Last Sunday, 23rd June, Propellerhead and UK distributor Sound Technology Ltd presented the Propellerhead Producers Conference event at Red Bull Studios in London. The sold-out event featured presentations from top artists and producers, showcasing their use of Reason 7.
Photo above: Capacity crowd at Propellerhead Producers Conference at Red Bull Studios London (click for hi-res)
Propellerhead's Mattias Haggstrom Gerdt kicked off the event with a presentation on his personal music making tips - with an emphasis on how to work quickly and creatively. One particular focus was on the use of the sampling capability of Reason to quickly and easily create your own unique sounds to work with.
Mix engineer Gary Bromham showcased mixing techniques in Reason's large format audio console using a combination of the built-in EQ and compression on each channel, together with the new Parallel Processing in Reason 7. He described how to give weight to elements within a mix, and to the mix as a whole, using these tools alone.
Photo above: Richard Barbieri has made whole albums with Reason (click for hi-res)
Synth programming legend Richard Barbieri, best known as a member of new wave pioneers Japan and now keyboard player in the band Porcupine Tree, gave a brilliant presentation of his own use of Reason. Richard spoke about the element of surprise in music, using diverse elements to create organic shifting textures. One specific example included using an orchestral sample in ReDrum, which when routed as audio into Reason's Thor synthesizer via Reason's flexible routing was used to modulate various parameters of Thor, including as an unusual but brilliantly effective example, the sequence rate itself.
Photo above: Remixer and producer Jakwob talks through his latest remix in Reason(click for hi-res)
James Jacob, better known as Jakwob, showcased two of his recent remixes, including a brand new just-released remix of Icona Pop's 'I Love You'. Highlighting his workflow from receiving source material, James also talked about how he got into the business and gave his insight into how to get your music out there.
Photo above: Matt Gresham (a.k.a. Logistics) and Dan Gresham (a.k.a. Nutone) (click for hi-res)
Dan and Matt Gresham, also known asNutone and Logistics, not only showed how Reason provided the creative canvas for their compositions, but spoke at length about the collaborative process and how they worked together on projects.
Photo above: Q&A session at Propellerhead Producers Conference London (click for hi-res)
The event closed with an informative Q&A session with all the presenters covering all areas of their music production.
Sound Technology and Propellerhead would like to thank all who attended.
For more information and to keep up to date with future events please visit www.soundtech.co.uk/propellerhead and www.facebook.com/propellerheaduk
