Can anyone guide me to a techno tutorial. I've searched. The most in-depth one you know of would be great!

What do you mean a techno tutorial?? You shouldn't learn how to make a song through a tutorial, you should learn through inspiration and your own ingenuity and creativity and by learning how Reason works.

I make a lot of techno tracks, it requires a lot of synchopation and a neat chord progression... like:

F-G#, G-Bb, C#-F, C#-F

You also need a hell of a lot of samples, the grunge cymbal is one of the most overused samples ever, you can make it more original by using a different hat/cymbal or even editing it yourself!

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thanks. do you have any links where I can find examples of techno songs made using the original reason sound bank. I want the rns file, these would be pretty helpful. I also need help with how to make some good drum lines. I mean sure I could make simple ones with redrum or another drum machine and my keyboard, but how do bands like the flash bulb make such crazy drum lines? Specifically ones that are like slow to fast beats I don't know really how to explain it. Kind of like a long note and then it gets cut up in to many small notes. Like Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh. Haha sorry, can't explain it any better. Also, I want to know if there's any such thing as a program that you can record your voice with and make it sound like it went through a talkbox. I'm just gonna make my own if there isn't. A link to a good talk box tut would be nice. One last thing; I'm currently only using Bome's Mouse Keyboard to make music, but my friend wants to sell me his keyboard. It only has 2 octaves. Is this fine? Thanks.

Electronic music isn't very conventional, I make electronic music and I never need to use more than one or two octaves. If you need a really high note or low note you can just drag the notes up one or two octaves.

I'll get back to you on the other things once I have time

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Well it takes a while for you to understand how to make drums sound the way you want. The only way that you can make a drum beat in your head come out in Reason is through hundreds of different samples and a good knowledge of effects, mastering etc.

Here's a torrent that can help get you started. It has a wide variety of samples, from hip-hop to dj. Combine these with EQ and smart engineering to make your song
sound the way you want it to.

The best way to make your song sound immense, like the breakbeat you were describing, or at least trying to is to make it really original and with tons of alternate takes. Take this song for example, Aphex Twin makes at least4 alternate takes, and the result can be mind-blowing.

I'm not sure what a talkbox is, but if you mean a vocoder, Reason has one, just create a BV512 and wire it correctly with a vox sample and a mono synth...

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Thanks for the awesome replies! A talk box is when you have a tube attached to a microphone and it lets you shape your voice a certain way and gives a cool electronic sound. Here's a link to the talk box wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box I dont think its the same as a vocoder because that wiki says it's often confused with a vocoder. Anyway thanks man.

P.S. I have dial-up so it's gonna be a while for me to download all those refills haha (I can't get high speed where I am ) I guess I'll just download some of them, test em' out and what not over time. Havn't checked the twins song yet, will get on that.

I found something here but I haven't tried it out yet, but I think I know what you mean now.

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Thanks, I'll try it out once I get around to it. I got one last question for the mean time. Again I've searched for this and the answer is most likely around somewhere, I probably just have bad searching skills. Any way since I'm not perfect when recording a midi segment, when editing it:

1. How can I make all the notes equal length? (I've tried highlighting them all and changing the length but that only changes the first note).

2. How can I equally disperse the notes apart from each other so that the gap between each note is constant?

Thanks again.

By the way, because I'm such a nice guy and all We could arrange for me to mail you a DVD of tons of E-MU Dance, Classics and Techno/Trance samples, plus that torrent, free.

It's a pretty immense collection of samples that are perfect for the sort of music you're into. Luckily I make the same sort of music I think it will fit on a single DVD-RW...

I'll holla back at you once I get time, I have some exams that will determine whether or not I get a grant, which if I don't get means I have to steal wi-fi broadband, which might mean I won't even get to go on this forum lol... but don't worry, it's not eating into my schedule or anything. Anyway, time t take a nice relaxing bath

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Sorry, I think we just simaultaneously posted lol.

1)You can use the quantize feauture to do this, I think. Just press F8 (I think it is) and change what length you want notes to quantize to, then enable the "quantize while rec" button undernneath the play button for this to happen. This means that when you record a note sequence it is automatically put into perfect 1/16s, 1/4 notes, etc.

2)Just use the mouse the get the right note length for the first note, then CTRL-C CTRL-V all the way baby!

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