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 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:43:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ The Monologue Refill is a monophonic analogue synthesizer library for the Reason 4.0 NN-XT sampler. The sets include the standard sawtooth, square, triangle waves. Also included are a fixed rate pulse width modulation set, and hard sync sawtooth set. Other sources include, detuned pulses, frequency modulated oscillators, ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/12/25/monologue-refill/ It’s been a long time since I put out a refill; almost 20 months, I believe! I’m way behind on everything, but this particular project has been sitting on my hard drive for about 1 year now. I really want to get it finished and move ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/12/21/new-reason-refill-coming-soon/ Happy Holidays, everyone! Rick Silvestri (blacktiger) and I decided to do a bit of holiday music last week. We figured we would try to keep up with the old Propellerhead holiday tradition of sharing Reason Christmas songs, but try something with Record and Reason this year. Rick ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/12/14/greensleeves-record/ A little video preview of my presentation Saturday at the ProCon LA. It needs a little tweaking… and a lot more rehearsal so that I can keep it under 50 minutes :-/ Yes this conference will focus on Record, but it doesn’t mean that Reason will be overlooked. I ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/11/10/preview-of-saturdays-procon-presentation/ My friends in the band Scrabbel were on tour with 旺福 WonFu, one of the biggest indy/pop bands in Taiwan. Contracted by the Taiwanese Embassy and organized by Dan Lee of Scrabbel, the tour went around to various locations up and down the west coast. As it turns out, XiaoMin, ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/11/07/wonfu-%e6%97%ba%e7%a6%8f-reason-users-from-taiwan/ The Producers Conference is coming back to LA on Saturday November 14, 2009. We will be back at King King in Hollywood again. The topics will be Record-centric, so it’s a new set of presentations. Hopefully we wont have the issues with video quality as we did ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/11/05/producers-conference-la/ Thanks for the nice shout out and the outstanding mix on ccmixter! Please blame me all you want! ttp://ccmixter.org/files/colab/22983 http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/10/27/thanks-colab/ If you haven’t seen them yet, I’ve been working on some combinator programming tutorials which will be available on the Line6 website. Combi programming concepts are important for both Reason and Record users, so i’ve decided to focus my efforts in explaining some of the basics. So follow this ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/10/10/combinator-programming-tutorials/ As of 9:09 am this morning CET, Propellerhead Software has officially released their new product, Record! I’m hoping that Record will be a huge success. Congratulations to everyone at the Props HQ for the years of hard work that went into development! http://www.peff.com/journal/2009/09/09/record-release/