User Manual

MENU AND DIALOG REFERENCE
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Surface Locking...
This opens a dialog where you can lock a control surface to a specific device.
This means that the locked device is always “tweakable”, regardless of which track has MIDI input in the sequencer.
This enables you to play and record notes for one device and at the same time control parameters for another device
from a control surface.
For example, you could lock a control surface to control the main mixer, so you can always control overall levels while
playing/tweaking other devices.
D The Master Keyboard device cannot be locked!
If you select the Master Keyboard in the Preferences, you can click the “Use No Master Keyboard” button. You can
then lock this control surface to a device and use its controllers to tweak parameters, but you will not be able to
play the device.
D Each control surface can be locked to one device at a time (but you can lock several control surfaces to the
same device).
This locked device will always be controlled by the selected control surface, until you unlock the device or lock the
surface to another device. You can lock as many devices you wish, as long as you have enough control surfaces.
D Locked devices can use remote overrides, just like unlocked devices.
In other words, even if a device is locked to a control surface, some parameters could be overridden so they are
controlled by another control surface, or some controls on the locked surface could be override-mapped to an-
other device.
See the “Locking a surface” for more details.
Toggle Rack Front/Rear
This switches the rack view between the front and rear panels. A quicker way to do this is to press [Tab].
Reduce Cable Clutter
If there are many connections in Reason, the cables can sometimes obscure the view, making it difficult to read the
text printed on the back panels of the devices. Cables can be displayed in “normal” mode and in “Reduced Cable
Clutter” mode.
D Select “Reduce Cable Clutter” on the Options menu to “hide” the cables according to the setting you have
made in the “Appearance” section on the “General” page in Preferences.
See “Cable appearance” for information on how to use this function.
Auto-group Devices and Tracks
A Device Group is a series of interconnected devices that “belong together”. A Device Group could, for example, be
an instrument device connected via an effect device to a Mix Channel device. With the “Auto-group Devices and
Tracks” option selected, moving/cutting/copying/duplicating and pasting a device in a device group will perform the
operation on all devices in the device group.
See “About Device Groups” for more details.
Show Navigators
Selecting “Show Navigators” will show the Channel Strip Navigator in the Main Mixer and the Rack Navigator in the
rack.
Deselecting the “Show Navigators” option will hide the Channel Strip Navigator in the Main Mixer and the Rack Nav-
igator in the rack.