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Making Strings sound Soft in Reason.

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Home › Forums › Classical, Contemporary & Electronic Music › Classical Composers Forum › Making Strings sound Soft in Reason.

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  • This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 15 years, 7 months ago by CaseyDoddMusic.
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  • February 10, 2008 at 10:37 am #23791
    ulrichburke
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    Dear Anyone.

    I have Reason, 1 gig RAM, an AMD Sempron computer which is just fast enough to run Reason properly.

    I’m a complete noob, let’s get that out of the way for starters. I flatter myself I can write a tune, but the techie side of computer music is killing me and sniggering heartily throughout the process. Anyway. Today’s dumbass question.

    I wanna write simple New Age music for now – flute’n’strings, piano’n’strings, think Richard Clayderman, people like that. If you listen to a piano and strings piece, the strings are lovely and soft and buzzy in the background. Like saying MMMMM as a chord.

    Problem is, doesn’t matter which Reason sample I use – I only have the two basic sets, Orkester and Factory, that come with the program – it sounds too harsh. I’ve tried loading on the reverb, it just sounds like an overdose of reverb, it doesn’t sound soft. Not like the online New Age backings sound soft.

    How do you get those lovely, soft, New Age backings you hear on piano and synth/strings tracks? What samples should I use and what should I be doing to them to achieve the softness?

    Once I’ve achieved softness I’ll prob. have a couple more question to ask, but this soft thing is a real stumbling block for me. Like a six foot brick wall!

    Yours hopefully

    Christopher Burke (ulrichburke on site).

    February 10, 2008 at 10:43 pm #35267
    CaseyDoddMusic
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    Sorry Christopher, I only have experience with Finale and Logic. Hopefully somebody on this forum has used Reason!

    Best of luck,

    Casey

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