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I need to be able to re-create the "Flashlight" patch that is found on the Korg MS2000 as a Reason sound. Can anybody here help me out with that?? I have no idea where to begin.

Thanks!

Og

I have no idea where to begin either. You don't give an mp3 demo of sorts, and you don't tell us which version of Reason you have. Please, for your own sake - next time you or anyone else who starts a topic like this: provide a short mp3 demo of the actual sound - don't let other people do the work of searching for you.

Right now you're restricting your audience to the set of people who 1) still have their factory patches intact, 2) have Reason, 3) have an MS2000 too and 4) time to spare to figure it out for you, which means you will not be likely to get any replies. See?

However, it turns out that Synthmania has a patch here: http://www.synthmania.com/ms2000.htm and that I have both time to spare and a trial version of Reason 4 so I'll be nice and try to help you out.

If I listen to the demo, I hear 2 obvious things:

- a bandpass filter is being used with resonance
- an LFO is routed to the amplifier is being used with a waveform that's most likely a sine or softened square.

Since you didn't tell us if you have Reason 3 or 4, here's the sound using Subtractor:



I can't tell you what it sounds like or give you the preset, because the demo version restricts exactly those two things. Just copy the settings - it's good to learn how the synth works anyway, and you should have something that gets close to it. Not exactly of course, because the MS2000's filter isn't the same as the one in Subtractor. Since Subtractor is mono and the MS2000 patch has a stereo feel going on, I put a chorus behind it, which is probably good enough.

Yoozer wrote:I have no idea where to begin either. You don't give an mp3 demo of sorts, and you don't tell us which version of Reason you have. Please, for your own sake - next time you or anyone else who starts a topic like this: provide a short mp3 demo of the actual sound - don't let other people do the work of searching for you.

I don't have an MS2000 anymore, I just vaguely recall the patch. Therefore, I was unable to provide a sample. I was hoping someone here had one and could give some basic idea of what it uses and I could tweak from there. I am using Reason 4.

Yoozer wrote:Right now you're restricting your audience to the set of people who 1) still have their factory patches intact, 2) have Reason, 3) have an MS2000 too and 4) time to spare to figure it out for you, which means you will not be likely to get any replies. See?

Yeah, but I knew that when I posted. I didn't actually expect anyone to figure it out for me though, just looking for a start.

Yoozer wrote: I can't tell you what it sounds like or give you the preset, because the demo version restricts exactly those two things. Just copy the settings - it's good to learn how the synth works anyway, and you should have something that gets close to it. Not exactly of course, because the MS2000's filter isn't the same as the one in Subtractor. Since Subtractor is mono and the MS2000 patch has a stereo feel going on, I put a chorus behind it, which is probably good enough.

Good deal, I'll check it out and see what happens. Thanks!!

-og

Ok, that patch sounds pretty close to the original Flashlight. I also have Komplete Synths, so I thought I'd try to re-create it in one of those... Except, I think I've found the best solution. My keyboard player in my band has a Korg X50 and it supposedly has the flashlight patch in it also... I'm gonna check it out.

Thanks for the tutorial!