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In this section you can find things that will assist you in your own computer-based musical productions. There's a lot of original Dubroom material which you can use, but also third party material. There's much more than "just" sampled material, as you can find some little pieces of software, presets and other things as well. Everything in this section is, like all stuff in the Dubroom by the way, legal and -a lot of times- absolutely free of charge. Definitely worth a visit, for novice to veteran.
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ABOUT CHAPTER 23
We had a basic look at the pre-conditions for making Dub with computers in this tutorial. Also an explanation of the term DAW and something about ASIO Drivers.

MAKING DUB WITH COMPUTERS - CHAPTER 24: CREATING A SET UP (2): SUB MIXES

Now that we've had a look at the minimum requirements, let's continue to prepare our instrumental track for a Dub session. For that, we have to process the raw musical data into something more audible. We've got to make a little better mix and in order to do that, we need to create a few "sub mixes". Where we used three channel inputs for each horn instrument and two for the skanks, we need to mix the horns into one sound before it will enter our master mixing board. We need to do the same with the piano and the organ, with the guitar and the clavinet, and lastly we need to combine the drums and percussion.

This gives us five different audio tracks:

Drums
Bass
Horns
Skanks
Guitar/Clavinet

Take a look at the following screenshot. It's taken from Reason but it has the exact same lay-out as any self respecting software simulation of a real studio mixing board situation (click to enlarge):

Schematically, the set up would look like the table below (notice the only instrument -bass- that goes straight to the Master mixing board):

INSTRUMENT	SUB MIX	CHANNEL IN
Drums	Sub Mix 1
Kete	Sub Mix 1
Percussion FX	Sub Mix 1	Channel 1
Bass		Channel 2
Piano	Sub Mix 2
Organ	Sub Mix 2	Channel 3
Trumpet	Sub Mix 3
Saxophone	Sub Mix 3
Trombone	Sub Mix 3	Channel 4
Pucking Guitar	Sub Mix 4
Clavinet	Sub Mix 4	Channel 5

Now, why is there such a need to create these sub mixes? Is it not possible to adjust the right volumes and everything straight on the master mixing board? Doesn't this make things more complicated? The key word here is anticipation.

At the moment we will add the effects, at the moment we will actually be dubbing the music, we want to have an overview on just these things that are relevant. Take the horns. At the moment you're in your Dub mixing, you decide you want to draw in the horn section. You'll have to use three sliders or mute buttons. Better is to use one. On top of that, you will want to add some specific effects to specific section, like a phaser on the horns. Instead of taking an aux-out at the master mixing board, you can do this in the sub mix. Besides, when we're adding the final effects we're already doing a rather complicated thing.

In order to provide a little bit assistance, I've prepared a number of files basically containing everything we did thus far. It could help you out as we will turn this basic instrumental into a Dub.

For Reason 3.04 and up, I have a Zip file containing the original set up as displayed in this chapter (that's including the sub-mixes) in a RNS File, along with the Refills needed for the percussion. The RNS includes the wave samples used for the drum but just in case, they're provided as wave files as well in the pack. It's about 14 mb. CLICK FOR DOWNLOAD PAGE (IN NEW WINDOW)

For all other users, I have a zip file containing the raw multitracks in Wave format. The five channels (Drums and Percussion, Bass, Skanks, Horns and Guitar/Clavinet) come in five different wave files. When all inserted on a different audio channel in your audio sequencer at 140 BPM right at the start, they should play in sync. When you want loops, well, Control-C and Control-V in your favorite audio editor. Well over 90 Mb. CLICK FOR DOWNLOAD PAGE (IN NEW WINDOW)

There's also a MIDI FILE containing the raw musical data. RIGHT-CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

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This tutorial is in an unfinished stage, but it does contain the basics to get yourself equipped to use just about any DAW or even hardware studio in order to make DUB from Reggae Music in the authentic and original way. When you have a question or comment you'd like to see addressed, feel free to use the Dubroom Contact pages or post your words publicly on our Forum. Click here to read about the latest updates to this tutorial.

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