User Manual

REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING DEVICES
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About the various MIDI inputs
This chapter describes how you use Remote to set up your master keyboard and control surfaces, allowing you to
play Reason devices, adjust parameters and control various Reason functions. This is the main way of sending MIDI
to Reason, but there are also some additional methods:
D Using ReWire 2.
ReWire allows you to run Reason together with another application, such as a sequencer or another DAW. With
ReWire 2, you can send MIDI from the other application directly to devices in Reason. See “Routing MIDI via Re-
Wire 2”.
D Using the External Control Bus inputs.
The External Control Bus inputs (set up on the Preferences - Sync page and in the MIDI In device in the hardware
interface) let you send MIDI directly to the individual devices in the rack. This is mainly used if you control Reason
from an external sequencer, etc. See “About the External Control Bus inputs”.
D Sending MIDI Clock to Reason.
This allows you to synchronize Reason’s tempo to other devices. See “Synchronization to MIDI Clock”.
About Remote
MIDI from control surfaces (keyboards, remote control units etc.) is handled by a protocol called Remote. The Remote
protocol allows for seamless integration between Reason and control surface devices. It is basically a mapping sys-
tem that provides direct hands-on control of parameters for each Reason device - including transport and sequencer
track selection!
At the time of this writing, Reason supports a large number of control surfaces and keyboards - the knobs, faders and
buttons on the devices are automatically mapped to parameters on each Reason device.
Remote drivers for more control surfaces will be added continuously. Check the Propellerhead web page in case your
model isn’t listed on the Preferences - Control Surfaces page.
Remote controlling Reason devices couldn’t be made any simpler. Set up your control surface once and for all for use
with Reason - the program handles the rest!