Recreate a beat - part 3

Ok, so we've pretty much got the drum beat nailed down now.

For the last part of this lesson, we're going to record ourselves playing the synth melody for "Dumb It Down".

1. First, create a Subtractor synthesizer by going to Create>Subtractor or by clicking on the Subtractor in the Tool Window.
2. Now load in the correct patch by going clicking on the Browse button. Go to Reason Factory Sound Bank>Subtractor Patches>MonoSynths>Rave Lead.
3. Play some notes on your Oxygen 8. If everything is hooked up correctly, you should be hearing it play back.
4. Now let's find the notes used in this melody. They are C, A flat, B flat, and F.
5. Set your Loop Markers around the first 4 bars of the beat (L on Bar 1, R on Bar 5).
6. Listen to the beat on You Tube for a bit to get a feel for when then notes are played. Notice that the last note is held for a long time. The whole melody is a total of 4 bars long.
7. Now switch back to Reason make sure that the Loop On/Off button is lit up in the Transport Window. Hit play and practice playing the melody over the beat.
8. When you are ready to try to record it, hit the big red Record button in the Transport. Don't feel pressured to start playing right away. You can let it play through the loop once and then start playing when it comes back around.
9. When you're done, press the Record button again, or Stop if you want to stop.
10. How's your performance? Tight? If so, then go ahead and Copy and Paste this Loop for the whole 16 bars.
11. Save, and you're done with Dumb It Down forever.

If your performance was not tight, however, Reason can help you through the miracle of Quantizing...

1. Make sure that your new Region is highlighted
2. Go over to the Tool Window and click on the Tool tab.
3. In the section where it says Quantize, hit the Apply button. What happens?
4. So you may need to fine tune some of the notes even more.
5. To do this, double click on the Region and scroll up or down until you find your notes.
6. Listen to it play back and try to spot where the problem notes are.
7. Click and drag the note in the appropriate direction until it sounds like it's in the right place (make sure that you're only moving one note, and not all of them!)
8. Drag the right edges of some of the notes to be long enough.

Save it and you're done.