User Manual

SONG FILE HANDLING
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• Song splash:
This allows you to add a picture to the song. The picture will be displayed when the song is opened.
D To add a splash picture, click the folder button at the upper right corner, locate and open the picture file in the
file dialog that appears.
! Splash pictures must be JPEG files (Windows extension “.jpg”) with a size of 256 x 256 pixels.
D To remove the splash picture from the song, click the “cross” button at the upper right corner.
D Tick the “Show splash on song open” check box to make the splash appear every time the song is opened.
• Author’s web page:
Here, you can type in your web site URL. When a user opens your song, he/she can go directly to your web site
by clicking the Browse button that appears in the splash (provided there’s an Internet connection available).
• Author’s e-mail address:
Here, you can specify your e-mail address if you want other Reason users to e-mail you their comments, etc.
About Self-Contained Songs
The Song is the main file format in Reason. A Song contains the device setup and all settings and connections in the
Rack, all Main Mixer Channel settings as well as everything you have recorded in the Sequencer. However, this is not
always sufficient. If you want to open your song on another computer, or send it to another Reason user, you will also
need to include all samples and REX files used by the Reason devices in the Song. To make this easier, Reason al-
lows you to create “self-contained” songs. A self-contained song contains not only the references to the used sam-
ples and REX files, but also the files themselves. You can choose exactly what files should be included in the self-
contained song.
q An alternative to self-containing samples and/or REX files could be to bounce Mixer Channels to Audio
Tracks. This way, you could “convert” ReFill samples to audio so that your song would always sound the same,
no matter on which computer you play it back. See “Bouncing Mixer Channels” for details.
To specify what files should be included in the self-contained song, proceed as follows:
1. Select “Song Self-Contain Settings...” from the File menu.
The “Song Self-Contain Settings” dialog appears, listing all samples and REX files used in the song: