10.4

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The Master Section strip 448
Master Compressor section 449
FX Send section 450
Master Inserts section 451
FX Return section 452
Master Fader section 453
Master Section Header 454
Automating mixer parameters 454
Working with effects 454
Insert FX 454
Send FX 459
Output Busses 462
Creating an Output Bus 462
Deleting an Output Bus 464
Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 465
Parallel Channels 466
Creating Parallel Channels 466
Deleting Parallel Channels 469
Naming Parallel Channels 469
Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 470
Solo and Mute logic 470
Send FX level and mute logic 472
Remote controlling the Main Mixer 474
Remote controlling a single mixer channel 474
Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 474
Advanced routing tips and tricks 477
Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices
477
Using compression sidechaining 479
Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct
Outs 480
Creating an input channel for recording with effects 481
Delay Compensation 485
About this chapter 486
About Delay Compensation in Reason
486
Activating the Delay Compensation 486
Delay Compensation rules and limitations 487
How the Delay Compensation works 490
Delay Compensation in individual mixer channels 490
Delay Compensation with Busses and Parallel Channels
494
Delay Compensation to Send FX busses 495
About the Master Insert FX 495
Problematic configurations 496
About using the Direct Out connections of the mixer
channels 500
About the Metronome Click 500
Recording with Delay Compensation 500
Playing and monitoring with Delay Compensation 500
About bouncing mixer channels 500
Song File Handling 501
About this chapter 502
Opening Songs 502
Opening a Reason or Record Song 502
Opening a Reason Demo Song 503
Opening the last Song at program launch 503
Closing Songs 504
Closing a Song 504
Creating Songs 504
Creating a new Song 504
Setting up a Default Song 504
Creating a new Song from a template 505
Saving Songs 505
Saving a Song 505
Saving and optimizing a Song 506
Including Song Information 506
About Self-Contained Songs 507
Making a Song appear as a Template Song 508
A note about saving Songs as audio files 508
Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 509
About audio data in Song files 509
Changing Scratch Disk folder location 509
About “Orphan Audio Streams” 510