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, 07 Dec 2011 17:32:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By now most avid followers of Propellerhead Reason are probably familiar with the new hardware audio interface, Balance. Balance is an elegant, 2-channel desktop unit that connects to a Mac or PC via USB and features all of the general connections one would expect from a quality device. ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/12/06/balance-shootout-at-robotspeak/ My latest obsession has been the new animoog iPad app from moog music, inc. It’s a brilliant example of the tablet platform and touch control surface as a creative and expressive musical instrument. If you haven’t tried animoog, I highly highly highly recommend getting it. Animoog’s sound generation system ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/10/31/animoog-inspired-reason-6-combi/ A Reason+Record Duo User who attended the Producers Conference in Las Vegas asked a rather important question about losing all of his patch browser “Favorites” and “Locations” settings when upgrading from the RR5 Duo package to Reason 6. We discovered that it is possible to migrate these settings provided ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/10/03/migrating-record-locations-favorites-to-reason-6/ mØxr is a maxmsp based application that converts audio signals to MIDI note events. The application is calibrated to receive Reason CV messages as audio signals, and in turn generate a monophonic stream of MIDI notes that can trigger hardware synthesizers. A new build of mØxr has been compiled with ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/09/19/m%c3%b8xr-update-519/ I’ve been busy working on a variety of different projects the past few months which have been mainly other people’s projects. Working on someone else’s music is a challenge for me, so i rely a lot on reference tracks, and having concrete examples smooths along the process of communicating ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/08/28/other-peoples-projects/ While there has been a lot of buzz surrounding other Propellerhead news this week, a tragedy has befallen the family of our friend, James Bernard, PH Artists Relations and Reason Specialist. On July 13, 2011, James’ wife, Nicole, passed away. Nicole was 36 years old and was the ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/07/15/in-memory-of-nicole-bernard/ mØxr is a MaxMSP based application that converts Control Voltages as audio signal to monophonic MIDI note messages. The application must receive two CV signals through audio connections, a Gate CV and a Note CV. While any audio signal can trigger a MIDI note message, mØxr is calibrated ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/06/15/m%c3%b8xr-cv-audio-to-midi-converter/ Huge Thanks to those who attended the Producers Conference in San Diego this past weekend. Dave, Matt, and I agree that It was definitely one of the best events to date, and we look forward to future events in the area. My presentation, on the topic of compressors and sidechain ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/05/16/producers-conference-san-diego/ Starting Monday May 2, Propellerheads will be hosting live webcasts featuring artists, producers, industry specialists, and engineers from around the planet, including Josh Mobley, Adam Fielding, Mocean Worker, Matt Piper, Olivia Broadfield, DJ LuckyDate, Dave Brown, Jessica Gore (NNXT), Terri Winston, Chris Petti, The Freemasons, Gary Bromham, SoundCloud, Kim Nieva, ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/04/30/propellerhead-music-making-month/ The news from Japan is terribly sad and this affects me deeply on a personal level. I have family there. Fortunately, they are safe but still feel anxious over the events of the past few days. I also have many friends there, and if you’re involved in the ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/03/14/808-reasons-why-we-should-help-japan/ I recently performed a live set [video] where I was asked to use ReBirth for iPad. To complement the 303s and RB drums, I built an effect and loop system in Reason 5 that would allow me to process the ReBirth audio in real-time. Additionally, I had all of ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/02/25/lividohm64/ I’m happy to announce that the Music Production with Reason & Record tutorial video is finally available from Groove 3! In this edition, we look at Josh’s track, “What’s the Reason” which features the talents and writing of a new artist, Blackjack. You can download the ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/02/16/music-production-with-reason-record/ Surrogate Valentine Trailer and Video Download now available on iTunes For your Valentine’s Day viewing pleasure, here is the title track from a new film by Dave Boyle, Surrogate Valentine, from Tiger Industry Films. The Film features Goh Nakamura in the starring role along with Chadd Stoops, Lynn Chen, Mary ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/02/14/surrogate-valentine-video/ I have a fairly standard response whenever asked about mastering tracks: If this is a serious project headed for a physical or digital product, take it to the mastering studio of a great engineer. A good studio will have the equipment to reveal and correct problems, and balance the ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2011/01/29/mix-and-mastering-comparison/ I thought this would be easy… Sample the Roland TR-808, load the files into the Reason 5 Kong Drum Designer… Bam… done! Nope, that definitely is not how things went down. The primary goal was to create a set of Kong patches that effectively simulate the classic ... http://www.peff.com/journal/2010/12/02/kong-808-refill/