Sunday, January 4, 2009

Welcome Back!

Welcome back class and happy new year! I hope you all enjoyed your break. It has been roughly 2 weeks since you have made beats, so lets spend this week reviewing the things we've learned this semester. Heads Up: The semester is almost over. There will NOT be a traditional "Final" test. Instead, your final will be based on the number of Full beats you make, a minimum of 4 full beats need to be made if you want to burn a cd on our last week.

Now that all of that is out of our way, lets get started.

1. Open Reason

2. Create an MClass Mastering Suite Combi

3. Create a Mixer 14:2

4. Move your Right Loop Point (R) to 5

5. Create a Redrum and make a 32 step beat using a clap or snare, a bass drum, a hi hat and a percussion. Copy it to track.

6. Create a Dr. REX Loop Player. Load in a Dr. Rex Percussion Loop and put it to track.

7. Create a Synthesizer (a.k.a. a Combinator, Subtractor, Malstrom, NN19, NNXT)

8. Use your keyboard to record in your own melody. When you finish recording your melody and you know that it is correct, click the quantize button. Use the pencil tool to draw a box over your recorded parts.

9. Repeat steps 7 & 8

10. You should have 2 original melodies, 1 Redrum pattern, and 1 Dr. Rex Loop: All should be on the track.

SAVE YOUR BEAT!!! Tomorrow you will turn these beats into Full Beats!

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