11.3

USING REASON RACK PLUGIN AS AN INSTRUMENT50
Detailed control over MIDI note input
In Reason Rack Plugin, all instrument devices receive MIDI notes (as well as a few effect devices and utilities such as
the Combinator and RPG-8). However, sometimes you may not want all devices to receive MIDI notes, or you may
want to send MIDI notes to effect devices which normally don't receive them.
The solution is to select the devices and select "Combine" from the context menu. This puts the selected devices in-
side a Combinator. Devices inside a Combinator don't receive MIDI directly from the DAW host - instead, the Combi-
nator receives MIDI notes and distributes them to the devices within. You can use the "Receive Notes" setting in the
Combi Programmer section to control this for each device. This section also allows you to create keyboard and veloc-
ity splits. Read more about the Combinator in “The Combinator”!
The same is true for performance controls such as Mod Wheel, Pitch Bend, Aftertouch and Sustain Pedal. They are
normally only received by devices that receive notes, but there are separate settings in the Combi Programmer for
these controls as well.
q By creating a mixer device inside the Combinator and mixing instruments there, you create a self-contained
multi-instrument, which can be saved as a combi patch and opened in the standalone version of Reason.