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What’s good this afternoon? Have you been working on your mixes? I did a lot yesterday. Today I continued, and ran into a little wall. I was listening to a track and could hear one more synth in my head. I already knew which sound I wanted from the Malstrom in Reason. The problem is, I made the beat using Maschine inside Reaper. Now if I could just get that darn rewire to work ..lol I’d be on my way.

I am so glad I went searching the Reaper Resources . I found the best tutorial, and sat for a few hours this morning setting up a template. The best thing about this lesson is it shows you how to Rewire AND send MIDI between Reaper and Reason *yes double smiles for that *

The specific tutorial can be found here:

Tutorials For Reaper | Reason ReWired to Reaper | Track Template

I shall not tell you a lie… this took me a long time to really get it down. I worked through it, pausing the video after each step. Once I added a few modules in Reason and checked my recordings in Reaper, I did a few on my own. I am still working with a few tweaks, but now I can easily load a template and get started.

This really worked for me today. What I liked most is now I can record the entire beat inside Reason, then stream the audio into Reaper. This allows me to correct any midi inside Reason. I find this a bit easier than using Reapers midi editor.

The tutorial is from: http://tutorialsforreaper.com/. Like the name says it’s full of great Reaper videos. Stop by when you have a chance. I’m watching one more before I get back to work. Thanks again to tutorialsforreaper.com/.

If you found this post and would like to know more about Rewiring Reason to other programs, please check out How to Rewire Reason To Various Daws

Happy Beat Making To All..
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Hey Hey All! What’s Good?… A bunch of happenings going on here. Been in the lab deep lately. I will be posting a few things and new material starting next week. yaay

I’d say in my first year of making beats with the Asr10, George Duke was my go to musician for a lot of samples. I don’t think anyone outside my family ever heard any of those newbie beats though. ..:) I remember listening to his albums because Sheila E. once played drums for him.
One of my favorite G.Duke songs is “No Rhyme,No Reason”. I just adore the melody in this, and the chord progressions jump right out at you…

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Native Instruments has released George Duke Soul Treasures

Wow a lot of work went into this, I think it’s great that you can even edit the sounds inside Kontakt…(that beat was hot huh?)

For more Information check out:
Native Instruments George Duke Soul Treasures

I’m interested in getting this sometime soon. If you purchase before me, let me hear some of the music you create using it.

Happy Beat Making To All
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Hey Hey all! It’s a beautiful morning. Rain is headed our way on the east coast over the next few days. I plan to get my errands done in a few. That way I can stay inside and create while it’s messy out.

It’s funny, I woke up this morning not knowing if I’d have time to post. Once I fed my puppies, I decided to do a Fl Studio article because I haven’t done one in a little while. To my surprise Imageline has released the New Fl Studio 9.6 Beta .. yaaay. Again the updates look wonderful. I’m downloading my copy now, ready to install and later try out the goodies …

Check out what’s been added and updated:
FL Studio 9.6 Beta – What’s New?

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**note the 9.6 beta version will expire Dec 1st. The 9.6 Beta installers are for those who purchased Fl Studio. Betas are sent to users to test products before final release. If you’d like to try the 9.6 Beta, you must first purchase the latest official release. **

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Great Morning to ya! Off to the musical races making many beats this week. I’m back at it big time again. I’ll be posting some final songs this fall and winter. Very excited about the projects I have going, having fun with the music yes!

I received an email about Maschine and Reaper. Priych wanted to add more than 8 outs into Reaper. There are a few ways to do this. The easiest way would be to add two instances of Maschine inside Reaper. You could have one for drums, and the other for instruments and percussion.

Another way would require panning the sounds from Maschine to Reaper, duplicating and panning the Reaper Maschine inserts, and recording output as mono. This will allow you to manually split the “8 Maschine Outs” and make them 16. Reaper has many ways of routing. It sounds difficult at first, but once you do it a few times you’ll breeze through. I will try to explain the best I can today. I will do a video later this month.

Insert Maschine with routing to 8 outputs

Duplicate track 1 in Reaper, send 1st two Maschine instruments to EXT Out 1 “panning one left and one right”

Duplicate track 2 in Reaper, send 2nd two Maschine instruments to Ext Out 2 “panning one left and one right”

Once I have panned the instruments inside Maschine, I tell Reaper how to record, and pan the volume slider to correct side left or right:

Be sure to set Reaper to record ” Mono Mix Of Channel”, remember to pan the Reaper Tracks

You could continue to add tracks this way, giving you 16 outs. So your next step would be:
Duplicate Reaper Track 3. Add two more instruments inside Maschine, pan left and right. Set Reaper to record mono mix of channel. Pan the Reaper channels to the left or right. You would then have 6 Maschine instruments going out to 6 Reaper tracks.

If you’d like to add other vst instruments and record them as midi inside Maschine, you will need to send a midi signal from Maschine to the vsti. I will use Reapers included Reasynth.

I add a Reasynth using the “insert Virtual Instrument” command. Next I assign a receive from Maschine Midi channel 1:

Now you can continue to add more vst instruments assigning each to a new midi channel in both Reaper and Maschine. With this set up you can work entirely inside Maschine, then record audio or midi into Reaper or record everything on Reaper tracks. You can even do both if you’d like, it’s up to you.

Once you have a set up that you like, save as a Template. I usually save one for Reaper and one for Maschine.

In the following template, I have set up Maschine routed to Reaper with drums, 3 instruments, and Reasynth.
Group A=
Drums N Percs routed to tracks 2-8
Group B=
3 Instruments and Reasynth routed to tracks 9-12

MsTrisMusic Maschine and Reaper Template:
MsTrisMusic Reaper Maschine.zip (click on file or right click to download)

I used Native Instruments included Maschine sounds. You can replace them with the same sounds, or any sound of your choice. Let me know if this works for you..

Happy Beat Making To All!
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Hey Hey All! .. How is your week starting? I’ve been getting prepared to do the video tutorials .. yaaay.. I figured why not record one and post today to kick it off. I was a little nervous, but it turned out pretty decent.

This tutorial shows how to load a free Kore Player, and the Ni Maschine into Reaper, then route Maschine to use Kore Player Fx.

I stumbled onto to this today after re-installing my free Kore Player. I haven’t gone through all the effects yet, but I plan to use them on more sounds than drums. Although I used the Kore Fx on Maschine in the tutorial, you can replace Maschine with the instrument of your choice. Just select io after adding your plug-in, and add a send to the track where you have the Kore Player…

Download the Free Kore Player w/300mb sound library: http://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/all-downloads/

Happy Beat Making To All..
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Monday morn..up and at em all! I started chopping some samples already. I’ll probably be working with Maschine, and the Mpc 2500 all day. Working on a sole produced project, and have another lined up right after yaaay !

You all know I love hitting up youtube before I get to work …. Here is a nice Mpc 5000 video posted by www.hiphoptools.com youtube channel
Akai MPC 5000 HipHopTools.com

Love it! …Pretty much sums up how a lot of producers feel about the art of sampling ..

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What’s Up?.. I had a super, smashing, bangin’ birthday weekend … My family threw a party for me and we had a blast..The weather was so beautiful on Sat. perfect for all the fun.
I was rushing a little before, and left my lab a little messy..lol. I’m taking some time to get things organized, so I’m watching educational videos while I tidy.

I’ve been getting into Sonar a bit lately. It’s not as easy to use as Reaper, but you can surely achieve great mixes with it.
Here is a 35 minute webinar that Cakewalk released a couple years ago. I am listening to it as I type, and it is an excellent resource for Sonar users.

Check out more Cakewalk Product videos here:
CakewalkSoftware Youtube Channel
Get The latest version of Sonar:
www.cakewalk.com

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