User Manual

SYNCHRONIZATION AND ADVANCED MIDI
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Slaving Reason to an external MIDI application or instrument
This example assumes that you have an external device, such as a drum machine, hardware sequencer, another com-
puter, tape recorder etc., that transmits MIDI Clock signals to which you want to synchronize Reason.
1. Connect the device via USB/MIDI to the computer running Reason.
2. Set up the other device so that it transmits MIDI Clock signals to the MIDI Out you just connected to the com-
puter running Reason.
3. In Reason, pull down the Edit menu (under Mac OS X, the Reason menu) and open the Preferences dialog.
Click the Sync tab.
4. Pull down the MIDI Clock Input pop-up and select the MIDI Input to which you connected the other device.
5. Close the dialog.
6. Activate MIDI Clock Sync from the Options menu - “Sync” submenu in Reason.
7. Activate playback on the other device.
Reason will start playing in sync with it.
D If the Reason sequencer lags or plays ahead of the master device, adjust the Input Offset on the Sync page in
Preferences, see “Adjusting for Latency”.
Slaving Reason to another program on the same computer
! The preferred method for synchronizing two applications is by using ReWire, see “ReWire”. However, if the ap-
plication you need to sync Reason with doesn’t support ReWire, you can try the procedures described below.
This section describes how to use MIDI Clock to synchronize Reason to another application running on the same
computer.
! Note that synchronization via MIDI Clock makes the two programs play at the same time, that is, they both
“run” when you “hit play”. It does not mean they can both play audio at the same time.
Proceed as follows:
1. Set up the other program, so that it transmits MIDI Clock to Reason:
Under Windows this is done by selecting one of the MIDI routing utility ports.
2. In Reason, open the Preferences - Sync page.
3. Pull down the MIDI Clock Input pop-up and select the corresponding MIDI port.
4. Close the dialog.
5. Activate MIDI Clock Sync from the Options menu - “Sync” submenu in Reason.
6. Activate playback on the other device.
Reason will start playing in sync with it.
D If the Reason sequencer lags or plays ahead of the master device, adjust the Input Offset on the Sync page in
Preferences, see “Adjusting for Latency”.