User Manual

WORKING WITH THE RACK
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• If a Mixer 14:2 or Line Mixer 6:2 was selected in the rack when you created an effect, the effect device will be
added and connected as a Send Effect, on the first available Send FX connectors of the mixer device.
• If you hold down [Alt](Win) or [Option](Mac) when you create an effect device, a sequencer track will be cre-
ated for the device.
• If you hold down [Shift] when you create an effect device, the effect device will not be connected.
Mixer device specifics
• If you hold down [Alt](Win) or [Option](Mac) when you create a mixer device, a sequencer track will be created
for the mixer device.
• If you hold down [Shift] when you create a mixer device, it will not be connected to a Mix Channel device.
Selecting devices
Some operations, e.g. cutting, copying, moving and deleting devices (see “Cut, Copy and Paste devices” and “Deleting
devices”), require that you select one or several devices in the rack. This is done according to the following:
D To select a single device, click on it in the rack.
The selected device is displayed with a colored border (based on the color scheme selected for your operating
system).
D To select several devices, hold down [Shift] and click on the desired devices.
In other words, [Shift]-clicking a device selects it without de-selecting any other selected devices.
D To de-select all devices, click in the empty area at the bottom of, or next to, the rack.
D To de-select a device in a multiple selection, hold down [Shift] and click on it.
All other selected devices remain selected.
D You can also use the arrow keys on the computer keyboard to select the device directly above, below or next
to the currently selected one.
When you use this method, Reason will automatically scroll the rack so that the selected device is fully visible. This
is a quick way of “stepping through” the rack. Narrow devices (e.g. half-width devices such as some effects) are or-
dered left-to-right, i.e. pressing the down arrow key will step through the devices from left to right before moving
on the next device row.
D If you hold down [Shift] when using the up or down arrow keys, the currently selected device will remain se-
lected.
This allows you to select a range of devices.
D Adjusting a parameter in a device will automatically select the device.
In other words, you don’t have to select a device as a separate operation before editing its parameters.
Playing devices from the rack
When you create an instrument device it automatically gets a corresponding sequencer track, and Master Keyboard
Input is set to that track so you can play the instrument device from your MIDI keyboard. You can change Master
Keyboard Input by selecting another sequencer track, but you can also change Master Keyboard Input from the rack.
This is useful if you, for example, have the rack detached and maximized, so you can’t see the sequencer area.