Saturday, April 12, 2008

My First Interactions With Reason 1.0


Wrist by Josh

These are the first recordings I made using a demo of Reason 1.0 back in 2000/2001. I messed around with Reason while bored at work. I had no keyboard so I made extensive use of Matrix modules (and the "random pattern" feature) along with pitch wheels on the Subtractor synth. There was no way to save or bounce a mix with the demo so I used Windows Recorder to record while I dickied about live. Oh and what made it even more fun; everything had to be done in 15 minutes because after that Reason would shut down and you'd have to start over again.

The sad thing is, 8 years on and I wouldn't be surprised if people thought these were my best efforts lol

The chances are, you the reader will at most only listen to five seconds of one (if any at all) so I'm putting number five first as the best one on show. Its a bubbly trippy trancey ambienty thing (stick on enough genres and people might end up agreeing with something).
This is second best (best being a loose musical term).
Love that syncopated ReDrum programming lol
Always reminded me of a priest giving a sermon at a rave.
Ironically, I started off using Reason in a completely live setting. Everything was triggered and manipulated in real time. The thought of doing anything live like that now doesn't exist in my mind. Ableton Live scares the pants off me!

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