Scary Music

In honor of Halloween, class today will be dedicated to the scary side of music and the use of Sound FX in your beats. To start with we will watch a classic moment of scariness in pop music...

So adding FX can be an easy way to add more interesting elements to your music. Reason already has some FX in it (check in the folder for the NNXT). But there are also lots of websites that offer free FX to download. Since it is Halloween today, we will use a website that offers scary FX - click here.

So, to hear what each one sounds like, just click on it. When you find one you like, do the following:

1. Hold Control on your keyboard and click on the name of the effect in the list.
2. Select "Download Linked File" from the list. The file will be saved to your Desktop.

Here is your assignment:

Make me a SCARY beat using 3-4 sound FX from the website!

1. First download 3-4 FX from the website.
2. Open Reason and start a new file.
3. Create a Redrum and one NN19 for every effect that you downloaded.
4. To load your FX into the NN19, click on the Browse Sample button and find the sample on your Desktop.
5. Make a beat using the Redrum and whatever other instruments you want. 
6. Record yourself playing the samples from the keyboard. Note how you can make them play at different pitches by playing different keys.
7. Save your beat as "(your name)_scary.rns".
8. Put a copy in the dropoff folder for extra credit.

Happy Halloween!