Reason Micro Tutorial - Live Sampling 101

If it was good for Trevor Horn, The Beastie Boys, and pretty much every pioneering producer in the last 30 years... then it's good for us too. Live Sampling is back in Reason 5 and Record 1.5. But before you start pitching your burp noises up 3 octaves we thought we'd teach you the basics of the process.

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• record
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[daeser1]

Amazing how REASON didn't even figure they should add a "MONO/STEREO" switch. It is very hard to figure out how to record in MONO, thus everything i record is either on the left or the right side. Anyone know a way around this? I have an external soundcard (interface) and am using a PC (vista).

[PropellerheadSW]

@daeser1 Reason's live sampling input works the way a lot of hardware machine inputs work (and even a lot of home VCRs). If you plug into the left sampling input ONLY, then it works in mono. If you plug into both, it records a stereo sample. If you're hooking up a mono source then just make sure the right input of the sampling input on the back of the rack is unplugged and you'll get a mono recorded sample.

[theguvnerpresents]

do you care to share what type of filters you use on the videos afterwards?

any info would be awesome!

[PropellerheadSW]

@theguvnerpresents I'm a big believer in Final Cut Pro's 3-way color corrector and some other in house filters. That's what I use more than anything else by far. Then a lot of my image capture style is also happening in the camera by my choice of shutter speed, lens aperture, iso, etc.

[kindofallpedia]

It's a shame this is so difficult to get working. I have a mic that works in every other sound program but Reason 5 will not pick it up. I have tried the ASIO4ALL driver, it still won't work. Maybe in Reason 6 this can be streamlined a bit to work with more mics!

[PropellerheadSW]

@kindofallpedia It should work with every mic. Have you contacted our support guys to help you troubleshoot? They're really good at this stuff and friendly too. :) head over to our website propellerheads dot se /support

[PropellerheadSW]

@AntoineBigAnt Certainly! :) If it makes a noise, you can sample it. That leaves you open to sampling pretty much anything as long as it's not floating in the silent vacuum of outer space. :) Sampling vinyl works. Drumming on the side of the International Space Station sadly wouldn't work... unless you sampled from INSIDE THE SPACE STATION! :0 Anyone have any contacts at NASA? I've got a new ReFill idea.

[PropellerheadSW]

@ybot1983 A 21st century whoopi cushion? Sure why not!? Little known trivia: This is precisely why we added this feature to Reason 5. It just so happens that it serves a musical purpose too. ;)

[hhanslie]

i always watch these videos really god damn late at night and get inspired to stay up even later.

[zotteke7]

when i get this, i'm 80.

[benj8706]

i plugged my mic in but im not getting a signal

[djmigra]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!! Now I can't stop hitting my singer to make sounds!!!! XD

[hareljann1]

@TonyBtheEG Thats so true. I love Propellerhead! thanks for all the inspiration!!

[TonyBtheEG]

My head is exploding more every time I use @PropellerheadSW creations.