Session 1: Today I’ll be demonstrating the techniques necessary for completing part one of the “Inventing New Sounds: Synthesis and Sampling” project. In order to create synthesized sounds we will use Propellerheads Reason. This software offers several devices for producing analog modeled, synthesized sound. One of the easiest, yet great sounding, instruments to learn about synthesis is Subtractor.

Assignment 3: Inventing New Sounds – Synthesis and Sampling

Session 2: Today we’ll be reviewing more capabilities in Reason and having a discussion on the concept of sampling. After the discussion I’ll be demonstrating how to use the NN-XT sampler in Reason. We will look at loading samples and applying envelopes and other parameters to the sampled sounds.