Opening a New Template in Reason

Video Transcript

"What's up? My name's Darin on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you guys how to create a song using Reason. In this clip right here I'm going to show you guys how we can open up Reason and convert the default open song as one of your own. Once we're in Reason, you would go to Reason and then go to preferences. Under there there's a couple tabs up top, a couple pages that you can shift through. We'll be under the general tab right now. Right underneath the general tab, you see where it says 'default song'? Right there it will say, it's already selected as 'built-in'. We want to change that built-in and make it our own. So in order to get all the synthesizers down, we're going to go ahead and select 'empty rack'. Once we select 'empty rack', let's go ahead and close that and open up a new. Once we open up new it's a blank rack. Me personally, I like adding all the synthesizers down first. It doesn't matter which ones, I'll probably use them later on. So this is pretty much to save time in the hassle of keep adding them every time, or keep deleting the default song to start making your own. Once we have the empty rack, we'll go ahead and right-click, and we'll start with the mixer. That allows it to shift through every song that you have, every synthesizer that you have underneath there. So I'm going to go ahead and put down the ReDrum next, and then the Dr. X, and so forth. I'm only going to do the top section, these are the main synthesizers - the Subtractor, the Mouse Drum, the NN19, the NNXT and the Dr. X, and the ReDrum. So we're going to use those for right now. Once that's okay, we'll go ahead and go up to file, save, and you can name the document. Name it 'Open'. Once we save it, we'll go ahead and go back to preferences, and where it says 'default song', we're going to go ahead and click on 'custom'. Once we click on 'custom', it has a folder right next to it. It's a browse folder, so we'll go ahead and hit browse, and search for the one that says 'Open'. Once we find that, we'll go ahead and hit okay, we'll hit new. It'll open up as the same, the layout that you want, the template of all the synthesizers that you want. From there, you can just start fresh and have your own track ready to go."