Operation Manual

REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING REASON DEVICES
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The “Control Surface Details” document contains some information about the stan-
dard mappings of the different control surface models. But you can also activate Re-
mote Override Edit mode to see which parameters for each device are mapped to
your control surface(s) - see page 45.
D Note that if you have several control surfaces connected, some parame-
ters could be mapped to controls on more than one control surface.
This is not a conflict of any kind, but simply a consequence that stems from the
fact that all control surfaces by default follow Master Keyboard (sequencer) MIDI
input. By using Surface Locking (see below) or Remote Override (see page 45)
you have full control over your control surfaces.
About mapping variations
Since there are often more parameters on a device than there are controls on the con-
trol surface, there are standard mapping variations available for most devices. When
selecting a standard mapping variation, a new set of parameters will be mapped to
the controls on your control surface for a selected Reason device.
For example, if you have a control surface with 8 rotary knobs routed to a Subtractor,
the knobs may control filter parameters by default. Selecting variation 2 may make the
knobs control the oscillator settings, variation 3 may control LFOs and so on.
D For devices that support keyboard shortcuts, you switch between map-
ping variations using [Command] + [Option] (Mac) / [Ctrl] + [Alt] (Win-
dows) and the numerical keys [1] to [10] (not the numerical keypad),
where [1] selects the default standard mapping.
How many mapping variations are available depends on the control surface and
the Reason device selected. The variation selected will stay active until you switch
MIDI input to another device (or select another variation). If you switch back to the
same device it will have its default standard mapping (variation [1]).
D For control surfaces that have dedicated controls for selecting mapping
variations these are used instead of keyboard shortcuts.
D Locked devices (see below) can also be locked to a specific mapping
variation.
Locking a surface to a device
You can lock a control surface to a specific device so that it is always “tweakable”, re-
gardless of which track has MIDI input in the sequencer. This enables you to play and
record notes for one device and at the same time control parameters for another de-
vice from a control surface.
For example, you could lock a control surface to control the main mixer, so you can al-
ways control overall levels while playing/tweaking other devices.
D The master keyboard device cannot be locked!
If you select the master keyboard in the Preferences, you can click the “Use No
Master Keyboard” button. You can then lock this control surface to a device and
use its controllers to tweak parameters, but you will not be able to play the device.
D You can lock several control surfaces to the same device.
However, each control surface can only be locked to one device at a time.
D Info about which devices are locked (and to which control surfaces) is
saved with the song.
Locking a device
There are basically two methods you can use to lock a device:
Using the Surface Locking dialog
1. Select “Surface Locking...” from the Options menu.
The Surface Locking dialog opens.
In this picture, the dialog has the master keyboard as the selected control surface - this cannot be
locked.