CC 1 week 7

In this weeks exercise we had to sample a phrase by creating regions and loops in Peak LE and loading these samples into Reason using the NN-19 sampler.

After creating markers for regions and loops, I saved the samples, initialised the patch and imported the samples into the NN-19. After hearing these samples and realising that I would only have access to five octaves of the key board at any one time, I decided to take my original source material back into Peak LE and break up the material into five samples of which two were looped. I took these back into the NN-19 and had them arranged so that at each end of the keyboard there was a looped sample that would repeated and give this piece some underlying layers or lines so as to cover for my lack of keyboard skills. On deciding parameters to set the effects at I decided that I wanted the samples to be legible and understandable so I only tweaked the settings slightly. The fact that you can only make setting that effects the whole of the keyboard and not select different effects for different sections lead me to the conclusion that it would be a great advantage to have at least two samplers to create a really diverse performance.[1]


NN-19 We become what we behold



Reason NN-19 and recording pictured at bottom.[2]



[1]Haines, C.

[2]Reason, www.Propellerheads.se