In the latest instalment of D. Ramirez’s Gear Review he reviews “The Thermionic Culture Vulture” valve distortion unit.

A rather strange bird – the manual’s first page reads, “Do not take this unit seriously. The Culture Vulture is a fun effects unit and has been designed for maximum pleasure!” Whether you want full-on distortion possibilities or subtle track warmth, this bird is worth a deeper look.

In the latest instalment of D. Ramirez’s Gear Review he reviews “The Thermionic Culture Vulture” valve distortion unit.

A rather strange bird – the manual’s first page reads, “Do not take this unit seriously. The Culture Vulture is a fun effects unit and has been designed for maximum pleasure!” Whether you want full-on distortion possibilities or subtle track warmth, this bird is worth a deeper look.

The EEF (EQ-Echo-Filter System) is a modular sound processing system used within Reason 4 or Reason+Record 1.0 and above where you can load your own sounds devices and then process them through a series of oddball EQ, Echo, and Filter Combinators. Enable or disable each effect along the way. Then shape the parameters using the other Combinator rotaries and buttons.

Have you ever loaded up a really neat Thor Step Sequencer patch that sounds great? Have you then done all sorts of automation to make it behave the way you want it to in your track? Well in this week’s tip I’ll show you how to tame the Thor Step Sequencer so you can trigger it, transpose it, and use note on/off messages from a controller to “play” the pattern exactly how you want.

This week I’ll show you how the Nurse Rex module inside Kong is redefining Rex loops’ ease and creative potential in your music. Previously creating Rex chunks and triggering them in a track required some planning, ReCycle software, and locked you into a tempo once you made your custom Rex files. All that is a thing of the past in Reason 5 and what’s left is just unlimited experimentation.

Ableton Live Tutorial – In this Ableton Tutorial we take a look at a rack designed for layering kick drums and the theory behind it’s creation.

Suitable for all varieties of EDM including deep house, tech house, progressive house, electro house, minimal, techno and trance.

Setup Native Instruments Battery W/ Electronic Drums, from OBEDIA, the leader in digital audio training on the Internet!