Getting Started Guide

SETTING UP
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About this Chapter
This chapter describes the settings you need to make before you can start using
Reason. These are necessary in order to get any sounds from the program and
to be able to play and control Reason via MIDI.
About the Preferences
The basic settings for audio and MIDI are done in the Preferences dialog. This is
opened from the Edit menu (or, if you are running Mac OS X, from the Reason
menu).
D If you are using Reason for Windows, the Preferences dialog will
automatically appear the very first time you launch the program.
The Preferences dialog.
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Described herein are only the most important settings in the Prefer-
ences. For information about other Preferences settings, see the
electronic documentation.
Setting up the Audio
Hardware
The first thing you need to do is to establish a connection between Reason and
the audio hardware. This is done by selecting a driver - a software component
that acts like a link between the program and the audio hardware. Proceed as
follows:
1. In the Preferences dialog, use the pop-up menu at the top to select
the Audio page.
2. Pull down the Audio Card Driver pop-up menu and select one of the
options.
Which option to select depends on the platform and the audio hardware. If
an option is not applicable to your setup it will be greyed out in the dialog.