Max Rehbein (aka Dorincourt) explains his approach to making an aggressive dubstep bass:
Using the standard Reason devices, learn how to really get your sound to roar by using effects and how to make it sit well in the mix.
After this, you’ll be able to make that love-it-or-hate-it dirty wobble bass we all know!
via PropellerheadSW
Have fun getting flamed by all the geriatric, tool-bag, centrum silver munching, depends wearing, analog-elitist trolls that still think Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis are the be-all, end-all gods of synth music.
Where’s my Centrium…..
One doesn’t need to be a 60-year-old JMJ-fan in order to despise brostep and its repercusions on today’s musical scene.
I was into Jarre as much as anyone else when he was setting up part of the synth lexicon, but hearing so many people do covers of “Oxygene” bores me cross-eyed. I wonder why he doesn’t do anything else at all anymore. He could easily release new material alongside his greatest-hits tours…. I still enjoy Vangelis, as there is too little romance expressed with synths and he’s superior at that. However, covers of “Blade Runner” also bother me. Um, we had a Vangelis to create it. Re-playing it doesn’t make it any better. Using a big sawtooth pad is an homage; replaying a piece note for note is mostly fwapping. Here’s a tip: if you have ever owned a synth with a patch featuring Jarre or Vangelis in the name, its a prod to do something of your own that doesn’t sound like them.
How about a more useful guide for making something besides dubstep? Reason is far too capable to be so pigeonholed as a “techno” instrument. Where are the people using it as an orchestra, or as a basic band-type setup, playing different roles? Is there life after boom-bap? I know a kid who likes it, but who also explores everything from 70s space bands to current girl singers who use loopers. He’s not totally wrapped up in just one style. Dubstep sounds like the background to a laxative commercial. IMHO TROLOLOLO LMAO OH STFU.
Well I think if you’re going to make orchestral music you probably want a DAW with a score editor like Logic and the ability to use orchestral samplers like Kontakt…
That said there are way too many dubstep tutorials out there. It has to be the most over “tutored” genre on the internet.
Very good tutorial. Very simple and straight to the point. I liked it.
Mr synthhead Sir, please could you post a “non techno reason music” with those examples from youtube?
youtube:
edited4tv :
Human League Don’t You Want Me – cover,
Depeche Mode Just Can’t Get Enough – cover,
The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star – cover,
Depeche Mode People Are People – cover
Those are NOT from midi files, but recreated by ear, even the stereo field and of course the instrument (live or synth pataches). Amazing work. I am not going to post the direct link as I do not want to be filtered out by the spam filter.
That are for those who wanted to hear something familiar but not necessary […]step related using Reason…
Have a great Week end everyone
youtube: Fun with Reason “Here Comes The Rain Again”
Propellerhead Reason 5 Jurassic Park symphony orchestra
Those links apply to ANY DAW. It would be fun to have a variation of pleasures…
(I wish I could edit those mistakes in my previous post)
I have used reason since V4 came out and also have been really into trance since way before that, i do think that dubstep is very ” tutored” as mentioned before but i also enjoyed that tutorial and i felt is was relevant to me. 6/10 stars.
Reason is flexible and im glad to see that the company is trying to stay “relevant” to todays electronic music scene, because if they weren’t i would doubt they could be an innovative company.
I would like more technical tutorials, i feel like they are dieing out haha, but i dont expect to see any new trance tutorials from any major DAW any time soon.
That was really f*****g nice
Since Reason will now accept third-party Racks like Camel Audio’s Alchemy, I expect to see it named more frequently in the next couple of years. Its a smart move that helps to un-pigeonhole it.