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Summary: Reason 4 has many features and the DrRex loop section is very easy to load sounds into to use as samples. 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
"O.k. so now that I've shown you a little bit of the Dr. Rex Loop player, I can show some other ways to get more involved with the loops. O.k. so when you take the loop player and you have a specific loop that you'd like to pull down and you'd like to start working on. Now there are many ways of working on the loop and I should you a few by affecting the loop itself by using filters and LFO's and amp envelopes and oscillations but also there are ways to be able to change the loop itself and what we're going to do right now instead of previewing it like we can do right now. What we're going to do is we're going to take this and we're going to drop it down on the track. O.k. so now all of a sudden you can see that in the area that we have marked it has dropped down four exact versions of our track here. So now in the, you can come into the edit lane and as you can see right away there are different ways to look at your loop. O.k. so now why don't we pull this open real quick and you'll be able to see right away that this loop is sliced into 23 different slices."