hello. i've used flstudio for a couple of months, on and off, for making hip-hop and technoish beats. i recently decided to try the reason demo out and have actually found it very intuitive. something about the software just clicked with me and my way of working. i'm not even that good with software and don't even know flstudio that well, a supposed beginners program, but i was able to grasp things in reason pretty quick and i love the way you semi-modular, although self contained, environment of the different synths and FX units.

the only things i am having trouble with are the sequencer, but that's another questions, and the arpeggiator and the matrix sequencer. i can use these two separately but is there any way of using them together in tandem? in flstudio you can do this by simply entering notes in the piano roll and then turning the arpeggiator on. but i cannot get this to work in reason.

what i would want to do is have different arpeggiations being played and having the original note being triggered by the matrix.

i know it may be kind of hard to visualise so i will try to explain a quick example (this is just off the top of my head);

matrix set to 16 steps, on 1, 5, 9 and 13 you have notes being played on the matrix, all these notes are different. the arp would trigger a sequence at each of these different notes.

is this possible at all with reason? i am assuming it is. it is probably something simple i am missing.

btw i am also using the demo version and some features are disabled so maybe this is one of them.

any help appreciated.

thanks.

Yes, it's possible. You need to put the arper in a combinator and then create the matrix and connect it to the combinator.
But you should know something about arpeggiators: They're made for use with chords. As the matrix can only produce single note, the arp will only create sequences of this note or some octave shifting stuff. You'd need to enter legato sequences into the matrix (open gate over more notes). This will make the arp create sequences of this.

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can we get back to using the matrix with the rpg-8, already?