Extracting samples from Reason

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I need a .wav sample from Reason Sound Bank, but Reason keeps all its samples in one big bank file.

The Reason itself can extract it somehow, but is there a way to save such a sample outside the Sound Bank and to process it with some other audio editor?

yeg (yeg), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

You'd have to use Rewire to get it to sink up with a sequencer.

Look on version tracker for a utility that will capture audio streams and output them to wav. That would be the easiest immediate solution.

Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

reduce your loop to the size that you need it to be (however long the sound plays for). export the sample hit to a .wav using the file menu. done. roundabout, but as far as i know this is the only way.

firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

right... other than an sequencer sync.

firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)


f that, get on Fruity Loops, it is much better to make Grime beats with.

mookie wilson (mookie wilson), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Well, actually, I tried to export a loop of some specific size, but it's not the same.
In fact, Reason somehow recognizes files that are native. When you use internal samples, it can modify it's length and play it for as long as you need. But when you use your own samples (even exported from Reason and imported back as you said), it plays it just for one time.

As for Fruity Loops, I use it, too, but it doesn't fit for some tasks.
I need to pitch samples so that they will have frequencies different from common (so they won't coincide with keyboard frequencies) and then sequence them just like usual tones. It's much more convenient to do that in Reason, because FL goes crazy when there are too much tracks in sequencer. And it doesn't allow to bind samples to piano keys.

Anyway, thank you all for your advises. Maybe they'll give me a push in the necessary direction.

Yegor Zhmud (yeg), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)


when you're done makeing the music, can YouSendIt to me for my grime blog?

(\/)¤¤kíë \€/¤ñ (mookie wilson), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

well, I would be glad to send it to you, but I'm not sure I'll manage to make real grime from my experiments =) my music isn't yet enough professional to be unambiguously defined as grime or some other genre.

Yegor Zhmud (yeg), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)


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