User Manual

MENU AND DIALOG REFERENCE
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File menu
New
When you select this, a new song appears. The exact contents of this song is determined by your Preferences set-
tings (see “Default Song”).
New from Template
On the sub-menu you can create a new song based on the selected Template Song. The selected Template Song will
appear in a new document window.
• On Windows platforms, the document will be named “Document n” where “n” is an incremental number.
• On Mac OS X platforms, the document will be named “untitled n” where “n” is an incremental number.
You can then save your song with a new name. See “Creating a new Song from a template” for more details.
Last in the sub-menu you can choose to open and show the Template folder in Explorer (Win) or Finder (Mac). This
makes it easy to place other songs in the Template folder, if you like.
Open...
! The “Open...” item is only available if you run Reason in Authorized Mode (see “Registering Reason”).
To open a Song, proceed as follows:
1. Pull down the File menu and select Open.
The Reason Browser appears (if hidden).
2. Navigate to the desired folder on disk or within a ReFill.
3. When you have located the song file, select it and click Open in the Browser (or double click the file).
The song appears in its own document window.
q You can have several songs open at the same time if you like. This allows you to copy and paste audio, note
and automation clips, tracks, devices, mixer channels and patches between songs. However, all open songs
consume some memory and performance, so you may want to close songs you don’t need.
See “Opening a Reason or Record Song” for more details.
Open Demo Song
! The “Open Demo Song” item replaces the “Open...” item if you run Reason in Demo Mode (see “Running Rea-
son in Demo Mode”).
D Choose the Demo Song to open by selecting it from the sub-menu that appears.
The song appears in its own document window.
See “Opening a Reason Demo Song” for more information.
Close
D Select “Close” to close the active window.
If the window is a song document window and has unsaved changes, you will be asked whether you want to save
those changes.
Closing the last open song document window will quit Reason (Windows only).