decent free reason tutorial I can download?

There's a bunch of free tutorials on Reason Freaks... [here]

[OFFTOPIC] Hello Mr Latin, not to distract you from your chosen path of learning Reason because that must be a more sensible bet in 2006, but have you seen Schism Tracker? It's an Impulse Tracker clone (and when I say clone it really does all the things IT used to, looks the same, has the same keys etc, with a few extra features), it's open source and works under Linux, Windows or Mac, and apart from a few minor bugs and occasional crashes it works very well for me.

It even does filters, which didn't work on the PC I used to run IT on, so I've been looking at some modules with instrument filter envelopes thinking what a shame it was I didn't know all this stuff was possible back when I tracked every day. Ah, nostalgia.

Anyway, don't want to derail your Reason thread, but I remember you being a fellow ex-IT user, so I thought I'd let you know...

THANK YOU REBECCA! I'll get right on it! THIS IS GREAT!

SO HAPPY! If this does what you say it does, everything's gonna be okay!

did you have trouble installing it? the instructions seem to assume that i'm a bit of a bod and i'm not. SDL?

Oh yeah, sorry. Are you using Windows? You don't need to install SDL for the Windows version from prebuilt packages. Download the Windows .zip file, unzip it, and run. If you put all the files from the zip in the same directory it'll find everything it needs. (You'll have to add the shortcut to your start menu and/or desktop yourself if you want one though.)

There's a new version on the site every couple of days with bugs ironed out or new features, so it's worth looking back every so often.

It's still work in progress, so there are problems with it (save your work often, and if you find a fault you can describe/reproduce let them know) but in my experience it works well enough to use.

Jesus guys, GROW UP!

;)

Is that the winking face of an ex-tracker who's moved on? (Re)join usss...

No, I don't think I could go back to IT fulltime, I miss modern softsynths and tweaking realtime fx too much. But after 6 years of trying new software (most of which has been spent with the tracker-based Buzz) and not really finishing any tracks at all, I went back to Schism and found myself getting stuff DONE. Quickly. Maybe I can try to learn something about how I worked in trackers and try to stick to that even with all the distractions of newer software.

(Oh, I've well and truly stolen this thread now, but it didn't seem worth starting a new one for. Sorry, Reason fans)

I used to be a bit of an FT2 junkie. I kinda missed the boat on the whole IT thing.

Have you tried Renoise? (a modern tracker with an FT2-like interface, support for VST instruments and effects, midi, etc) A lot of the guys I know who used trackers back in the day swear by it now.