Monday, February 4, 2008

Melody and Drum Beat

Today, you will be asked to create a melody using notes from the C minor scale that goes along with a drum beat.

  1. Open Reason
  2. Make sure you have a Mixer 14:2
  3. Set Tempo between 70-110 bpm
  4. Create a Redrum and make a 32 step drum pattern using a Clap or Snap, Bass Drum, Hi Hat, and Percussion. Make sure you put the sounds on appropriate boxes!
  5. On the Redrum, Copy Pattern To Track.
  6. Now Create Combinator: choose any instrument in the NN19 folder.
  7. Create a melody using notes from the C minor scale. Use between 3 and 5 different notes.
  8. When you have finished making your melody, quantize it.
  9. Create a Dr. Rex. Load a Percussion Loop and put it "To Track."
  10. Try adding some more parts using other Soft Synths (Subtractor, Malstrom, NN19, NNXT)
  11. Let me hear what you got.
  12. Check out my Rihanna remix

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