User Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS
4
Introduction 25
Welcome! 26
About this chapter 26
About this manual 26
About the Reason operating system
versions 26
Conventions in the manual 26
The Authorization system 28
Registering Reason 28
Running Reason with Internet Verification 29
Authorizing your Computer/Ignition Key (for off-line use)
29
About deauthorizing the computer/Ignition Key 30
Running Reason on an authorized computer - or with an
authorized Ignition Key hardware 30
Running Reason in Demo Mode 31
Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac
OS X 32
About automatic program updates 33
Common Operations and
Concepts 35
About this chapter 36
Areas, windows and basic navigation 36
Song window overview 36
The Browser 37
The Main Mixer 38
The Rack 39
The Sequencer 40
The Transport Panel 40
The ReGroove Mixer 41
Navigating between the areas 41
Showing/hiding the Navigators 42
About different Themes 42
Using several Reason Song windows 43
The Tool Window 43
The On-screen Piano Keys window 44
General window techniques 45
Resizing 45
Scrolling 46
Zooming in the Sequencer 47
Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 48
Editing parameters 49
Knobs 49
Faders and sliders 50
Buttons 50
Fold/Unfold buttons 51
Multi Mode selectors 51
Numerical controls 52
Alpha-numeric controls 52
Numerical segment displays 53
Tool Tips 54
Context menus 55
Parameter context menus 55
Device context menus 56
Main Mixer channel strip context menu 57
Rack “background” context menu 58
Main Mixer “background” context menu 58
Sequencer context menus 58
Undo and Redo 59
On-screen Piano Keys 61
About this chapter 62
Using the On-screen Piano Keys 62
Opening the Piano Keys window 62
Mouse mode 63
Computer Keys mode 64
Audio Basics 67
About this chapter 68