It's probably a mix of sampled and synthetic sounds, though you could probably synthesize most of them. For the clangy metallic sounds, try setting two square waves to some dissonant interval and filtering out the lows with a hp-filter for a start. Then it's "just" a matter of tweaking the...

Well, first of all, I don't think the idea behind the Artist stories is "Reason is the only software you need" but rather "these 'professional' guys use Reason when they produce". It doesn't matter to Propellerhead if the artists they interview use Reason exclusively or as part o...

Still, it's kind of funny how NI announces Maschine, a hw/sw hybrid that borrows heavily from both Live and the Akai MPC at the same show where Ableton and Akai announce they're in business together with Akai making a hw-controller for Live. You could become paranoid for less :) Anyway, I've toyed w...

Yeahp, as far as human ears/brains are concerned, a digital sine wave generated at 16 bits/44,1 khz is indistinguishable from one generated by analog means (assuming that the analog circuits produce a reasonable approximation of a sine wave). You can probably get away with resolutions down to about ...

I have pretty much the same problem. I try to force myself to not worry too much about the sounds until I have a rough draft of the song, and then I alternate between mixing and arranging. I convince myself that it keeps everything together because I won't do anything while mixing that messes up the...

Never had any complaints, but I had to ask my previous neighbours to turn down their crappy euro-trance several times. They would play that sh!t at ridiculous levels at the strangest times (ie, 2 am on a monday). Swedes don't usually complain though, they just let the pressure build up for years and...

I like to go triangle wave -> 24 db lowpass turned way low, bit of resonance, 100% keyboard tracking.

Sleep.