When using Reason’s NN-XT to load your sample, use the “browse patch” button or the “load sample” button to load your sound file into the NN-XT. The tricky part is getting the siignal to track… I set the sample to C3 and turn the note attack all the way down and just hold the note throughout recording… yet I’m sure there’s more, perhaps better, ways. If using a rex loop, you can use the to track” button and just copy it to the NN-XT sequeencer track. Once you get your signals to track, you can now really fine-tune and add some irregular spice to your tracks by replacing random elements in a beat or tweaking their effects. When content with your elements – maybe try a gated high hat with a little distortion and a deep plate reverb on the snare. Maybe add some hard-panned delay to the snare for more depth and dynamic. I generally keep the kick drum centralized, but sometimes multing and panning the different kick mixes can produce unique results as well.
Bella Fleck and the Flecktones bassist and solo artist, Victor Wooten, has a track on his newest solo LP, Palmystery, in which there are three session drummers and each drummer enters and exits with creative panning. The track begins with one drummer, but by the end, all three drummers are playing at once, each panned left, center and right… Creative engineering and naturally, the track is entitled, Left, Right, & Center.
The point being, just have fun with it and unique results may follow.
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