Using Reason's Virtual Instruments: Skill Pack (Paperback)

Description

What will distinguish the sounds you make in Reason from the rest of the crowd? One of the keys to mastering Reason lies in mastering its virtual instruments—the numerous customizable synths and sample players that come with the program. With these tools, a nearly limitless virtual studio is at your fingertips—but how do you maximize these instruments to their fullest potential? Using Reason’s Virtual Instruments: Skill Pack provides you the knowledge you need to freely express yourself with Reason, to get you out of the presets and into designing your own sounds. What may now appear to be an overwhelming jumble of virtual knobs, sliders, and buttons will soon become a finite and comfortable environment in which you can let your creativity soar. By the end of the book, you will know exactly what to do with every square inch of the Reason instruments. You will know what this or that knob does, and, when you adjust it to change sounds, you will understand why it changed. A key part of Using Reason’s Virtual Instruments: Skill Pack is the CD-ROM included with this book. It’s full of sample content for building your own NN-XT, NN-19, and Redrum patches. It also contains several finished patches for all the Reason instruments, as well as examples designed to allow you to check yourself as you progress through the various exercises. Unlike other books with companion discs, the source files on every Skill Pack CD-ROM are an essential part of the book’s tutorials—they are not there as mere examples, but are the building blocks from which you’ll construct the projects. The result is a fully integrated learning experience.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – The Subtractor
Chapter 2 – The Malstrom
Chapter 3 – NN-XT
Chapter 4 – Redrum
Chapter 5 – The Combinator
Appendix A – NN-19
Appendix B – Dr. Rex
Appendix C – Making your own ReFills

什麼會使你在 Reason 中製作的聲音與眾不同？掌握 Reason 的關鍵之一就在於掌握其虛擬樂器 - 這個程式附帶了許多可自訂的合成器和樣本播放器。利用這些工具，你可以在指尖上擁有一個幾乎無限的虛擬工作室 - 但是如何最大化這些樂器的潛力呢？《Using Reason's Virtual Instruments: Skill Pack》提供了你所需的知識，讓你能夠自由地在 Reason 中表達自己，讓你不再只使用預設聲音，而是設計出自己的聲音。現在看來可能是一個令人困惑的虛擬旋鈕、滑塊和按鈕的混亂，很快就會變成一個有限且舒適的環境，讓你的創造力飛揚。在閱讀本書的最後，你將對 Reason 的每一個部分都了如指掌。你將知道每個旋鈕和按鈕的功能，當你調整它們來改變聲音時，你將明白為什麼它們會改變。《Using Reason's Virtual Instruments: Skill Pack》的一個重要部分是附帶的 CD-ROM。它充滿了用於建立自己的 NN-XT、NN-19 和 Redrum 補丁的樣本內容。它還包含了所有 Reason 樂器的幾個完成補丁，以及設計的示例，讓你在進行各種練習時可以自我檢查。與其他附帶光碟的書籍不同，每個 Skill Pack CD-ROM 上的源文件是本書教程的重要組成部分 - 它們不僅僅是示例，而是你將用來構建項目的基礎。結果是一個完全整合的學習體驗。