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.
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
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!
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, 🇬🇧👍👍🙂
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! :}
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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rwabh62-nz4.html
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.
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 Awesome! As reference tracks I would recommend: DeepChord-Untitled (DC-11 A) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ad69ia5u0fQ.html or Ben Buitendijk-Apollo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FanrYtUN9xY.html or Rhythm & Sound-Carrier ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iQP7z_FN2us.html I am not an Ableton Live user but this is something I would like to do with REASON : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-deBnpm7ZkZM.html&feature=emb_logo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mzWHRSKmWqI.html&feature=emb_logo
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!
