by Eric Bintner
This tutorial is aimed at beginners. The information I give is simply to make the equipment go. To do anything fancy you must play with the knobs and controls to see what they do. Don't bother with this until you figure out how to get the equipment set up and running.
2. Right click the grey bar on the left side of the mixer. Scroll to "Create", then "Rumdrum Drum Computer"
3. Click down arrow button on patch preset. This is important, otherwise the drum machine will not make sound. (clicking the folder button will allow you to browse through the different drum sample kits)
4. Press some buttons in the pattern sequencer (the line of buttons that light up) then press the "Run" button. The beat should play through the mixing board.
5. Right click the grey bar on the left side of the mixer. Scroll to "Create", then "NN19 Digital Sampler"
6. Again, right click the grey bar on the mixer (or the sampler). Scroll to "Create", then "Matrix Pattern Sequencer". Without this sequencer the sampler has no input and will not make sound.
7. Click the folder button (or down button) on patch preset. This sampler can replicate anything from Guitars to Organs to funny noises. Select a sound.
8. On the Matrix Pattern Sequencer, the vertical bars on the bottom tell the sampler the length and velocity. This part must be clicked in order to make a sound. The horizontal bars above in the grid tell the sampler what note to play. Finally, click "run" on the Matrix to start the sampler.
Effects:
9. Any effect can be added to any component simply by right clicking on the component's grey bar and creating an effect device (phaser, distortion, chorus, compressor, reverb...)
10. By right clicking on the mixer (like adding a sampler) you can add an effect to the mixing board. This automatically sets it up through the Aux Sends in the mixer. I have opened RV7000 advanced reverb. You must turn up the top red knob on a track to affect any particular track.
The Main Sequencer: How loops become songs
11. The bottom part of the window in Reason is the main sequencer. Here is where you import the MIDI data you made in the drum machine or Matrix Pattern Sequencer. To do this, highlight the row that corresponds with the machine that you want to control. To add sequencer data for the Rumdrum component, highlight the Rumdrum track in the sequencer. To add sequencer data for the NN19 Sampler component, highlight the NN19 Sampler track in the sequencer. Make sure the "L" and "R" are set to where you want the loops (sequencer MIDI data) to appear.
12. (Make sure to hit "stop" first.) Right click somewhere in an empty spot on the pattern sequencer component. (Remember the Rumdrum has it's own pattern sequencer and the NN19 Sampler uses a Matrix Pattern Sequencer.) To move pattern you created in the Matrix for the sampler, right click on the Matrix (not the sampler) and click "copy pattern to track"
13. The data has appeared in the main sequencer and can be edited by dragging or deleting.
