Getting Started Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Installation
- Setting Up
- Guided Tour
- About this Chapter
- Guided Tour
- The Rack
- The Back
- The Transport Panel
- The Sequencer
- The Tool window
- The Devices
- Reason Hardware Interface
- Combinator
- Mixer 14:2
- Line Mixer 6:2
- Subtractor Analog Synthesizer
- Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
- Malström Synthesizer
- NN-19 Digital Sampler
- NN-XT Digital Sampler
- Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
- Redrum Drum Computer
- Kong Drum Designer
- MClass Mastering effects
- BV512 Vocoder
- Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
- RV7000 Advanced Reverb
- RV-7 Digital Reverb
- DDL Digital Delay Line
- D-11 Foldback Distortion
- ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter
- CF-101 Chorus/Flanger
- PH-90 Phaser
- UN-16 Unison
- COMP-01 Compressor
- PEQ2 Two Band Parametric EQ
- Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
- Spider CV Merger & Splitter
- The Matrix Pattern Sequencer
- RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
- ReBirth Input Machine
- Tutorial 1 - Playing a Song
- Tutorial 2 - Playing devices and selecting sounds
- Tutorial 3 - Creating a drum pattern
- Tutorial 4 - Recording a bass line
- Tutorial 5 - Adding a REX loop
- Tutorial 6 - Adding an arpeggio
- Index
TUTORIAL 2 - PLAYING DEVICES
AND SELECTING SOUNDS
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D In the sequencer, the synthesizer track is automatically selected (as you just created the
device), and Master Keyboard Input will be routed to this device.
When a device icon to the left in the track list is surrounded by a red border and has a keyboard symbol
this indicates that the track has master keyboard input. This means that notes you play on your master
keyboard will be sent to that sequencer track and to its device in the rack. By default, master keyboard
input always follows the selected track.
The Subtractor track is selected and has master keyboard input.
8. Press the [Tab] key, to show the back of the rack.
As you can see, the output from the Subtractor has a cable connected to the first channel of the mixer,
and the mixer output has cables connected to the Hardware Device where audio signals from Reason
are sent to your audio interface. These connections were made automatically when you created the
devices.
9. Press the [Tab] key again to flip the rack back to show the front panel.
10. Try playing your MIDI keyboard.
What you will hear is the default patch of the Subtractor, which may not be what you want. All new in-
strument devices will open with a default patch loaded. (This behavior is however a user selectable
preference - see below.)
q If you don’t have a MIDI keyboard at hand, you can press [F4] to bring up the On-screen
Piano Keys window. From this window you can play the devices either by clicking on the
on-screen keyboard on the Mouse tab, or by using the computer keyboard on the Com-
puter Keyboard tab. Refer to the Operation Manual for more details about the On-screen
Piano Keys window.
11. To browse for a suitable patch see “Selecting a patch” below.
About the “Load Default Sound for New Devices” Preference
On the Preferences - General page you have the option of selecting whether new devices should open
with a default patch or not. In this manual we assume the option “Load Default Sound for New De-
vices” is activated. This is also the default mode.