By Frank McIntosh
135 pages
Although many musicians use Reason to create music in their home studios, its instruments and sequencer are also extremely well-suited for live performance. So how do you get your Reason tracks ready for the limelight? For that matter, how do you get your Reason skills ready for the stage? Do you need to preprogram all of it? Can you use
its instruments live without programming anything? Using Reason Onstage: Skill Pack quickly shows any Reason user, from the novice to the experienced, how to use Reason 4’s power for onstage performance. The book starts out by providing valuable key commands that are helpful to know during live performance, and then moves quickly on to controller setups, song layout suggestions, and Combinator 2 tips and tricks that will dramatically improve any musician’s onstage performance. In addition to covering basic functions that make live performance easier, this excellent book/CD package also covers advanced concepts that allow the user to walk onstage and compose on the fly! The accompanying CD includes presets and templates that you’ll use to learn the concepts in the book. This “learn by doing” approach ensures that you’ll never skip a beat while jamming onstage.
Benefits
- Provides the only book or tutorial specically focused on using Reason for live performance.
- Integrated CD lessons walk readers through Reason set-up, giving them immediately usable skills.
- Not only walks the reader through advanced performance tricks, but does so in such a way that readers will be coming up with their own
- Brings new concepts to the table for inspiration and songwriting thanks to its introduction of freestyle composition concepts.
- Teaches key commands, mapping techniques and template guides that will have musicians not only prepared for the road, but in command of
- Explains how the new Thor synthesizer, Combinator 2 and RPG-8 instruments in Reason 4.0 can add a whole new layer to performing live.
- Provides quick and easy excercises for both experienced live musicians, as well as novices interested in becoming freestyle laptop
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: First Preparations: Are All Machines Created Equal?
Chapter 2: Setting Up: A Little Preparation Goes a Long Way.
Chapter 3: Controllers and Templates.
Chapter 4: Introduction to Combinators.
Chapter 5: Aroeggiators.
Chapter 6: Song Starters.
Chapter 7: ReWire Onstage.
Author Bio
Frank McIntosh
Frank McIntosh’s unique experiences with relational leaders had its genesis in a 36-year career with Junior Achievement in Boston, Denver, and Delaware (which also serves Southern NJ and Northern Maryland). In Delaware he served as President and CEO for more than 25 years. During that time, Frank worked with many of the most recognized companies and executives in the world. He has provided consulting services for peers across the country and helped initiate Junior Achievement programs in Ireland, Ivory Coast, Benin, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Uzbekistan. He was inducted into the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame in October 2008, one of 38 individuals—and the first not-for-profit executive— so honored among countless leaders spanning over 300 years of Delaware business history. McIntosh recently completed a three-year term as the initial Chair of Delaware’s Christina School District’s Financial Review Committee.
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