Reason.. Question

[Justin]

i recently dl the demo for reason, (FL user) i heard you could take a sample thats striaght forward eg: take a piece of music from a track you want...

Then somehow you can seperate the pieces: the drums, the vocal, the melodies components

my question is:

a) is this true?
b) if so how do i do it, reason looks daunting i just wanted to do this one thing with it so i can use the piece of the sample in something im putting together

if its not true is it even possible (btw this isnt a midi file, i know you can do this with a midi file) this is in .wav

any input would be apreciated. Thx

 

[Shwaz]

There is no "separate the tracks" button if that’s what your asking. Reason is like a studio, there are no magic tricks. No, do the work for me plug-ins like an auto tune or vocal align.

What you can do is take your sample and chop it up. You can do this with an audio editing program like Adobe Audition or Soundforge. You try to break the sample up so you get mini samples of the sound you are trying to capture. Like if a bass sound plays and there isn't any music or drums behind it, you would cut the track down to just that bass sound and save. Then you can go into Reason and load it up in a sampler like the NN19. Figure out what note the bass you sampled is in, and set that as the root key. The samplers will then map that across your keyboard, pitching the sample up or down so it is in tune on every key. You will only be able to play about one scale away from the root in either direction because the sample will start to sound real distorted

What you may have heard of is Recycle. It’s another program made by Propellerheads, the company that makes Reason. It detects where all the chops ina sample should be made automatically. Know that it chops based mostly on the beats. The cuts that it makes will include many sounds, not just the ones you are trying to isolate. You could move the selctors where Recylce makes the cuts to isolate sounds as a method of doing what I described above. When you save you create a .rex, which can be read by Reasons Dr.Rex. Actually I lied before Dr.Rex is a little like a magic trick. Dr. Rex will allow you to make the sample faster or slower without changing the pitch. It will also let you trigger each cut individually like an MPC. However, it doesn't map the samples across the keyboard, so with the Dr.Rex you can only trigger a sample in the key it was created in.

If you get into reason a little and check out the NN19 and the Dr.Rex the above will make more sense.

 

[Justin]

Thx for the input. i was using cool edit for chopping the sample, what you wrote kinda clears it up as to the question of can i easily break up my chopped piece... answer is no.

see the sample i already chopped has no vocal, i just wanted to isolate the drums from the melody theres no where on the track where its alone though, unfortunately