Operation Manual

WORKING WITH THE RACK
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D To Cut, Copy and Paste a Device Group, make sure the “Auto-group Devices and Tracks” is selected on the Op-
tions menu. Then, select a device in the Device Group and proceed with the Cut/Copy and Paste procedure.
All devices in the Device Group will be cut/copied and pasted with preserved connections (in the same Song or in
another Song document).
• When you Paste devices or Device Groups, these are inserted into the rack below the currently selected device.
If no device is selected, the pasted devices/Device Groups will appear at the bottom of the rack column.
! As when creating devices, you cannot paste a Source device into an existing Device Group if “Auto-group De-
vices and Tracks” is on. It will be inserted below the Device Group.
• If you Copy and Paste several devices, any connections between these are preserved.
• If you hold down [Shift] when you Paste a device, Reason will attempt to automatically route it.
The rules are the same as when moving or duplicating devices by dragging and dropping. See “Routing Audio and
CV” for more information about automatic and manual routing.
Naming devices
Each device has a “tape strip” which shows the name of the device. When you create a new device it is automatically
named according to the device type, with an index number (so that the first Subtractor synthesizer you create is
called “Subtractor 1”, the next “Subtractor 2” and so on). If you like, you can rename a device by clicking on its tape
strip and typing a new name (up to 16 characters).
For instrument devices the device names are automatically copied to their corresponding sequencer tracks. Similarly,
the names of the FX Returns in the Mixer show the names of the effect devices connected to the corresponding FX
Return inputs.
• When you create a device for which an associated sequencer track is created, the track in the sequencer will be
assigned the same name as the device. Renaming the device will also rename the corresponding sequencer
track, and vice versa.