User manual PROPELLERHEAD REASON 2.5

[. . . ] , English Version 2. 5 , Operation Manual 14 Channel Expandable Mixer , Analog Polysynth , Graintable Polysynth , Digital Samplers , REX-loop Player , Drum Machine , ReBirth Input Device , Multiple Effects Processors , Shelving and Parametric EQs , Master Song Sequencer , Pattern Sequencer , 64 Channel Audio Output , 64 Channel ReWire Output , 512 Band Vocoder , CV Processing Tools , Full Automation , Total Recall Operation Manual by Synkron: Ludvig Carlson, Anders Nordmark and Roger Wiklander. The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Propellerhead Software AB. The software described herein is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to any other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Propellerhead Software AB. 2003 Propellerhead Software and its licensors. [. . . ] All the selected zones will now get the exact same parameter settings. D Single adjustment parameters can only be applied to one zone at a time. Adjustments made to these parameters always only apply to the zone with edit focus. D Multiple adjustment parameters apply to all selected zones, just like the synth parameters, as described above. ! Observe that this only applies to the synth parameters (see page 175). Sample parameters (root key, velocity range etc. ) can not be copied. 160 NN-XT SAMPLER Managing Zones and Samples Creating a Key Map When you add an NN-XT sampler to the rack, its key map display is always empty. To create a new key map, proceed as follows: 1. Either click the Browse Samples button, select Browse Samples from the Edit menu or select Browse Samples from the NN-XT's context menu. This will bring up the regular Reason file browser. This example assumes that the samples you load is a set of multisamples for a pitched instrument (like guitar, piano, flute etc. ). Use "Select All" on the Edit menu to select all the loaded samples. Use "Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection" to automatically set up the root notes (pitches) for the samples. Select "Automap Zones" from the Edit menu. All the selected zones will now be arranged automatically into a basic key map. You can now proceed with adjusting the synth parameters on the front panel to shape the sound! About File Formats and REX Slices The NN-XT can import various types of samples: D Standard Wave files These have the extension ". wav". This is the standard audio file format for the PC platform. Any audio or sample editor, regardless of platform, can read and create audio files in Wave format. Any sample rate and practically any bit resolution is supported. D Standard AIFF files These have the extension ". aif" and this is the standard audio file format for the Mac platform. Again, any audio editor can read and create audio files in this format. Any sample rate and practically any bit resolution is supported. D SoundFont samples This is a standardized data format containing wavetable synthesized audio and information on how it should be played back in wavetable synthesizers typically on audio cards. SoundFont banks are hierarchically organized into different categories: User Samples, Instruments, Presets etc. The NN-XT lets you load single samples from within a Soundfont bank. D REX file slices A slice is a snippet of sound in a REX File (see page 153). [. . . ] Note that to use ASIO you need to add an ASIO driver file to the ASIO Drivers folder in your Reason folder. If several program take advantage of ASIO this means you will have to duplicate this driver to each program's ASIO Driver folder. More information about ASIO can be found on Steinberg Media Technologies' web pages, www. steinberg. net. ABOUT AUDIO ON COMPUTERS 285 286 ABOUT AUDIO ON COMPUTERS 2 3 D MIDI Implementation About This Chapter This chapter briefly describes the way various MIDI messages are implemented in Reason. It is mainly intended for those who control the rack directly via MIDI, but direct MIDI input can also be put to good use when recording into the sequencer. [. . . ]