BEST EXTERNAL MIXER FOR PROPELLERHEAD REASON 7 MAC
Once this is done, I record the NOTION 4 generated audio as soundbites in the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) application via ReWire 2 (Propellerhead Software), which here in the sound isolation studio is Digital Performer 8 (MOTU), and this becomes the foundation for the song, which is important because by doing it this way it becomes practical to use the DAW application for real instruments and voices but to use NOTION 4 for the virtual instruments, and since it is easy on the Mac to use NOTION 4 External MIDI staves to control and to play Reason (Propellerhead Software)-with the current and new version being Reason 6.5 and Reason 7, respectively-this extends the system, which also works for NOTION 4 controlling real MIDI instruments like the KORG Triton Music Workstation (88-Keys) and maps in a practical way to being able to do everything in a way that has a common foundation, which is the basic NOTION 4 score. There are several strategies for doing digital music production, but the system I prefer at present begins with a NOTION 4 score, which at minimum comprises a Piano to provide reference tuning pitches and a Kick Drum or Snare Drum playing quarter notes (a.k.a., "quavers") as the "click track" for the desired tempo, where I usually do a bit of copying and pasting in the NOTION 4 score to create enough quarter notes for the "click track" to map to 10 minutes, which is plenty of time for a typical DISCO or Pop song. Although at least you could avail yourself of the "humanizing" feature in many DAWS at least insofar as avoiding machine-like sounds are concerned when playing a Notion score in a DAW.Īnd how many of the score details placed in a Notion score survive in the midi file exported into a DAW and are hearable ?
But it seems you then may have a lot of work causing all the articulations and score markings to export and play correctly when exported into a DAW and you might have an equally work intensive project making your Notion score sound real in a DAW. Similarly, starting with creating a final score in Notion aleviates that problem of cleanup of a score in a DAW from a midi import. But of course I don't think there is a "humanizing " feature in Notion to regain the performance realism that comes from a pure audio/midi file in a DAW. But I'm wondering if quantizing in the DAW prior to export fixes alot of this. But surely there are lots of other considerations and benefits to starting with notation or a DAW.įor example, I've heard exporting midi from a DAW ends up with a messy first score in a notation program and cleanup of the score is very work intensive. whether you like to compose in notation first or with tracks and VSTi's, and whether you really need an audio file AND a score. I realize this is a religious question to some extent and alot is dependent upon just personal workflow preference, e.g.
I would appreciate a discussion for this Newb of the relative merits and considerations of composing with notation in Notion and then exporting a finalized score to a DAW for fine tuning of the audible results versus composing with tracks in a DAW to end up with a finalized audio product and then exporting to Notion for a finalized score.
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