User Manual

THE MAIN MIXER
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Output Busses
Output Busses allow you to create sub-mixers. Sub-mixers can be very useful for pre-mixing a multi-mic’ed drum kit,
or a horn section, for example. You can also use a sub-mixer configuration to route several external input signals
(from separate microphones, for example) for recording onto a single audio track (see “Recording a sub-mix onto an
audio track”). You can have as many mix busses as you like in a Reason song.
q For multiple levels of sub-mixing, it’s also possible to create an Output Bus that is fed by an existing Output
Bus.
Creating an Output Bus
The fastest and easiest way of creating an Output Bus for several mixer channels is this:
1. Select all mixer channel strips that you want to route to the same Output Bus.
2. Press [Ctrl]+[G](Win) or [Cmd]+[G](Mac) - or select “Route to > New Output Bus” from the Edit menu or con-
text menu of one of the selected channels.
A new Output Bus channel, named “Bus 1”, is created to the right and the selected channels are automatically
routed to it as indicated on the channels’ Output labels.
The step-by-step instructions below show how you can assign individual channels to an Output Bus - one channel at
a time. The picture shows a number of Audio Tracks in a song with individual recordings of the drums of a drum kit:
Audio Tracks with separate drum recordings routed to the Master Section.
Now, we want to create a sub-mixer which mixes only the individual drum channels. The advantage of doing this is
that we can then control the sound and volume of the entire drum kit using only one single Mix Channel:
1. Click the Output selector (the gray name tag) on the Kick channel and select “New Output Bus”.