Any convenient way to manage mp3's in Reason?

[Unfocused]

I got a question: is it possible to insert mp3's (or any audio file for that matter) as a lane? I don't know if I'm clear enough here, but last time I wanted to play a short sound, I had in mp3 format, I used Redrum and loaded it as one of the drum sounds.

Now with something bigger, like a whole music track, that I'd like to cut and play with (use a part of it, make a remix etc.), that would not be too convenient.

[Absinthe]

Well, an easy way to cut up and remix a rendered track is to load it into a program like Recycle. You could then feed it back into Reason with either Dr. Rex or an NN-XT and do what you want.

But as far as I can tell, there is no convenient internal solution.

[Vegeta897]

I found this to be a pain. Dr. Rex can only handle 64 slices. And then it takes a shit long time to load. I was once trying to lay drums over an mp3, and so I wanted to put the song in, but I couldn't find a good way to do it in a way that I could easily hear what part is on the mp3 while I'm making the drums. Hmph. I would have thought Reason 4 would have an audio lane feature.

[Unfocused]

Damn, that's awkward, that should be a basic feature.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Absinthe]

I guess your best option would be to run Reason in conjunction with another program.

[Viperidae]

Ableton?

[hungryduck]

Yea, Reason is a sequencer and is not made to handle audio tracks. Use rewire to use reason in conjunction with Ableton or something like Logic Express (my preference) or Pro Tools.

[CrazyHarij]

ableton does stuff like that

[Parrot of doom]

Load it as a sample into one of the samplers and assign it to a particular key. Then just hold that key for the length of the mp3.

Works for me.

[Vegeta897]

Not exactly a convenient way to manage MP3s at all, though.

[Parrot of doom]

Its pretty much how you'd do things on a rack mounted sampler - which is what Reason 4 emulates.

It takes about a minute to set up. Very easy.