Glossary
Don’t know your Bitcrusher from your Bottom End? Can you Quantize a Zoom Slider? If you’re boggled, essential terms for following our DJ, Music Production and Live Recording Courses are explained in this handy glossary. Let us know if we’ve missed anything. Faders
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Rack Window
– shows each component stacked on top of each other, much like a hardware rackRe-Sequence
– take a sequence and separate it, then rearrange itRead Enable
– when switched on, all automation will be heardRecord Arm
– enables a track for recording from the main inputRedrum Drum Computer
– drum machine packaged with ReasonRegion Tool
– works from within the arrangement view to adjust the amount of bars across which a clip/loop is playedRelease
– the rate at which the volume of a musical note decreases from the sustain level to zeroRemixing
– usually involves taking sections of a track and re-sequencing them in a different fashion while adding new elements, thus creating a new version of the originalRender to Disk
– renders the selected area to a single audio file on the hard driveRendering
– the process of saving a new version of a track(s) with effects, fades, mixing, moves, and other processing included in the rendered file. In other words, the real-time changes in the sound are printed to the new file.Resonance
– prolonging the sound by reflection or reverberation, as if the audio was being played out into a small caveReturn Tracks
– only host effects, and not clips. Via their sends, all tracks can feed a part of their signal into a return track and share its effectsReverb
– an effect that simulates natural reverberations (sound reflections) that occur in different rooms and environments to create an ambience or sense of spaciousnessRight Locator
– selects the end of a section to loop, edit, move, etc.Ring Modulator
– a special type of mixer that accepts two signals as audio inputs and produces their sum and different tones as its outputRoot Key
– the key which plays the sample at its original pitch; usually middle CRotary Knobs
– device used for panning or rotating, usually a knob that turns 360°LATEST COURSES
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