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Summary: Reason 4 has many features and one of them is the ability to create a custom session template. Learn basic tips on how to get started from a Reason expert in this free video clip.
Russell Hause comes from a family of musicians. He has been a dedicated musician since an early age, and has been a dedicated Reason user since its conception. He now uses Reason 4 to...read more
"Right now I'm going to show you how to create a Custom Template. Okay. And this will save a lot of time and hassle setting up your work area when you first start out. So, right now we'll start out with is the demo song which is The Reason, personal preference that they have set up. So you just going to want to open a new document here, okay. Now, I already have my personal template set up here. I'm going to go back and show you real quick how created this, okay. When you open a new file, it's going to have some recognizable things happening in here, okay. And, you want to customize it to where it sets up your items, the same way every time, the things you like to use the most or the things that you usually put into the rack before you start working. Okay. The cool thing about Reason is that it automatically recognizes what you'd like to do with these items right here. And it has already plugged them into Auxiliary I and Auxiliary II, okay. And they're named, Reverb I and Delay I. Now you can rename those, I'm just going to leave them how they are right now. These are where you're going to be dialing in your Auxiliary affects onto whichever channels that you'd like to add this onto. And so right now, I'm just going to save this option and I'll explain to you in the next part how to save this into your own template and make this your default setting."