User Manual

SOUNDS, PATCHES AND THE BROWSER
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Using Locations and Favorites
To help you to find your files quickly, you can add shortcuts to the folders where you store your samples and patch
files etc. By default, the Locations list contains eight fixed locations; the Reason 9 Sounds location, the Reason
Orkester Sounds location, the Reason Factory Sounds location, the Rack Extensions location, This PC folder, the
Desktop folder, the Song Samples location and the Recent Patches location. You can easily add your own locations
below this list if you like.
• Selecting a Location or Favorite List in the list opens it as the root folder in the Browser.
D To add a new Location, select a file, folder or ReFill in the main browser list and drag and drop it in the “Loca-
tions and Favorites” list.
Any new Locations will be added below the list of fixed locations. An insertion line is shown to indicate where in
the list the new location will placed. Manually added locations can later be reordered by dragging and dropping.
Adding a new Location.
! Even though it is possible to add individual ReFills as separate Locations, we strongly recommend that you
create a ReFill folder in which you put all your ReFills; then add the ReFill folder as a Location:
The reason for this is that some ReFills (such as the Reason Electric Bass) consist of several ReFill files: one
which contains patches and another that contains the samples. If you should add only the patch ReFill as a Loca-
tion and not the samples ReFill, Reason won’t find the samples that correspond to the patches.
q If you don’t want to put all your ReFills in one folder, you can create shortcuts (alias) to the ReFills and put all
the shortcuts in a single folder which you then add as a Location.
D To remove a Location (or Favorite List), select it in the “Locations and Favorites” list and press [Backspace] or
[Delete] - or click the “Remove Favorite” button.
Alternatively, select “Delete” from the context menu.
! The default locations cannot be removed.
• Manually added locations are stored in the Preferences file in the Reason application folder.
! If a stored location has been removed or is unavailable, a warning triangle with an exclamation mark is shown
before the location name in the “Locations and Favorites” list.
Favorites Lists
“Favorites Lists” provide a way to group and order files that may be physically located at different places on your local
drives. Any file that can be loaded in Reason (songs, patches, samples etc.) can be added to a “Favorites List”. Only
shortcuts to the files are added - the original files aren’t moved.