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Propellerhead Music Education Software, Reason & Record
Propellerhead now makes education versions of their software, which now gives education institutions the ability to teach audio production with easy to use tools:
In the classroom, Record and Reason have many distinct advantages over other music software programs, allowing students to focus on music creation and production, not system maintenance and software incompatibilities. Students can freely experiment and find solutions to audio problems while maintaining creative flow during music production, invariably spending more time on their projects and assignments.
I think that sums it up quite well. Both Reason and Record are available with educational licenses. More info here.
Tags: Education, Propellerhead, Reason, Record
What hardware do you need to make rap beats?
None!
Well… except for a computer.
That might sound like a simple and smart-ass remark, but it’s true. You really don’t need any hardware these days to make rap beats. Have you seen photos of the big studios with rack-mounted hardware and huge mixing boards? You don’t need that to just make rap beats. All you need is a laptop computer (or desktop computer), a pair of headphones and some software.
Well then, what software do you need?
Get Reason.
It’s the cheapest way to get everything you need for producing rap beats. Some might argue with me, but that’s fine. There’s other good options for cheap software out there to sequence and produce some beats. But Reason seems to stay on the top of my list, and has for many years now.
So, once you get Reason running on your computer, you should feel that you’ve got everything you need to make some rap beats. It’s all up to you at that point to come up with something creative. It’s kinda like having a bunch of pencils and paper, you still gotta know what your doin if you’re gonna try to draw some pictures. The tools are easy to come by.
Tags: beats, Propellerhead, Reason, software
Make Crunk Beats with Propellerheads Reason
Do you have Reason? Do you want to make some Crunk Beats? It’s not that hard. Check out this tutorial.
Tags: beats, crunk, Propellerhead, Reason
Propellerhead Record: It’s Alive!
In a previous post about a possible Propellerhead DAW, it was being speculated that Propellerhead was coming out with a piece of audio recording software. I liked the possibility of this because it would probably making recording audio and dumping into Reason a little more easy.
Here’s the official announcement of the Propellerhead Record release:
Propellerhead today unveils its brand new software, Record, which combines effortless recording and a stunning software mixer console with a limitless rack of audio processing gear that builds itself or can be infinitely customized.
I like the sound of that… so it’s conceptually similar to Reason, but for audio recording instead!
Built for independent minded musicians, Record is supposed to have the feel of a million dollar recording studio with the streamlined simplicity of a tape deck.
Simplicity is good, I can dig it.
The bad news is that no third-party plug-ins seems to be supported, but it can be ReWired. As with Reason, Record is a “closed system” but that allows the code to be very CPU efficient.
I don’t think that’s bad news at all, mainly because of the efficiency. I see myself probably running Reason rewired with Record, putting them in sync and running them both efficiently and not sapping CPU processing as much as some other software out there. Sounds like a good thing to me!
Tags: DAW, Propellerhead, Reason, Record, recording, Rewire, software
Make Dirty South Rap Beats with Propellerhead Reason
Do you have Reason? Do you wanna make Dirty South rap beats? Here’s a quick video tutorial to show you how.
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DAW software from Propellerhead on the horizon?
I found this to be some interesting news:
While Reason is the only way to work for many – with a history of innovation and groove based music creation, as well as being flexible enough to create many other styles of music – one criticism is that it just doesn’t do the regular DAW thing – that is to record regular audio in true DAW style – adding vocal tracks, live instruments and all that.
Rumours are surfacing that there is a totally new dedicated DAW about to surface, to be uncovered at the upcoming Propellerhead Producers Conferences to be held simultaneously at various worldwide locations on May 9th.
I’ve always enjoyed using Propellerheads Reason to produce rap beats, it just works so well. A bit of software from Propellerheads for audio recording would go very nicely with Reason, especially for sampling. If this new DAW software has features to make it run smooth with Reason, even though it’s going to probably be standalone – it could really boost studio productivity for Reason users.
“This will not be an update to Reason, which will retain its own product category, but will be a new standalone product that will have full-on audio recording capabilities.”
I like the sound of that.
Tags: DAW, production, Propellerhead, Reason, sampling