Computer Music Archive

  • Propellerheads “Pay what you want” for Reason 6 upgrade

    Propellerheads “Pay what you want” for Reason 6 upgrade

    Yep, I couldn’t believe it either. Take a look for yourself – http://www.propellerheads.se/paywhatyouwant/ Just a quickie to all you Reason followers – between 30th September and 31st October, owners of Reason and Record can pay what they want for the Reason 6 upgrade. That’s right,...

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  • Propellerheads Reason 5 and Record 1.5 Upgrade

    Propellerheads Reason 5 and Record 1.5 Upgrade

    At last, the time had come. But it was about time. I made the decision to go ahead and purchase the upgrade from Reason 4 to Reason 5 and Record 1.5. And boy am I glad I did. First thing to say about Reason 5...

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  • Load Default Sound in New Devices in Reason

    Load Default Sound in New Devices in Reason

    You’re in Reason and you are putting new devices by right clicking and clicking “Create Instrument”, or simply by going to the top option bar and choosing “Create -> Create Instrument” and it keeps putting in default sounds. In Reason 4.0, for the Malstrom, its...

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  • My weapon of choice – Reason

    My weapon of choice – Reason

    With the release of Reason 5 this week, I thought I would write a short blog about my weapon of choice when it comes to Music Production – Reason. Developed by the Swedish company Propellerheads, Reason is a Music Sequencer / Production tool that enables...

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  • What you need to start composing music with computers

    What you need to start composing music with computers

    My interest in Music production came about when I used to play with Logic on the old Windows 3.1 machines back at school around 15 years ago. The idea of being able to record tracks using a keyboard, allocating each track with its own instrument...

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  • Keep your MP3s organised

    Keep your MP3s organised

    If you are an avid music fan like myself, you will find that the quantity of MP3s you collect starts to grow to what may seem an unmanagable amount. What was starting to annoy me was the fact that when I transferred my music to...

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  • Composing music with Computers

    Composing music with Computers

    Computers completely revolutionised the production, and indeed the distribution of music. Synthesizers, MIDI, DAWs, MP3s, Napster, mixing, mastering – all have been affected or created by the presence of computers. Say though you want to compose music yourself, where do you start? What do you...

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