Grain Sample Manipulator - Propellerhead Reason

Explore the grains sample manipulator to understand grains synthesis, patches, patch area, polyphony, voices, key mode, and onboard effects for creating unique sounds from your own samples.

Discover global controls that shape the whole synth, including patch, voice count, and amp output, and explore poly, mono, retrigger, legato, glide, and envelope behaviors.

Explore the sample window area and its waveform, auditioning placed samples and adjusting start and end, with drag-and-drop from factory sounds to shape the patch.

Explore grain manipulation in the sample window by using loop modes, one-shot and freeze, envelope control, speed, and jitter, while analyzing pitch for accurate keyboard play.

Get hands-on with spectral grains, snap filter controls, and keyboard tracking to sculpt harmonics and partials in the grain sample manipulator.

Explore grain oscillator parameters that blend two short grains, control pan spread, pitch, grain length, cross fade, and grain spacing to sculpt smooth or varied audio textures.

Explore long grains in grain sample manipulation, playing back fairly long grains of original samples to shape evolving textures, with pitch jitter, grain length, and x fade.

Explore the tape effect in grain sample manipulation, using the speed control, envelope, and forward/back loops to create pitch shifts, rhythmic loops, and evolving grain textures.

Dive into the grain sample manipulator oscillator to blend an extra oscillator with a loaded sample, tune pitch via octave and semitones, choose waveforms, and apply modulation for richer textures.

Route grain samples through the filter or bypass it, apply band-pass and low-pass filtering, and shape sound with envelope 2 modulation targeting the filter frequency.

Explore how the amp envelope shapes sound with attack, decay, sustain, and release, and why its position in the signal chain matters for grain sampling and synthesis.

Shape a grain or wave sample through the signal chain from amp out to effects, then apply envelopes and the modulation matrix bus to tune parameters for expressive sound.

Explore the modulation matrix bus and LFO fundamentals, routing sources like envelopes to destinations such as filter frequency and grain length, with depth, beat sync, and waveform shapes.

Explore how to route envelopes via a modulation matrix to modulate parameters like frequency, shaping envelopes with attack, decay, sustain, and release, plus customizable edits and presets.

Explore the effects rack in Reason, including phaser, distortion, EQ, delay, compressor, and reverb, and learn how to order and enable onboard effects for the instrument.

Learn to create unique grain patches by sampling your own audio inside Reason, using the sampling unit, input levels, and monitoring to capture sounds that become distinct in grain.

Learn to capture mono grain samples from various instruments using europa, cropping and saving samples like grain one, then locate samples in the song samples browser for self-contained project samples.