User Manual

EXTERNAL MIDI INSTRUMENT
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4. Move a knob or slider on your controller.
Reason automatically detects which knob/slider you move and assigns this to the selected MIDI CC#:
Fader 3 on the control surface keyboard assigned to MIDI CC#7.
5. Click OK.
You have now mapped that knob or slider to the MIDI CC# you selected in step 2.
6. Repeat the procedure from Steps 2-5 to assign other MIDI CC# to other knobs/sliders of your keyboard con-
troller.
This way you can map all the controls on your keyboard or control surface to different MIDI CC# if you like.
When you're done mapping, you can record parameter automation by clicking Record in the sequencer and mov-
ing the assigned knobs and sliders on your MIDI keyboard/control surface.
Recording MIDI Controller automation from the controlled MIDI instrument
If your MIDI instrument has a panel with knobs/buttons/sliders etc. that can send MIDI Controller data, you might
want to record the MIDI CC# automation from that panel instead of from Reason or from your control surface. To be
able to do this, you have to add your MIDI instrument as a MIDI Control Keyboard in Reason. This can be done as fol-
lows:
1. If you haven’t already, connect a MIDI cable from your MIDI instrument’s MIDI Out to a MIDI In jack on your
computer’s MIDI interface.
2. Make sure you have set your MIDI instrument to “MIDI Local Off” as well as disabled any MIDI “soft thru” so
that you don’t get any MIDI feedback loop.
Refer to the documentation of your MIDI instrument on how to do this.
3. Open the Preferences dialog and click the Control Surfaces tab.
4. Click the Add button.