Getting Started Guide

INSTALLATION
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Welcome!
Thank you for purchasing Reason!
Version 4.0 is the fourth major Reason update, featuring new devices and a completely redesigned se-
quencer along with many other overall improvements.
A strong driving force for us at “PropellerHeadQuarters” is the communication with all the people around
the world that use our applications for expressing themselves. One meeting point for all of us is the song
archives and message boards on our web pages. This is a unique forum where professionals and begin-
ners meet on equal terms to exchange music and ideas. Even more importantly, it’s a forum open to you!
Share your experiences by communicating with us and others and by uploading your songs for others to
hear. We think you will appreciate the feedback from other Reason users all over the world, just as much
as we appreciate the feedback we get from you.
So, see you on the Propellerhead web!
Yours truly,
The Propellerhead Software Team
www.propellerheads.se
About the manuals
This is the Getting Started manual, a guided tour of the basic features and procedures in Reason. The
manual also includes six short tutorials to help you get going with the program.
Detailed features and operations in Reason are described in the Operation Manual, a file in Adobe Acro-
bat (".pdf") format. This and other pdf documents are installed with the program - you find them in the
Documentation folder inside your Reason application folder. The Operation Manual also contains refer-
ence descriptions of all Reason devices and commands.
! To read the Operation Manual you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader application. Since
this has become something of a household utility application, chances are you already
have it installed on your computer. If not, run the Acrobat Reader installer included on
the Reason program disc.
About Mac and Windows
Reason runs under Mac OS X and Windows (for operating system details, see below). All Reason pack-
ages contain program versions for both platforms. Everything said in the manuals applies to both plat-
forms, unless explicitly stated.
If you are running Mac OS X, please note that there’s an additional menu called the Reason menu, which
is not present under Windows. This contains the Preferences menu item (otherwise found on the Edit
menu).