6.5

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Synchronization and
Advanced MIDI 485
About this chapter 486
Synchronization to MIDI Clock 486
ReWire users – read this! 486
What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 486
Slaving Reason to an external MIDI application or
instrument 486
Slaving Reason to another program on the same
computer 487
Synchronization considerations 487
Advanced MIDI - The External Control
Bus inputs 489
About the External Control Bus inputs 489
Routing MIDI to devices 490
Sending Controller data via MIDI 490
About recording Pattern Changes 490
Optimizing Performance 491
Introduction 492
Checking Processing Power 492
Optimization and latency reduction 492
About Latency Compensation 493
Optimizing your computer system 494
Optimizing Songs 496
RAM requirements 498
Hardware Interface 499
Introduction 500
About using ReWire 501
Sampling Input section 501
Advanced MIDI Device 502
More Audio 502
The Big Meter 503
The Combinator 505
Introduction 506
Creating Combinator devices 507
Combinator elements 508
About internal and external connections
509
About External Routing 509
Adding devices to a Combi 511
About the Insertion line 511
Creating new devices in a Combi 511
Adding devices using drag and drop 512
Adding devices using copy/paste 513
Adding a Combi to a Combi 513
Combining two Combis 513
Combining devices in a Combi with devices in the rack
513
Combi handling 513
Moving the entire Combi 513
Moving devices within a Combi 514
Moving devices out of a Combi 514
Deleting devices in a Combi 514
Uncombining devices 514
Sequencer tracks and playing Combis
514
The Controller panel 515
Select backdrop... 516
Using the Programmer 517
Key Mapping instrument devices 518
Setting Velocity Ranges for instrument devices 519
Using Modulation Routing 520
CV Connections 523