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Create Electronic Music With Reason 9
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Create Electronic Music With Reason 9

A beginner to mid level electronic musician's guide to creating electronic dance music.
Created byDee Pei
Last updated 9/2016
English
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What you'll learn

  • Produce a song by themselves
  • Create a drum beat
  • Utilize Reason 9's new features
  • Understand chords better

Course content

1 section13 lectures37m total length
  • Introduction1:00

    Introduction to Reason 9: a quick rundown of what's about to be taught in this course.

  • Areas, Windows, and Basic Navigation2:20

    Explore areas, windows, and basic navigation in Reason 9, including the browser rack with instruments, effects, and sounds, and learn how the sequencer captures melodies.

  • On-Screen Piano Keys0:28
  • Record Into Sequencer2:34
  • Metronome1:18

    Use the metronome during recording to keep your song on beat, adjust tempo—from 1:38 to fit club styles—and input melodies with onstream piano keys or a MIDI keyboard.

  • Dual Arpeggio4:55
  • Note Echo4:48

    Explore the no echo setting in reason 9 to shape grand piano tones with one-note playback, adjustable frequency and note length, and customizable presets.

  • Chords4:21

    Explore chords in reason 9 that automate harmony and unlock scales like Lydian, Mixolydian, Spanish, Dorian, Phrygian. Chord features fix mistakes as you press keys, delivering nearly perfect sounds.

  • Creating a Beat6:12
  • Automation2:03

    Apply a volume envelope to a track in Reason by using the pencil in the sequencer to add marks, double-click to edit, and adjust levels to shape the metronome.

  • Main Mixer1:18
  • Editing the Theme on Reason3:02

    Edit the theme in Reason to customize the look and feel of your workflow, choosing colors, adjusting preferences, and restarting Reason on Mac or Windows.

  • Exporting Your Song3:01

Requirements

  • Prior music theory training (recommended)

Description

My course introduces you to the world of Reason with Propellerhead's latest edition of Reason 9, an amazingly efficient way to create high quality tracks, with its default export option being in AIFF (Lossless) format.  Reason 9 is often used by music industry professionals for sound design, commercial music, orchestral tracks, and much more.  I go over the basics, along with what the 9th version of Propellerhead's Reason 9 introduced, and I want to let every aspiring musician taking this course learn how to create the melodies they want to be hearing.  It really is a great, optimal software for you to use, so not learning it would be a shame!

What You'll Need:

Reason 9  (Music production software)

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners and mid-level music producers
  • People with prior musical training
  • Complete Beginners