Getting Started Guide

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1 Table of Contents
5 Installation
6 Welcome!
6 About the manuals
7 What is in the Reason package?
7 Requirements
8 About the Audio Hardware
9 About MIDI Interfaces
10 Upgrading vs. New Installations
10 Installing the Software
13 Setting Up
14 About this Chapter
14 First run - Reason Setup Wizard
15 About the Preferences
16 Setting up the Audio Hardware
18 Setting up MIDI
22 Setting the default song
25 Guided Tour
26 About this Chapter
26 Guided Tour
41 Tutorial 1 - Playing a Song
42 About this tutorial
42 Playing a Song
45 Tutorial 2 - Playing devices and selecting sound
46 About this tutorial
46 Adding a mixer and an instrument device
49 Selecting a patch
50 Adding an effect
53 Tutorial 3 - Creating a drum pattern
54 Creating a drum pattern
57 Tutorial 4 - Recording a bass line
58 About this tutorial
58 Browsing for a bass sound
60 Recording notes in the sequencer