Favourite stock reason effect?

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790]

Hey, just wondering if anyone has any of the stock reason effects that they use a lot (potentially in an unconventional way) and rate higher than plug-ins they’ve bought? For example, I really love the Neptune pitch adjuster. It can be great on vocals and for messing with the pitch of samples. I did get the soundtoys alter boy plugin but it’s just not as much fun for me!

[u/dy-kt]

Huge fan of Alligator. Feeding the gate cvs with random stuff from a Matrix or such. Can do some crazy stuff

[u/OpziO → u/dy-kt]

Second Alligator. Can get lost for hours in deep groove design with that. In particular, working with random LFO wave shapes, and shifting the pattern by -1 produces some lovely evolving sounds.

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/dy-kt]

Ah cool I’ve never tried anything like that

[u/m8k → u/dy-kt]

I love alligator and have had some fun syncing it to LFOs or running it with pattern devices like Matrix.

[u/CaptchaCarl]

Pulverizer is great for over the top effects. Scream great for more subtle distortion FX. Combinator is just super fun

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/CaptchaCarl]

Ahh nice I’ve found rhe scream and pulveriser to be the opposite to you but that’s probably how I’m just using them! How do you use the combinator?

[u/CaptchaCarl → u/Tasty-Specialist-790]

If I want to automate a bunch of things with one knob.

Example- want the vocals to be filtered, panned, and add delay during a bridge. I just add each of those in the combiner, tie all devices to a single button, then just automate that button instead of three or four parameters. Also makes it easy to dial in changes on the device in tack goes vs sequencer

[u/Life-Membership → u/CaptchaCarl]

Love pulversizer from beefing up drum bus

[u/MarginCuck]

echo & r7000

[u/CaptchaCarl → u/MarginCuck]

Echo would be a $150 plugin from SoundToys. It’s so good. I’m using Ripley a lot as well

[u/MarginCuck → u/CaptchaCarl]

Yeah Ripley is solid, although idk if it’s stock? I use Reason+

[u/WTFaulknerinCA → u/MarginCuck]

R7000 because it take impulse response files which basically means it can be any reverb on the planet as long as someone has made an IR file

[u/Lavaita → u/WTFaulknerinCA]

It’s also fun to take things which aren’t reverbs but put them into as IRs and see what happens. These can be an interesting starting point https://diegostocco.myportfolio.com/rhythmic-convolutions

[u/WTFaulknerinCA → u/Lavaita]

Cool!

[u/IL_Lyph → u/WTFaulknerinCA]

THIS☝🏼 it really is incredible, I picked echo in my comment, but R7000 was def my runner up lol

[u/OpziO]

Audiomatic usually features somewhere for me. In particular, a little ‘Circuit’ adds a great crystalline shine to synth parts, ‘Wash’ grunges drums up nicely, and ‘Cracked’ or’Gadget’ ideal with 303’s

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/OpziO]

Yeah it’s a lot of fun - super simple controls too!

[u/organik_productions]

Scream, Synchronous, Ripley and Audiomatic are effects I use on almost every track.

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/organik_productions]

Nice I’ve not really tried the synchronous - what do you use it for? The audiomatic is fun sort of because how simple it is and how few controls there are

[u/organik_productions → u/Tasty-Specialist-790]

I mainly use it to give pads and arpeggios some extra texture

[u/MitchRyan912]

Definitely Scream.

[u/Remarkable-Image-230]

RV-7 😎

[u/RFX01]

This may sound strange, but my favorite in a way is the MClass Compressor. I have yet to find a compressor that sounds as good on my voice as this one. If I had to I could probably tweak some other compressor to sound right, but with the MClass Compressor I literally just have to tweak it for 5 seconds to get it sounding right.

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/RFX01]

Ah yeah I’ve been learning to use compressors more effectively and the m class is fun because of its simplicity!

[u/eppujoloz]

Master bus Comp, Alligator and Pulveriser

[u/Selig_Audio]

So many to choose from, really! So I’ll choose one that hasn’t been mentioned yet (unless I missed it). Sweeper is a great FX device, but it’s also one of my favorite envelope followers, and even makes an interesting compressor using it this way. It’s also a great All Pass filter in Phaser mode, a decent ‘make it dirty’ device in Filter mode, and also a good envelope triggered from MIDI or even Audio!

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/Selig_Audio]

Ahh nice I’ve never actually tried using it!

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/Tasty-Specialist-790]

Oh just looked and yes have played around with this!

[u/Electronic_Salad534]

Scream and combinator

[u/AndyLees2002]

I have no idea what I’m doing sound design wise so my experience is limited, but running drums through alligator can be interesting and then chop up the results. I’m not sure if that’s its actual purpose or not, but it’s brilliant

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/AndyLees2002]

Haha tbh I have very little real knowledge about it either but love having fun experimenting with effects

[u/Durzo_Blintt]

The combinator is their best. It's so useful and means that I can save multiple plugin chains. This is just such a time saver. Not only that, but you can achieve more modulation than is possible without them, even mixing in external plugins. It's fantastic and if you aren't already making use of them I would suggest you try it.

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/Durzo_Blintt]

Ah I use them to stack fx etc together but haven’t used them to save my own ‘presets’ or stack instruments! Will give it a go

[u/ElliotNess]

SCREAM

I've always loved the scream distortion effect. For years it was quite obvious, my output having a clearly scream-coloured sound, but recently I've learned to dial it back more with conservative settings.

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/ElliotNess]

Yeah it’s easy to go wild with it. I like the feedback setting for really mangling sounds

[u/IL_Lyph]

Echo imo is one of the best multi purpose tape delay plug ins ever, and is totally slept on, and I see so many people not even aware of all its capabilities, I do so much different stuff with it, besides typical delay effects, it is such a Swiss Army knife of an audio tool

[u/Tasty-Specialist-790 → u/IL_Lyph]

Ah nice what other types of thing do you do with it?