Reason Micro Tutorial - Kong's Synth Drums 

First of all...there's no such thing as a dumb question. All questions are awesome because it means we're all asking questions and learning and getting better. The day we start to suck is the day we stop wondering how to get better. :) To answer you, what you're talking about is called "Quantizing" and if you look at the Tool Window you'll see that you can shift notes after you play them in so that they're on beat. It's too much to describe via youtube but it's in the documentation. Good luck!

no matter what other software comes out you guys just keep coming with innovations to an already limitless and brilliant tool!! I still haven't even caught up with the possibilities of earlier versions and now with Reason 5 the bar has reached the clouds and beyond, absolutely stunning...!!

Propellerhead's tutorial always make me laugh and amaze!

Wow, never thought we could do all that with Kong ! Time to work on my customized kit , thanks !

Since upgrading from Reason 4 to 9 I honestly have been somewhat flummoxed by Kong and it's reason for existence... no pun intended. Redrum has been my drummer of choice but now I can definitely see the advantages and potential of Kong. Off to the woodshed!

"Ya know, if that's like..your thing..." Frank's tutorials are the best!

@farmertml Absolutely. In the realistic category, Kong has amazing layered sample support via the NN-Nano module (upcoming tutorial) and the Physical Modeling modules (upcoming tutorial).

Propeller heads tutorial is so creative and innovative

@SyncrisisVideos The NN-Nano module has a section called "Amp Env." In it is the same decay/gate switch from the Redrum. If you switch to the gate (switch in up position) and turn the decay all the way down... then the sample will only play while a MIDI note is on, just like on the Redrum. If you want to do it with Synth drums you could great a two-pad mute group. One pad leave blank, the other set up your synth drum sound. Just tap the blank pad to gate off the decay of the synth kick.

Last tip is golden! I've used Reason since forever and I didn't know this :D

"Double Rainbow" - Almost spat out my sandwich - man I miss the humour of this old tutes. #reasonforever

I love the design line you did, inspires me a lot. Reminds me to the old school machines like Akai and tr808 :)

seriously cannot wait!

@Hungrybear9562 OMG!!!! HungryBear9562 commented on our video! That's so intense. What does it mean?! :) Thanks for stopping by and watching the vid. We are big fans of the double rainbow video, just like about 3 billion other people on earth who have seen it. :)

@deanc2000 Kong does not have a step sequencer. That's correct. However, you can very easily hook the redrum up to Kong and use the step sequencer of the Redrum to trigger the sounds in Kong.

Brilliant! Thank you 👍

@Domenicozzo That's the Korg padKontrol... the white model. I think now it's black but that one is from a couple years ago.

Wow, those hi-hats went all the way across the sky. So intense!

First of all, I'm really hyped to get my update when it comes out. Secondly, double-rainbow... genius. Thirdly, whatever marketing people do these videos, you need an award.

the tom pitch velocity is dope!

8 years later I learn you can open up the "drums and fx" tab and make stuff from scratch... there were so many great presets i just never got around to it

HaHa. These vids are great. The guy narrating / teaching has an epic gift for this. Yes still a decade later

good job as micro tutorial by Reason's Propellerhead

@PropellerheadSW Brilliant - I'm really keen to hear about the physical modelling stuff. Thanks for your response

That was badass

my hats are going to be thrashing all over the place thanks to this micro tutorial. i love the fact im a licensed user and can use the website to its full advantage - theres planty of stuff to keep you going on there ;) reason all the way for me

I love Kong Drum Designer!!!!

@SyncrisisVideos You can't control EVERY parameter of Kong and I'm no programmer but it has something to do with fitting into the MIDI spec. I do believe you can access more parameters if you put Kong inside a Combinator. As for your question about Kong gating. I asked our forum and they came up with a really cool patch that does the Kong synth gating I described using mute groups but using note on/off without the need for pressing a toggle off switch. Message me if you want it sent to you.

AWESOME!

I like it very much, thank you.

@raynchaser That's too long an answer for the character length limit in youtube comments. Short answer for those reading along: It's totally possible and something I personally do daily. Longer answer will be sent to you directly via youtube message.

Haha, the double rainbow :D But a very good video.. Now I've finally understood the thing with that pad management and Hit Types. And Kong can make astounding drum sounds! Thanks!

Haha thats true! And thank you so much you guys are great!

DOUBLE RAINBOW HAHAHA YES. yall make tutorials FUN! :'D

What note does the pitch for each drum synth sound start on? So you'd assign the Kick Synth Module to Pad 1 then Tune it using the pitch knob. What note number is the Pitch knob centered on. So if you detune it by 2 then would this mean that if it is, lets say, centered on middle C then would that equate to detuning it by two semitones to A#? Wouldn't it be great if there were note letters shown when tuning instead of numbers, or a choice between the two?

@spiderlelo If you want VST, use Reason under a host app that supports VST using ReWire. Record on the other hand is the app that may consider allowing VST. I honestly think the clean approach with just Record+Reason sets interesting creative limitations. BUT it will prevent me from ever using Record as my primary sequencer.

do you mean level as in volume controls? Yes it has level control for each pad as well as a master level. Is that what you're asking?

Nice

@juanrosa01 You're timing was perfect. I just posted a tutorial on Blocks this morning. :)

The hi hat sounds great

My dad used to have reason and i messed around so much with these modules

I was going to buy a Roland SH-4d,but this software is rather tempting.

im getting this in a few days, and im just wondering how much time im guna be spending putting in notes just to make the drum pads light up and look cool :)

hehe... ReDrums Bigger Brother !!! this is gonna be great !

@PropellerheadSW Thanks for the work-around! I have a bonus question: is there currently any way to control drum dynamics features (like the "shell and snare" and "edge tune" rotaries in the Physical Model snare drum) within a combinator programmer? Currently, it seems like there isn't. If not, are there plans to add this feature in a patch update? Or were controls like these and the kong fx rotaries (beyond first two) left out of the combi programmer on purpose (performance?). Thanks again.

double rainbow ecstasy!

I just got Reason 5 and its awesome BUT i think i must be the 12,890,765 th person saying this VST PLUGINS!!!!!! i love reason really i do but adding third party plug ins will open up doors of possibilities, and i know there are people there that agree with me. if this can get 300 thumbs up, then honestly Propellerhead needs to start listening to its buyers...can i get a ooh ooh??

is there a video about wiring the kong? f.e. if i want to add a scream to only one of the drum-pads?

@DjRuBSP Sample your synth HiHat in Kong's NN-Nano sampler, and click the reverse button!

"So you see..." Yes, I do. I'm going to keep watching with my finger over the "close" button.

6:59 you know you know

Is it possible to create "Realistic" sounding kit sounds with the tools available ?

does anyone recommend a good usb midi controller to use with kong?

@PropellerheadSW is there any way to set the Kong drums to play in gate mode (similar to decay/gate mode switch in Redrum) so that samples only decay for the length of a midi note. I understand you can toggle/automate the decay rotary, but I like to have a set decay, and control stutters with midi note-length. I've tried controlling pads with a gate-enabled redrum cv, but unlike other reason synths, the Kong doesn't gate with this method.

Anyone using Kong with the NI Maschine controller? Is it easy to set up?

A padkontrol at 2.40 I hope that means Reason5 comes with a remote map for it :D

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻

I hope this isn't a dumb question, but when you played the end result beat, how did you add all those effects and keep it in beat? I'll record kick and snare, but when i try to add hi-hat, it's totally off.. is there someway you can play it bad and make it come out all in beat? Thanks

So Kong does not have a step sequencer, like redrum, but you have to play the pads that you assigned the sounds to?

What sort of controller are you guys using in this video??

double rainbow! :DD

These videos and Reason itself is criminally underrated

Thumbs up for double rainbow! :D

Double rainbow! LOL

Double Rainbow, ha, ha, you used my voice!

My favourite DAW is Ableton Live (Suite edition). Drum racks (device in Ableton) is something I often use but honestly? Whenever I need real percussion I always find my way back to Kong. To me percussion = Kong. Even as a devoted Live user.

@onraj9mm I can't even capture it on my camera!

Question: does KONG comes up with a 16 step drum sequencer, just like Redrum? I just love to make beats using this kind of interface. Thanks.

I don´t understand why you compare Kong with Thor? Should compare it with Redrum

Vst hey you are missing out Girro, logic has nothing on Record and reason

PS: why unpin the 'double rainbow' authors comment?

yea he doesnt seem like the kind of guy who would be recording stuff, id somebody passed it onto him

aaaahahahahhahaaaahahhahahaha "double Rainbow" aaaaaahahahahahahahahahaahha omg!!! so fucking awesome!

LoLrzz doouble raiinbow

Reverse HIHat?

ok Double Rainbow just stole the tutorial's show! :))

0:59 ахаххаххаха

Just 23 days to go... not that I'm counting! The wantage is unbearable!

@PropellerheadSW is it possible you could send that message to me as well thanks. :D

@RoboticusMusic lol

lol, discussion? More like a monologue.

🌈🌈 🎛 Double Rainbow Triple Rainbow 🎛 🌈🌈🌈

Why not make a clip in the Reason sequencer, let it loop while playing and then simply add (or remove) notes as you seem fit? Such a clip can be easily (ab)used as a step sequencer too.

Rainbow lol

lmfao double rainbow

Word of advice....GIVE KONG 32 STEREO OUTPUTS....OR AT LEAST GIVE US THE CHOICE TO SPLIT THE 16 INTO MONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Propellerhead you are the best. And middle finger to Reason Studios!!

Too bad i cant finger drum for shit