Sonic Academy Dance Music Production For Beginners Using Reason

Our Make Music with Reason video tutorial series is a start-to-finish tour through creating and producing a music track. You’ll follow the process from set-up to final mixing, creating in the process a finished track with bassline, drums, vocal sampling, etc. Includes the scoop on using all of Reason’s features – including the Redrum drum machine, the Dr Rex looper, and the Subtractor synth.


Videos Overview

Lesson 1: Setup and Drums
All the basics of setting up (loading instruments and the like),your session and a full description on how to lay down the basis for your track: the percussion line. This Reason video includes tips on general drum sampling and the Redrum drum machine.

Lesson 2: Creating a Bassline
Add a bassline to your Propellerhead Reason track; a full run-through of MIDI sequencing, synth patches, and Reason’s own Subtractor synth.

Lesson 3: Creating a Synth Part
Synthesizers are crucial to music production. Learn the Propellerhead Reason approach to synths, using MIDI controllers and the NN-XT sampler to craft the perfect synth line for your track.

Lesson 4: Creating Vocal Samples
Next: the addition of vocal sampling. At this stage in our Propellerhead Reason course, we introduce the NN-19 sampler, MIDI note editing, and how to find a root note.

Lesson 5: Creating Synth Stabs
Reason’s NN-XT sampler is the basis for this tutorial on adding synth stabs – rhythmic moments that create drama – to your track

Lesson 6: Audio Effects
Spice up your Propellerhead Reason track with effects like filter, delay, and send & return channels.

Lesson 7: Creating Loops with Dr Rex
Fit your Propeller Reason software with the Dr Rex machine, and learn to create and edit loopsing effects.

Lesson 8: Arranging
Assemble the separate loops you’ve made into a full tune. This section of our Reason tutorial ranges from the science of cutting and pasting to the art of musical phrasing.

Lesson 9: Automation Part 1
An extensive portion of our tutorial leaves nothing up to chance as it guides you through the process of automating a track in Propellerhead Reason.

Lesson 10: Automation Part 2
An extensive portion of our tutorial leaves nothing up to chance as it guides you through the process of automating a track in Propellerhead Reason.

Lesson 11: Mixing Techniques
Find out how to finalise volume levels and master the equalisation – and how to render your music to disc.