Manipulating Vocals with Reason?

[Hejenemy]

Hey guys-

Is it possible to import a recorded acapella into Reason (v2.5) and and then to manipulate it with filters and effects or anything (perhaps even change the speed/pitch)? I want to be able to take acapellas I have (some original, some MP3's) and be able to sample them into a hook or something ala Kanye West.

It seems like Reason ought to abole to do this, I've even seen the vocorder in there, but I can't figure out how to actually get the audio into my track. Sorry, this just seems like a retarded question, but I can't figure it out.

Thanks for any help.

[Decipha]

I have reason 2.5 but i stopped using it for that one reason that i couldn't figure out if you can import vocals in to it, with FL Studio you can mix vocals and add effects in real time so i use that instead. Although, I have heard you can use reason and link it to cubase to mix vocals, as soon as i get the rest of my studio complete i will use this setup. Maybe this helps. Also you can import vocals on a redrum as a sample and just have it in the sequencer when you want it to play, i know its not the correct way to do it but if you only have a sample or two you want to import it will work. As for the effects just route some processors on the vocal tracks through reason.

[ssscientist]

Originally Posted by Hejenemy

Is it possible to import a recorded acapella into Reason (v2.5) and and then to manipulate it with filters and effects or anything (perhaps even change the speed/pitch)?

There are two samplers in Reason and the older one (the NN-19) will load .wav files by clicking on the file folder just to the upper right of the keyboard display. Convert your MP3's to .wav's, then chop them into 10 or 15 second phrases. The Reason sampler can probably handle 30 seconds, 60 seconds, maybe even a whole song depending on the memory in your machine, but that would mean you couldn't break it up or stop it once you got it going.

Then you can patch it into as many processors as you want, change the pitch, whatever.

[Hejenemy]

Hey thanks a lot guys that'll help me out quite a bit.

[matt_macfarlane]

the NNXT sampler is awesome for manipulating vocals, especially since you can map several different .wav files to different keys or keyboard zones, and have control over almost every parameter of the sound. the only tricky thing is beat-matching, i don't think either sampler in Reason will let you play the sample at a higher pitch without increasing the tempo as well (which is just as good because on most software that sounds like shit anyway).

Ableton Live is pretty good for Kanye-style pitch & speed manipulation, though, you have control over tempo & pitch separately, and you can set the grain-size of the sample as well as indicate whether your sample is beat-orineted, tone-oriented, texture, or re-pitch oriented.

[homeboi]

i do not have an keyboard but i know how to use reasons but what i do not know is how to sample vocals onto reason. i am askin u because i see u have had the same problem. holla at me to let me know how to sample

[altitude909]

it is also worth mentioning that some cool things can be done to vocals via recycle and doctor REX (you should be able to work with much larger samples)

[ethos]

yes.
I've done it many times.
It's cool, you can do crazy stuff with all the effects.
BUT....

It's pretty hard to get the acapella to stay on beat.
It might sound like its on beat at first, but the further into the song, the more off beat it gets.

Its best if you cut it up into different sections.

sample in each verse seperatly, each chourse seperatly etc....

[homeboi]

this is homeboi and i would like to know how to sample vocals into reasons holla at ya boi