Propellerhead Reason Quick Tips: Best way to Sidechain 

been making music in reason for over 15 years and just now starting to learn mixing and mastering - i was intimidated by the learning curve. this was great for me as a beginner, thanks. i'm not sure how to determine ideal settings - i know it's a practice-listening thing, but until i develop the ear it'd be nice to have technical parameters to go by. thanks again

you outdid propellerheads sidechain tutoria. this is a much better sidechain tutorial..easy on the brain ..finally able to grasp it...🤘

I love seeing new methods of sidechains in reason, Thanks homie.

Awesome tips lovely live and breathe reason

Most of this went over my head but I learned basically what I needed for now so thank you 🙏. You are a guru.

Been trying wrap my head around side chaining. Glad that you really got into the different aspects instead of just recommending a quick-fix RE as I've seen a lot. This was very helpful, subscribed.

Just picked up "Filters To Dynamic Sidechain" tip and it helped my mix, thanks!

A very good tutorial, slow and steady, that can only come from a pro. You took me to the next level with my Reason 9.5. Now what's left is to try it out and move towards your next one. Thanks !

Thank you very much! Just subscribed. I'm an old Reason (c. 2004 > v2.5) user (now on v10.x) and this opened some doors. Great job!

YES!!! this WAS inspiring!!!! Also very encouraging ! Dude ! you ARE pretty chill. thank you for this

It still blows my mind that something as ubiquitous in modern music as side chaining is that is so convoluted in Reason as far as routing. It is literally a few clicks in ableton without ever having to navigate from the same screen. It would seem that im just going to have to design a combinator patch that gets tweaked per project for sidechaining. sheesh.. I get it. I just wish there was a much easier way to do this and not lose the inspiration when you already have a solid workflow for composing and mixing. just watching this tutorial for the umphteenth time it gives me a headache. either way.. just a small rant.. love your content. Very informative. thank you so much..

Greetings from London! You've done your job...I'm inspired. Thank you.

Super useful, best tute I've seen on the subject! Thank you! BTW - you legit sound like Rick from Rick and Morty, which makes this all the more awesome.

Very good explanation, very helpful!

Dude this was a great introduction to slightly advanced tricks for the reason mixer. Thanks a lot computerguy

this is an excellent education! thank you!

It yields a good quality sound that way. Thank you for the great video!

Thanks so much for these tuts. Just got Reason 10, 2 days ago (after using v5 for years), and have already learned so much from you :-)

You just blew Reason's sidechain tutorial out of the water. They owe you big bucks haha

Great video man. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it!

You just made me love my reason 10 a bit more! ;)

Fantastic. I appreciate the better method that you present here!

Well explained! Thanks

As a long-time Ableton user, distributing the sidechain signals with an array of Spider devices feels like a ridiculous kludge. :)

Very Cool and thank you CCG

When you brought Europa in that really made a difference! However, both great synths.

Love it ! to simple kick to complex sound forms

this is just an excellent tutorial. i thank you.

Great tutorial ! Thanks ! Thanks again ! and again !

awesome tutorials and very informative. great job!!!

hi man. your tutorials are very helpfull. i learned really something. great job ! thanks. i ll follow you

Thank you, King

more of this, you really got insight

New idea on side chaining thank you...

Great tutorial

Thank you for that great advice :D

I still use your method for my Boombap Hip Hop music.

Love it!

This was excellent. Thank you.

Good stuff

Thank you. Sounds awesome now

Love your vids! THX for that!

Nice vid bro very helpful

Hey! this is my second time watching your video in full length. I'm currently working on a track where i want to SIDE-CHAIN a very short length (transient) kick drum on top of a regular sampled kick drum on the bottom. Basically i want the transient fast 11ms / 20ms kick drum to have dominance over the regular kickdrum.... i'm trying to get the transient kick to be side-chained to the regular kick. a very fast ducking effect I'm struggling trying to set this up on Reason, I want my kick drum to be very snappy but retain the fullness of a kickdrum. Any tips how to go about layering and sidchaining this using REDRUM?

This was really helpful!

great.. very simple

thanks! it is indeed the best way

wicked, subbed

very helpful, thanks!

Can you do a video or a text response on sidechaining a reverb tied to vocals in Reasons Studio

Right on

You explain shit perfect man.

Thank you, I just undestand maybe the best way to sdechain my pad with my kick with the ssl compressor

I'm inspired Thanks.

AWESOME. thank you

Great video!!!

Reason is really hard to do sidechaining in compared to Reaper for example. I tried routing my Thor bass into a mix channel and running the signal from the parallel output of my kick channel into the sidechain in of the bass track but I got no signal at all. I thought all my routings were correct,relooked my routings over and over and couldn't find another way to do it so I gave up. Reaper is much simpler for side chaining.

yup

thanks man this is way easier

Man… beetle juice is teaching me how to side chain.

Thanks a million.

hello im new to your channel, and have learned a great deal, thank you. Can you explain the reason for using another instrument ( fast attack high ) with the midi of the drum ( pattern ) is it to create slices in the target instrument to form a certain sound design? thank you for your time

When I started in reason 3.0, I dove in and watched a ton of tutorials. One thing I found missing was a recommendation to turn the master bus compressor on before doing anything on the SSL. This suggestion I found in an hour long interview with an audio engineer who worked on the same SSL board that is emulated in Reason. What are your thoughts? If you write a song with it off the entire time only to turn it on when finished doesn't one have to adjust all your settings?

Thanks I think I’ve got it!

Hey great vid but how do I set up one channel so that it can duck out of the way of multiple other channels? I've tried using a splitter on the sidechain input but doesn't seem to work. Thanks

finally get it

great tutorial, Thanks!! But one question, in your video the bass is synchronized like its quantized. When I do the exact thing I have a little latency. I tried to change the buffer rate but that did not changed it.

But what if you're already using the channel's compressor settings for, well, compressing the channel? If you then alter the channel's compressor settings to suit the incoming sidechained signal from another instrument, then you've lost the compression that you wanted on the instrument that the sidechain is coming into.

I feel this method brings harshness to the audio as it doesn't stop it from compressing the audio. Instead of JUST sidechaining.... Am I doing it wrong?

thank u for this video I make music all by Reason

The explanation of the audio connections on the Mix Channel rack device is flat out wrong. The "Parallel Out" is taken before the entire channel-strip making it "...the same as the output from this Thor.' The "Direct Out" is exactly the opposite of this by being taken after everything in the channel strip. This signal is what would be going to the master buss in default routing. RTFM

How could I sidechain particular frequencies and not just volume

What about sidechain with external compressors? Fabfilter Pro C2 for example?...

how do i do this with a "ghost" kick? a bass drum that doesnt actually make sound but still forces a 4x4 floor sidechain pattern

muchas graciass!!!!!

thank you

Comment retirer le souffle du micro? Merci

How to side chain multiple chanels? I'm using kong drum vst i cant figure out how to do it. Thank you.

i gotta say im also a ableton user but reason... :)

work the machine SSL, before you go buy a bunch of stuff.

It’s hilarious. Reason tutorials be like: “quick way to sidechain” and video for 22 minutes…😂

stop waffling.