Practice for Thursday Quiz

Friday there is no school, so instead of a Friday quiz, we will have a Thursday quiz this week. The quiz will be about using the Matrix to make a melody with 2 octaves. Today & tomorrow will be practice days. Lets get started!

1. Open Reason
2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
3. Set Tempo between 70-110 bpm
   
4. Create a Malstrom, Combinator, or Subtractor
   
5. Click on the folder to load a sound.
   
6. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Malstrom Patches: Mono Synths: Choose any of the patches. For the Combinator, go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Combinator Patches: Synth Poly: Choose any of the patches. For the Subtractor, go to Reason Factory Sound Bank: Subtractor Patches: Mono Synths: Choose any of the patches.
   
7. Create a Matrix.
   
8. On the Matrix, your steps can be either 8, 16, or 32.
   
9. On the Matrix, move the Octave switch, on the left from the keyboard, from 3 to 4.
10. Turn the Volume off on 3 notes if your steps are 8, 6 notes if your steps are 16, and 12 notes if your steps are 32.
11. Create a melody with between 3-5 notes if your steps are 8, 6-10 notes if your steps are 16, and 12-20 notes if your steps are 32.
    
12. Now copy this pattern to track.
13. On the Matrix, Select Pattern 2.
14. Move the Octave Switch from 4 to 5.
15. On the Matrix, create the same melody from pattern 1 but, with your octave in 5.
16. Copy this pattern to track
    
17. Click the Pattern Button on the Matrix.
18. Highlight all the boxes in the sequencer window and drag them up to the Malstrom/Combinator/Subtractor track.
19. Create a Redrum and create a beat using a Clap or Snap, Bass Drum, High Hat, and Percussion.
20. When you have finished the beat, Copy Pattern To Track.
21. Create a Dr. Rex.
22. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop.
23. On The Dr. Rex, click To Track...and "push play"
24. Save your beat.