http://www.peff.com/journal Music and Audio Technology - Propellerhead Software Record, Reason, ReBirth RB-338, Record - Reason Tutorials, Power Tools for Reason, Refill, and other electronic music coolness Thu, 27 May 2010 15:51:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My experiments with the TouchOSC app for both the iPad and iPhone have brought me back around to Cycling74 MaxMSP 5. Of all of the methods of controlling Reason and Record via open sound control, routing OSC messages directly into the MaxMSP rewire object have proven to be most ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/05/26/maxmsp-osc-rewire-host-for-recordreason/ Over the next few days, Propellerheads are unveiling the new features of Reason 5 and Record 1.5! The first announcement is an upgrade of the Dr.REX Loop Player. Now called the Dr. OctoRex which allows you to trigger and control multiple loops on the fly. The loop ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/05/24/propellerheads-roll-out-reason-5record-15/ The files are the templates and session used in the video I posted a few weeks ago that demonstrates using the iPad and TouchOSC as a pad controller with Propellerhead Record. Naturally you will need an iPad as well as the TouchOSC app. Please note that this is ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/05/04/touchoscosculator-ipad-templates/ It’s amazing to see the software that started the revolution make a comeback in a slightly different format, the iPhone OS. So… I’m not exactly sure what to say about this. Playing with the ReBirth app for a little while has made me quite nostalgic and has brought ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/05/01/rebirth-for-the-iphoneos/ Groove3 just announced that their audio and production tutorials are now available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Anyone who subscribes or purchases Music Production with Reason 4.0 can now stream the tutorials onto your iPad! It’s pretty cool. Seeing some of the html5 implementation on the iPad ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/04/20/groove3-learn-reason-on-your-ipad/ Here’s a YouTube video demonstrating the use of the iPad as an MPC style drum pad device / MIDI control surface. This configuration uses a customized TouchOSC drum pad interface, and the iPad pads triggers a Redrum Drum Machine in Record+Reason. Buttons are also assigned for transport control ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/04/13/ipad-and-record/ I’m toying with a full mixer control template using the TouchOSC editor. The picture shows a rough concept layout of the SSL EQ section. Tabs are set for the input, dynamics, fx sends, insert, fader/pan, and master section. Here’s another video which uses TouchOSC as fader bank ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/04/13/propellerhead-record-ipad/ Preordering an iPad was a no brainer for me. I will admit that I had heard rumors about certain issues which made me a little nervous about being an early adopter, but the fanboy-slash-tech geek in me could not resist. I’ve had a few days to play with ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/04/10/ipad-impressions/ I’ll be presenting a little Reason + Record Clinic/Q&A in the beautiful 808-state, Hawaii next Thursday, April 1, 2010 - No fooling The event starts at 4:30pm and will be held at Easy Music Center in Honolulu. I haven’t sorted out the format for the clinic, so I’ll ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/03/26/reasonrecord-clinic-in-hawaii/ CycleOn is a real-time playback system for ReCycle REX loops. This combinator based instrument patch is designed to create live performance and DJ Style effects using Propellerhead Software Record + Reason 4.0 (both applications are required). Many thanks to my friends who contributed to this package. The ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/03/02/cycleon-combinator-refill/ This coming Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 2:00pm, we will be having a little discussion group on Record+Reason in San Francisco. The guys at Robotspeak have set aside some time for me to come in and turn the shop into a lab! I’ll probably do a quick clinic ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/02/16/recordreason-discussion-at-robotspeak/ Last year, I posted a few items on using Reason CV/Gates to control analog synths through a MOTU audio interface, and recently, I’ve received an unusual amount of email inquiring about the concept of controlling analog synths via Record. I figured it’s about time that I should post this, ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/02/11/minimoog-voyager-cvgate-control-from-record/ The base development of the CycleOn combinator is pretty much finished. Since this is simply a single combinator that relies on REX loops, I’ve been working on a small library to complement the patches. After digging through some old files, I stumbled across some test session files from ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/02/08/tim-bulkley-record-session/ 3.03 update - video removed. please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYPaRvX9gt8 Here’s a preview of the CycleOn combinator i’m working on. This is basically a loop player system that also includes several different effects and control systems into one patch, and the functionality makes it possible to create live mixing effects and ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/01/28/cycleon-combinator-project/ I’m trying out something different for my visit to NAMM this year. My I’m uploading photos directly from the phone and you can view them on facebook (which bounces out to twitter): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peff/6585872380 I had to leave Anaheim last night and will miss the show today, but I’ll be back down ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/01/15/namm-2010-photos/