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Hey thanks! These are from an Ableton Pack Drive and Glow. www.ableton.com/en/packs/drive-and-glow/ They sound great. I have them running into some EQ, G-comp, saturation and Knock Clipper.

Thank you thank you!

I haven't noticed any noise at all! Where are you getting it? Notice it showing up when you enable anything like the verb or distortion? Does it go away if you turn the noise level down or the tone level down?

@@toskabyssit’s a known issue, apparently turning of the reverb helps but not entirely

Dang that is awesome! It is such an awesome piece. I went from having 10+ pieces of hardware instruments down to just the ND3p in a period of 2 years. I hope your ND brings you as much joy as mine does!!

​@@toskabyss Yeah, a beautifully sounding synth that you can hit with a drumstick 🙃. Pure joy!

I started with Reason over 20 years ago but didn't have the language to know how CV worked until I owned hardware. Missed out on a bunch! Reason is the best.

Thanks my friend!

Thanks! I'm using a re-amp box to send the TR606 samples to a fuzz pedal. I think I'm just doing a little delay, drive and reverb automation in Ableton in post.

I appreciate that!! I 100% quantized this lol

This is dope! It'd be really cool to see what else is going on to make the track.

@@mikedegrande2936 Thanks! I should do some videos and break some of this stuff apart.

🙏🏽 I appreciate your feedback and I have to agree with you. I am much more fond of setting up the cameras and making stuff rather than what I’m currently doing. I’m approaching about a years worth of YT talking content and I miss just being creative and making things for myself. I appreciate your insight a lot!

@@toskabyss dont get me wrong, i still enjoy your talking content or i wouldn't be subscribed. i think we share a lot of the same ideas when it comes to gear. it's just that i see this and i think there's so much potential. it gets me hyped. i'm not usually one to comment on stuff or i would've told you a while back that i'm digging the nose ring haha

and honestly, you have some of the best just setting up camera and jamming content on yt

@@fayshalin haha thanks! I brought this conversation over to one of my good music friends and we all shared some similar ideas! I pulled out more of my camera gear today and getting back to it!

Thanks! Yes I agree they pair really well!

I’m not even entertaining VCV because the next thing I know I’ll be trying to fill a case and I’ll be financially RUINED!!! 😆

I want to give one of the ND2s a spin

@ can’t wait for it to arrive. I had a Nord Modular Desktop/Rack decades ago and just love the unique Nord sound. I am a drummer and play acoustic drums and wanted to be able to disconnect the pads from the Nord Drum for a smaller desktop setup to sit alongside my other electronic music making gear mainly (Octatrack, Digitakt II, Syntakt, DFAM, etc). I’ll use the pads at times, but it will mostly be used as a sound source for both sampling and sequencing. Thanks for great Nord Drum videos. 👍

Thanks yes I think you are right they pair nicely. It’s a great little pedal.

Totally agree. This is my second push and the sensitive settings on this one are spot on. Would love to check out Maschine one day.

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Thank you!! Okay so from what I remember I am thresh 2 and sensitivity 18-19. I end up having to hit pretty hard and after a session my hands typically feel pretty rough. I found that using the thumbs was helpful

Back when I left Reason around R9 I had no understanding of CV. It has been so much fun going and grabbing REs in 2024. I think if you have a DAW combined with the Reason Rack you’d be pretty much set and covered with everything you’d need.

You are a step ahead of me! I am working on a Reason Rack is a Semi-modular Instrument Video. It is Crazy wow you can route the adsr from something like subtractor to a volume fader or panning of a mixer. It is unbelievably deep. Feels like infinite connections and possibilities.

Thanks!!!

Dang.. you are 100% correct. I went back in to see if I could address the different instruments within the rack with separate midi channels and you cannot. However, using the players or matrix sequencer you could technically "play" or compose something multitimbral-ish within one Reason Rack patch. Also, the Reason Rack being able to send audio to separate channels within the daw feels sort of similar to the rear of something like a Nord Lead 4. You are correct though! Thanks!

@@toskabyss No worries. Multitimbral made a lot of sense in the 90s when you had one synth that you needed to have deliver many parts, M1, Proteus etc. Now with the DAW, Multi makes little sense seeing you would just instance another RRP VST as that gives the simplest way to Mix etc. :-)

So reason it’s self is multitimbral by your definition

@@LachieMcg Um Multitimbral is. as I noted, like a Montage or Fantom where it is playing back a full song sequence's parts at once: drums, bass, piano, pads, etc. Reason is a DAW which can do that but a different specification of device as such. Otherwise it is a bit like saying a donkey cart is equal to a F1 race car. Technically maybe but only in the most stretched of ways. :-)

It just means more than one timbre. But if you want to play this semantics game and please enjoy correcting people and play on

I haven’t messed with Friktion yet I’ll have to give that a spin! I really love the sound of Reason’s synths. I have certain presets that are locked in my memory that I know I can reach to for specific sounds. I am also really enjoying exploring Europa.

Dang I super appreciate your comment! You are a step ahead of me as my next video is going to be how it’s a modular synth or something to that effect. I got into Reason a LONG time ago back around Reason 2.5. I primarily just used presets, then when reason+record merged into a full daw I mostly just made beats with samples and flipped samples. I had zero understanding of synths let alone CV. After a long hardware journey and coming back to Reason my mind is blown with all you can do. The idea of using subtractor’s adsr out to control a volume fader on a mixer. It feels beautifully endless.

@@toskabyss I'm really excited to hear that you're diving into this side of Reason in your videos! I have to say, I consider and feel myself to be a child of both samplers and synths. When I think of samplers, I don’t mean the modern ones like an MPC; I’m more nostalgic for devices like the AKAI-1000 or the Roland S-500. These machines from the late ’80s were revolutionary, allowing us to play multiple samples dynamically across different layers. My journey with Reason started way back at version 2.0 in 2002, and it felt like such a natural progression for me. I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding out there-perhaps partly due to how Reason presents itself-but I believe that, especially as a DAW, is an incredible synth on its own; it’s also the only program that really feels like a living, breathing sampler! You can literally multi-sample directly on each device! The NN-XT and its smaller cousin, the NN-19 (which is pretty cool because it can turn into a 12-bit, texture-filled sampler with just a click) are truly more versatile and powerful than any other samplers out there-especially when you consider their connectivity features. I've been a fan of your work for some time, especially your content about the Nord 3P, and I'm looking forward to following you even more closely. I’d love to share some insights that might be helpful for you and your followers as well! Keep up the aesthetic work you do.

@@aresoltero oh snap I have always just skipped over NN-19. I didn’t know it had a 12bit button. I feel like there is a lot to explore there. I agree about the misunderstanding. With all of the gear acquisition syndrome content that is floating about, the number one argument that I hear about hardware is “the tactile feel” or something like that. Reason really ticks that box I think. When I was switching from Reason to Ableton I was sort of irritated with Reason for having some of these slow processes. Slower to build patches and route things than Ableton. But now I have come to realize there was probably a reason for that (I’m sorry about the joke lol). But I can honestly say Reason sounds better and is more powerful than any hardware I’ve ever owned.

​@@toskabyss On the NN-19, if you turn off the high-quality interpolation, those samples - particularly on the left side of the keys - really take on that signature vibe of 12-bit samples from the '90s. If you want to kick it up a notch and add some extra grit to the high frequencies, you can easily enable the low bandwidth option located on the left side, just off the screen. It really makes a difference! A video about the upcoming Nexus5 just popped up in my feed, and I watched it carefully. If someone involved in sound creation understands the power hidden in the Combinator in Reason, which can combine 80+ devices incl (13!) synths, many samplers & drum modules, utilities 35 Effect/Multi Effect units, and MIDI players, they would realize how much soft instruments like Nexus, or even Kontakt, fall short in comparison. I say this with regret, but Reason, unfortunately, has not supported its devices as much as it should have and has not created communities or a true platform where sound designers can fully unleash the power of Reason. They tried to do this with the Packs, but given that they’ve limited them to only 10 patches per Pack and offer them exclusively for free, they have undermined their effort from the outset and undervalued the creators.

AHH it has been a long time since I made this patch. I THINK it was a saw wave on Osc1 and saw wave a 5th up on Osc2. I think I am running the external output into the attenuator and then back into external input. I am using the attenuator to slightly bring in that overdrive sound. Lastly, in Ableton I am using a little bit of tape delay automation and I have another send that is fuzz pedal going into a very short reverb. Hope this helps!

Hey my friend thanks for the kind words! You are ridiculously talented and really have mastered your craft.

I have to agree - I love the versatility of the software but the spontaneity that arrives when patching hardware is hard to capture in the software realm.

Yup sort of! I am running this into ableton and I did some post processing there

You are correct, I record midi, clean up any timing issues, then I pan all my low end to left channel and high end to right channel and mix and master in Ableton.

@@toskabyss awesome thanks! i just got a 3p and was wondering the best practice for mixing. sounds dope! One extra question -- if you do that it pretty much is dual mono right? what about any type of stereo fx or delays?

@@mrfuriousmother You got it - it is dual mono. In the mixer section you have an option to pan each of the 6 channels left or right. Delay and Reverb are essentially sends. I always throw my low end (kicks, basses) left and high end right. If I put a big reverb on the snare (or any high end stuff) it will show up in the low end left channel. There is something really cool that comes from processing the low end with those send artifacts in there - happy accidents there. If you are a masochist you can record in all midi - mute all but one track - record that to audio - rinse repeat 5 more times. I used to do that but I found my mixes/tracks were cooler if I just focused on the two channels coming out that back. Hope that helps!

Reason is sooo powerful

Same! I had Reason 2.5 as a supplement to Cubase. I mostly just flipped through presets. Going back in after having a bunch of hardware sort of feels like I got gifted a bunch of new gear. I am really blown away at how flexible and fun Subtractor is with it being like 25 years old.

Agree! It’s really fun coming back to it after a couple of years.

@@fixyourlevels I just rediscovered it after a couple of years of being obsessed with hardware synths. It feels like I just got gifted a bunch of gear!

@@chiefbucknell I was hoping you’d see this!!

@ Whenever I eventually have to get a new Mac, I guess I’ll have to upgrade from Reason 11… but, I don’t love the look of the new browser in 13. Hopefully things improve, past however many refresh/redesign/re-enhanced-and-streamlined-workflow updates they do by then 😅 (Reason+? Naw. I’ve been paying for a license since 2.0)

Anyway, somehow still the DAW/plugin instrument from which I get the best sounds… why?! Must be some REASON it works so well for me.

@@chiefbucknell haha I’m a version behind you at 2.5. I’m currently using 12. I have so many ideas with what they could do with this version - it’s 👌🏽 just right

@@chiefbucknell 😆 😆 how dare you!!!!

Thanks!

Hey thanks for the kind words!! Appreciate you. What is the model number or year name for your Mac? I have a newer m1 Mac and the two usb c ports on the side take almost any usb-a to usb-c adapter

I gotta give Bitwig a try. It looks like sound design is somewhat modular? Pretty cool.

@@toskabyss Probably the closest thing to an actual modular synth that you'll find built into a DAW, and the modulation possibilities are amazing.

Hey thanks! Looks like last update is from 2016, so probably forgotten. I’ve done some digging on forums but not a peep about ND 4. I highly recommend ND3p if synthesis is your thing. I got mine used and it works great still.

It’s feature complete. Not forgotten

I do the same thing 😆

That’s awesome! I learned a couple things with the noise filter while making this. Crazy how simple the ND3p is but how much they packed in there.

Hey thanks I appreciate that!!

@@TranquilizedHorsefly seriously! I could see someone making a raspberry pi like device with this and having an analog filter or distortion before the output. I would 100% be into that.

That's what Korg named this gadget - It's digitally synthesizing analog style modules.

​@@Barny_Loves_You My bad! Cheers

One day! My friend Jannis Le Wolff does some cool stuck with digitakt and 3p on his YT Channel. I want one so bad.