Reason

A very relaxing, chilled-out piece of work from From The Starlight Suite by Soilsound.

No, nothing to do with Oracle. I stumbled across The Return of O. on YouTube and it reminds me a little of Chronos, directed by Ron Fricke. Check it out if you haven't seen it.

Twenty or so minutes of soothing music and accompanying visuals from F.D. Project. What's more, the music was made using Reason. A very creative and enjoyable showcase of skill.

Jeremy Ellis demonstrates his free-style improvisation skills at NAMM 2007 using Reason. Nice work, Jeremy!

To quote the YouTube page,

Detroit's own Jeremy Ellis is a keyboard player who blends elements of funk, jazz, house and electro in his eclectic freestyle live performances. Check out his demo to learn just how much you can do with Reason, a decent controller and a bit of funk.

A drumloop can soon become boring to listen to. At the same time, it can become quite tedious to try and build variations into the loop by hand if imagination is lacking.

Here's an interesting way to make drumloop variation a little easier to achieve and add some depth at the same time.