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Eric Shafer

Eric Shafer is a music producer and audio engineer from Chicago, Illinois. He has worked on both classical and popular music projects, and is currently composing music for today's top artists and future artists.

Creating Thor Patches in Reason & Packaging a Refill

In this tutorial, we’re going to work through a hands-on workshop and create several Thor synthesizer patches. Then we’ll take our new patches and combine them into a redistributable Reason refill using Reason Refill Packer.


This entry is part 7 of 12 in the Creative Session: All About Synths Session

How to Audition Reason Combinator Blends with Your Keyboard

Finding a set of sounds that work well together can be difficult. In Reason, it can be a laborious effort to create a combination of instruments, record some MIDI on each and then play them back. In this tutorial, we’ll look at a trick you can use in Reason to allow you to hear playback from multiple Combinators in real-time from your MIDI controller.

10 Ways to Enhance Performance In Propellerhead’s Reason

In this article, we’re going to look at ten things you can do to help maximize the performance of Reason, fix various annoying issues, and avoid CPU strain during heaving automation and interaction with other DAWs.

Your Guide to Getting Started with Synthesis in Reason

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument that reproduces a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies and waveforms. Propellerhead’s Reason features various forms of synthesis, and it’s often difficult for the user to decide which synthesizer to use.

In this tutorial, we’re going to explore the art and the science of synthesis, as well as discuss how Reason’s synthesizers can be used, and in which situations you should use them.


This entry is part 4 of 12 in the Creative Session: All About Synths Session

The Making of “How We Do” by The Game

In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to recreate the beat, bass and melody from How We Do by The Game featuring 50 Cent and produced by the illustrious Dr Dre. If you’re a fan of hip-hop and hip-hop music production, you’ll be a fan of this tutorial.

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