7.1

WORKING WITH THE RACK
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• When you Paste devices or Device Groups, these are inserted into the rack below the currently selected device.
If no device is selected, the pasted devices/Device Groups will appear at the bottom of the rack column.
! As when creating devices, you cannot paste a Source device into an existing Device Group if “Auto-group De-
vices and Tracks” is on. It will be inserted below the Device Group.
• If you Copy and Paste several devices, any connections between these are preserved.
• If you hold down [Shift] when you Paste a device, Reason will attempt to automatically route it.
The rules are the same as when moving or duplicating devices by dragging and dropping. See “Routing Audio and
CV” for more information about automatic and manual routing.
Naming devices
Each device has a “tape strip” which shows the name of the device. When you create a new device it is automatically
named according to the device type, with an index number (so that the first Subtractor synthesizer you create is
called “Subtractor 1”, the next “Subtractor 2” and so on). If you like, you can rename a device by clicking on its tape
strip and typing a new name (up to 16 characters).
For instrument devices connected to Mix Channel devices, the device names are automatically copied to the tape
strips for the corresponding Mix Channel devices and their channel strips in the Main Mixer, as well as on their corre-
sponding sequencer tracks. Similarly, the names of the FX Returns in the Main Mixer show the names of the effect
devices connected to the corresponding FX Return inputs.
• When you create a device for which an associated sequencer track is created, the track in the sequencer will be
assigned the same name as the device. Renaming the device will also rename the corresponding sequencer
track, and vice versa.
• Note that the mixer channel tape strips always show the name of the source device connected to the Mix Chan-
nel device! This means that if you have an instrument device routed through one or several effect devices, the
Mix Channel tape strip will show the name of the instrument device (as this is the Source device).
• You can rename Mix Channels manually, for example, if you use multiple outputs from a sampler device going
to separate Mix Channels. If you later delete the custom name, the Mix Channel will default to showing the
Source device's name. For audio tracks, the Audio Track device is always the Source device and will never
change name unless you manually rename it.