Bitley has introduced Fairlight CMI Legacy XXL for Reason 5 or Reason 5 & Record 1.5. It offers about 3,000 individual patches..
Features:
The Fairlight CMI Legacy XXL Refill is priced at 100€ (100 Euros).
Nucleus SoundLab has introduced GuitarScapes for Propellerhead Reason 5 and Record – a ReFill that explores the sonic possibilities offered by well-sampled guitars inside the Reason 5 environment.
GuitarScapes takes a wide variety of synthetic and realistic guitar samples and then mangles them beyond recognition.
Details:
GuitarScapes is available now as a ReFill for $59. Continue reading
Peff demonstrates his live performance rig, based on Propellerhead Reason 5 and a Livid Ohm64 MIDI controller:
Video overview of using the OHM64 with Reason 5 to create a live pa setup to switch loop slots and crossfade between sources and effects. It’s not really music composition, but more like Loop Jockeying.
Controls are mapped via standard remote override mapping, however this setup requires a bit of remote codec hacking to alter the behavior of the function keys and top 4 rows of buttons.
A detailed explanation is posted on Peff’s site:
The Loop Loft has introduced a couple of new ReFills, designed specifically for Reason 5.
The Bob Reynolds Collection ReFill, above, was recorded over the course of several days in a Los Angeles studio, The Loop Loft worked directly with saxophonist Bob Reynolds to produce 13 complete sessions of high quality sax recordings that have been specifically tailored for use inside of Reason 5 and Record 1.5. Continue reading
Bitley has introduced a new Reason ReFill, Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII, that captures the classic sounds of the Fairlight synthesizer.
Features:
The giant Fairlight sound library is available now for $149 from the Bitley site. Continue reading
iPad Music Software: This quick video demos using TouchOSC and Osculator to control Dr. Octo Rex in Reason 5.
This looks pretty awesome – but will be killer once the kinks are worked out. Continue reading
Propellerhead Software has released the updated Record 1.5 and Reason 5, which add new instruments, effects, sequencing, sounds, patches and more.
Her’s a quick guide to what’s new and what it will cost you.
Propellerhead Reason 5 & Record 1.5 Highlights:
The new Kong Drum Designer and Dr. Octo Rex loop player extend Reason’s instrument arsenal to help musicians get phenomenal sounding rhythms, drums tracks and beats.
Reason 5 and Record 1.5 add a whole new take on sequencing: Blocks—build songs parts like patterns and string them together for lightening fast arranging with the ability to freely go back and forth between pattern and linear modes.
Neptune, a pitch correction tool and amazing voice synthesizer, turns less than perfect performances into great ones in no time. Simply play new harmonies on a MIDI keyboard for instant backing vocals. Live sampling into all sample capable devices means any musician can use samples in a new and playful manner, discovering the lost art of creative sampling. The Expanded Factory Sound Bank, doubling in size, plus added signature sound designers’ patches, inspire new arrangements and compositions. Multi core optimization, an on-screen keyboard and tempo scaling of clips top the list of additional improvements.
Check out the details below and let us know what you think about Propellerhead Reason 5 & Record 1.5! Continue reading
This video captures Propellerhead Software trying out what they call the world’s biggest drum machine.
They don’t explain the details – but it looks like they are using a custom MPC-style MIDI controller to trigger Kong in Reason 5, and projecting their computer screen as video onto the biggest skyscraper in Stockholm.
Check it out and let me know what you think of the world’s biggest drum machine!
Think you could “totally kill the dance floor” with it?
This official Propellerhead tutorial takes a look at using Blocks in Reason 5 and Record 1.5.
via PropellerheadSW:
In this microtutorial we’ll build up a track – starting from an 8 bar loop – and ending with a full song structure all thanks to Blocks, the pattern-based workflow feature in Reason 5 and Record 1.5.
Blocks is a quick way to brainstorm, experiment, arrive at an idea and take it to the next level of arrangement and production.
In this two part video, via DV247TV, Propellerhead guru James Bernard discusses some of the finer points of the new Propellerhead Reason 5 and Record 1.5 features.
In the first part, ‘Kong’, ‘Blocks’, ‘Dr OctoRex’ and ‘Live Sampling’ get the once over. Continue reading