User Manual

REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING DEVICES
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• MIDI Multichannel Control Keyboard
Select this is you have a MIDI keyboard with programmable controls that use multiple MIDI channels (different
controls send the same MIDI CC but on different MIDI channels). With this model there is no automatic mapping
to device parameters - you need to use Remote Overrides to map each control to a parameter on a device.
• MIDI Multichannel Control Surface
Select this is you have a MIDI control surface with programmable controls that use multiple MIDI channels (differ-
ent controls send the same MIDI CC but on different MIDI channels). With this model there is no automatic map-
ping to device parameters - you need to use Remote Overrides to map each control to a parameter on a device.
After selecting a model, proceed with selecting MIDI input port as described above.
About the Master Keyboard
One of the control surfaces can be the Master Keyboard. This is like any other control surface, but it must have a key-
board and it cannot be locked to a specific Reason device (in other words, it always follows the MIDI input to the se-
quencer). This is the surface you use to play the instrument devices in Reason.
D The first surface with a keyboard that is added (or found by auto-detect) is automatically selected to be the
master keyboard.
This is shown in the Attached Surfaces list on the Preferences page.
D If you want to use another surface as master keyboard, select it in the list and click the “Make Master Key-
board” button.
You can only have one surface as master keyboard at a time.
D If you don’t want to use any master keyboard at all, select the current master keyboard surface and click the
same button (which is now labeled “Use No Master Keyboard”).
Other functions
D To edit a surface, double click it in the list (or select it and click Edit).
This lets you change its name and MIDI port settings, if needed.
D To delete a surface, select it in the list and click Delete.
D You can turn off a surface by deactivating its “Use with Reason” checkbox.
This could be useful if the surface is connected to your system but you only want to use it with another program.
There is also the Sync tab in the Preferences. This is only used for External Control MIDI buses and for MIDI Clock
Sync input. All hands-on MIDI control is set up on the Control Surfaces tab.
Example Setups
There are several possible variables when it comes to what type of setup you are using. Please read on.
A single MIDI keyboard with controls
With this setup, the keyboard is your master keyboard, which means it is always routed via the sequencer (it controls
the device connected to the sequencer track with Master Keyboard Input). To control another device, you move the
Master Keyboard Input (the keyboard symbol in the In column in the track list) to another sequencer track.
You can, however, use Remote Override to control parameters on other Reason devices (or global Reason functions
such as transport).