Ryan made Combinator patches out of these effects! Download them here: www.reasonstudios.com/blog/friday-giveaway-ryans-hidden-fx /James

I thought the way I cobbled stuff together in reason was weird. But this video is an affirmation of the way I work in reason. Reason is the ultimate modular system. And like always finding a way through the limitation of device with another device is what makes reason so fun. Thanks, Ryan. Also, tell the designers I want a wave sequencing synth.

Never stop developing Reason, it’s amazing.

This shows once again that I could have saved myself a lot of plugins if I had been more concerned with what I already have.

I will never ever get tired of "using things wrong". Reason is so fun that way.

On The Echo, there is a breakout audio input which bypasses the delay section and let's you use the distortion and filter directly.

The Kong Overdrive has been my secret weapon for years. It’s easily my favorite distortion/resonator. I’m also a huge fan of Rotor’s distortion capabilities.

maelstrom's distortion is great, i sometimes use it as a send for basses i made in thor

It amazes me how unique and distinctive each of these distortion effects is. Thanks for sharing.

Wow. Been using Reason since v2 and haven't played enough with the cabling to discover these gems. Awesome video!

Maybe someone mentioned it already, but there is a waveshaper in Thor also and it has even more wave shapes than the one in complex (this is a mono effect, by the way). Then it also has 2 mono filters plus one stereo filter. So 1 Thor effectively has 4 distortion effects which can be accessed simultaneously and assembled into any signal chain you can imagine using the routing matrix. But that is not all!... Since ring modulation was also mentioned as a distortion in the video, I will consider it also here as a distortion. In that case, consider also that the routing matrix allows any of the 3 Thor oscillators to be set as a amplitude modulator (AM is very similar to ring modulation). - Now, if you are using Thor to distort a monophonic signal, there is even one further trick... Rather than giving you a fixed-frequency tone as the basis for AM modulation of your signal, you can actually use the same MIDI clip or source to trigger the Thor oscillator (and then tune it to taste), meaning your modulator frequency can be the same (or related to) the carrier. This will give you access to different tones versus the usually overly metallic tones obtained with AM or ring modulation. Phew !!!!

The way you use Alligator for the distortion effect is really cool! Good work, Ryan. Next video about reverb? I am looking forward to! :-)

Hats off for you, I learned a lot of new things today! After so many years of using Reason I thought I knew it all, but this only proves how much there is left to explore.

I love the following effect chain: Scream4's tape effect (including slight compression), then a reverb (as an insert!), then the Pulveriser.

So many years using Reason and had no idea of most of them. Thank you!

Always a fine presentation that adds value. And they're done in a fun style. Cheers!

throw synchronous on anything just to add saturation alone, its such an awesome, low cpu hogging device. great video. wow I never realized that about scenic!!!! there are so many hidden gems in Reason because every device is made to last and enhances all the other devices.

In addition to being a distortion unit, The Echo is also a great hidden tape mod effect. Same process as you mentioned, but bring up the Wobble and LFO Amount instead of the distortion.

Great video! BUT...You forgot "Audiomatic Retro Transformer" It's my favorite inappropriate distortion of the lot! Run anything through it, set it to "Cracked" put TRANSFORM at 0% and WET at 100%. Pure Magical Distortion with a nice warmth! (TIP: try it on an organ for trap beats)

Holy crap I wasn't aware of so much of this..Can't wait to play around, thanks for vid

Great. I already knew a lot of it, but this gives me more insight. And now do the same for Reverbs/Shimmer/Delay :)

REASON is "THE" ULTIMATE sound resource & sound mangling machine. Thanks for the video Ryan, you the best.

10year+ reason user here, thx for all these info man, hella excitedd to try Scenic!!

That was pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

Every video from this artist Ryan here seems well worthwhile. Reason product with no plugins or extensions is entirely suitable for millions of sounds right out of the box. Really it's already in there, aside from adding new audio loops and samples.

Ryan’s videos are always very informative!

My mind made kaboom! Thanks so much for this video, Ryan, you are great!

i use reason since version 1 , every day i found new ways to use it , this is my main daw , thanks a lot for sharing your tips , they are very usefull

Every time I work in Reason I am learning something new. That Kong resonator is great on tom drums. I wish you could automate the switching of the different models, very cool effect.

This is the best reminder that whatever sound you are after it's in Reason already.

You guys hit gold with this one

This was superb. Love the continuing edumacation. Wish I was 15 again and had all the time in the world!! 🎉

Wooaahhh. It's like christmas came early or we were told of all the hidden gifts that Santa left behind. Great stuff

Thanks for sharing these "hidden gems"! I recall when I used to do kinda "opposite" things, by trying to get saturation-effect from distortion effects. I was trying to create saturation effect in early versions of Reason when there's no MClass compressor been added to Reason yet (version 4, I believe). I wasn't happy with the sound of the standart Compressor-effect. So I came up with Scream4 tweaking workaround. I turned off EQ, turned off Body and set distortion type to "Tape" and played around with those 2 knobs trying to achieve that "fat" saturation effect. That was really fun times 😎

Loving the blown speaker effect from Rotor at 7:20.

Secret distortion tip: Some compressors on zero (or as low as possible) attack and release can go pretty wild due to the ultra fast envelope triggers. Sounds distorted to me.

INSANE!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!

Ryan this is awesome! Thank you al lot!

Yeah one of my biggest deciding factors when buying an instrument for reason is what it has on the backside for stuff like this.

Cool tricks. I still end up using the foldback most often. One of reason's most overlooked fx due to its simplicity; but it's distortion! Nothing wrong with simple when it comes to wrecking your signal

Thank you for this - I have not even scratched the surface of what reason can do

This was great, very fun to watch. I would like to see RS promote 3rd party REs at least a little bit, like a medley of 20 random REs that can do distortion, one second at a time, just to demonstrate what else is out there in the ecosystem. Or, hmm, maybe I could make that video. 🤔

Been doing this since Thor was released. :^) Love to see a bunch of the newer devices in a new light though. Thank you, Ryan!

One of the reasons I love reason, the endless possibilities 😆

Great video, thank you

Great tips. I'm imagining the vocoder involved somehow. Would be cool ...

Have to ❤the options in the rack

I like full control over what’s happening so I like to use the spider to split audio -> multiple vocoders used as graphic eq each set to different frequencies then -> each to multiple versions of your chosen distortion then recombine. Save as combinator.

Reason never fails to surprise me!!

You forgot malstrom for distortion

Also we can use Polar or Grain in Quartet (Size to 0 and play with Mod depth and Jitter) to get cool distortion effects. Or combine all you mentioned or some of them in a one big chain! :-)

Well, the SSL compressor trick, where you crank it up the ratio, thres to max and at a very fast attack it will give a nice warm vintage-like distortion, specially good in drums

It all makes sense now. Distortion is always better when there is many to choose from.

Thor and Malstrom Shapers. Audiomatic Gadget, Circuit, Tape etc.

You forgot to mention the waveshaper section of Thor. It‘s a little bit more complicated to use as it is in mono and you need to use a constant trigger for the routing through filter one. But with two Thor Devices in a Combinator Patch, each triggered by there own step sequencers, you can get very cool waveshaping distortion results. Back in the days when I started with Reason 4, I learned soo much routing possibilities with Thor. It‘s a really cool device. But nice video! Shows the fun possibilities with Reason! :)

11:40 you can also just flip the device and route the gate 1 CV output into the gate 2 input on alligator then route gate 2 to gate 3 and gate 3 to gate 1

Please make another great video like this about Complex! Please!!!

The more I learn about Reason, the less I feel like I know.

That is really cool! Do you read my wish about more distortion in Reason? 😊 Small Units like Guitar-Pedals/Preamps ( octaver, overdrive... ) for Reason please!

Very interesting stuff Ryan, half device Unison is a distortion good for Lo Fi. Put it on Grand piano instant LoFi vibe.

This is great

How does distortion on a mid/side split come into the picture, just different subtle timbre, or is there a way to make it a whole class of its own?

Amazing

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Is it posible to add input effects when you record a guitar or vocals ?

Awsome

Hearing you talk about this made me realize that you totally forgot the Thor shaper when you were talking about using Thor as a distortion. Although nice to know that there are so many distortions I always overlooked, since I use distortion effects all the time for making bass sounds.

BOMB!

Umpf retro + guitars... used it for years. Put 6:2 line mixer on your guitar track, route aux fx to umpf retro tape and dial to taste. You will be pleasantly surprised.

How many of those different distortions are actually the same algorithm recycled from elsewhere in Reason?

Honestly, I feel like I will NEVER experience everything that Reason can do. It's the ultimately experimentation tool.

Ryan, here is one you missed. You can use the settings on the Audiomatic Retro Transformer for some unique distortion. I use the "Cracked" mode and sometimes even layer on with another Audiomatic instance with the "Bright" setting. The results are really program dependent and you can get some nicely weird results.

Hey, this question doesn’t pertain to this video but I just got a new controller and it’s not recording midi data right. Some notes are too short or it’s recording doubles and some don’t show up at all. I’m using artuia essential keylab 61. I have it using other as the midi controller and Mackie control for the daw in and out. Everything else is fine except when I try to record. Anyone got a solution?

the master mixer has that input trim, crank it to the max. it will do a hard clip.

you missed the drive of the filter in complex 2. and - i wish you'd have done the video not on distortion, but on other fx types. these count more (to me). also i wish (actually since ages) for you guys to put inputs on _every_ of your instrument devices for their fx to be used everywhere (f.e. you can't use rhytmix' fx section for external signals - but these are really sounding great to ny ears. btw - please allow rhytmix to be used with our own samples - i like the simplicity of this device and would use it for most of my drum tasks). and i mean actually two inputs - one for the signal to go through the synth engine (where it makes sense) and one for only the fx section (where the synth engine is bypassed and turned off entirely to save cpu). f.e. i would love to use the drive section of radical keys for my other signals - that drive section sounds marvellous. and i would like to point out two problems that often occur when using fx of instrument devices for external signals: 1. you cannot quickly bypass them, as instrument devices do not have their own bypass switch. so one has to use the fx propetiary bypass switch - if there is one at all, or one hast to fake one by cabling stuff up. a bit tedious, as these tiny things tend to sum up. 2. often these fx parameters are not available for automation (f.e. kongs inser fx - f.e. the tape delay).

I liked the idea with Rotor and Alligator the best. Isn't Audiomatic a kind of distortion? Maybe not in a traditional sense, but for me it is. When I crank up the Cracked, Circuit or Wash effects it sounds distorted to me.

Synchronous is a beast.

Im boutta go fuckin crazy with dese fx👏🏽🔥🙏🏽

I've used Rotor for plenty of unusual things, but never thought of using it without rotating (*facepalm*) The Alligator one was pretty cool too !

Scenic is one of the best FX processing devices

The input gain on the ssl console channels has a nice breakup to it. Just adjust your mix fader to compensate.

You can create a combinator that panels all of these distortions together in one place if you wanted to.

I noticed the spectral analyzer in your hardware rack. Please tell me a new EQ is coming with different analyzer modes.

I've had this conversation in one of the reason Facebook groups I participate a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if it was inspiration for this. I don't think I've passed 10 devices though!!!! 😜

Do you please have a note velocity randomize/humanize feature in Reason Studios to make, upon one click my drawn notes (drums, piano,,,) less robotic and more 'human' Thanks in advance !

Dc Octorex has some cool filter too.

Are you saying that the distortion sound in each rack is guaranteed to be different?

Yo Ryan! Can you do a video on vactrols and low pass/vari-pass gates and how to use them? There’s this rack extension called xLPG which looks really cool but I don’t know how to use it or if reason already has one like it hidden in a stock device.

Audiomatic can also generate some nice distortion.

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The RV7000Mk2 is an IR loader, so you can use it to run your sound thru broken speakers.

Synchronous is hot AF.

You have to trigger the gate but you can use Thor's shaper on external audio.

Stacking distortion/overdrive is something already done by many guitarists. No rule to say Reason users can't try it. Give it a go. See where it leads.

Josh Mobley guitar sound distortion is the best

Obviously the next video will be about the new Reason Banjo rack extension

Hello i buy reason+ sub, but i dont understand how work shop sub? What its volume? On different subs, she have differents vilume count? If i buy shop sub it will be deducted from my card in addition to reason+ sub?

You forgot with Thor: sending Audio In to Filter 1 and then the Shaper. :-)

In the add new effects section you missed the combinator effects which has a list of many under the hood combination effects that can be edited , most people don't see ;)

Why does Softube not work with my Reason 11 I bought a few years ago? I was using it a few months ago for bass and now the effect itself is not producing any sound, there is a signal and sound, just not with the effect of Softube.