Using Reason Disco School Video Lecture | Reason Tutorials: The Ultimate Guide - Video & Sound Editing

The Reason Disco School ReFill is a collection of material from six newly recorded disco songs.
These songs were inspired by three parts of the US where some of the best disco was ever made:
Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia.
And don't worry, nothing after 1985 was
ever even considered as an inspiration.
We then put all these recordings through
ReCycle, making them into REX files
so you can add that delicious disco
flavor to your tracks with ease.
Side effects may include: widening of
pants legs, compulsive roller skating,
and a desire to install lighted flooring in your home.
It's very easy to just load up a loop
and get in the groove.
Let's start off with a drum loop.
Go to the Disco School ReFill.
I'm gonna go with New York,
Groove 2, Drums, and select Kit 1.
Let's check it out!
Now that we have Dr. OctoRex we actually
have eight drum loops right at our fingertips
and I can change the active loop on the fly.
Let's sequence some pattern changes
to get a varied loop going.
I'm going to use the pencil tool to draw
in pattern clips in the sequencer.
I can then easily click on these to select
what loop slot I want for that clip.
Let's take a listen.
You can easily use the drums from one groove
with instruments from other grooves.
And since these are REX loops
the tempo doesn't matter.
Let's select a bass from New York Groove 1.
It's in the key of A minor.
Nice.
Let's add some guitar too,
I'm gonna use the guitar from the same groove.
By looking at the key in the file name,
in this case "Key of A minor",
I can easily see that this will match my bass groove.
Let's select the third loop slot.
There we go, that's a nice groove!
While you can use the Reason Disco
School ReFill as a set of disco loops,
you can also think of it as a box of magical,
mysterious, musical modeling clay.
but, a lot less silly.
With the powerful slice edit mode in Dr. OctoRex creativity is always just a few clicks away!
Let's mess around with this guitar loop I
added and see what we can come up with.
First open up the Dr. OctoRex and
click the Slice Edit Mode button.
Let's pan a few of slices let and right, select Pan
and just draw with the pencil on some of the slices.
I'm gonna reverse some slices, select
Reverse and click a few slices
That's pretty cool!
Finally I'm gonna edit the filter
frequency on a few slices,
let's take up the resonance of the
filter a bit so we can hear it better.
Sweet!
We really made that loop our own.
If you don't like the original sequence it's easy to replay
it with a MIDI keyboard or sequence the loop instead.
That way you can come up with
some completely new patterns.
Even though we provide all
instruments as separate REX loops
there are cases when you want
to sample an entire track.
Maybe I want a more old school sound, you know,
from the days when sampling was all about
recording a snippet of your favorite vinyl.
To solve this we included what we call "source songs".
Here you have the entire song laid out in
the sequencer like it was a finished mix.
And, even better, we routed the entire
mix to the sampling input for you!
This is ideal for quickly sampling a part of
the track into any of Reason's samplers.
There's even a NN-19 set up so
you can get sampling right away.
Just click the sampling button on
the NN-19 and play the track back.
Simple as that.
We've only scratched the surface of what you
can do with the Reason Disco School ReFill.
With all this raw material from six future disco classics
you have many options for adding
that floor filling funk to your music.