Re: REASONable software looper question

["nicholson_matt" <nicholson_matt@msn.com>]

Actually, yes the Dr. Rex player will allow you to play individual slices
with keys. The tricky part is that those key assignments are a few octaves
lower than the middle, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. All
you have to do is change the octave setting down on your keyboard and try
out the keys until you hear some output.

Live I think is near perfect for live loop-based music, and you can record
from it too. Reason isn't great for this purpose but since Live is a ReWire
host, you can connect Reason to a track in Live. Live's VST effects support
is also a great bonus. A laptop w/ Live and a small midi keyboard like the
Oxygen 8 are an awesome combination for live performance... add a second
laptop w/ Coldcut's V-Jamm software and you could easily have a loop based
audio/visual performance that fits in a large backpack. That's one of my
goals anyways.

-- Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifford Novey" <om@om-studios.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:25 AM
Subject: RE: REASONable software looper question


> Reason has tons of midi control but the only way to do what you want
> would be to use Reason 2.0 and the sampler included. But even then I
> don't think you could control individual loop volumes.
>
> The rex player does not have midi assignment for play or for the slices-
> so you can't even load a bunch of them and control playing the loops
> that way either. Last is the Redum drum sequencer- which would be
> perfect if only the PLAY button on each part had midi!! It has pitch,
> volume, pan, cutoff etc- I can't believe it has no midi on the play
> buttons.
>
> "Live" sounds like a good choice as suggested- Reason certainly does not
> which is a surprise and a shame.
>
> Cliff
>
> www.om-studios.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nicholson_matt [mailto:nicholson_matt@msn.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:00 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: REASONable software looper question
>
> > That's pretty much what I'm after. Can the Dr. Rex loop
> > player in Reason be played via MIDI/USB from the Oxygen8?
> > And . . . can the several MIDI control knobs on the Oxygen8
> > act as faders for individual loops? The Oxygen 8 can send
> > the data but will Dr. Rex respond? That's (in a nutshell)
> > what I need to know.
>
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