Hi,

I'm a newbie and just started fiddling with the Combinator. It shows as 1 track in the sequencer window.

Does anyone know how can I create individual tracks fore the devices used by the Combinator. When I right-click on the say Subtractor and click on 'create sequencer track for Subtractor' a track shows but it doesnt give me any sounds. When I enter notes it doesn't play.

What am I doing wrong?

Short xplanation:

Attached to a combinator sound devices don't have their own out channel, it means that its sound goes through the combi' device. The notes you want to hear most be drawn in the combinator track.

Long, long explanation:

Combi' uses its devices to create a new sound, right? mostly as modulators, and interpreters. Well i figure out that there is no sense trying to get some uncombinned sound from a subtractor across a combinator, do am i not understanding you?

Well, maybe you've selected a combi' patch where subtractor works as a modulator for the vocooder or something like that. I've been experimenting right now in a machine that has not builted-sound card, but, making some tests i could see, for example, that, if i put some notes in a combinator-attached malstrom track, the mixer displays some activity (the patch i used was Tunnels to Zion).

In other hand, doing the same with a combinator attached-subtractor track noted that nothing happens in its mixer channel (the tested patch in this case was Band Filter Synthesis, where subtractor interacts across a vocooder module [BV 512 Digital Vocooder])

In fact, I almost never can heard something using the vocooder (because, ever i wanted to use it i must see the manual for its correct config, then, i preffer to leave it alone, lil' bit lazzy i know)

The thing is that vocooder only use the subtractor 'voice' for interpret, adding its algorithyms, another notes played for other instrument. I mean, in this relationship, Subtractor gives only its volts, not it sounds.

If you preffer, see this description taken from "Reason operation Manual" page 208, (attached)

Sorry about this longer response, i hope this could work for you.

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Hi Darbo,

thank you very much for that reply. I think I get what you mean. I will have a play with it and I'll let you know how I get on with it.

Thank's again

Jimi