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[music]
I think all musicians are just junkies.
We're all just trying to seek pleasure
when we make the right noises
when we have the right vibration with the universe
and we have our octaves or our fifths or whatever it is.
We're just getting off on it.
[music]
My name is Kirsten Price and I produce music.
I was the kid that wouldn't stop singing.
I guess it was just, trying to get whatever is inside your head out.
Really, music was running after me for
a long time and I was like "no, no, no."
And then eventually I just, I gave in.
Because I have a voice that people like,
I ended up singing for a lot of different people, doing a lot of things.
I was always desperately trying to know
how did you make that sound? How did that happen?
I saw that it was Reason.
I was just gobsmacked
and it was sucking zero CPU
and he was making these incredible soundscapes.
You know, how did you do that that's so cool. They'll tell you all their tricks.
I think it's a really great learning tool for me.
Using the information that I learned
of how things work from Reason and applying them to real physical situations was wonderful.
If I have a Wurlitzer up and I put a little bit of distortion on it
it just completely changes the vibe.
I do it on strings I do it on piano. It's a very, very small amount.
But it will definitely give it much more of a live organic feel.
I really, really love music and I really like
experimenting and finding out how to get things done.
We're taking a look at a track called, Come as you are.
which is a guy kind of rock track.
Everything in this track is built around one piece of ear candy.
And it goes [imitating the sound]
Yes, that's the seed of the production value of the song.
It is mostly this Thor bass.
Played way away from what a bass sound should sound like.
I don't think a sound is ever what it says it is in Reason.
You just have to make it what you want it to be.
But I knew I wanted it to go [woo-whoop]
so I was experimenting with the polyphonic synths in Malstrom and all kinds of things
to get that [woo-whoop] thing and then I though,
well then I don't have the right sound maybe I'll have to find the right sound in the Thor
and go in a program the boundaries so I can mess with it and then
since I had the midi that was playing that part I just kept auditioning sounds and
that worked.
The bass sound really complements that.
The two kind of go around each other.
In a little circular motion.
So, they're just, they're playing in and out of each other.
So we have this kind of wavelike luscious ocean thing going on
that doesn't really go anywhere and doesn't stop
but it's just this cool ear candy kind of thing.
This is one of the rare tracks where I didn't start with the drums
I just started with that kind of soundscape feeling.
And the drums I transferred some live audio.
These drums. But they kind of sounded a little bit weak
and they weren't really giving me the kick and
the bass wasn't kicking the way it was supposed to do
and I wasn't getting a nice big slap on the snare.
So I imported the midi into Redrum.
I just layered what the live drums were doing.
A little bit of cymbals too on the chorus.
So that was the drums.
So the only live elements are the drums
which aren't really much until they are beefed up with the kick and the snare from Reason
and then the electric guitars.
And that's it. There's not much in there.
I love it when that happens. I love it when it's just,
there's this piece and that piece and that piece, and bam it works.
[music]
Often I'll know what I want to do and I won't know how to do it.
That's where something like Reason comes in.
It's a program whereby if you can imagine a sound you can kind of make it happen.
I find that the best and the most fun times to be had
are when you don't know how to make the sound that you want and you just kind of
experiment and push the envelope and surprise yourself.
In terms of versatility and being intuitive I don't think there's much that can beat Reason
in terms of the depth and breaths of what you can do with it.
I don't think there is any other single platform that can get what's inside your head out
in an easier more coherent more professional way.
I have a lot of records that I want to make.
I have a lot of very specific albums that I want to make.
I feel like I don't have a choice and I find that a lot of other people that are very serious about what they do
are doing it because they really feel like they can't do anything else.
[music]
I think a lot of us feel that way.