Dear fellow challengers and Mister Fox.
This month I have returned to the type of music that I like to listen to. You will see that there are a lot of pads, simple but melancholic melodies, ethereal sound environments, a simple rhythm, a bass that complements the chords... And a sound very close to Vangelis.
I started by taking some preset sounds from Cherry Audio Voltage Modular (CAVM) and tried to modify them a bit. But I saw that this was consuming more than 100% of my CPU. I couldn't add more because everything stopped. I had to switch the tracks to audio and disable the plugin. I also used Cardinal but it also ate the CPU, I stopped using it.
Once that was done, leaving the two PAD tracks that came from the CAVM audio, I chose to use the modular synthesizer that Reason has: the Complex. From here I also started from presets and made the sounds of the bass, the percussion, the melody and the sound effects.
Then I added cinematic percussion and some more pads that come from the Thor synths and sampled analog sounds.
Cables, connections and Modularity:
As for using Cables, Connections and Modularity, this is how Reason works normally. Reason is like a rack where you interconnect instruments, effects and utilities, and players. Most of the time these connections work like any other DAW, as if you had a plug-in chain. But sometimes, if you manipulate the cables, the sound burps can be very different and even wild, as requested by MrFox.
Here are some of these different connections I've made this month, aside from the cable connections that the Complex synth allows:
- Apply reverberation to the SIDE sleep part of one of the layers.
- Apply phaser and reverb to the melody part.
Front:
Back:
- Modulate two-tone stereo with an external phase-inverted LFO for each tone.
Front:
Back:
I hope you like it or at least can appreciate the work I have done.
Thank you colleagues.
(translated with google)
Video-screenshots:
Equipment:
DAW:
Reason 12.7.4d3
Reason Instruments:
NN-19 Sampler
Complex-1 Modular Synthesizer
Kong Drum Designer
Monotone Bass Synthesizer
Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
Reason Effects:
RV7000 MkII Advanced Reverb
The Echo
Sweeper Modulation Effect
Reason Players:
Scales & Chords
Reason Utilities:
Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
Pulsar Dual LFO
Reason Rack Extension:
ProjectSAM Orchestral Sampler Filmscore Instrument
Red Rock Sound RE 181 Mid/Side Audio Converter
Kilohearts AB kHs Gain
Kilohearts AB kHs Stereo
Kilohearts AB kHs Filter
Ekssperimental Sounds SPACEXPANDER
Other instruments outside of Reason:
Cherry Audio Voltage Modular
Other effects outside of Reason:
Valhalla Supermassive
Waves Vitamin Sonic Enhancer
Beatskillz Slam2
Plugin-alliance TBTECH Kirchhoff-EQ
Other tools:
iZotope Ozone 9
Plugin Alliance SPL HawkEye
HoRNet Plugins HoRNet VHS