So he now will only program the patterns directly into the TR-8S pattern sequencer and play the resulting audio into Reason. My friend's example: Same issue, but in his case he wants to play drum patterns from Reason to his Roland TR-8S. If I quantise the audio, it becomes perfect timing but it ever so slightly changes the tone. Not only is there some latency (which is easily fixed by sliding the audio track forward a bit), but there is varying latency between the notes. My example: Play a 16th note arpeggio through the MIDI device, output to a Roland JP-08 pluck sound, and record the resulting audio back into Reason. I've had some challenges with MIDI timing, as has a friend of mine. As an example an all hardware studio or a dedicated Atari to do the sequencing means that you'd notice that Midi actually is very rapid indeed. ![]() If you'd be using a hardware mixer you wouldn't notice anything. Midi jitter is barely noticeable actually - but what happens is that the audio has to pass through Reason. Set your synths free and turn them into audio - truly magical moments can occur. If you do it the other way with MIDI - well that works too and you can multitrack that way also but it’s easier to fall into thinking about the gear limitations that way. That’s fun to explore with say a Minibrute and Reason. That has been an eye opener for myself as I always thought about the records that were made with lots of synthesizers before the entire midi / Atari era came along.ĪBBA for instance and how they multitracked monophonic ARP and Moog synths in the early 1970’s to get truly amazing polyphonic pads. ![]() That’s a method I find surprisingly enjoyable, and Reason has audio quantization which means that I can work much faster that way, but that of course demands that you play your parts well.Īnother advantage is that you can skip the limitations of say 6 voice poly monotimbral Juno’s and JXes as they suddenly become 5,169 voice polyphonic and multitimbral on up to 457 million channels. Something I’ve found very enjoyable is to skip midi and to just record straight into audio directly. ![]() Having said that the two worlds are actually completely different and using hw can absolutely be quite the challenge at times. I’ve come to realize that hw instruments sets a nice mood in any home studio. I come from that world from the beginning: Reason for me was a means to become completely mobile so I sold all gear there around 2000/2001 when it came out.īut I couldn’t stop being interested in hw gear anyway so that was just a brief adventure into minimalism for me. Yes and I understand that after a few years in the Reason world it will be interesting for many of us, myself included, to add some hardware instruments.
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