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Instrument, pads select Kong’s individual drum sounds. The drum’s main parameters then appear on the
screens, and the rotary knobs can adjust those parameter values.
• Soft Buttons 1-24 - You can use these buttons to navigate inside Reason’s devices. For Redrum, the eight
soft buttons under the screens select channels 1 through 8; after you choose a Redrum channel, you can
adjust its parameters (pitch, pan, sends etc) with the knobs above the screens. With Mixer 14:2, however, the
soft but tons above the SL MkIII’s faders select mixer channels, at which point you can turn knobs above the
screens to adjust parameters like volume, bass, treble, and so on.
• Faders - These control device parameters. When a fader is used to change a parameter value, a notication
on the fth screen (from the left) will display the parameter name and value. For example, if you have selected
the Europa Synthesizer the rst fader (from the left) will raise and lower the volume of Oscillator 1.
‘Osc1 Level’ will appear on the fth screen, along with a decibel value.
• Transport buttons - These buttons on the far-right of the SL MkIII control Reason’s transport, including
Rewind, Fast Forward, Stop, Play and Record. You can also use the SL MkIII’s Loop button to turn Reason’s
Sequencer Loop On/Off.
• Option button - This toggle’s Reason’s metronome On/Off. It will light white when active, and orange when off.
• Up/Down buttons - The up/down buttons directly left of the pads change presets when an Instruments, Effects,
or Utilities are selected.
• Pitch Wheel - The SL MkIII’s Pitch Wheel can be used to modify the pitch of Reason’s Instruments.
• Mod Wheel - The SL MkIII’s Modulation Wheel can be used to affect various parameters of selected Reason
devices. A common destination for the Mod Wheel is an Instrument’s lter frequency.
• Sustain Pedal - After plugging a sustain pedal into the SL MkIII’s ‘Sustain’ port it can be used to affect
Reason parameters.
• Keyboard - The SL MkIII’s keyboard allows you to play Reason’s various Instruments.
v. Effects and Utilities
To control Effects and Utilities from the SL MkIII, you need to create an audio track for it. To do so, nd the Effect or
Utility in the Rack section, right + click (PC) or Ctrl + click (Mac) on the device (e.g. Warm Echo) and select ‘Create
Track for device name’. At this point a new track will appear in Reason’s Se-quencer; you can now select this new
track using the Track buttons on the SL MkIII. When you select an Effect or Utility its controls will appear in the SL
MkIII’s screens, which you can then modify with the above knobs.