014 Ghostly Vox (Combinator)

I am jealous of all you Reason 6 folk working with real audio and fancy mixer with master buss compressor. When creating vocal tracks within Reason 4 I tend to use the NN-XT for my vocal samples running through this Combinator. I think it is based on a M Class factory patch but I can't recall which.

Sorry if you were expecting a reverb soaked patch for creating eerie vocals!

The Combinator:

Ghostly Vox.cmb

The Skin:

012 Done! (Combinator)

I use this Combinator patch at the end of my audio signal chain and is the last chance to tweak my sound before I bounce a mix. With it I can visualize the audio hitting the audio outs, can tweak the EQ via a graphic equalizer and add some warmth to the sound. Thanks to Robbneu and his excellent Reason Patch a Day blog for providing the basis for the EQ / Visualizer using BV512 effects units (in his fourth post, way back in September 2008!). All I did was add a Scream patch and provide a custom backdrop.

In case you're wondering, button 4 simply gives visual feedback that your track is "Done!"

The Combinator:

Done!.cmb

The Skin:

009 Space Echo (Combinator)

I was looking at some Reason 6 videos and got rather depressed watching the new effects unit, The Echo. I wanted one! So I started to build a space echo Combinator patch based on the Roland RE-201 unit and while doing this I googled "space echo combinator" to see if I could find anything inspiring. What I found was a rather fantastic space echo patch built by Dubtrain, here is the link:

Dubtrain Space Echo Patch

I tweaked a couple of parameters and no more so I cannot claim any credit for this one whatsoever except for the backdrop which I created around the details on the new RE-20 effects pedal.

The Combinator:

Space Echo.cmb

The Skin:

008 microKORG Vocoders (Combinators)

As promised, here are microKORG vocoder Combinators using an NN-19 sampler (NN), a ReDrum (RD) and a Dr Rex (RX) as the modulator. I have also included a Combinator with no built in modulator (EX) to be used as an effect Combinator to route audio into. The Subtractor provides the carrier signal, remember to use only one oscillator! The front panel control basic carrier and FX functions, you'll have to go inside the Combinator to tweak band levels and so on.

Simply select a sample, rex file or ReDrum patch, run or play a sequence and have fun!

The Combinators:

microKORG Vocoder EX.cmb
microKORG Vocoder NN.cmb
microKORG Vocoder RD.cmb
microKORG Vocoder RX.cmb

The Skins: