Modulate anything and everything in a VST

VST support to Reason goes above and beyond what most DAWs can do, with the ability to modulate almost any parameter with CV in the rack As if last year’s shocking news that Reason would finally host VST plugins didn’t blow your mind, Propellerhead’s clever implementation actually goes above and beyond the call of duty. Similar in philosophy to Bitwig Studio and Tracktion’s Waveform, the idea makes use of the DAW being able to access plugin parameters for automation purposes – if the DAW can automate parameters, why can’t it modulate them using its own LFOs, envelopes and sequencers? While most popular DAWs have still not implemented anything like this, Reason now lets you hack using the rack, connecting its CV signals to almost any parameter you like. Below, we show you how to set it up…

Here’s Sylenth1 running in Reason – a sight that would have made any music producer circa 2008 vomit all over their keyboard in an excited climax. But it gets better. Load up a Pulsar Dual LFO device. This once paid-for rack extension now comes free...

Back at the front of Sylenth1, click CV 1’s LRN button, which opens the plugin’s main interface. Tweak a parameter in Sylenth, and witness the fitness: the Pulsar LFO should now be modulating that parameter! Set the depth for up to eight routings into...

Open the Sylenth device’s CV Programmer. There are eight modulation slots ready to fill. Flip the rack with Tab, and route one of Pulsar’s LFO CV Outs to the first Modulation CV In jack on the Sylenth1 Device.