User Manual

WORKING WITH PLAYERS
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About this chapter
This chapter describes the procedures and techniques for working with the Players device type.
Overview
A Player is a special type of device that automatically processes, filters and generates MIDI Notes, based on input
MIDI Notes to an Instrument device in the rack. If you like you could view Players as “MIDI Insert effects”, that sit in
between your MIDI Control Keyboard (or the On-screen Piano Keys) and Instrument device.
The Player devices can be found in the Players palette below Utilities in the Reason Browser:
The Players palette in the Browser.
The basic idea behind Players is that you first create an Instrument device (or instrument track), then hook up one or
more Player devices to the Instrument device. If the Player device is a chord generator, for example, you can have it
generate chords in the desired key and scale by just playing single notes on your MIDI Control Keyboard. Absolutely
great for inspiration!
Player devices are a little narrower than regular devices, and are always created directly above their corresponding In-
strument device(s) - between the Instrument and the Mix Channel devices:
Two Player devices (in series) attached to an ID8 Instrument device in the rack.