Operation Manual

THE SEQUENCER
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About the Transport
You’ll notice that when detaching the sequencer from the rack, there will be two in-
stances of the transport on the screen - one in the rack and one in the sequencer win-
dow. This is for convenience since it allows you to control playback and recording
regardless of which window is the active one.
Should you wish however, you can fold one of the transports in the same manner as
with any other device in Reason.
✪ To make the rack or the sequencer the active window when they are sep-
arated, you can use the key commands [Command]-[1] (Mac)/[Ctrl]-[1]
(Windows) and [Command]-[2] (Mac)/[Ctrl]-[2] (Windows) respectively.
A note about using Reason with two monitors
If you have a computer system with two monitors, you can do the following:
D Use one monitor for viewing and managing the rack only.
D Detach the sequencer as described above, and dedicate one of your
monitors to the sequencer only.
To be able to use two monitors, you must have an operating system and a graphics
card that supports it.
Please refer to the documentation for your operating system and possibly the graph-
ics card for instructions on how to set up your system for using two monitors.
About the ruler, song position and locators
Regardless of which view mode is selected, you will find a horizontal ruler at the top of
the sequencer display. This indicates the meter positions, that is, the positions in bars
and beats.
D The numbering and detail of the ruler depends on the horizontal magni-
fication.
At a medium zoom setting, odd bars will be shown with a bar number and even bars will be
indicated by a mark.
If you have zoomed in fully, each bar will be numbered, and every 1/32 note position will be
indicated by a mark.
In the ruler, you will also find four different position markers, each with a separate
“flag”:
✪ The End (E) marker indicates the end of the song. The program uses this
information when exporting the song as an audio file and when you
scroll horizontally in the sequencer area.
Playback or recording will not stop at the End marker.
This is the song position, indicating at
which position playback happens.
This is the End marker. This informs Reason about
where your song ends (see the note below).
This is the left locator. When using the
Loop mode (see page 60), the left locator
governs the start position of the loop.
This is the right locator. When using the Loop
mode, this governs the end position of the loop.