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  1. Quick Tip: How to Spice Up Your Arpeggio Pattern in Reason

    Quick Tip: How to Spice Up Your Arpeggio Pattern in Reason

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Nowadays making an arpeggio is a great way to add interest to your track. There are many plugins out there which can arpeggiate your chord sequence in...

  2. How to Create Classic FX Synthesizer Patches

    How to Create Classic FX Synthesizer Patches

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in March 2009. ...

  3. The Combinator—Reason's Deadliest Weapon

    The Combinator—Reason's Deadliest Weapon

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in January 2009. ...

  4. Drum Compression: Get Your Attack and Release Times Correct

    Drum Compression: Get Your Attack and Release Times Correct

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Compression can be a tricky one to get your head around, and even if you've got your head around the threshold and ratio settings without the attack and...

  5. Quick Tip: Some Unusual and Creative Uses for LFOs

    Quick Tip: Some Unusual and Creative Uses for LFOs

    Tutorial Beginner

    We've all heard (and possibly overheard) the classic LFO>Filter Frequency used in extensively in Dubstep, but LFOs can be used in many other creative...

  6. How to Recreate Lil' Wayne's Lollipop in Reason 4

    How to Recreate Lil' Wayne's Lollipop in Reason 4

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in November 2008. ...

  7. Vocal Time Stretch Effect with Reason's Combinator & Granular Synth Techniques

    Vocal Time Stretch Effect with Reason's Combinator & Granular Synth Techniques

    Tutorial Intermediate

    This tutorial will make use of some interesting wiring techniques in Reason to create a vocal time stretching effect. It also goes some of the way to...

  8. Vocal Loop Effect in Reason

    Vocal Loop Effect in Reason

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In electronic dance music, DJ's often loop tracks to cheer up the crowd. In your music productions, you can also use this effect to create an uplifting...

  9. Quick Tip: Use Reason's MClass EQ as a Creative Effects Tool

    Quick Tip: Use Reason's MClass EQ as a Creative Effects Tool

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Today I will show you how to use Reason's MClass equalizer as a powerful send effect. Everybody knows how to use an equalizer and how to boost or cut certain...

  10. Rewiring Reason into Mainstage

    Rewiring Reason into Mainstage

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this screencast we show you how to use Rewire to access Propellerhead Reason from within Mainstage—which is part of Apple's Logic Studio. We create a...

  11. Creating a Custom Analog Style Kit in Kong

    Creating a Custom Analog Style Kit in Kong

    Tutorial Intermediate

    If you are a Reason user and haven't updated to version 5 yet then you really need to. There are loads of great updated features but Kong alone is worth the...

  12. Synthesising Sci-Fi Vehicle SFX - Enhancing the Character

    Synthesising Sci-Fi Vehicle SFX - Enhancing the Character

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In the last tutorial on sci-fi vehicle sound design, we programmed the Combinator to control three main elements on both synths: Volume, Filter and LFO. By...