User Manual

OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE
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Reason compensates for this by moving the recorded audio earlier by the sum of the input+output latencies. This
compensation is also done in "Manual Monitoring" mode, if Monitor was Off for the recorded track (when you started
recording).
If Monitor is On, there is no Recording Latency Compensation. This is because the monitored sound will also be de-
layed, and numerous tests have shown that the performer will actually play slightly ahead to compensate for this. In
other words, when monitoring through Reason, the performer is expected to do the Recording Latency Compensa-
tion himself/herself.
If you are monitoring via an external mixer, and have selected “External” in the Monitoring section on the Audio tab in
Preferences, there might be situations where you experience that the recorded audio is generally played back too
early - or too late - in the song. This could be because your audio card doesn’t actually have the latency values it re-
ported to Reason.
If you should experience that your audio recordings are played back too early or too late compared to the instrument
tracks in your song, you can adjust this by editing the Recording Latency Compensation parameter:
D Click the Recording Latency Compensation spin controls to compensate for early or late playback of audio
track recordings
If the audio appears too early during playback, adjust to a negative (-) value.
If the audio appears too late during playback, adjust to a positive value.
Optimizing your computer system
In this manual we do not have the possibility to give you detailed procedures for optimizing your computer for maxi-
mum power. This is a subject that we could write complete books on. However, there are a couple of very useful
things to check and adjust.
About Multi-core processors
When you’re using a multi-core processor, such as a dual-core or quad-core processor, Reason will take full advan-
tage of this in a very sophisticated way. Similarly, if your computer has several multi-core processors, Reason will use
the full capacity of these to enhance the performance.
If your computer has one or several multi-core processors, Reason automatically detects this and automatically en-
ables the “Use multi-core audio rendering” function on the General page in Preferences: