Tweaking REdrum - Reason Tips

[WingsOfAnAngel]

When building patterns with Reason REdrum, take advantage of the many features available to create realistic sounding beats. Use the dynamics slider while programming on the step sequencer to alter the dynamics and velocity levels. A human drummer varies the volume levels of percussive hits, and to add some life to your audio beats and loops it is necessary to do the same. So mix it up with the Hard, Medium, and Soft dynamics settings to add accents to the track.

Adding Flam to your drum hits adds another layer to the pattern. A flam is a brief soft tap on the instrument right before the main hit. Turn on the flam switch and experiment adding it to your REdrum patterns.

Another thing to try out when constructing beats, is to give to pattern some shuffle. Shuffle gives the music a sense of push-pull and adds a swing feel to the track. To use Shuffle turn on the Shuffle button and adjust the amount with the Pattern Shuffle dial in the lower right of Reason’s transport control.

 

[wizard]

after u add the shuffle
does the shuffle stay when u copy the pattern to track?

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

after u add the shuffle
does the shuffle stay when u copy the pattern to track?

Good Question!

"On the redrum there is a button that says "shuffle". This button is exactly what your looking for. It creates a swing feel by delaying all the 16th notes in between the 8th notes. You then adjust the amount of the delay with the "Pattern Shuffle" knob all the way in the bottom right corner of the screen in the Reason Transport section. This is if you are programming drums using the ReDrum sequencer. If you want to do your drums using your keyboard you can do the same thing by quantising them to shuffle. You would then just go to the sequencer quantise drop down menu and instead of selecting 1/16 or 1/8 or whatever just choose shuffle and quantise the drums. It will quantise them based on what the "Pattern Shuffle" Knob is set to."

"The amount of Shuffle added is controlled by the value of the Pattern Shuffle knob at the far right of the Transport bar. If you find yourself tweaking the Transport Pattern Shuffle knob and not hearing any results, you probably haven’t clicked the Shuffle switch in ReDrum to actually indicate that you want Shuffle to be applied to your Pattern".

Alright?

Good Luck,
Wings

 

[General52]

Shuffle

Thanks. Extremely useful. I was told about using the shuffle but nobody ever clarified that
It needed to be used with the transport panel.

 

[stanman]

good info bro thanks

 

[TheMost]

good post good nfo about the drums, i se a clear differecne when altering soft-medium and hard setting on my drum patterns, i kinda figure it out while first making beats being a musician first but i give you props for posting it because its a little trick i enjoy and evryone should know.