This is a version of the recorder from the Reason Factory Sound Bank - set up with breath control, so you don't have to. You can get a real expansive sound if you add some verb and maybe some delay - but I'll leave that up to you. Have fun!
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This is the bari sax from the Reason Factory Sound Bank. Breath control added, of course. I used the mf version of the multi sample and just varied the filter and dynamics. Usually, I don't like playing sax sounds on the gig, because I play sax and it just never sounds quite right. I make an exception in this case because the samples are really good, the effect of having a funky bari on your tune is way cool and it sure beats lugging around 40 pounds of brass! Easier on the neck, too.
Every once it a while I like to something fun and silly, so here is a spooky theremin in honor of Halloween (in the States) this week. Be sure to play the spoooky notes - G - D flat - C. UPDATE: Reader Kenneth says it works in Reason 4 with no problems.
This is the Offerdahl Flute from the Reason Factory Sound Bank with Breath Control. Not much to say here except that this would be a sound that you can use as is with some reverb, or you may want to use it in a combinator to add breathiness to another sound.
One of many brass section patches I have been playing around with. This one seems to work well with the motown stuff. The demo below is made from some loops from the 'Reason Soul School ReFill' that I just threw together real quick. This patch is a layer of two NN-XT brass patches from the Factory Sound Bank with some options to grunge up the sound with a Scream4 and some room reverb. This is a work in progress, so expect more versions and variations soon!
This week I took the Pan Flute from last week and kicked it up a notch! I put it in a combinator with some fx and a layered it with a synth sound from the Subtractor. It gives you that airy, new age feel. Of course, there are front panel controls for the fx and the level of the synth. Hope you like it.
Staying with the flute theme from last week, here is the Pan Flute from the Reason Factory Sound Bank, now with breath control. Add a bunch of reverb and delay to get that big, lonesome ethnic flute sound. Or, try throwing this sound into a combinator with a Subtractor. You could add some authentic breathiness to a synth sound that way. Hey, sometimes you just want a breathy pan flute.
This sound of the week is my favorite flute patch, at the moment anyway :). For meat and potatoes essentials, you can't beat a good flute. I'll play this on bossa tunes and some rock and roll standards that every cover band in the universe plays (Brown Eyed Girl, anyone?)
In the next few weeks I'll be posting some breath activated NN-XT patches. On the gig, I'm often asked by my bandmates if I can cover a certain instrument on EWI, or sometimes you just want to use sampled material for the basis of a new sound. In Reason, the NN-XT is your go to sampler.
Look for an NN-XT tutorial coming soon. The band I'm in has an arrangement of 'When I Fall in Love' that has the trumpet player playing about three choruses straight at a dirge-like tempo. To help him out, we decided I could play a chorus on EWI. Keeping with my explorations of the Wavetable Oscillator in Thor, this is what I came up with. It's a combination of the 'Multi Sax' and 'Multi Trombone' waveforms that use breath to sweep between the different waveforms in each wave table to give something a little more interesting than just a straight saw tooth sound. I also use a fixed square wave in there which comes out in the soft sections. Enjoy.
This week we present a classic analog brass sound. It uses the State Variable Filter in Thor to get that classic Oberheim sound. It gets more 'brassy' with higher breath pressure by mapping Breath to the detune amount of a Multi-Oscillator Filter. You can experiment with the detune amount and the amount of Breath applied to the detune parameter to make this sound all yours. This is just one way to make a synth brass sound with Thor. Like all things in Reason, there are many, many other techniques you could use. Enjoy.
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