REX FILES (To Rex or not to REX)

[demolee]

lionel,

i was a victim of an "in the middle of the set, laptop failure" attack.

I rexed tina's backup vocals.. my fault is i did not test the Reason song in gig style (meaning i did not torture test it as if i were doing a gig) kaya when i went there to play.. one song was playing.. then in my attempt to segue papunta sa next song, i opened up another RNS (the song with the rexd vocals).. my laptop conked out on me.. i lost 2 songs on that set..

ganun ba kabigat ang REX?

kurlie
ROR practitioner
DJ choirboy

[demolee]

REPLY FROM LIONEL

it's not the rex that is heavy it's the WAV file that is heavy.
DONT EVER USE MAJOR WAV FILES in your RNS no matter what format, whether rex or what. Malaki sila, mabigat sa CPU. You cant possibly get away with loading it while another song is playing.

The reason why you can do it easily with the built in REX loops of dr REX is precisely because MALIIT ang files na yun. Never more than 1 MB ang loop. Eh wav files ng vocals? usually 10, 20, 30 MB in size?

how do you get past this?
alternatives:
1. save the vocals as MONO, lower-bitrate , lo-fi wav files and then CUT the file into parts. Preferably PER SENTENCE..... then u can either:

1a) load them as wav files into a NN XT or NN19, or
1b) you can use Recycle to REX them and load them into DR REX. or
1c) you can load it into ABLETON LIVE as mp3s , and rewire it to reason.


the better alternative:

2. trigger them using some other HARDWARE device separate from your reason rig, such as a sampler , like my or Karlo's SP202

[acid42]

found a really GREat tutorial on youtube about bringing vocals into reason via Dr.Rex

youtube.com/watch?v=H_uArMJTUV0