I came here to post about exactly that. Nowadays people watch YT more on their phones and tablets than anything else. Besides that, excellent tutorial, as always. Love your Groove 3 stuff too.
Yeah, this Player is going back to the old Propellerhead days when seemingly simple device could do so much more than what you could see on the surface! This is the first thing I did with QNG over a year ago when it came out: ua-cam.com/video/Rwabh62-nz4/v-deo.html
With these kind of generating devices, Reason is a fantastic modular powerhouse. Something I think most DAWs (maybe besides Bitwig) can only dream of. Great instructional video!
VCV is a fantastic modular powerhouse. Reason is a complete rip off and a somewhat mediocre modular powerhouse that'll cost you almost as much as buying an actual hardware modular rig.
@@twatmunro until you want to integrate VCV with your main DAW (for me Cubase) in an easy to use way where you can save the setups of midi controlled units together with the song/Arrangement of the main DAW. VCV can't work as a VST plugin. Yes, if you only stay modular in software VCV may be a great alternative. But saving time and having "total recall" for everything (the VST instruments and effects, the Sequenced midi parts, audio parts AND the modular parts from Reason) at an instant is big for me! One songfile/arrangement (in a project) to rule them all! When it comes to how good VCV plugins/modules (or whatever they call them) sound in the end I guess it's a matter of taste. I am not sure if it attracts the top developers, but open source can be great! To me, Reason, as a plugin in Cubase, is extremely easy and intuitive and plain fun to use (only as a Cubase plugin) and have lots of great, great sounding devices that are unique and great sounding! But whatever works for you is great and I may try out VCV just for fun!
Paul, at about 15:55 you say "...make sure the instrument chord note is connected to is turned down as you have to have an instrument to have a player." What? Are you referring to Reason's default connection which is different from the 4 additional instruments you connected Quad Note to? Or what? Whatever you meant went right past me.
Hey! Yeah exactly. A Player can’t exist without an instrument, so if you wanna use QNG to trigger over CV either turn down the mixer channel of the instrument it’s connected to. Or better still just use an External MIDI device as this has no mix channel and will produce no sound.
Appreciate the effort, but - Why would you choose an indiscernible sine wave as the example waveform? I can barely hear what you're doing. Use square or saw at a higher pitch next time.
Thanks for this great introduction! Especially your tip to combine with a custom scale is great. One thing missing: you can temporarily disable freeze and get a fresh batch of randomness in your pattern by shift-clicking. Quad note generator started making sense to me only after I had discovered that
Until seeing your video Paul, QNG was just a box of random bollocks that made beepy random notes that were as much use to my music creation as a cheese sandwich. How wrong was I? A lot of it is to do with having the right kind of sound. Things like marimbas and suchlike sound really cool. Thank you kind sir....David, 🇬🇧👍👍🙂
Hey! Yeah someone very rightly pointed this out at the time of upload - please use headphones and it’s all there. Was very silly of me to use a Sine Wave!
Well, I hope that's what it's doing otherwise I sound daft haha. But for all intents and purposes, it functions the same as a player like Euclidian Rhythms so, I'm gonna stick by it ;)
@@PaulOrtiz yes it works so well. Im currently using isotonik polypin but m4l devices can be finicky. I hope reason studios allows midi functionality with the plug-in version soon
@@Shane-zo4mg Me too! RRP is an amazing tool for building instruments and effects chains, but as a modular MIDI designer too it would absolutely slay. Let's put our hands together and pray in the general direction of Sweden.
Thank you so much! Your videos are much appreciated. Always struggled with QNG to the point I stopped using it. Never understood it fully. This video was enlightening! :}
@@PaulOrtiz Awesome! As reference tracks I would recommend: DeepChord-Untitled (DC-11 A) ua-cam.com/video/ad69ia5u0fQ/v-deo.html or Ben Buitendijk-Apollo ua-cam.com/video/FanrYtUN9xY/v-deo.html or Rhythm & Sound-Carrier ua-cam.com/video/iQP7z_FN2us/v-deo.html I am not an Ableton Live user but this is something I would like to do with REASON : ua-cam.com/video/deBnpm7ZkZM/v-deo.html&feature=emb_logo ua-cam.com/video/mzWHRSKmWqI/v-deo.html&feature=emb_logo
**If you can’t hear the audio, please use headphones! I rather foolishly did some of this with a sine wave, and with headphones on.**
I came here to post about exactly that. Nowadays people watch YT more on their phones and tablets than anything else. Besides that, excellent tutorial, as always. Love your Groove 3 stuff too.
Sine waves are great for surfing
Wow, I went from "I have no idea what I'm doing" to making an OK bassline in 17 minutes. These players are really hidden gems !
Hate to be that guy.. but next time can you use a sawtooth or higher octave as i couldn't hear it on my phone speaker.
Great feedback - and it was something I thought about right after I published the video. Thanks Festa!
@@PaulOrtiz Cheers Paul. Great videos, keep up the good work.
Yeah, this Player is going back to the old Propellerhead days when seemingly simple device could do so much more than what you could see on the surface! This is the first thing I did with QNG over a year ago when it came out:
ua-cam.com/video/Rwabh62-nz4/v-deo.html
Paul you are the ultimate teacher! Thanks for all your Reason contributions. So awesome.
I never knew what to do with Quad generator. Now it becomes a strong tool in my productions. Tx man
No worries! Thank you :)
Try the Pluck sounds from Algoritm, awesomeness!!!!
Literaly thought, "eh not so cool" until 16:20 when you hooked up 4 different sounds. That blew my mind!
thx for the timestamp i needed that
Sweet tutorial very best I have seen for this player.
This is my favorite video of 2019 thanks!!
With these kind of generating devices, Reason is a fantastic modular powerhouse. Something I think most DAWs (maybe besides Bitwig) can only dream of.
Great instructional video!
VCV is a fantastic modular powerhouse. Reason is a complete rip off and a somewhat mediocre modular powerhouse that'll cost you almost as much as buying an actual hardware modular rig.
@@twatmunro until you want to integrate VCV with your main DAW (for me Cubase) in an easy to use way where you can save the setups of midi controlled units together with the song/Arrangement of the main DAW.
VCV can't work as a VST plugin.
Yes, if you only stay modular in software VCV may be a great alternative.
But saving time and having "total recall" for everything (the VST instruments and effects, the Sequenced midi parts, audio parts AND the modular parts from Reason) at an instant is big for me!
One songfile/arrangement (in a project) to rule them all!
When it comes to how good VCV plugins/modules (or whatever they call them) sound in the end I guess it's a matter of taste. I am not sure if it attracts the top developers, but open source can be great!
To me, Reason, as a plugin in Cubase, is extremely easy and intuitive and plain fun to use (only as a Cubase plugin) and have lots of great, great sounding devices that are unique and great sounding!
But whatever works for you is great and I may try out VCV just for fun!
Paul, at about 15:55 you say "...make sure the instrument chord note is connected to is turned down as you have to have an instrument to have a player."
What? Are you referring to Reason's default connection which is different from the 4 additional instruments you connected Quad Note to? Or what? Whatever you meant went right past me.
Hey! Yeah exactly. A Player can’t exist without an instrument, so if you wanna use QNG to trigger over CV either turn down the mixer channel of the instrument it’s connected to. Or better still just use an External MIDI device as this has no mix channel and will produce no sound.
@@PaulOrtiz Actually, you can attach Player to empty Combinator, too :)
Great explanation, thanks!
fantastic video i learnt a lot from this
Appreciate the effort, but - Why would you choose an indiscernible sine wave as the example waveform? I can barely hear what you're doing. Use square or saw at a higher pitch next time.
Check pinned comment, already addressed :)
Nice video, thanks!
Thanks for this great introduction! Especially your tip to combine with a custom scale is great. One thing missing: you can temporarily disable freeze and get a fresh batch of randomness in your pattern by shift-clicking. Quad note generator started making sense to me only after I had discovered that
Excellent tip! Thanks Patrick :)
Excellent.
Until seeing your video Paul, QNG was just a box of random bollocks that made beepy random notes that were as much use to my music creation as a cheese sandwich. How wrong was I? A lot of it is to do with having the right kind of sound. Things like marimbas and suchlike sound really cool.
Thank you kind sir....David, 🇬🇧👍👍🙂
You can't hear the instrument at all.
Hey! Yeah someone very rightly pointed this out at the time of upload - please use headphones and it’s all there. Was very silly of me to use a Sine Wave!
Speaking = OK, but sound of instrument very weak !!!
And I listen to it with the speakers of my PC !
Absolutely agree - I made it in my hour before work through headphones. Silly silly silly!
@@RobertHoeymakers use headphones and you'll be fine..
can’t hear nothing on my ipad, very bad sound decision
Yeah very aware of this haha. It was one of my earlier attempts at doing this kinda thing.
I use it often as drum sequencer... and it's in my startup song. 4onthefloor is really easy to emulate with it.
Really useful. Have had this player for some time but never fully understood some of its knobs and dials. Thanks.
Great tutorial. I get a bit slippery with the freeze function to get a basic sequence and start selecting patches for a project.
Thanks for sharing this! I wasn't so clear how to work this player and now I have a clear picture!
Thank you so much for this tutorial ! I was completely lost with this player
Wow I never knew quad note generator made euclidean rhythms.
Well, I hope that's what it's doing otherwise I sound daft haha. But for all intents and purposes, it functions the same as a player like Euclidian Rhythms so, I'm gonna stick by it ;)
@@PaulOrtiz yes it works so well. Im currently using isotonik polypin but m4l devices can be finicky. I hope reason studios allows midi functionality with the plug-in version soon
@@Shane-zo4mg Me too! RRP is an amazing tool for building instruments and effects chains, but as a modular MIDI designer too it would absolutely slay. Let's put our hands together and pray in the general direction of Sweden.
@@PaulOrtiz *begins chanting in tongues*
Another amazing video. Can't wait to start messing with this thing.
great stuff, great presentation. thanks!
Eye opener into this area, thanks and great video!
Very usefull tuto !!! Thanx !
Thank you so much! Your videos are much appreciated. Always struggled with QNG to the point I stopped using it. Never understood it fully. This video was enlightening! :}
Thank you! Yeah the more I dive into players the more I realise they’re probably the most exciting part of Reason for me.
Awesome video, thank you!
Thanks for breaking this down some. Having had trouble getting inspired this could be an answer.
Thanks! It’s a really great device - took me months to finally sit down and learn it but I’m glad I did. Hope you find inspiration soon :)
Another incredible video!!!
Thanks for this!
MORE MORE MORE !!!
Great Video! Would love to see you building a Dub Techno Chord sound. Thanks!
Thanks! Got any good reference tracks? I’ll give it a shot!
@@PaulOrtiz Awesome! As reference tracks I would recommend:
DeepChord-Untitled (DC-11 A)
ua-cam.com/video/ad69ia5u0fQ/v-deo.html
or
Ben Buitendijk-Apollo
ua-cam.com/video/FanrYtUN9xY/v-deo.html
or
Rhythm & Sound-Carrier
ua-cam.com/video/iQP7z_FN2us/v-deo.html
I am not an Ableton Live user but this is something I would like to do with REASON
:
ua-cam.com/video/deBnpm7ZkZM/v-deo.html&feature=emb_logo
ua-cam.com/video/mzWHRSKmWqI/v-deo.html&feature=emb_logo