User Manual

SONG FILE HANDLING
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Closing Songs
Closing a Song
D To close a Song, hold down [Ctrl](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) and press [W], or select “Close” from the File menu. Al-
ternatively, click the close button in the upper corner of the Song document window.
If you have unsaved changes, you will be asked if you want to save the song before closing.
! Note that when you’re closing the last open Song document in the Windows version of Reason, the Reason ap-
plication will quit.
Creating Songs
Creating a new Song
D To create a new song, hold down [Ctrl](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) and press [N], or select “New” from the File menu.
A new Song document window appears. By default, the new Song contains the following:
• The Reason Hardware Interface.
• The Main Mixer Master Section with its Master Section device in the Rack.
The Master Section device’s Master Out L & R are connected to the Reason Hardware Interface Audio Out 1 & 2.
• The Transport Track at the top of the Sequencer.
q Instead of creating an empty song each time you select “New”, it’s possible to automatically load an existing
song to use as template for your new songs. For example, if you want to start with your own unique selection
of devices, you can create and save a song and then instruct Reason to use this song each time you create a
new song. See “Setting up a Default Song”.
q An alternative to creating a new song is to use the “Create New from Template” command to open one of the
factory made Template Songs. See “Creating a new Song from a template”.
Setting up a Default Song
It’s possible to specify a certain Song document which will automatically open as a “template” each time you select
“New” from the File menu. The Default Song could be any Song you have created earlier, or a factory made Template
Song. You can select this Default Song on the “General” tab in the “Preferences” dialog.
1. Select “Preferences” from the Edit menu (Win) or “Reason” menu (Mac) and then click the “General” tab.
2. Click the “Template” radio button in the “Default Song” section.
3. Click the folder icon to the right and select the Song you want to use as a template when creating new Songs.
Each time you create a new Song (by selecting “New” from the File menu), the selected Song will be loaded and
used as a template for your new Song. On Windows platforms, the Song document will be named “Document n”
where “n” is an incremental number. On Mac OS X platforms, the document will be named “untitled n” where “n” is
an incremental number. You can then save your Song with a new name.
! Make sure the “Load last song on start-up” checkbox is not ticked, otherwise the last song will be opened in-
stead of the Template song you selected.