUP82]

You're a genius. all the other tutorials mad this seem extra hard. thank you

[misslaidlaw]

Thanks TTMU82

[Lephrizz]

Thank you so much ^.^ I tried so long to figure out how to use a vocoder in reason. @.@ now im goin to spend much more time on reason than before.

[misslaidlaw]

Great News...

[asianallstar24]

Thank you!! Thats a Dwele sample isnt it?

[misslaidlaw]

Sure is

[asianallstar24]

LOL Dwele is great :)

[Flevable]

Thanx, this was easy to understand.

[Liteblufootsoldier]

Wish I had a beatmaking housewife !!!!!!!!

[kash263]

yeah me 2

[spongebobdealerpants]

lol now thats a ffun way to spend your days! beatmaking house wife...

[Bardockcloud]

help please when i try this when i hit a key it starts at the beging of the vocal sample how do i fix this?

[misslaidlaw]

When you strike a key it will always start at the begining of the sample, unless you instruct it to do otherwise. If you want to shorten your samples so when you hit a key it starts at a different place. I would say use RECYCLE and chop your sample there, save it and bring it up in the rex machine or nnxt

[trisharuscello]

you are great! I looked at 5 different examples and you are the only that is so informative and interactive. Thanks alot! Hope you keep doing these they are very useful.

[fbebeats]

I like how she says VOCODER.. sexy.

[MarvsTracks]

Finally, someone who can teach! Thanks for making that simple!

[droer76]

5 * i luv the vocoder its wicked =]

[jonnylox]

ive been on loads of these tut.. and within 10 seconds youve given me what i wanted to know..great work keep it up x

[misslaidlaw]

You can not use MP3s YOU CAN convert the mp3 in itunes and make it into a WAV in which you can then use in Reason.

[IamLuke92]

can i use .mp3 for vocals

if so, can you let me knowhow as soon as please.thanks alot x

[DevonWhite67]

You used Dwele as your example, nice.