Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Getting to Know Reason 4 -- Don't Install from the Reason 4.0 DVD -- Important General Settings -- Getting to Know the Reason Rack -- Rack Front and Back -- Creating Devices -- Mixer 14:2 (Remix) -- Sequencing in Reason/Reason Transport Controls -- Loop On/Off, Click, and Left/Right Locators -- Zooming, Scrolling, Hand Tool, and Magnifying Glass Tool -- Time Signature and Snap to Grid -- Editing Tools: Selection, Pencil, Razor, and Eraser -- Recording Automation in the Reason Sequencer -- Read the Fabulous Manual (RTFM) -- Propellerhead Online Support -- CHAPTER 2 Dr.Rex -- Digging into Dr.Rex -- Dr.Rex Key Features Exercise -- Auditioning Loops Inside Dr.Rex -- Auditioning Loops Inside the Loop Browser -- Slick Moves with Envelopes and LFO -- Amp Envelope -- Filter Envelope -- LFO -- Modifying Individual Slices -- Sequencing with Dr.Rex -- Sequence a Song in Five Minutes -- Transposing Loops -- Just the Slices You Want -- Shortening Note Lengths -- Automating a Filter Sweep in the Sequencer -- Yes, Dr.Rex Does Respond to Velocity -- Dr.Rex, Meet Effects! -- CHAPTER 3 Redrum -- Making Beats with Redrum's Pattern Section -- Programming Your First Redrum Pattern -- Shuffle -- Auditioning Redrum Patches (Drum Kits) -- Loading Individual Samples on a Channel -- Adding Dynamics to Your Patterns -- Stringing Patterns Together -- Automating Pattern Changes -- Making Patterns with More than 16 Steps -- Electro-Fun: Randomize Pattern -- Flam -- Pattern Resolution -- Using the Reason Sequencer with Redrum -- Digging into the Redrum Channels -- Redrum Effects Sends (S1 and S2) -- Channel 8 & 9 Exclusive -- Pan, Pitch, and Level -- CHAPTER 4 Subtractor -- Subtractor Synth Parameters -- Waveforms and Oscillators 1 and 2 -- Waveforms and Low Frequency Oscillators -- Portamento and Pitch Bend -- Polyphony.

Modulation Wheel -- ADSR: Four Letters You Cannot Do Without -- Subtractor, Meet the RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator! -- RPG-8 Octave, Mode, Insert, and Hold -- RPG-8 Rate Control Video Game Trick -- RPG-8 Pattern Section -- Arpeggio Notes to Track -- Sequencing with Subtractor -- Using the Razor Tool -- Making a Velocity Ramp -- Quantize During Record -- New Dub/New Alt -- Subtractor, Meet Effects! -- Subtractor and Control Voltage -- CHAPTER 5 Malström -- Building a Song with the Malström -- Stereo-ize That Sequence -- Turn That Loop into a Song -- Exporting the Song as an Audio File -- Malström Synth Parameters -- How the Malström Produces Its Sound -- Malström Filters -- Filter Envelope -- Velocity -- LFOs (MOD A and MOD B) -- Modulation Wheel -- Malström, Meet the Matrix Analog Pattern Sequencer -- Key Mode -- Curve Mode -- Using the Malström as an Effects Processor -- Playing Dr.Rex Through the Malström's Filters -- Playing Dr.Rex Through the Shaper -- CHAPTER 6 Thor Polysonic Synthesizer -- Using Thor's Step Sequencer -- Using the Step Knobs to Control Pitch -- Using the Step Knobs to Control Gate Length -- Controlling the Step Sequencer with Your MIDI Keyboard -- Using the Step Sequencer to Gate Thor's Amplifier -- Using the Step Knobs to Control Curve Values -- Using the Step Knobs to Control Step Duration -- Building Sounds in Thor -- Thor's Oscillators -- AM from Oscillator 2 -- Oscillator Sync -- Using Thor's Filters -- Thor's Shaper -- Basic Audio Signal Routing in Thor -- Modulation Bus Routing Section -- LFO 1 versus LFO 2 -- Thor, Meet the BV512 Digital Vocoder -- CHAPTER 7 The Reason Samplers: NN-19 and NN-XT -- NN-19 -- Loading Samples into the NN-19 -- Assigning a Single Sample to a Single Key -- NN-19 Synth Parameter Exercise: Precise LFO Pitch Modulation -- NN-XT -- Velocity Layers -- Velocity Crossfades.

A Few More Sample Parameters -- Backwards Piano! -- CHAPTER 8 The Combinator -- Adding Devices to a Combinator -- Fat Synth Sounds Made Easy -- Combine/Uncombine -- Using the MClass Mastering Suite Combi -- Using the Programmer Panel -- Creating a Split Instrument with the Combinator -- Creating a Velocity-Layered Instrument with the Combinator -- MIDI Data Routing/Performance Controllers -- Assigning the Virtual Controls -- Sequencing with the Combinator -- Custom Skins for Your Combinator -- Advanced Combi in Which Redrum Controls 10 Thors -- Setting Up Your Thor Drum Combi -- Selecting Sounds for Your Thor Drum Combi -- Something for Adventurers: Spider CV Merger and Splitter -- External Routing Indicators -- CHAPTER 9 The ReGroove Mixer -- Applying a Preset Groove Patch -- Get Groove from Clip (Making Your Own Groove Patch) -- Commit to Groove -- Random Timing -- Redrum, ReGroove, and the Slide Control -- Pre-Align -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J-K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q-R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.