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SOUNDS, PATCHES AND THE BROWSER
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Using Favorites - a practical example
Here follows a practical example of how you can use Favorites for patch files:
You are preparing for a live gig as a keyboard player. You know the songs, and you have chosen suitable patches (in
various device formats) for each song.
You want to use Reason, but you want to be able to switch to the correct patch for each song using your MIDI key-
board, and not have to worry about fiddling with the computer during your performance.
Here is how this can be done by using Favorites:
1. Create a new Reason song.
2. Create a device, for example a Combinator.
It doesn’t matter which instrument device you choose at this point.
3. Click the “Create New Favorites Lists” button.
A new folder appears in the list. Double-click it and type in an appropriate name (e.g. “The Band”).
4. Click the Reason Factory Sound Bank and then expand the “All Instrument Patches” folder in the Browser list.
Now you can start locating the instrument patches you need by navigating in the Browser.
5. When you have located a patch that you need for the gig, drag it from the Browser list into the Favorites List
folder.
If this was a patch in a different format than the instrument you created, a device of this type will replace the orig-
inal device (see “Cross-browsing patch files”).
6. Continue to add new instrument patches in the same way until you have all the patches you need.
7. When you’re done, select the (The Band) Favorites List folder.
All the patches you added are now listed in the Browser list.
8. Use drag and drop to order the patch files in the Browser list according to the set list.
9. Double click the first patch file in the (The Band) Favorites List.
The the patch is loaded in the appropriate device.
D If you have a MIDI keyboard or control surface with programmable buttons, you can assign a button to “Select
next patch” on the device.
Many MIDI keyboards and control surfaces have buttons assigned to patch selection - check the Control Surface
Details document for information about your controllers. Alternatively, you can manually assign buttons for select-
ing patches - see the “Remote - Playing and Controlling Devices” chapter.
10.Save the Song.
11.At the gig, open the song, and the first patch will be loaded.
12.When the first song is finished, use the “next patch” button on the device or on your MIDI keyboard and the
next patch in the (The Band) Favorites List will be loaded!