Course For Reason 101 – Quick Start Guide [for Mac]

This “Quick Start” course is designed to give you an in-depth overview of Reason. You learn all about its key sections and tools and how to create and manage devices. You start working with MIDI, composing with Blocks and sampling your own sounds.

There’s also a collection of tutorials about recording live audio tracks and processing them through effects, as well as creating your own instruments from scratch. Finally, you learn how to arrange, automate and mix down your project.

This course takes you through all of Reason’s basics to get you producing your first Reason track as quickly as possible. So join Reason expert Hollin Jones and see how easy it is to produce music in Reason 8!

Table of contents:
1. Introduction to Reason (01:29)
2. The Rack (03:22)
3. Introducing Blocks (04:07)
4. More About Blocks (02:22)
5. MIDI Tricks (04:00)
6. Understanding ReGroove (03:23)
7. Browsing in Reason (03:42)
8. Sampling Techniques (03:31)
9. Creating a Bass Synth (04:07)
10. Creating a Beat (03:06)
11. Recording & Comping Guitar (04:11)
12. Guitar Part FX (02:09)
13. Creating Pads (03:26)
14. Creating Leads (03:45)
15. Intro to Effects (02:58)
16. Audio Slicing (03:44)
17. Automation (03:21)
18. Mixing (03:22)
19. The Master Channel (02:08)
20. Exporting Tracks (02:14)