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.
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Praise for the Cyclone Wind Synth Refill from internationally renowned saxophonist, composer and EWI player, Seamus Blake: "It has been a source of great inspiration for me. I use a Cyclone combinator as a template and then plug other sounds into it. It works fantastic. Thank you. I now like Reason so much that I added a second laptop into my setup just to incorporate Reason." Thanks, Seamus! We can't wait to hear what you do with it! There are many sonic possibilities in the Wavetable oscillator in Thor. For us wind controller players, it offers some dynamic sounds when combined with Breath. We'll create a new sound from scratch in this tutorial. First, you have to know what the Wavetable oscillator is and what it does. For more than you ever wanted to know about the Wavetable oscillator, I direct you to Propellerheads excellent tutorial series 'Discovering Reason'. Read these, first: Thor Demystified 11: The Wavetable oscillator part 1 Thor Demystified 12: The Wavetable oscillator part 2 Wavetable oscillator - what is it?The Wavetable oscillator is a sound source with a bunch of waveforms you can select. Each waveform is actually a whole bunch of waveforms stuck together one after another. You use the Position knob to select which waveform out of the group to hear. That's about it, and not really that interesting until you start to sweep through the waves (or table, get it?), using an envelope, such as Mod Env, Global Env, or LFO such as LFO1 or LFO2 in Thor. You can learn a whole lot about sweeping through the waves in the links above, so I won't get that into it too much. Today we are going to concentrate on sweeping through the waves using Breath. This lets us control the actual tone of the sound using Breath, which I think goes a little beyond using a filter, because we can completely alter the tonal characteristics of the sound. So let's get started. 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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