Reason Tutorials

Here is another short reason tutorial related to making 8 bit chiptune sounding patches. This time were going to use the Thor polysonic synth found in reason 4.
The most important aspect of this synth is the use of the step sequencer at the bottom of the Thor, to get something that sounds vaguely authentic you [...]

Don’t get me wrong reason has always had good synths, the subtractor is still one of my favorite bass synths and the Malstrom is still fantastic for edgy goodness and doing evolving pads. The synths in reason were so good in fact that when Reason 4 was announced I kind of ignored Thor and [...]

Everyone’s heard it, or a derivative of it and a lot of people love the sound of the classic “Reese” bass. The reese bass and derivatives thereof have been around for so long now that they are almost as much of a cliché as the 303 acid sound. Yet this doesn’t stop us loving that [...]

Ok so many people have big collections of snare samples or even the Reason Drum Kit Refill so why bother creating a snare sound using a synthesizer?

Well for several reasons:

Its fun
Its educational. You need to know about using the noise oscillators and applying filter envelopes to them.
Ive always had a soft spot for [...]