Exporting tunes from Propellerheads Reason. The quick guide.

Software: Reason and Audicity, Cool Edit, Wavelab or Audition (any wave editor really)
Hardware: A good set of speaker!!!

This is the beginners guide to exporting your Reason tune. Although Reason is a great music program, it does have its down falls. Its effects, especially stereo effects aren't the greatest around and it can be very hard to get a good professional sound from some instruments.

1. Set the master levels as high as possible and make sure you're not using final compression, limiter and soft clipping. It doesn't matter if there is clipping (we'll address that later) if you're getting distortion on the speakers then yes turn it down a little. Your exported wave isn't damaged when you have clipping, it's just your amp doesn't like signals over the 0db threshold. Export the wave as 24bit 41000 or 48000.

2. Open up your wave editor and do some final EQing and compress that tune as much as possible. Wave editor comression is probably better than reason compression in that they're easier to use.

3. Use a limiter on all those nasty high peaks you can see on the wave picture. Don't be afraid to chop plenty out, you need to get that main 'body' of the tune as high to 0db as possible.

4. If your compresion and limiting has worked well and you have a few DB to play with you can use a good loudness maximiser like ME Maximiser from Cubase.

5. That's probably about it, if you're still having problems with loudness or sound quality then think about compressing or EQing individual instruments more before export.

Hope this has helped.

Wurd

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