Record micro tutorial 1 - Record basics

Neptune has its roots in pitch correction and harmony generation. In fact, that's exactly what it was designed for. But one of the things that makes Reason/Record such a creative environment to work in is that nothing has to be used in the way it was designed.

After watching the first two Synth School videos you've probably realized that the entirety of synthesizer sound design is simply about taking a basic sound wave and reshaping it with basic tools like filters, amp envelopes, phase, other oscillators mixed in, etc.

You understand the basics of synthesis and have mastered the Subtractor, you've learned about the Malström's unique "graintable sythesis" technique, and now all you need to know to master the Malström is to understand its special filters, shaper, and mods. T

In the third episode, James Bernard gives you even more tips on creating dub step wobble bass sounds in Record and Reason. Get the files for this tutorial here: www.propellerheads.se

The biggest irony for mix engineers is that mixing songs is not really about "mixing" at all. In fact, it's often more about creating separation and unique space between tracks than it is about mixing things into one homogenous mush of sound.