{"id":8234,"date":"2012-12-15T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T21:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.online.berklee.edu\/erikhawkins\/?p=193"},"modified":"2025-03-14T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:15:34","slug":"easy-sound-design-in-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/easy-sound-design-in-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Sound Design Techniques in Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve worked in a lot of DAW programs: Digital Performer, Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Live, and Reason. I keep coming back to Reason for its amazing sonic palette (which has grown immensely with the release of Rack Extensions<\/a>) and its inspiring interface for developing custom sounds.  I\u2019m a big believer in taking the time to design sounds that fit each production, and then recycling these sounds for future productions.  Over time, I believe this helps you to develop a voice as a producer.  Your productions will be recognizable not only from your arrangements and writing, but also from your personal bank of synth and sampler patches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reason makes developing such sounds as easy as plug and play, like simple object-oriented programming.  You don\u2019t need to be a technically minded, sound designer whiz to cook up great sounding patches using just a combinator and some simple layering techniques.  This is how I make a lot of my sounds that you can hear in my productions.  In this video, Easy Sound Design with Reason (or, Building a Cool Electro Bass), I demonstrate how you can easily and quickly build your own custom sounds without needing to understand anything too technical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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