Kong Drum Modules on Separate Channels

Here's the simple way to set up each Kong Drum Module on its own mixer channel in Propellerhead Reason 5. Simple Simple Simple.

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Music

Tags:

• Reason 5
• Propellerhead
• Kong
• Drum Processing
• Channel
• Drum Mixer
• How To
• Tips & Tricks
• Instructions tutorial

[DIRTROAD487]

thanks for the info ,, right down to the point ,short and brief

[Phisequence]

@DIRTROAD487 No problem. Glad I could help.

[MMLs27]

hello, can you please answer this question?

this method is working fine for me but even when i save it as a patch...everytime i load a new sample onto one of the pads it resets the pan knob back to the middle and also changes the output back to master fx?

why is this and is there a way around this? its really annoying, haha.

cheers man.

[Phisequence]

@MMLs27 Nope. no way around this. sorry.

[hiphopblues]

Queston, what is the advantage of using the mixer in this way? Can you do everything in terms of levels, panning, etc. in Kong it self. Plus you have the master and bus fx to use in stead of a send effect through the mixer. Thanks,

Hiphopblues

[Phisequence]

@hiphopblues Oh and one other advantage... Parallel compression. Sure you can set up 2 of the same drums on 2 different pads, link them, compress one, adjust levels and go, but then you are stealing 2 pads for one drum sound. So I would think parallel compression is easier on a main mixer. So there's advantage #2.

[BLAZINBEATS123]

GOOD VIDEO THANKS



[Phisequence]

@hiphopblues Well one advantage would be the EQ from the mixer directly. And if you have Record, then you gain access to the Big SSL Mixer, which means a whole world of compression, filtering, etc. that you wouldn't get with Kong alone. Though, of course you could feed in some M Class devices into the Kong signal chain, but then you couldn't get the per-drum settings unless you split the outputs. . . which leads right back to where we started. Again, this is only one method among many. Cheers!

[Phisequence]

@taba83 aum... yeah. I already said exactly how to do this in a previous post on this video. But thanks for explaining it again. lol. :-) Seriously though, of course you can do all 16 outputs mono (pan 1 hard left and 2 hard right, yadda yadda yadda. That's what makes Reason such a great tool.

[taba83]

Actually, it is possible to use all 16 output channels.

It actually follows the logic of analog mixers. If in this case, our bass drum was panned hard left in kong it would only go out through output 3. Snare drum panned hard right would go through output 4 etc.etc.

Of course this only makes sense if samples are mono, which most of the time they are. Therefore there is no need to use up a stereo channel for a mono sound.

Thanks for the video, though. It helped me.