Trick #2: Creating some Movement for your Thor Sounds
#WHAT IS A STEP SEQUENCER HOW TO#
Here’s the video which outlines how to use Thor as a dry/wet control for your Kong effects: So Audio in 1 and 2 had a scaling of “100” and Audio in 3 and 4 had a scaling of “-100” - it’s really the same idea, just in reverse.
#WHAT IS A STEP SEQUENCER MOD#
Since this was the case, I had to switch the scaling on all four Mod Wheel lines in the MBRS. When you lower the Mod Wheel, you have a dry signal.īear in mind in the video below, I had these splits switched around in the back of the rack (Audio in 1 and 2 were the wet splits and Audio in 3 and 4 were the dry splits). Now when you raise the Mod wheel in the Combinator, the affected split (going into Audio in 3 and 4) on Thor, is going to be heard. In the Modulation Bus Routing Section (MBRS), you would create 4 lines as follows:Īudio In 1 : 100 > Audio Out 1 : -100 > Mod WheelĪudio In 2 : 100 > Audio Out 2 : -100 > Mod WheelĪudio In 3 : 100 > Audio Out 1 : 100 > Mod WheelĪudio In 4 : 100 > Audio Out 2 : 100 > Mod Wheel Then in the Thor pass-through, ensure that all the parameters are turned off or turned down (remove Osc 1, bypass filter 1, etc.). Inside the Kong, you would add your effects devices in the Bus FX and Main FX slots. The 2 main audio outputs of Thor are then sent to a Mixer or to the final output. Then you send the Main outputs of Kong into another 2 inputs on Thor (input 3 and 4). The general idea is that you use a Spider Audio splitter to send one split into the Kong effect, and the other split directly into 2 Thor inputs (input 1 & 2). This means that if you have a Crowded set of modulations for a particular device which uses all the Combinator modulation lines, you can still add this to the Mod Wheel of the Combinator without having to sacrifice any of those crafty modulations you’ve set up. This little strategy also has one other benefit: It doesn’t require you to utilize any modulation lines inside the Combinator programmer. Once this is done, you can use the Combinator mod wheel to effectively switch between a fully dry signal (when the mod wheel is lowered), and a wet signal (when the mod wheel is raised). This method uses Thor as a pass-through for both the dry and wet signals, and then assigns them to the Mod Wheel. This trick was one I stumbled upon when I was trying to figure out how to create a control which allows you to crossfade between the dry and wet control in the Kong effects device (since some of the Kong effects don’t allow you to automate the dry/wet knob directly. Trick #1: Creating a Dry / Wet control for the Kong effects using Thor’s Mod Wheel This will also take you on a journey showing how I would come up with a simple synth lead in Thor. Recently I’ve been doing a lot of new sounds in the Reason rack, and I wanted to show off a few new things I’ve found out as I was creating inside Thor. This tutorial is one that might show you a few new tricks with Thor.