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REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING DEVICES594
Remote basics
Parameters and functions for each Reason device are mapped to controls on supported control surface devices. As
soon as you have added your control surface(s) in the Preferences, you can start tweaking parameters!
• By default, all connected control surfaces follow the sequencer’s current Master Keyboard Input.
This means that you set Master Keyboard Input to a track in the sequencer to route the control surface(s) to the
track’s device in the rack. You can bypass this functionality by locking a control surface to a specific device - see
“Locking a surface to a device”. Or you can simply use Remote Override mapping (see “Remote Override” for spe-
cific parameters - these will then be mapped to the selected controls regardless of Master Keyboard Input.
• The Reason device associated with the track with Master Keyboard Input will have its parameters standard
mapped to logical controls (faders, buttons etc.) on the control surface device.
E.g. if a Subtractor has Master Keyboard Input, your control surface will control the most important Subtractor pa-
rameters. If you set Master Keyboard Input to a track connected to an NN-XT, the control surface will now control
parameters on the NN-XT device, and so on for each device. There are standard mapping variations for most de-
vices as well - see “About mapping variations”.
• Supported control surfaces with dedicated transport controls will be standard mapped to the equivalent trans-
port controls in Reason.
If you do not have transport controls on your control surface you can still map transport controls to controllers us-
ing Remote Override mapping - see “Remote Override mapping”.
• Other important functions such as switching target track in the sequencer, selecting patches, Undo/Redo can
also be remote controlled.
See “Additional Remote Overrides...”.
About Standard vs Remote Override mapping
Reason parameters are “standard-mapped” to supported control surface devices. There is nothing the user needs to
set up to remote control any Reason device. You can, however, use Remote Override mapping to map a specific pa-
rameter to a specific control if you should want to.
D By using standard mapping, the remote mapping for each device will be the same for any new song created in
Reason, given you have the same set of control surfaces connected.
If you use Remote Override mapping (see “Remote Override”), the overrides will be saved with the current song,
but won’t be there if you create a new song.
D Which parameters and functions that are standard mapped for each Reason device depends on the control
surface(s).
The “Control Surface Details” document contains some information about the standard mappings of the different
control surface models. But you can also activate Remote Override Edit mode to see which parameters for each de-
vice are mapped to your control surface(s) - see “Remote Override”.
D Note that if you have several control surfaces connected, some parameters could be mapped to controls on
more than one control surface.
This is not a conflict of any kind, but simply a consequence that stems from the fact that all control surfaces by de-
fault follow Master Keyboard Input. By using Surface Locking (see below) or Remote Override (see “Remote Over-
ride”) you have full control over your control surfaces.
About mapping variations
Since there are often more parameters on a device than there are controls on the control surface, there are standard
mapping variations available for most devices. When selecting a standard mapping variation, a new set of parameters
will be mapped to the controls on your control surface for a selected Reason device.