Dubtrain loves Reason; it's one of the most flexible, powerful software platforms out there. Here are a couple of projects that you might find interesting.
Dubtrain's 2005 release of Ouroboros Dub Vol 1 was the final result of a project that heavily involved Reason. I used all kinds of sampled sources and created beats and songs using looped elements. Then I got a couple of friends to record guitar and voice tracks, which I chopped up and imported back into Reason for even more arranging and processing fun.
Here are a couple of tutorials on some of the specific techniques I used to make the album.
I adapted an open-source description of the elements of a Roland Space Echo tape delay machine, and wired up a series of devices into a Space Echo combinator (Reason 3.0 and up).
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Here's how it works:
an LFO (low frequency oscillator, generated via malstrom) controls the tape motor speed variation (wow) these values are merged (with the wow value inverted) and sent as a CV (control voltage) to the chorus/delay unit to apply "tape variation" to the signal. Use the Dubtrain Space Echo combinator as an aux send effect from your project's mixer or insert it onto a single device. When a signal is sent to the DSE, it hits an internal mixer, which sends the signal through the following chain: malstrom: crosstalks the stereo spread the two delay outs are returned to the internal mixer, which can then be controlled by the foldback knobs to re-send the signal back through the DSE chain again, if desired. finally the delayed signal plus foldback is returned from the combinator to your project mixer's stereo Aux In (or where have you). |
I edited the graphic elements of a Space Echo face onto the combinator skin, too. It looks sharp, and sounds phenomenal.
| The Combinator Device controls:
knob 1: foldback knob 2: reverse foldback knob 3: echo time L knob 4: echo time R button 1: foldback toggle button 2: reverse foldback toggle button 3: lo cut button 4: hi cut |
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