Hi, I haven't tried to use Reason many times and I am probably what you would call a noob but while experimenting with the program, I began to wonder about a thing ... Reason comes with a lot of pre-made sounds, and as I can see, you can get more of them (these refills) but, aren't these sounds copyrighted in some way, let's say, if you for example want to use them for making a cd or something?

What I am wondering is, in short, what do the professionals do? Do they make their own sounds from the bottom (and in that case, how do they do that) or do all reason artists create their music from different kinds of refills? Maybe there's a set of 'basic sounds' that many artists tweak to fit their own individual expression?

I hope you understand my question And looking forward to see answer.

I can only say, how I work. In the most cases, I create sounds with the synthis of reason from scratch. I don´t own many refills. I don´t like presets much.

@copyright:
I believe, in most cases it is so, that you acquire the rights to use the sounds in commercials productions if you buy a refill. With free refills it´s different, I think.

So you can create any sound from reason?
This Synthis you talk about, is it a device in reason?

I still have much to learn about the whole deal of making electronic music, I think. But I remember when looking through the refills that I thought ... ok, this is the sound files I can choose from, but how did these get made?

Yes, you can create any sound from scratch. The subtractor is an easy synth to do this.

You have 2 oscillators and a noise generator. You create the basic sound from your oscillator(s), using the appropiate waveforms (saw, sine etc), then you add filters and envelopes and changing the amplitude settings it will determine the attack sustain decay and release of the sound. Great fun to play with

Wow, cool, thanks. The idea of actually creating sound just blows my mind.

But you still have to upload a patch from the refill into the subtractor, and then use the oscillators and the noise generator? If that is true, then it is still taking an existing sound and adjusting it? Or have I misunderstood?

Every time I have used the substractor, I have uploaded a patch into it, plugged a Matrix to it and then made a rythm. Actually, I don't know of any other way to hear the sound that I adjust in the subtractor.

Victor,

when you load the subtractor, go to Edit then go to Initialise. This will clear all sounds, then you can create your own patches

And then I have to add a matrix device to hear my sounds?

if you dont have a midi keyboard you can just programme a simple loop and keep looping it in the sequencer

Whether or not copyright is an obstacle depends upon the license agreement of any Refills you use. Some creators of Refills make no limitations on your usage of them, while others specifiy in the license agreement that you must inform them of any commercial use of their sounds. If you want to use Reason professionally and don't have the money to pay royalties or license fees, then the best legal advice is to not use any products in which the license agreement requires any notice or compensation to the originator of the sounds. Otherwise, you can make whatever use you want to of all the Refills that came with Reason or any that you've bought or downloaded for free. Just be sure to actually read the license agreement, so you know exactly where you stand. But, other than that, the software was made to be used and the product of your use of it is yours and no one else's.

Gary