Sound Design Tutorial: How to Make a Fat Analog Bass Sound in Reason 

You missed what is probably the most important part of Subtractor. Twisting the screws and playing with them. It provides gentile procrastination without distracting you from Reason.

the subtractor synth is a total classic; - I have played with it since 2005 when a friend gave me a copy of Reason ADAPTED; - I now have Reason 11 intro...

I had to try this after reading... been using reason for years and never knew about this!

Great tutorial on an often-overlooked synth. Would like to see more tips on Subtractor!

This was great. Nice quick video

wish I looked up these tutorials years ago

The background music is beautiful and the bass you get is just as beautiful and useful, Thanks.

Glad to see this synth get some love, I use it all the time. (as I'm sure countless others do as well)

OMG!!! The screws twist and fall out!!!! AWESOME!!!!! I have been enlightened!!!

MOAR BASICS! We all forgot about the RV-7000 too, remind us how much we love ALL the classic PH Rack!

whaaaat? ive used reason since v1, i never knew this!!!! awesome, thats my morning planned out.

HA! Been using Reason for years, but I never noticed that about the Subtractor screws! Now I've been playing with them for the last 15 minutes!

Bravo ! I love the motif at the end too

Funny; the moment I hear Frank mention an LFO these days I'm immediately reminded of that awesome Pulsar movie :-)

Subtractor is my go to synth for TB303 sounds.

Still a synth to be reckoned with. This is one that will always be present in my tracks alongside the newer RE's. Combine multiple Subs for more epicness.

Nice, short tutorial that will be quite helpful- I know the first time I opened up a Thor I was like ???? The Subtractor and the Malstrom get overlooked a lot I feel.

I like the different phase modulation types. These aren't available in Thor, even though I prefer Thor. It's also a bit less clean than Thor- has a bit of grit to it. They're great if you chain a bunch of them together in a Combinator ;-D

Truly. I understood far faster than me reading instruction book which I sometime do rage quit.

you teach more in one lesson than the tafe college that ripped me off for nothing.

Subtractor is my choice of Synth for creating Tb303 acid house style sounds.

Love it! keep up the good work!

cool vid.please do some more vids on how to make other cool synth sounds

Love Subtractor!

Holy hell I didn't know you could do that! AWESOME! XD

I'll be linking to this video for all of my tutorials in the future if anyone, want's to know how everything works. It would also be helpful to get some feedback on how to "present"to eventually help make a better video.

realy nice micro tuto more of these please! :D :D

I suppose for a simple video you wouldn't want to, but you could set up the rate so you can perform it with a midi keyboard :)

nice tutorial reason!!

good job as micro tutorial by reason

thanks! WIll do!

Why is my bass not even when i tweak subtractor? one note repeated over and over sounds a bit different, sometimes a lot different. i have to export it as a wave file and then import back to NN-XT to use it the way i want.

all standard reason synths have a portamento knob, create the basic bass sound you want and just tweak that knob

useful

Hi. When I listen to your video the bass sounds great but when I try it in Reason it sounds flat and weak. Any idea why that is? Same with any other bass and synth also

Wow phase offset modulation is really cool! Unfortunately i use ableton so i don't have the subtractor....

will any future reason synths or Re's have the phase offset modulation? maybe europa could get an emulation of subtractor's modifiers :D

It would be nice, perhaps in a future iteration of Reason, to see the Subtractor fall out of the rack and break upon removing all four screws. (Perhaps the device could just have a crack across the front, and then all of the parameters set to random values?) Until then, I assert that this Easter Egg does not go far enough!

ahh i want that reason song to learn, love the sound the rhode? its a rhode at the end?

Its probably just the attack of the amp. Else lower filter "env" or increase attack for mod.

COOL!!!

Do one tutorial of malstorm

Where can I get the track you made in this video?

I had never played with the screws before. Now I've unscrewed them all and they fell out.

He'd get a better result by turning the sync on for the LFO.

tight

Damn I miss Bernard

I love Thor's ugly sister. So often it's better to settle for a Subtractor.

Can you teach me how to do a portamento bass in Reason 5 Please Please Please :) #NoobieProblems

hahaha, I've been using Reason for 6 years and I never knew those moved

You just click and twist the screws as if they were a normal pot in Reason.

Reason 5 forever

It's so annoying how they explain how an LFO works everytime the make a video... Like piss off. Or how they always go into the history of how analog used to work for like all of their videos. I'm not a beginner. I also hate it when they try to demonstrate how the synth works and they end up showing how to write a song.... Fuck man, I'm not interested in listening to your music. I just want to know how the synth works and it's capabilities.