Getting Started Guide

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The Devices
The following devices are available in Reason:
Reason Hardware Interface
This device handles Reason’s communication with your audio (and MIDI) hardware.
The Hardware Interface contains audio input and output indicators as well as sampling input indicators
with level meters. This is where you connect different devices to different outputs on your audio hardware.
This is also where you can route external input signals for real-time audio processing - or route external or
internal audio signals for sampling. Reason supports up to 64 separate audio inputs and 64 audio outputs.
However, if you are only using audio hardware with standard stereo outputs, the connections to the audio
hardware are automatically taken care of when you create a mixer device at the top of the rack.
The lower half of the hardware interface (opened by clicking the “Advanced MIDI” button) contains set-
tings for MIDI input, allowing you to select a separate MIDI channel for each device when controlling Rea-
son from an external multi-channel MIDI source. Normally you should not have to use this.
! For standard MIDI control of one device at a time in Reason, you don’t need to use the
hardware interface (since the MIDI signals are routed through the sequencer, as de-
scribed in the tutorials following this chapter).
! The Reason Hardware Interface is “riveted” into the rack, and cannot be removed.
Combinator
The Combinator allows you to create new “custom” devices by combining existing devices. Any combina-
tion of Reason devices can be added to the Combinator and then saved as a “Combi” patch. Example us-
age includes creating layered instruments, instrument/effect combinations and effect chains. Devices in a
Combi can be mapped to velocity/key zones and the Combinator also features virtual knobs and buttons
that can be assigned to any device parameter or function.