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WORKING WITH THE RACK
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Creating devices
Devices can be created in a number of different ways. These first methods apply to any device types:
D Use drag and drop, or double-click a device in any of the device palettes in the Browser.
The devices are sorted in three different groups: Instruments, Effects and Utilities. The Utilities group contains de-
vice types such as mixers, modulation devices, etc. In each device type group the devices are listed in the following
sections: Reason Devices, and then by Rack Extension manufacturer in alphabetical order.
A device can be dropped in the rack or in the Track List in the Sequencer. As you drag a device to the rack or Se-
quencer Track List, a +-sign is shown together with an orange divider to indicate where the device will be placed:
Adding a PX7 FM Synthesizer device by dragging from the Instruments device palette and dropping in the rack.
D Use drag and drop from the Browser, Windows Explorer (Win), Finder (Mac), or double click a patch in the
Browser.
When you drop a patch in the rack or in the Track List in the Sequencer the corresponding device is automatically
created in the rack.
D Select desired device from the “Create” menu.
Any device type can be created. The “Create” menu is available both on the main menu and on the rack and device
context menus and is divided into the three groups Instruments, Effects and Utilities. At the top of each group (In-
struments/Effects/Utilities) are the devices you create most often. Below are all available devices, on submenus
per manufacturer.
• When you have created an Instrument or Effect device that can load patches, it automatically gets “browse fo-
cus” (orange indicators). This means that the Browser automatically displays patches for the device you just
created. See “Loading patches” for more information.
Automatic browse focus can be switched off if you like. This is done on the General tab in Preferences, see “New
devices get browse focus”.
• When you add a new device, Reason attempts to automatically route it in a logical way.
For more information about the auto-routing features, see “Automatic routing”.
Depending on what type of device you’ve created, and also the “Auto-Group Devices and Tracks” setting, the results
will differ:
• If “Auto-Group Devices and Tracks” on the Options menu is not selected, the new device is added directly be-
low the currently selected device in the rack.
If no device is selected, the new device is added at the bottom of the rack.
• If “Auto-Group Devices and Tracks” on the Options menu is selected, devices will not be created in the middle
of existing Device Groups (except if they are effect devices - see “Effect devices specifics”).
This means a device might not end up below the selected device in the rack, but below that device's Device Group.
! See below for information specific to certain device types.