Reason Studios | Reason for Beginners | Beat making @ReasonStudios | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
Together with producer Chris Reed, we are completely breaking down the Reason 12 digital audio workstation. This video will serve as a comprehensive guide for aspiring beat makers to get a head start into making beats with Reason. This video will cover multiple music production and software topics such as adding sounds, adding effects, using players, recording audio, editing audio, using loops, signal flow, mixing, useful shortcuts, exporting and much more.

If you're a beginner who's just starting out with Reason and beat making – this tutorial is for you!

Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:13 Adding Sounds: Midi Instruments
2:03 Recording Midi
4:00 Using Midi with Piano Roll
6:38 Using Players to generate Chords
8:22 Adding Sounds: Audio Files
9:49 Adding Sounds: Loops
10:48 Adding Sounds: Audio Recordings
12:27 Editing Audio
13:32 Adding Effects
14:36 Changing the Order of Effects
16:08 Using Send FX
16:46 Creating a Parallel Channel
17:51 Saving The File
18:25 Adding Drums
19:42 Using Beat Map with Kong
21:11 The Mixer
22:05 Applying a Gate to a channel
22:57 Creating a Bus Channel
24:14 Sequencing the beat
25:49 Organizing by Clip Color
28:23 Mixing and Exporting
29:13 Cutting Harsh Frequencies
29:59 Exporting the Beat
30:38 Beat Preview

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