Background
The sound files you use in a Reason Audio track can come from
anywhere. For this assignment, you must use a sound file I provide
for you, taken from a selection of poetry readings. As long as
you’ve made good use of that file, you may include additional
sound files.
You must use one or more of these files in Reason audio
tracks. As long as you’ve done that sufficiently, you may
also use them as source material in a Reason sampler.
Sound files have different formats. Always try to use uncompressed
formats, such as Wave (.wav) and AIFF (.aiff or
.aif). But Reason also will accept the compressed formats
MP3 (.mp3) and AAC (.m4a).
Sound files store data in digital form, using binary numbers to
represent the individual amplitude points of a waveform. For some
background on the process that turns a sound wave into a stream of
such numbers, see Digital Audio, Part
1.
Reason lets you perform non-destructive editing of audio.
This means that it will never alter (destroy) your original sound
file. You work with audio clips, which are
references to segments of the original sound file. You can
edit the edges of clips to reveal more or less of the sound
file’s contents, but you can retrieve the entire original
file later. Older sound file editors offered only
destructive editing of audio. Operations one performed in
such programs could alter the original sound file. Current waveform
editors, such as Audacity and Adobe Audition, include destructive
editing among their capabilities, but most Digital Audio
Workstation (DAW) software performs exclusively non-destructive
editing.