User Manual

SOUNDS, PATCHES AND THE BROWSER
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Cross-browsing patch files
Cross-browsing patches is a powerful feature of the Browser. It allows you to browse for any type of instrument
patches or effect patches, regardless of which instrument or effect device you opened the Browser from.
About instrument and effect patches
Patches are internally divided into two patch categories in the Browser; instrument patches and effect patches (the
Browser “knows” what type of patch it is). This is because instrument patches and effect patches are fundamentally
different - instruments are played, and effects are used to process sound - and you would logically browse for one or
the other, but not both.
• When browsing patches from an existing instrument device, including instrument Combinators, no effects
patches are shown in the Browser list.
• When browsing patches from an existing effect device, including effect Combinators, no instrument patches
are shown in the Browser list.
! When browsing Insert FX patches for an audio track, Mix Channel or the Master Section, cross-browsing is not
possible (you can only load effect Combinator patches).
Cross-browsing - an example:
1. You are playing a Subtractor device but feel that the sound isn’t quite what you had in mind, so you click the
Browse Patch button on the Subtractor to set Browse focus and check out some other patches.
2. After browsing Subtractor patches for a while, you still haven’t found the type of sound you wanted, so you
click the Root Folder drop-down list and select “Reason Factory Sound Bank” from the list:
From here you can select instrument patches for any device. You decide to browse a folder containing Malström
patches.
3. As soon as you load a Malström patch from the Browser, a Malström device replaces the Subtractor device in
the rack.
The sequencer track which was previously assigned to the Subtractor is now assigned to a Malström with the se-
lected patch loaded.
• The name of the sequencer track and the Mix Channel device (and channel strip in the main mixer) are auto-
matically changed to the Malström patch name.
! Note that is only true if you haven’t manually renamed the sequencer track earlier. If you renamed the se-
quencer track earlier, it will keep this name regardless of what device or patch you load. However, if you delete
the custom name, the sequencer track and Mix Channel device will show the patch name again.