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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
Authorization 26
Registering and authorizing Reason 26
Running Reason with the Ignition Key hardware 29
Running Reason with Internet Verification 29
Running Reason in Demo Mode 30
Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac
OS X 31
Common Operations and
Concepts 33
About this chapter 34
Areas, windows and basic navigation 34
Song window overview 34
The Main Mixer 35
The Rack 36
The Sequencer 37
The Transport Panel 38
The ReGroove Mixer 38
Navigating between the areas 39
Showing/hiding the Navigators 39
Using several Reason Song windows 39
The Tool Window 40
The On-screen Piano Keys window 41
General window techniques 42
Resizing 42
Scrolling 43
Zooming in the Sequencer 44
Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 45
Editing parameters 46
Knobs 46
Faders and sliders 46
Buttons 47
Fold/Unfold buttons 47
Multi Mode selectors 48
Numerical controls 48
Alpha-numeric controls 49
Numerical segment displays 50
Tool Tips 51
Context menus 52
Parameter context menus 52
Device context menus 53
Main Mixer channel strip context menu 54
Rack “background” context menu 55
Main Mixer “background” context menu 55
Sequencer context menus 55
Undo and Redo 56
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
Audio settings 68
About audio levels 70
System signal paths 73
Audio Track signal paths 73
Instrument Track signal paths 74