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SONG FILE HANDLING
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“Un-self-containing” a Song
If you have a self-contained song which contains one or several sounds embedded in the song file, you may want to
extract these sounds and make the song refer to them on disk as usual. This is done in the following way:
1. Select “Song Self-Contain Settings...” from the File menu.
The “Song Self-Contain Settings” dialog appears.
2. Locate the sounds you want to extract from the song file, and deactivate their checkboxes (or click the “Un-
check All” button).
3. Click “OK” to close the dialog.
Now, Reason will check for each “extracted” sound file whether it is available (at its original, stored location) or not.
• If the program finds the sound file at the location stored in the song, it is simply removed from the song file,
and the original file reference path is used.
This would be the case if you made the song self-contained yourself, and un-self-contain it on your own computer
(provided that you haven’t removed the original sound files from disk since you made the song self-contained).
• If the program doesn’t find the sound file, a file dialog appears, allowing you to select a folder and name for
the sound file.
The extracted file will be saved in the specified folder, and the path in the song will be adjusted. This would be the
case if you were given the self-contained song by another user, for example.
! Note that it is not possible to un-self-contain samples that originate from ReFills!
! If you un-self-contain samples that were modified in the Edit Sample Window and feature Start and End Mark-
ers and/or loop crossfades, the Lossy Sample Export dialog appears. The available options are described fur-
ther down in the “Exporting samples” section in the Sampling chapter. Note that the option you select in the
Lossy Sample Export applies to all samples you have deselected in the Song Self-contain Settings dialog!
Making a Song appear as a Template Song
If you want Songs you have created to appear on the “New Song from Template” sub-menu, and be available for se-
lection when you use the “New Song from Template” command (see “Creating a new Song from a template”), you
need only move or copy the Song(s) to the Template Songs folder in the application folder on your hard drive. The
Template Songs folder is located a little differently depending on computer platform and OS:
! Under Windows, the Application Data folder might be hidden. If this is the case, you’ll have to change the prop-
erties so that you can view hidden files and folders.
• Under Windows 7 and Windows 8, the Template Songs folder can be found in:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Propellerhead Software\Reason\Template Songs
• Under Mac OS X 10.7, the Template Songs folder can be found in:
~/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Reason/Template Songs
A note about saving Songs as audio files
It’s also possible to export your Songs as audio files in WAV or AIFF format. Refer to “Exporting Songs or parts of
Songs” for more information.