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REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING DEVICES592
If your control surface model isn’t listed
If you can’t find your control surface listed on the Manufacturer or Model pop-up menus when you try to add it, this
means that there’s no native support for that model. However, the program supports generic keyboards and control-
lers. These alternatives might be more useful than the Easy MIDI Input alternative described earlier - if you have a
control surface (or keyboard with knobs/buttons/sliders) that you want predefined parameter destinations for. Here’s
what to do:
D Select “Other” on the Manufacturer pop-up menu and then one of the three options on the Model pop-up
menu.
or, if the Manufacturer is listed but not your specific model:
D Select one of the three “Other” options on the Model pop-up menu:
In both cases, the options are:
• MIDI Control Keyboard
Select this is you have a MIDI keyboard with programmable knobs, buttons or faders. You need to set up your con-
trol keyboard so that the controls send the correct MIDI CC messages, depending on which Reason device you
want to control - check out the MIDI Implementation Chart. If your control keyboard has templates or presets for
Reason devices, these can be used if you run Reason.
• MIDI Control Surface
Select this if you have a MIDI controller with programmable knobs, buttons or faders (but without keyboard).
You need to set up your control surface so that the controllers send the correct MIDI CC messages, depending on
which Reason device you want to control - check out the MIDI Implementation Chart. If your control surface has
templates or presets for Reason devices, these can be used if you run Reason.
• MIDI Keyboard (No Controls)
Select this is you have a MIDI keyboard without programmable knobs, buttons or faders. This is used for playing
only (including performance controllers such as pitch bend, mod wheel, etc.) - you cannot adjust Reason device
parameters with this type of control surface.
• MIDI Multichannel Control Keyboard
Select this is you have a MIDI keyboard with programmable controls that use multiple MIDI channels (different
controls send the same MIDI CC but on different MIDI channels). With this model there is no automatic mapping
to device parameters - you need to use Remote Overrides to map each control to a parameter on a device.
• MIDI Multichannel Control Surface
Select this is you have a MIDI control surface with programmable controls that use multiple MIDI channels (differ-
ent controls send the same MIDI CC but on different MIDI channels). With this model there is no automatic map-
ping to device parameters - you need to use Remote Overrides to map each control to a parameter on a device.
After selecting a model, proceed with selecting MIDI input port as described above.
About the Master Keyboard
One of the control surfaces can be the Master Keyboard. This is like any other control surface, but it must have a key-
board and it cannot be locked to a specific Reason device (in other words, it always follows the MIDI input to the se-
quencer). This is the surface you use to play the instrument devices in Reason.
D The first surface with a keyboard that is added (manually or auto-detect) is automatically selected to be the
master keyboard.
This is shown in the “Remote keyboards and control surfaces” list on the Preferences page.
D If you want to use another surface as master keyboard, select it in the list and click the “Make Master Key-
board” button.
You can only have one surface as master keyboard at a time.
D If you don’t want to use any master keyboard at all, select the current master keyboard surface and click the
same button (which is now labeled “Use No Master Keyboard”).