James Bernard

Propellerhead Software's product specialist James Bernard shows you how to do a gated filter sweep in this Reason Sound Design video. This effect i...

Tweaking a TB 303 to pass the time...

Title track from the Flashback album released in 2007 on Three Sixty Records.

Available on Beatport and iTunes.

An unreleased funky minimal techno track. Maybe it will see the light of day as a proper release someday.. but for now.. it lives here.

From the album "My Beautiful which was composed entirely while Nicole was fighting Acute Myeloid Leukemia. I was at home taking care of our 3 daugh...

Just like with Slingshot (aka the 303 song).. this song is an exercise in minimalism.

This time I used only ONE sample for every sound you hear in ...

In this song I wanted to create a piece of music using only a few single shot samples from one of my favorite synths.. a TB-303. Every sound you he...

Originally released in 1997 on my friend Shad T. Scott's label Isophlux Records.

Since I was using all hardware at the time (1997.. Reason did not ...

In the third episode, James Bernard gives you even more tips on creating dub step wobble bass sounds in Record and Reason.

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In this week's episode, James Bernard shows how to create a typical dub step wobble bass sound in Record and Reason.

Propellerhead Software's product specialist James Bernard kicks off this series of tutorials with a demonstration on creative uses of the Record mi...

It's hard to believe it's been 52 Tips already but now we've all got the Reason/Record chops to prove it! For those of you who have been with me s...

With a solid foundation of synth theory and even Thor's fundamentals under your belt, this week we'll be diving deeper into the filter types in Tho...

If you've made it this far into Synth School without dropping out or changing your major to something less technical, then congratulations. You're...

Synth School enters its final and most advanced device starting this week. Strap in and get ready because we're about to tackle the Thor Polysonic...

You understand the basics of synthesis and have mastered the Subtractor, you've learned about the Malström's unique "graintable sythesis" technique...

If you think of last three weeks of Synth School as primary school, then this week we're graduating up to Middle School. Don't worry, though... th...

After watching the first two Synth School videos you've probably realized that the entirety of synthesizer sound design is simply about taking a ba...

In the second installment of my "Synth School" series I'll be staying on the Subtractor synth but looking at the Filter sections, Amp Envelope, Fil...

As electronic music producers, we rely on synths as our bread and butter sounds for leads, bass lines, effects, textures, and so on. Knowing that,...

If you've been listening to a song in the past several years and found yourself overcome with a compulsion to bop, bounce, head-nod, or otherwise p...

This week I'm going to show you one of the most tried and true methods we have to add stereo width and depth to our mixes: The Haas Affect.

Named...

When it comes to mastering, one of the hottest things right now is a technique known as "mid-side processing." As a basic description, mid-side pr...

The biggest irony for mix engineers is that mixing songs is not really about "mixing" at all. In fact, it's often more about creating separation ...

For many people, compressors are the biggest obstacle between them and a professional mix. But if you know how to use them, compressors are your b...

Neptune has its roots in pitch correction and harmony generation. In fact, that's exactly what it was designed for. But one of the things that ma...

The War of the Roses, the Cold War, or the Pepsi/Coke War... all these have come before us but we are currently locked in a much tougher battle kno...

It's nearly unimaginable to think about early music recording. Musicians had to record their songs in one take direct to wax/acetate records. 100...

The new "stretch to tempo" feature in Record 1.5 (AUDIO+MIDI) and Reason 5 (MIDI only) means that it's easier than ever to take a WAV loop off your...

Whenever I'm working on music, one thing that I've had in my personal bag of tricks is an "automation clip toolbox." Basically, it's a palette of ...

Maybe you're the type of person who has spent ten years making drum beats on ReDrum. You don't say "4 on the Floor Kick"... you say it's a "1 - 5 -...

If you're the type of person who got excited about Dr. Octorex switching between multiple REX loops but yearned for simultaneous layered playback t...

So many times people look at pitch correction from a standpoint of "how extreme can it go?" Understandably, entire sub-genres of Hip-hop have rise...

Now that Record 1.5 has come out, people are experimenting with the Neptune Pitch Corrector and Voice Synth and some have been asking for tips for ...

Kong didn't just redefine how you design drum sounds in your Reason and Record productions... it redefined your sound processing in general, thanks...

This week I'll show you how the Nurse Rex module inside Kong is redefining Rex loops' ease and creative potential in your music. Previously creati...

If you've got a hardware effect device that you just love... maybe it's a lo-fi effect you can't live without... or maybe it's a Lexicon 960L... yo...

Have you ever loaded up a really neat Thor Step Sequencer patch that sounds great? Have you then done all sorts of automation to make it behave th...

Many of you wouldn't dream of risking a live performance on some other DAW or software workstation out there and I wouldn't blame you. Crashes are...

Get ready to wire up your DJ mixer and sound card together for some killer live DJ sets. Reason and Record's stability and efficiency make them id...

This week I'm coming to you from the UK with round two of our key command bonanza. This week we go over some of the commonality between Reason and...

Wanna impress all your friends with your mad Reason skillz? This weeks episode will give you all the tools you need to have you blazing around your...

The combinator is like a bottomless pit of possibility. I always find that the more I tweak it, the more "extra-tweakable" I realize it is. Last ...

Even though the Combinator has been around for a while now... I still come across people who are not quite sure what it is and how they can use it....

All of us have experienced some sort of writer's block at one point or another... and I have found that there are some features of Reason and Recor...

This week I show how to use the Beat Repeater effect from the Record Sound Bank and how to tweak it using any USB control surface... urface... urfa...

Live Sampling is coming in Reason 5 and since we will all be sampling like madmen I wanted to cover some NN-XT sampler tips and tricks. This week ...

When James goes out to give Reason presentations and demos, he gets one question more often than anything else: "How do I hook up this very cool V...