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Published in SOS January 2012

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Robin Bigwood
One of Reason 6’s new effects devices, Pulveriser is more than just a character compressor — it can be used for a wide range of sonic treatments.
One of Reason 6’s new effects devices, Pulveriser is more than just a character compressor — it can be used for a wide range of sonic treatments.
There’s still plenty to get our heads round in Reason 6, so this month we’re going to have a look at two completely different aspects of the new program. Firstly, we’ll examine the new Pulveriser effect and then we’ll go on to explore what version 6 can do with time‑stretched audio.
A Handful Of Dust
Pulveriser is one of Reason 6’s new effect devices, and with a name like that you might imagine some sort of brutal distortion unit, especially as the subtitle or tag‑line is ‘high yield demolition’. But hang on a minute — hasn’t Reason already got one of those, in the shape of the Scream 4 Sound Destruction unit? Absolutely right, and in fact Pulveriser is actually a more subtle and flexible tool than you might at first think. What it offers is characterful single‑band compression (Squash), old‑school valve‑type distortion (Dirt) and a multi‑mode Filter with cutoff (Frequency) and resonance (Peak) controls. Used by themselves, these get you a long way. But there are modulation options too, as we’ll see.
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Published in SOS January 2012

 

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