Reason 3 and fundamentals

[creepz]

Yo dub edz
i got some fundamental questions , i have searched alot lately for advice and watched manny tutorials many times i will continue to do so .

basically what i want to know may seen silly to some but when ure a extreme beginer making music can be verry confuseing any way , how should i structure my track is there any golden rules or basic principles , what i had in mind was 32 bar drum pat from start with some mid bass comming in at 16 and the big drop at 32 then continue with some percusion thru ought and finnishing off with me drum pat again. then lay down my samples and fx where i want them ?


Secondly in reason when i use redrum is there any way to have my effect on only certain patterns( ie a/1. and not 2 or 3) it seems to aplly on every pattern ?

if im going about it arse over tit then please let me know or vice a versa
need help guys

[docwra]

Apparently Reason is an annagram for Aids. My mum said so.

[nospin]

Yo dub edz
basically what i want to know may seen silly to some but when ure a extreme beginer making music can be verry confuseing any way , how should i structure my track is there any golden rules or basic principles ,

all i can say here is, if you are an "extreme beginner," then dont expect to make tracks that are amazing start to finish that'll get any play. work on techniques, sounds, and what not. arranging is tough, and it should be unique to the specific track. for now, i'd say keep it fairly simple in structure, and work on transitions from one part of a song to another. try to avoid simply adding and deleting parts along the way.

Secondly in reason when i use redrum is there any way to have my effect on only certain patterns( ie a/1. and not 2 or 3) it seems to aplly on every pattern ?

i havent used reason 3 yet, so there might be a new thing for this, but i doubt it. when you sequence out the patterns, (like when you are in the piano roll and say you want patterm A1 to play for 16 bars, and A2 to go for the next 8 and A3 for the next you can also draw in automation to turn the effect on or off at any given point, including when you change patterns. if you dont know how to draw in automation for specific things, look in the help menu, it'll probably explain it better than i can on here.

[creepz]

thanx for advice geez im keeping things simple and already sounding alot better .
ive seen the automation ure on about ill delve deeper

thanx again


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[parson]

for the drums:

create a new mixer plugged into channel 1 of your main mixer
then create a redrum and plug each channel from the drum machine into a channel of the second mixer.

then you can put up to four different send effects on the second mixer, which can be dialed up on each channel