Using Reason Onstage: Skill Pack,

Description

Although many musicians use Reason to create music
in their home studios, its instruments and sequencer
are also extremely well-suited for live performance.
So how do you get your Reason tracks ready for the limelight?
For that matter, how do you get your Reason skills ready for
the stage? Do you need to preprogram all of it? Can you use
its instruments live without programming anything?
Using Reason Onstage: Skill Pack quickly shows any Reason
user, from the novice to the experienced, how to use Reason
4's power for onstage performance. The book starts out by
providing valuable key commands that are helpful to know
during live performance, and then moves quickly on to controller
setups, song layout suggestions, and Combinator 2 tips and
tricks that will dramatically improve any musician's onstage
performance. In addition to covering basic functions that make
live performance easier, this excellent book/CD package also
covers advanced concepts that allow the user to walk onstage
and compose on the fly! The accompanying CD includes presets
and templates that you'll use to learn the concepts in the book.
This learn by doing approach ensures that you'll never skip
a beat while jamming onstage.

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: First Preparations: Are All Machines Created Equal?

Chapter 2: Setting Up: A Little Preparation Goes a Long Way

Chapter 3: Controllers and Templates

Chapter 4: Introduction to Combinators

Chapter 5: Aroeggiators

Chapter 6: Song Starters

Chapter 7: ReWire Onstage