This has to be the best Reason related video I've seen in many years. I want more of these "Reason as a DAW" videos. This is the kind of stuff that inspires us Reason users to make more music. Well done Sharpson and Reason Studios on this one.
Blocks are really useful and not promoted enough by RS. Vids I see using Blocks are typically like this vid. Just used to colour code an arrangement when there is so much more using blocks can bring. I use blocks with the addition of extra note lanes per instrument so I can toggle on/off note lanes when I want to. This way, you don’t need extra blocks for variation. I also use blocks to hold different chord progressions to try different arrangements and progressions.
Wow this video was released on my birthday! After watching your video Sharpson I AM A FAN! Bro I love your workflow. I have not produced anything with Reason in a few years but I will be dusting it off after watching this. Looks like fun quick process!!!
The way your able to pump out so many beats is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. Talk about staying in the zone. I think you have literally changed my work flow. Me and combinator are now best friends.
Even though this is not the type of music I make I found some good workflow tips here. Developing a workflow that enables creating of a complete song quickly is something I' ve struggled with. Blocks and Tower + Pyramid are techinics I'm going to employ on my next song idea.
He's not actually really using the Blocks functionality at all. He's just labelling the song's sections, by just using different Blocks cos they have different different colours. If you actually use *Block View* (first enable it from the Options menu at the top of the screen, then click B to jump between Block View and Song View), and then edit what's in a particular Block itself, when you go back to the Song layout page (by hitting B again), whatever you've included in Block 1, say, will *automatically* show in the Song layout section when you draw in Block 1 into the Song section. That's how you quickly build layouts - make a version that has your full loop, with all the drums, bass, synths, fx, etc, and then maybe another with different notes for the chorus , then just lay out the track in Song view, and use the Mute tool to mute the bits you don't want to hear yet, and make the inverted pyramid he mentions. for the intro/outro, for example. Trying different items coming in first is then as simple as just unmuting & muting them, versus his way where you have to copy and paste the bars all over again.
It is very nice to (finally) hear someone who speaks and presents well. I am not really into what he suggests, BUT there is a logic to it and seeing his pre-made sounds are suited to his intended results (and not RND hopefulness) it is working well for the formulaics that define EDMyness. Giving himself an Arrangement and therefore Targets has a fair sense. Musicians use targets (or "set pieces" like furniture in a room) to help make their pieces work all the time. IF personal parts are added around these set pieces, the bones can become something ok - assuming of course he is not correct about Spotifry (non)listeners not wanting to hear creativity (or is that humanity). "Keep it quick, Keep it going" is very good advice as many DOA from overworking rather than focusing on the target and moving forward. :-)
Hello! I have a music education background. I am interested in music production. Should I go back to school for this? Are there any books I could buy for self study on music production or Reasons as a DAW?
The idea of all this Ctrl+D without any song planning makes me recoil but I guess if the overall message is to take advantage of Combinators to save time or to get something on the canvas then cool. Another trick which saves even more time if you're going in this direction then you want to build out the elements of the song within each pattern of the Block View in bite-sized pieces especially with drums. That way later on during Song View instead of Ctrl+D or drag 'n drop the individual clips you can draw those small blocks or patterns up top with the pencil and it automatically repeats as many times as long or as short as you need it whether it's one instrument or 20 instruments. Then if you want to add variety for particular parts of the song in Song View then what you record on top in Song View will override what's underneath just for that 1 part of the song. The patterns underneath in Block View still remain untouched if you change your mind on that variation or decide to delete what's on top later. 😃
Blocks are really useful and not promoted enough by RS. Vids I see using Blocks are typically like this vid. Just used to colour code an arrangement when there is so much more using blocks can bring. I use blocks with the addition of extra note lanes per instrument so I can toggle on/off note lanes when I want to. This way, you don’t need extra blocks for variation. I also use blocks to hold different chord progressions to try different arrangements and progressions.
@@rjbush7955 Dude you're brilliant because I never thought about combining the two concepts into blocks like that and I keep forgetting about note lanes! It's one of those things where I'll use it for a month and then forget about it for a year or two after that. But yeah I totally agree that using blocks just as a label or place holder is such wasted potential. While I appreciate this channel and the different personalities that produce content for it, as someone who's more seasoned with Reason you gotta bring that heat beyond surface level. I want unorthodoxy, to see new mixing techniques, new ways of using grooves and definitely a lot more on block mode. It doesn't have to be all the time because beginners definitely need love and encouragement but bring on the advanced stuff please! 😎
I use Reason 12 quickly but not like this! Templates and presets are applicable to all DAWs of course. Patches are a must. I tend to make templates based on style, historical and social context
and he called orange as if it were red lol to me it seems like a question of color blindness, I think these are the colors that people like that tend to confuse
I think it's possible to make an ep in a day and then spending the next couple months to then flesh out the songs, add ear candy and make the songs sound consistent
Then he made an EP in 23 minutes, he had plenty of space to make several additions in the other 23 hours of the day. I don't make music like that, because I make it as a hobby and I try to reach higher feelings, doing a lot of polishing, but if my goal was the market, Spotify and things like that, I would make 1 EP a day too. 5 thousand songs are uploaded on platforms per day, and by the next two years musical AI should be close to perfection, think about the result of this...
The days where artists and producers took time to craft the perfect music and sound is over and it is aa case of quantity over quality. The music sounds good but not necessarily memorable because those true classic masterpieces of records often took years to craft and can never been replicated in the space of a few hours.
@@BK-iw1zm And many hit records do just use loops these days. There was a producer who made a hit record from using a mostly unedited sample pack demo lol, thats how bad things are now.
Thing is you don’t have stop there, at least you have something to work with instead of being paralyzed with an empty sequencer and no place to start. Rough drafts are all about belting out an idea as fast as possible, they’re not even at the demo level yet. You can obsess over it later. Get the idea out first.
@@GVCarroll71Yeah, I get that. But, the title of the video is creating an EP in a day. That's not an EP. What he's making is just a bunch of rough sketches, not even considered to be a demo.
@@GVCarroll71 I am aware what is shown is drafts or ideas however they way He speaks He is making it sound like these are finished ideas and aall that He will do next is a little editing. I have no problem comming up with ideas and or sketches but I don't use aa system to do it, and the only time My music sounds similar to something else I made is because I used a previous project as a template. I have used the same drums or midi or other elements cut straight out of previous productions, as I have saved everything over the year and basically now have an entire sound and midi library made by Me. I also use the same samples made by other people in multiple production's.
I have an even better workflow tip! You just make one track and then you copy it twelve times. Using this technique you can make a whole album in a day!
Literally butchering it to porridge, selling pure shit with 110% confidence based on nothing at all. And kids actually believe one'd win with that utter crap. hope he's been paid well for the free marketing. Maximum profile neurosis on the rise. RS laughing off their bloody arse - other companies have to heavily invest into marketing.
@broklanders4730 - yes indeed...its actually painful to watch or listen to this braindead,nonsense rhetoric.. any IQ drops a few % digesting it. =garbage in,garbage out...in todays world THATiS what itIs all about. LOL. help!
@@bristyla See My other comment response, the algorithm on Spotify and RUclips are what govern success, individual creativity is not promoted by theses algorithms and there for 1 these people dont bother with uploading there music to these services, 2 they stay mostly underground and while they might have a small loyal following they make little money and are not remembered in history.
@@bristyla Right but without money in this world your gona be without food and a home, working a dead end low payed job and or claiming welfare unemployed. You can talk all the spiritual truth you like but unless you live with nothing, like a munk you will 100% fail in this life. Spiritualism is very unlikely to stop your physical body getting old dieing.
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Big love Reason crew for having me! Hope you dig the Boy Racer tunes 🏁
Kudos
I’m about to start dipping my toes in and you helped make it feel so approachable, appreciate you taking the time to make this.
How is the F8 with reason?
How does one get that boy racer VST though?
Helllo? How does one get boy racer for reason?
This has to be the best Reason related video I've seen in many years. I want more of these "Reason as a DAW" videos. This is the kind of stuff that inspires us Reason users to make more music. Well done Sharpson and Reason Studios on this one.
Definitely agree
Blocks are really useful and not promoted enough by RS. Vids I see using Blocks are typically like this vid. Just used to colour code an arrangement when there is so much more using blocks can bring. I use blocks with the addition of extra note lanes per instrument so I can toggle on/off note lanes when I want to. This way, you don’t need extra blocks for variation. I also use blocks to hold different chord progressions to try different arrangements and progressions.
Wow this video was released on my birthday! After watching your video Sharpson I AM A FAN! Bro I love your workflow. I have not produced anything with Reason in a few years but I will be dusting it off after watching this. Looks like fun quick process!!!
This is amazing and one I will watch again and again as a reminder to keep it simple. Now, to go build my combinators 💪
The way your able to pump out so many beats is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. Talk about staying in the zone. I think you have literally changed my work flow. Me and combinator are now best friends.
Big up Sharpson, legend. Never knew he used Reason too, what a guy! Great tips, gonna start making and saving combinator patches now.
Even though this is not the type of music I make I found some good workflow tips here. Developing a workflow that enables creating of a complete song quickly is something I' ve struggled with. Blocks and Tower + Pyramid are techinics I'm going to employ on my next song idea.
Time constraints are so beneficial for my production.
What is really inspiring is that you are working full-time but still producing.
brilliant video buddy..respect...
This is great. I'd love to see more behind-the-scenes building tracks with different styles of music. Maybe mixing guitar and Reason instruments.
He's not actually really using the Blocks functionality at all. He's just labelling the song's sections, by just using different Blocks cos they have different different colours. If you actually use *Block View* (first enable it from the Options menu at the top of the screen, then click B to jump between Block View and Song View), and then edit what's in a particular Block itself, when you go back to the Song layout page (by hitting B again), whatever you've included in Block 1, say, will *automatically* show in the Song layout section when you draw in Block 1 into the Song section. That's how you quickly build layouts - make a version that has your full loop, with all the drums, bass, synths, fx, etc, and then maybe another with different notes for the chorus , then just lay out the track in Song view, and use the Mute tool to mute the bits you don't want to hear yet, and make the inverted pyramid he mentions. for the intro/outro, for example. Trying different items coming in first is then as simple as just unmuting & muting them, versus his way where you have to copy and paste the bars all over again.
Most useful workflow I've seen mate sweet X
It is very nice to (finally) hear someone who speaks and presents well. I am not really into what he suggests, BUT there is a logic to it and seeing his pre-made sounds are suited to his intended results (and not RND hopefulness) it is working well for the formulaics that define EDMyness. Giving himself an Arrangement and therefore Targets has a fair sense. Musicians use targets (or "set pieces" like furniture in a room) to help make their pieces work all the time. IF personal parts are added around these set pieces, the bones can become something ok - assuming of course he is not correct about Spotifry (non)listeners not wanting to hear creativity (or is that humanity). "Keep it quick, Keep it going" is very good advice as many DOA from overworking rather than focusing on the target and moving forward.
:-)
Hello, How does one get boy racer for reason?
Hello, How does one get boy racer for reason?
@@beansfordummies they never answered lol
Wow the Irish know how to communicate 👍 : )
Excellent info. My workflow definitely needs improving.
It's really cool!!! Cheers!!! 🤟🤟🔥🔥🔥
Fantastic video love it
I've designed a gargantuan amount of combinators and can't recall reusing any of them haha. Great workflow and ideas.
Hello, How does one get boy racer for reason?
Thank you for saving our ears at the 32s :D
I don't even make trance but now I want to. You make it look too easy.
thnx for video/ please upload more content like this
How did you get boy racer? I have never seen that in Reason
Hello! I have a music education background. I am interested in music production. Should I go back to school for this? Are there any books I could buy for self study on music production or Reasons as a DAW?
just get a DAW (recommend Reason) and watch some RUclips too.
Hello, How does one get boy racer for reason?
Fantastic info
Unlocked comments? What's happened? Are we close to R13 announcement & you're confident it's going to go well? :)
What are you talking about? If there was a 13 ready they would be talking about it on there update blog.
@@HOLLASOUNDS "their"
@@Artek604 Dyslexia strikes again.
The idea of all this Ctrl+D without any song planning makes me recoil but I guess if the overall message is to take advantage of Combinators to save time or to get something on the canvas then cool. Another trick which saves even more time if you're going in this direction then you want to build out the elements of the song within each pattern of the Block View in bite-sized pieces especially with drums. That way later on during Song View instead of Ctrl+D or drag 'n drop the individual clips you can draw those small blocks or patterns up top with the pencil and it automatically repeats as many times as long or as short as you need it whether it's one instrument or 20 instruments. Then if you want to add variety for particular parts of the song in Song View then what you record on top in Song View will override what's underneath just for that 1 part of the song. The patterns underneath in Block View still remain untouched if you change your mind on that variation or decide to delete what's on top later. 😃
Blocks are really useful and not promoted enough by RS. Vids I see using Blocks are typically like this vid. Just used to colour code an arrangement when there is so much more using blocks can bring. I use blocks with the addition of extra note lanes per instrument so I can toggle on/off note lanes when I want to. This way, you don’t need extra blocks for variation. I also use blocks to hold different chord progressions to try different arrangements and progressions.
@@rjbush7955 Dude you're brilliant because I never thought about combining the two concepts into blocks like that and I keep forgetting about note lanes! It's one of those things where I'll use it for a month and then forget about it for a year or two after that. But yeah I totally agree that using blocks just as a label or place holder is such wasted potential. While I appreciate this channel and the different personalities that produce content for it, as someone who's more seasoned with Reason you gotta bring that heat beyond surface level. I want unorthodoxy, to see new mixing techniques, new ways of using grooves and definitely a lot more on block mode. It doesn't have to be all the time because beginners definitely need love and encouragement but bring on the advanced stuff please! 😎
Hello, How does one get boy racer for reason?
Helllo? How does one get boy racer for reason?
Looks like he did 3 EP in one day!
But why blocks for this? Is this not just a simple build up like in a linear sequencer?
After years of ignore bloxxs now i understand the fun of using IT. Thanks for the Video!
ya'll can have your discussions about artsy fartsies while I'll be dancin to these tunes in a parking lot somewhere..
Hey! I'm used to watching you eat snacks! Not talk about Reason workflows!
Get back to work!
Edit: OH GOD THERE'S TWO OF YOU
Hello, How does one get boy racer for reason?
I use Reason 12 quickly but not like this! Templates and presets are applicable to all DAWs of course. Patches are a must. I tend to make templates based on style, historical and social context
How about a different artist who isn't doing tunes for the club? A singer songwriter, perhaps?
Just tell ChatGPT to give you the Reason keyboard commands for a 16 bar trance loop.
Yes, it's Magenta.
He doesn't need to know. Not knowing hurts nobody. It's. Magenta.
love gardening. just digging my fingers into the beautiful magenta soil
and he called orange as if it were red lol to me it seems like a question of color blindness, I think these are the colors that people like that tend to confuse
I prefer real musicians and artists never in a hurry to constantly release crappy and soon forgotten tracks like.
True.
EP in a day sounds like an EP in a day. High-quality music takes months.
I think it's possible to make an ep in a day and then spending the next couple months to then flesh out the songs, add ear candy and make the songs sound consistent
I have to disagree with you on that. High-quality music doesn’t take months especially with a template such as this with high quality sounds.
Then he made an EP in 23 minutes, he had plenty of space to make several additions in the other 23 hours of the day. I don't make music like that, because I make it as a hobby and I try to reach higher feelings, doing a lot of polishing, but if my goal was the market, Spotify and things like that, I would make 1 EP a day too. 5 thousand songs are uploaded on platforms per day, and by the next two years musical AI should be close to perfection, think about the result of this...
Tip #1 is don't use Reason
@tymantis why did you say that?
The days where artists and producers took time to craft the perfect music and sound is over and it is aa case of quantity over quality. The music sounds good but not necessarily memorable because those true classic masterpieces of records often took years to craft and can never been replicated in the space of a few hours.
I can get more relief taking a dump than creating music with this kind of workflow. Might as well just use loops!
@@BK-iw1zm And many hit records do just use loops these days. There was a producer who made a hit record from using a mostly unedited sample pack demo lol, thats how bad things are now.
Thing is you don’t have stop there, at least you have something to work with instead of being paralyzed with an empty sequencer and no place to start. Rough drafts are all about belting out an idea as fast as possible, they’re not even at the demo level yet. You can obsess over it later. Get the idea out first.
@@GVCarroll71Yeah, I get that. But, the title of the video is creating an EP in a day. That's not an EP. What he's making is just a bunch of rough sketches, not even considered to be a demo.
@@GVCarroll71 I am aware what is shown is drafts or ideas however they way He speaks He is making it sound like these are finished ideas and aall that He will do next is a little editing. I have no problem comming up with ideas and or sketches but I don't use aa system to do it, and the only time My music sounds similar to something else I made is because I used a previous project as a template. I have used the same drums or midi or other elements cut straight out of previous productions, as I have saved everything over the year and basically now have an entire sound and midi library made by Me. I also use the same samples made by other people in multiple production's.
Wait a minute....Isn't this the guy always getting smashed on the Try Channel??? lol
You're damn right 😎
I have an even better workflow tip! You just make one track and then you copy it twelve times. Using this technique you can make a whole album in a day!
Literally butchering it to porridge, selling pure shit with 110% confidence based on nothing at all. And kids actually believe one'd win with that utter crap. hope he's been paid well for the free marketing. Maximum profile neurosis on the rise. RS laughing off their bloody arse - other companies have to heavily invest into marketing.
@broklanders4730 - yes indeed...its actually painful to watch or listen to this braindead,nonsense rhetoric.. any IQ drops a few % digesting it. =garbage in,garbage out...in todays world THATiS what itIs all about. LOL. help!
He dont make stuff from scratch He use templates.
@@bristyla See My other comment response, the algorithm on Spotify and RUclips are what govern success, individual creativity is not promoted by theses algorithms and there for 1 these people dont bother with uploading there music to these services, 2 they stay mostly underground and while they might have a small loyal following they make little money and are not remembered in history.
@@bristyla Right but without money in this world your gona be without food and a home, working a dead end low payed job and or claiming welfare unemployed. You can talk all the spiritual truth you like but unless you live with nothing, like a munk you will 100% fail in this life. Spiritualism is very unlikely to stop your physical body getting old dieing.
Tip #1 is don't use Reason
This dude is constipated :P
Reason is sick
That is some serious clickbait bullshit