Hi,

Since my last post I've made some progress thanks to some of your pointers.

I still have a couple questions I'd like to solve to help me with my work. For frequent users of Reason I reckon it's just very basic stuff ^^

Regarding samples. Is there a way to load several different samples in the same device? Cause it gets really messy when I have like 15 devices, each dedicated to only one sample! I see you can create different lanes with one device but I haven't figured out how it works yet. Can those lanes be used to load different samples with one device?

I have an Axiom 61 keyboard. What Reason device would enable me to have all the different samples loaded to my keyboard at the same time? I mean to say that in the present state of things, when I use NN-XT for instance (or any other device for that matter) by pressing a key i can only play one sample. Am I obliged to switch from one device to another each time I want to listen to another sample? Isn't there a way to load all your samples to the keyboard so you can immediately have access to them?

I reckon that's all for now

cheers.

Redrum and the NNXT are great for this. The ReDrum is simpler but will almost always do what you want, the NNXT was built for the same purpose and is a lot more technical but some of it's features are a bit baffling to new users.

Making seperate lanes doesn't mean that you assign certain lanes to certain samples, you can play different samples in the same lane, by assigning those samples to certain notes, like C3,D3 etc.

It may be better for you to create individual lanes for different samples though, it's probably better organised.

I can't give you a thorough guide atm, but here's something that might help you. It's Reason 3 but the devices in the rack are pretty much the same.

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Titan what exactly is a lane? & what reason instrument are they used by?

with that out the way...

can you load one sample into an instrument and then have the pitched changed across the keys...

for example

load a sample to c1. i push c1 and it plays the sample. but when i push d1 it plays the same sample, but at a higher pitch? make sense homie.

by the way, you guys are great!!

haha, here's the answers to your questions, correct me if I've made any mistakes.:

the lane is another word for track or vector, the part of the sequencer where you can draw a group for a certain device, draw notes, record notes, and where the Redrum pattern goes when you select "copy pattern to track" etc. In Reason 4 you now have the ability to add a new lane for ANY device using the Add New Lane or Alt Dub buttons next to Reason Transport. This is handy for different drum patterns, alternate synth lines, complex polyphonic harmonies (two note patterns playing simaltaneously) and for putting secret messages in your RNS files by drawing groups in the form of words lol.

i think that there might be another solution for the NNXT thing, but I just select the sample and bring it down the relevant amount of semitones under the pitch controls. e.g. if you have a sample with the root note at C (default) and you set it to G, G is 7 semitones higher than C, so by bringing the sample pitch down 7 semitones you will cancel out the problem. A semitone is the distance between any two adjacent notes, from C to C sharp, or E to F.

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hey did your problem get fixed i still dont understand how to do this your quote was

"for example

load a sample to c1. i push c1 and it plays the sample. but when i push d1 it plays the same sample, but at a higher pitch? make sense homie."

i guess i dont understand what he is trying to explain cause i have the same problem

it seems to me like the original question was how to load multiple samples into one device to minimize the number of devices -- but i saw responses about the pitch of samples . . . . so here's my answer

use an nn-xt. you can load a sample in it -- give it a root note -- say c3, then set the high level of the note to c3 and the low level to c3. this means when you hit c3 and only c3, it will trigger that sample . .. then you can load another sample and make its root d3, set the high note to d3 and the low note to d3, and like above -- when you hit d3, it will trigger that sample and only that sample

see, if you just load a bunch of samples, reason sets to a default, that default being root of c3 with a high note of c7 (or something) and a low note of c0 (or so). this means the sample will sound as you expect it at c3 and will be pitched up or down as you move up or down the keyboard. when you load multiple samples, they will all play the same way, and all at the same time -- because this is default.

so, change the root note, change the range, and there you go -- you can load 15, 20, 30, whatever samples in it . . . .

if you need futher clarification, i recommend loading a piano patch into nnxt and check out the settings --