8.3

TABLE OF CONTENTS
4
Introduction 23
Welcome! 24
About this chapter 24
About this manual 24
About the Reason operating system
versions 24
Conventions in the manual 24
The Authorization system 26
Registering Reason 26
Running Reason with Internet Verification 27
Authorizing your Computer/Ignition Key (for off-line use)
27
About deauthorizing the computer/Ignition Key 28
Running Reason on an authorized computer - or with an
authorized Ignition Key hardware 28
Running Reason in Demo Mode 29
Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac
OS X 30
About automatic program updates 31
Common Operations and
Concepts 33
About this chapter 34
Areas, windows and basic navigation 34
Song window overview 34
The Browser 35
The Main Mixer 36
The Rack 37
The Sequencer 38
The Transport Panel 39
The ReGroove Mixer 39
Navigating between the areas 40
Showing/hiding the Navigators 40
Using several Reason Song windows 40
The Tool Window 41
The On-screen Piano Keys window 42
General window techniques 43
Resizing 43
Scrolling 44
Zooming in the Sequencer 45
Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 46
Editing parameters 47
Knobs 47
Faders and sliders 48
Buttons 48
Fold/Unfold buttons 49
Multi Mode selectors 49
Numerical controls 50
Alpha-numeric controls 50
Numerical segment displays 51
Tool Tips 52
Context menus 53
Parameter context menus 53
Device context menus 54
Main Mixer channel strip context menu 55
Rack “background” context menu 56
Main Mixer “background” context menu 56
Sequencer context menus 56
Undo and Redo 57
On-screen Piano Keys 59
About this chapter 60
Using the On-screen Piano Keys 60
Opening the Piano Keys window 60
Mouse mode 61
Computer Keys mode 62
Audio Basics 65
About this chapter 66
How Reason communicates with your
audio hardware 66
Manual audio routing 67
Audio quality 67