Our good friend J. M. Hopkins has uploaded a video to YouTube showing off his skills on the EWI-USB, playing a patch from the Cyclone ReFill. Nice Job!

I just heard from Jeremy Cubert of The Jeremy Cubert Project. He got Rotator Volume 2 and within one day had a new tune on Soundcloud. He uses the Rotator ReFill with an Eigenharp Pico. If you like avant garde new music, check out Particle Dance on his SoundCloud page. Great work Jeremy, we hope to hear more from you!

Reason 6 is out and anyone who already had Reason + Record probably has it now, due to the 'pay what you want' upgrade deal from October. I've been experimenting with the three new devices in the Reason rack - The Echo, Pulverizer, and Alligator. So far, my favorite is the Pulverizer. Is it just because I like everything distorted and ugly? Not really - the Pulverizer has a lot of uses beyond complete sound demolition, as its name might imply. I thought I would share three creative uses for the Pulverizer that make our lives as EWI artists easier, or at least a little better. Read on for the tips!

Sometimes you want to control your Reason devices 'hands-free', like, oh, I don't know, when you have both hands on your wind controller. In this short tutorial, I'll show you how to map an unused note on your wind controller to control the 'Solo Lead' switch on a Rotator combinator. This approach also works if you have a foot pedal. Ready? Let's dive in.

Last time, I told you about some of the sampled synth waveforms that are available in the Reason Factory Sound Bank. In this tutorial, we will create our own version of the Prophet 5, using samples from that legendary instrument.

We all know how powerful the synths are in Reason - there are worlds of possibilities in Malström, Subtractor, and especially Thor. However, what if the sound we want can only be found on a certain model vintage synth? 
 
Did you know that the Reason Factory Sound Bank contains raw waveform samples of a wide range of vintage synths?

This is a short tip coming on the heels of the previous tutorial on thickening up your sound by mixing in a filtered version of the original sound. It got me to thinking - are there any other devices that we could route a signal through and mix in?  Of course, the answer is yes. What I'm really talking about is using what would normally be thought of as insert effect, such as a phaser or Line6 Amp, as a send effect, so this is really easy to do.

Simply add your effect as a send effect and mix your effect in. You'd be surprised what mixing in some tone from  a Line6 Bass Amp can do. It can add warmth or grit to the sound - depending on how much you mix in. 

So, give it a try and let us know how it works for you!

I recently got my hands on EditEd4Tv's "Reasonable Help 2010" ReFill and thought I would post a ReView of it, since I am so impressed.

Ed Bauman is a fixture on the Reason Forums. He is one of the most knowledgable and certainly most helpful guys out there. Many times, I have seen a post start or end with 'Maybe Ed has some ideas on this...' hoping to get a response from the master!

This ReFill is rather eclectic but jam packed with a lot of great stuff. It is a compilation of seriously advanced Reason techniques, packaged up with some great documentation. In fact Ed himself describes his ReFill as "A helpful collection of creative combinators for Reason and Record." It's also important to note that the ReFill is not presented as a collection of patches, but as a collection of Reason song files. This lets the author present little song examples to demonstrate the functionality of each one.