Reason 2.5 Power! [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Michael Prager (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 17, 2003

Put the power of Reason 2.5 to work for you as you produce amazing music. "Reason 2.5 Power!" shows you the ins and outs of this popular program as you work your way through several in-depth tutorials designed to teach you how to use Reason 2.5 to its fullest potential. With this book, you?ll dive right in and learn to use Reason to program loops and synths. You?ll get detailed tours of the individual Reason devices, including the Mixer, the Subtractor and Malström synthesizers, the Matrix Pattern Sequencer, the Dr:rex Loop Player, the Redrum Drum Computer, and many more. By the time you?re finished, you?ll be ready to synchronize Reason with other devices, use automation, and mix and publish your creations to CD or the Web. Unleash the power of Reason 2.5!

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About the Author

Michael Prager has been involved with music technology for over ten years and has worked for such companies as Cakewalk, Steinberg, Disney Interactive, Spectrasonics, Q Up Arts, Sony Classical audioMIDI.com, the Columbia Cllege Hollywood, and Keyboard Magazine. Prager has worked on various ArtistPro instructional DVDs and is the author of several books and CD-ROMs from Thomson Course Technology including Reason 2.5 Power!, Reason CSi Starter, Reason CSi Master, and Sampling and Soft Synth Power!.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (November 17, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592001386
• ISBN-13: 978-1592001385
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,573,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All Things Within Reason, January 8, 2004

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Solo Goodspeed (Granada Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reason 2.5 Power! (Paperback)

Propellerhead Software's virtual midi workstation Reason is truly a thing of beauty, as well as a daunting package at first; this is especially true if, like me, your last experience of midi and music technology was about 12 years ago and you're trying to get caught up. Thanks to Reason, the technology has changed for the better, because now all those devices can be contained in one's desktop monitor. Still, when I first installed and opened up the program, I was overwhelmed with a sense of getting more than I'd bargained for.

Fortunately, also such is the case with Michael Prager's comprehensive book-that-should-have-been-in-the-box, Reason 2.5 Power! I found it while browsing in a local bookstore, glanced over the section on quantizing, thumbed through a couple more pages, and before I knew it the book was in the bag. Prager's friendly title not only makes the reader see how simple the program is to use, but also gets one genuinely excited about learning it in depth. His enthusiasm about creating music with these tools is very infectious.

Reason is not so much a program as it is a suite of interchangeable, configurable components: appropriately, Reason 2.5 Power! is both a user manual and a collection of tutorials on how to make the most of each of these components, as well as use them together. You can read the chapters in any order, depending on which device you want to learn, and easily find what you're trying to do with each of your virtual rack devices. Example: in the chapter on the sequencer, early on in the book, we are shown how to create rhythm patterns on one of the drum machines either on the machine's controller, or using a music keyboard to input (my personal preference).

Reason 2.5 is several functional modules in one droolingly productive package; Reason 2.5 Power! is several operation manuals and tutorials masquerading as chapters in one of the most useful complimentary computer books for a powerhouse program I've seen. Combine the above, mix well, and hear the sweet music.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Tutorial, February 17, 2005

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Rick Kamrath (Palos Verdes, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reason 2.5 Power! (Paperback)

I'm not extraordinarily gifted in regards to all things digital, so I tend to "lose it" if any tutorial gets too clinical.

Michael Prager injects the perfect amount of humanity (spelled humor and familiarity) into the pages of this book.

He is thorough enough for the gifted while encouraging to the rest of us.

I don't usually write reviews, but I have another book from another author... I think from the same publisher. This one is head and shoulders above it!

This book is being discounted because of the introduction of Reason 3.0. In my opinion, unless Prager magically comes up with an update in no time, I would spend the few bucks this one costs and worry about the new stuff later.

This book is just that good.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All within Reason 2.5, February 22, 2004

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Richard D. Souther (Heber City, Utah USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reason 2.5 Power! (Paperback)

Finally somebody has written an easy to understand tutorial/instructional book on one of the best music compositional programs ever created. Mr Prager covers every part of Reason 2.5 in a very "user friendly" way. I can honestly say that "now I get it!" thanks to Reason 2.5 Power!