oh lol. dont listen to me then. but i can say ive never seen anyone on the forums refer to reason that i can remember at least. hopefully someone helpful can chime in. q
Sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I was simply trying to explain my affinity for Reason. I know a lot of people are apprehensive about using Reason for the fact they don't use plug-ins. And even recently with the unveiling 3rd party plugins, it kinda a proprietary plug-in, not a standard like VSTs.
i use reason and ableton together
I've never been able to get into the workflow of ReWiring them together. Do you recommend I try? What are the benefits?
I don't really use them for true fakebit (well, I did once...), but I do use them a lot.
What do you mean by "true"? I might have a misconception on the definition of fakebit...
Doing this will not sound as "dirty" as say a Gameboy because a Gameboy has other artifacts like DC offsets that create various clicks and a 16 step volume envelope.
If you're actually using Reason (and not stuck with Reason 5.0 for "unspecified reasons", *cough* *cough*) I recommend you check out the rack extension PX7, which is Prop's own DX7 emulator. I'm sure you could make it do some more simpler FM sounds that could fit into a fakebit context. Maybe add some bitcrushing to that (Scream 4 in the "digital" mode, low damage control and adjust parameters P1 and P2 to taste.)
Awkward 'cause I'm still on 5.0. It's a legit copy(I'm a personal anti-piracy), but I haven't been able to shell out the money for the upgrade, even though it $100. I've played with PX7 on demo of 6.5, and liked it, ALMOST made me get the upgrade. I have been using Scream4, but funny enough, not on digital, I feel like it's to harsh for melodies, especially when I use the RPG 8 Arp, because it tends to stack.
You mentioned added artifacts, do you think maybe there's a way to emulate them? It'd be cool.
the maelstrom has some great synth sounds (square waves, triangle waves, pwm) and i'm pretty sure it comes with nanoloop drum samples. also the nn19 has a lot of great patches in a folder called "synth raw elements". you can find a lot of "fakebit" synths in there.
Stupidly, I never actually looked at the presets/patch bank, thanks for the heads up, I'll check'em out
I hope this is the kind of feedback you're looking for
0hm@hgawd, this is beautiful.
One thing I like doing is all under a Combinator, take two synths, both with a Scream 4 and RPG 8. But one RPG8 is an octave drop and the other an octave up, them use the Spider merger. Sometimes I'll set the Arp rates at different speeds. So when I hit a chord, it'll activate both synths, and it'll give a Daft Punk Tron-esque sound.