Operation Manual

SONG FILE HANDLING
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Publishing a Song
If you want to make your songs available to the public, e.g. for downloading on the Internet, there is a special file for-
mat for this. A Reason Published Song (Windows file extension “.rps”) is much like a self-contained song, but has the
following restrictions:
• The user cannot save any changes to the song.
• Copy, Cut and Paste is disabled.
• It is not possible to use the function Export Song/Loop as Audio File if the song has been changed in any way.
In a word, published songs are “locked”. They are meant for playback only - no elements can be added, removed or
extracted. Furthermore, a published song contains information about which ReFills are required (if any).
To create a published song, proceed as follows:
1. Select “Publish Song...” from the File menu.
2. Specify a name and location for the published song in the file dialog that appears, and click Save.
! Note that you don’t have to make any self-contained settings (see “About Self-Contained Songs”) - all files )
are automatically included.
About Self-Contained Songs
The Song is the main file format in Reason. A Song contains the device setup and all settings and connections in the
Rack as well as everything you have recorded in the Sequencer. However, this is not always sufficient. If you want to
open your song on another computer, or send it to another Reason user, you will also need to include all samples and
REX files used by the Reason devices in the Song. To make this easier, Reason allows you to create “self-contained”
songs. A self-contained song contains not only the references to the used samples and REX files, but also the files
themselves. You can choose exactly what files should be included in the self-contained song.
To specify what files should be included in the self-contained song, proceed as follows:
1. Select “Song Self-Contain Settings...” from the File menu.
The “Song Self-Contain Settings” dialog appears, listing all samples and REX files used in the song: