Visualizing Thor's envelopes & LFO's in Reason 5 / Record 1.5

I was going to dub in some audio for this, but I'm still fighting microphone issues and .... recording yourself for the internet is sketchy. Mad props to those like Hydlide who make it seem soooooo easy.

I'm a visual learner. It was helpful for me to get a grasp for how ADSR affects the sound by also seeing the envelops. This is a method to get a visual representation of your envelops mapped to a 6:2mixer's channel level knobs. Maybe this will help you. Maybe you think I'm crazy.

First off, all the filters (ECF-42) I show you are just there to name the channels on the 6:2 mixer. I've hidden them in the mix channel to get them out of the way for this tutorial.

First we'll route the Global Envlope out to our Combinator's CV input (new reason 5!). Be sure to change all the CV inputs to Unipoplar, and crank up the CV gain knob on all of the CV inputs too.

Then route CV1 in the combinator's programmer to target the 6:2 mixer channel 1 level. When I key is played you see the visual representation of the envelope on the 6:2 mixer's channel 1 knob.

Next, for the Amp Envelope; only there's no Amp Envelope output on the back of Thor. So we must route one ourselves via the Mod Matrix. We'll send it out of CV output 1.

Don't forget to program your combinator so CV input 2 targets Channel 2 Level. And then all should be good with your amp envelope.

Repeat for your Mod Envelope and Filter Envelope.

We've run out of CV inputs so we've got to send our LFO's to the combinators rotary inputs. You may not adjust the rotary inputs to Unipolar, but that just makes sense to represent the LFO's anyway.

LFO1 needs to be routed through the Mod Matrix, but LFO2 has a dedicated output on the back of Thor.

That's it. Save this combinator so you don't have to mess with all this CV routing again later!

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this would actually be a great video with audio...... 

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Needs Audio !