Vocoding with Drums | Propellerhead Record + Reason

From Matt's blog at http://line6.com/blog

Line 6's Propellerhead Product Specialist Matt Piper demonstrates how to process an acoustic drum loop with a vocoder, using Propellerhead Record together with Propellerhead Reason.

Category:

Music

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• propellerhead record
• propellerhead reason
• line 6
• vocoder
• drum vocoder
• vocoding drums
• spider audio
• reason
• record
• line6piper
• matt piper
• line6piperpropellerblog

[samesoul]

how do you get that on-screen keyboard? f4 does nothing for me

[line6movies]

@samesoul The on-screen keyboard requires Reason 5 or Record. If you have a previous version of Reason, it won't work. If you do have Reason 5 and/or Record, then maybe you are using a Mac, and need to do this:

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Keyboard & Mouse.

Step 2

Click Keyboard, if the keyboard pane isn’t showing.

Step 3

Select the “Use the F1-F12 keys to control software features” checkbox.

You can use the Fn key to temporarily switch the functions of the F keys.

[DomeArmin]

But why did you use noises for it? You have to use the best pads and syntetizators, because vocoders are great things for it!

[line6movies]

@DomeArmin Great synth + human voice + vocoder = super cool for sure. But there are lots of videos about how to use vocoders in the traditional way, and this video is not about that. I wanted to show a different way to use a vocoder, a way that maybe some people had not thought of before. :)

[jaralleras]

If I only use Reason it won't work? I don't have Record...

[line6movies]

@jaralleras Yes, you can get this idea to work in Reason.

[markpriss]

wow ! result is amazing

[KingsProductions20]

U can get a app that lets u play reasons keys with ur qwerky keybored reason 4 and below users. i cant remember what its called but if u do enuff googling u will find it

[DomeArmin]

@line6movies Yes. I thought about it before 2 years, and I had this idea too. I have made some music in that base, that first I made or selected drum loops, what I thought, that is good, than I tried to make a really interesting synth sound, and than I mixed these in a vocoder with some real-time EQ. It was ang it is the base of some of my music nowadays too. I think that can be very interesting sometimes to start to make a new music.

(But it is true, I have to do more for a real music) :)

[line6movies]

@Twentysixbillion Ha ha! Thanks Twentysixbillion/Jagwah!!

As to who/how, I assure you I am actually the real Matt Piper (the American musician / product specialist, not the English former footballer).

As to why: It is all in order to fulfill what was foretold by the prophet Led Zeppelin in a lyric of Stairway to Heaven:

"...and the Piper will lead us to Reason."