Insane Guitar Tools
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Getting started
Installing the Samples

1. Insert the Insane Guitar Tools CD into your CD-ROM
drive. If using the download version uncompress the .zip file and place the .rfl file in your Reason refill filer.

2. On the CD, locate the file called “Insane Guitar Tools.rfl”.

3. Copy the file to ‘Reason refill filer’ folder or the location of your other Reason .rfl files.
If you choose not to install the Insane Guitar Tools.rfl, you will need to insert the “Insane Guitar Tools.rfl” CD into the CD-drive each time you run the program.

Launch Reason and create a mixer and an NN19 sampler. Browse the sample patches to locate the Insane Guitar Tools.rfl/NN19 Patches/Guitar Patches/ and select 'single strings.smp'.

Hit the keyboard to hear the single strings as they would be laid out across a guitar, you might want to add a little reverb at this stage.

Then go to the 'Edit' menu and select 'import midi file' and navigate to the 'Chords-midi file' on the CD and choose 'A minor'. Delete the arppegio and reset the songs signature from 6 to 4. Copy the Am chord to each bar. Pan left -32.

Repeat the above step and choose F Major as the chord, place it on the alternate beat and pan right 32. Add some reverb and a touch of delay.

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At this point you will want to add a beat to play that lovely guitar sound over, so lets create a Dr REX drum machine and browse the Reason Factory Sound Bank for a loop that you like.

Create a third NN19 and navigate to the 'Single Strings Fuzzed' patch on the Insane Guitar Tools CD. Pan it dead centre, add some reverb and some delay. Select the NN19 and create a UN-16 Unison.

Set the loop playing and start jamming along. If your not much of a guitarist you can try downloading midi files of guitar parts that are close to what you want and changing them around until you have the part you like. It should sound something like this, but your free to make up your own song!

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Next create a Scream 4 distortion unit for the lead guitar sound. Make sure you have the NN19 selected ( it has a red border). Browse the Scream 4 patches from the insane guitar tools refill until you find one you like. We have used the 'VocoWah'MP3

Once you have the feel for playing the guitar on a keyboard create an NNXT sampler and load the 'Power Chords.sxt', pan it hard left.

Make up a riff over the loop you have selected, keep it simple, maybe just one chord per bar.
Create another NNXT and pan it hard right. Now play another chord on an alternate beat to the first one.
Once you have a riff you like go back to the NN19 and play some lead over the riff. You may want to change the guitar sound to something a bit more rocky!

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To get an idea of how versatile the refill is try downloading some of the many .mid files that you can find on the net and open them in Reason. Then set the guitar parts to Insane Guitar Tools refill and recreate your favorite classic guitar songs, this will five you a good idea of how to ustilise the refill, enjoy!