As you grew up from a baby and surrounded by all the gear in our house, you spent so much time asking me n yer mom 'how do you?' ... Now the tables have turned and we are scratching our heads looking at each other asking 'how did we produce such a beast?' ... in a loving way - of course ;-)

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Well I DID spend at least the first half of my life asking you how to do things ;) didn’t just come from nowhere right haha.

Been using Reason for years and I'm still blown away by how versatile it is. The only limit is your mind.

@JRChavesZA

3 жыл бұрын

i couldn't agree more... its like a photoshop for music

@rahimkisoor7004

Жыл бұрын

Got 12 now ...was lost for months. I love Reason...still finding things I didn't knew it is in there.

This was super helpful for me. I'm definitely a beginner, but this is a very smart way to work. I love all the control you have over each and every sound in your drum pattern.

You're videos on Reason are outstanding. I hope you continue making them.

This is dope! Keep them coming!

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Big fan of your videos too - high five reason crew!

@ReasonStudios

4 жыл бұрын

🙏

if you use the "tape mode" in grain, you can use it to play back the samples without stretching - no need to use another sampler device. the benefit to this approach is, that f.e the envcs in grain as well as the modulation capabilities are of much higher quality than with the other samplers like nn19 or nnxt. also the filter in grain is way better than the one in the other samplers.

Your tutorials are truly awesome. I love your workflow and how you handle Reason with ease and understanding.

Great tutorial, well presented, screen is clear and visible. I like this method using Grain. See ya, I am going to play. Oh and I subscribed.

Incredibly cool & useful tip. It seems so simple and obvious in retrospect since, as you say, Reason gives you the tools to answer these kinds of needs; but short videos like this to get you thinking about problems in the abstract really help transfer that knowledge to tackle future obstacles. Either way, I know what I'm going to be doing this evening. Thank you!

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Radd! I had intended to show at the end a device I'd made before Grain came out, that was basically a synth. But I ran out of time and had to get back to my actual work haha. But yeah, most things are possible in Reason. I sometimes forget that I can do more than just load sounds and sequence notes!

Neat trick. I haven't used Grain much for percussion yet, but your videos have me interested to experiment.

Goddam it I wished I'd have found this method out a few months ago. Would have saved me endless hours of resampling drum kits through akaiser. However the fundamental principles of this are brilliant. So thank you so much for sharing! I can now template this and speed up production no end. Genius.

Thanks for the awesome tutorial. I'd never have thought to do it this way, so many possibilities.

Awesome.. I love that more content is being generated for this channel!!! It's all super valuable!!! Thank you!

Paul ! I watched this video 10s of times on different days on different projects ! Just cause I fell in love with this idea ! and it got hacked into my mind and always think of it when trying to get creative with my drums ... Plz do more

Another great video! Please, keep them coming! I love Reason. I wish it was more mainstream, so there would be more cool videos of setups like this! Still wondering when they're going to give us the Combinator MKII...

That drum beat is sick, I got a habit of starting off the way you have here Paul with creating a combinator and then Line Mixer and what instruments I want. It's the main way to create customs sounds and settings and I've got this so down pat that in few seconds I have something cool started easy.

That's some of my evening sorted. Thanks!

That’s so great and SO simple! 🙏🏻

Awesome tutorial!

Very cool, great tip and video 👍

Thank you. That was a pretty amazing tutorial. Cheers!

Brilliant! Can't wait to try this technique using Reason Rack in Ableton.

@nexarification

4 жыл бұрын

No problem. stretching of samples was introduced many years ago in impulse device. nowadays, new simpler has such a kind of option. and adding Max for live devices the possibilities are endless.

This is fabulous, cheers dude! Peace ✌️

This is awesome!

Instead of inserting a new grain and copying the patch, you could duplicate the existing grain device.

Great idea!

Brilliant! Thanks!!

Great tip man. Thanks!!!

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks for checking it out :)

thank u!!! Clever solution

Great video! I think the moment Reason gets a DPI upgrade, it's going to get some mainstream attention, for the unique and visual workflow!

Nice!

Great video! Is there a way to use Drum Sequencer to do trig-lock type events like Elektron does on all their gear? So the ability to choose a single drum channel, and then a single step in the sequence and lock param changes to that single step event?

I got reason 11 intro and don't have this Grain , thats sucks , thank you for the video

@omfgihopethisworks

3 жыл бұрын

Its only available in the standard version, or you could get it on rent to own from reason studios shop

How did you get the drum sequencer to work with the separate samplers inside the combinator? I'm trying to add beat map but it keeps wanting to be it's own thing and making a piano for itself instead of working my drums.

Why do your drums sound so much better than the ones I pulled up in Reason->Drum Supply?

Love it! Thanks. Question. How do you make the C1 play right pitch without "transposing up 24notes" in the combinator? Brilliant.

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Thanks :) I think it's at around 1:00 in the video; I set the keyboard tracking in Grain to 0. Or you could just use the transposition control in the Combi programmer to offset it. That would work too!

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Also really dig that peek into your project for Love Me Harder - what an absolute tune!

@Lightseconds

4 жыл бұрын

@@PaulOrtiz Thanks for reply, Ive been doing it the hard way haha. Transposing every device from +24 and down. Thanks for the tip!

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lightseconds Haha I know how it is. Truth be told I've only just gotten back into using the Combinator at all! Always forget it's an option. Now if we could just get 8 knobs and buttons on it **prays**

How do you get your screen to look like that? Is it a resolution thing?

following the instructions but none of the grains show up in the combinator and as a newbie i'm stumped as to what to do next any suggestions ?

This is a very cool way to use Grain, I have one question however; at about the 2:20 mark you make a comment that you can play it like a drum kit, and then we can see/hear a drum set being played... Does that mean you are playing each of the sounds by using the keyboard and triggering them that way, no other device is used to trigger the sounds being heard?

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Stewart Robson Hey! Thanks :) yeah that’s right, it’s just played in with a MIDI keyboard.

@Funkspace

4 жыл бұрын

There are various ways to trigger the grain drums, ranging from playing the keyboard to trigger the combinator’s Gran synths, or basic notes on a sequencer track in reason DAW, to using player devices, or using drum machines/rhythm sequencer rack devices such as Reason’s stock ReDrum if you feel like going old school and programming rhythms with its 808 style layout -in which case you’d flip the rack and connect the CV outs for each drum part on the ReDrum and connect them to the respective Grain Synth. The ReDrum doesn’t need to be connected to an output as a result since its being used for the rhythm programmer and doesn’t need to be heard itself. Each of the four Knobs on the combinator could be set up to alter multiple parameters on any of the Grain synths with start and end ranges. So a patch could have knobs that will alter the sounds dramatically each knob could focus on whole different sets of manipulations. And then all four knobs movements could be automated or recorded as a performance and perfected by editing the automation. It’s a powerful system.

Is there anyway to do mute groups like in Kong with these samples in the combinator? I tried to use kong as to control these grain synths but mute groups didn't work.

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Very good question! The answer might be no? I’ll have a think about it but I think if you needed muting hats in a kit like this you might have to make them normal samples and use something like NNXT or anything else with muting.

@rcssaxby

4 жыл бұрын

@@PaulOrtiz Thanks man! Yeah, in this day and age I have become extremely lazy so sampling back into nnxt sounds like a chore! haha. But yeah that's what I'm going to do. I love Kong. hopefully they make a grain device in kong. that would be freaking crazy. Awesome channel by the way

How to connect each grain component to a track? It is not shown in the video...

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Just skip the part where I connect them to the mixer and instead right click the output of each Grain and create new Mix Channel. That ought to do it :)

Hi, great Video, but i cant emulate it, may i miss some steps. On Combinator i don't see in the section show programmer any grains. Maybe you can explain the connection? Would be great to hear from you. Have a nice and saftey weekend, bb

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Did you get this sorted in the end? If you send me a download link to your combinator I'd be happy to have a look!

@borisbagnara7678

4 жыл бұрын

@@PaulOrtiz no, i not figured out why its not working, here the link, maybe you can help me :) www.dropbox.com/s/h4zpg46cu9t08oh/Grain%20test.reason?dl=0

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

@@borisbagnara7678 Ahh okay yeah I see what you've done wrong; if you watch the video closely I'm putting the devices inside the combinator. You've just put them underneath, so they're not controlled by it. Make sure you've pressed "Show Devices" on the combinator. This will reveal an area where you can drag the devices and they'll be triggered by Combinator input. Let me know if you figure it out.

@borisbagnara7678

4 жыл бұрын

@@PaulOrtiz ohhh, thank you =)

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

@@borisbagnara7678 No problem - lemme know if you have any other questions. Cheers!

How do I set up the add menus

@PaulOrtiz

2 ай бұрын

Heya! At which point in the vid is this?

how do init the plugin

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Right click any device in Reason and choose 'reset device'. If you want to prevent Grain from loading with a default patch you need to disable that feature in the preferences. Hope this helps!

Really surprised you use an inline mixer and not separate mix channels for each of the drop hits

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah that’s a totally valid approach! This is more so you can save the patch and recall it quickly and just get playing. But absolutely separate mix channels would be my preferred method :)

got no sound !

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Did you sort it out in the end? Save your combi patch and give me a download link for it - I'd be happy to take a look.

@peterburgess7314

4 жыл бұрын

@@PaulOrtiz I did thank you, You're clear presentation is very good, well done. It was not the Combinator as the problem, it was the sound through U tube. The demo has a glitch.

@PaulOrtiz

4 жыл бұрын

Ohhhhh sorry sorry yes, I pinned a comment about this - I used a sine wave for part of the demo not thinking about mobile/tablet users. Audio is here. Just use headphones or watch in your studio. Totally my bad.