Emulating Chiptunes in Reason

Categories: Engineering, Producing, Songwriting

Photo courtesy of nookly February 20th, 2009 - Are you interested in writing the next classic video game theme, but lack a half a dozen retro gaming systems at your disposal? Well, BoingBoing has a tutorial from Tettix, that shows you how to create similar sounding music in Reason. From the use of samples, to bit-crunching  software instruments, you too can get fat, crunchy, buzzing 8bit tunes. It may be cheating a bit, with fidelity that is perhaps too good, but it's all ... Read More

Propellerhead Reason Premium Edition

Categories: Asides, Producing, Software Review, Songwriting

Photo courtesy of Propellerhead August 24th, 2008 - For all you Reason fanatics, Propellerhead is releasing the Reason Premium Edition tomorrow. Included with it are 4 high quality ReFill packs: Reason Drum Kits 2, Reason Pianos, Abbey Row Keyboards, and Reason Electric Bass. To be honest, I haven't had much experience with Reason. I played around with the version I got bundled with my M-Audio Firewire 410, but it did not include all the features. At the time, I used Logic for all my ... Read More