Operation Manual

REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING DEVICES
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About Standard vs Remote Override mapping
Reason parameters are “standard-mapped” to supported control surface devices. There is nothing the user needs to
set up to remote control any Reason device. You can, however, use Remote Override mapping to map a specific pa-
rameter to a specific control if you should want to.
D By using standard mapping, the remote mapping for each device will be the same for any new song created in
Reason, given you have the same set of control surfaces connected.
If you use Remote Override mapping (see “Remote Override”), the overrides will be saved with the current song,
but won’t be there if you create a new song.
D Which parameters and functions that are standard mapped for each Reason device depends on the control
surface(s).
The “Control Surface Details” document contains some information about the standard mappings of the different
control surface models. But you can also activate Remote Override Edit mode to see which parameters for each de-
vice are mapped to your control surface(s) - see “Remote Override”.
D Note that if you have several control surfaces connected, some parameters could be mapped to controls on
more than one control surface.
This is not a conflict of any kind, but simply a consequence that stems from the fact that all control surfaces by de-
fault follow Master Keyboard Input. By using Surface Locking (see below) or Remote Override (see “Remote Over-
ride”) you have full control over your control surfaces.
About mapping variations
Since there are often more parameters on a device than there are controls on the control surface, there are standard
mapping variations available for most devices. When selecting a standard mapping variation, a new set of parameters
will be mapped to the controls on your control surface for a selected Reason device.
For example, if you have a control surface with 8 rotary knobs routed to a Subtractor, the knobs may control filter pa-
rameters by default. Selecting variation 2 may make the knobs control the oscillator settings, variation 3 may control
LFOs and so on.
D For devices that support keyboard shortcuts, you switch between mapping variations by holding down [Ctrl]+
[Alt](Win) or [Cmd]+[Option](Mac) and press the numerical keys [1] to [10] (not the numerical keypad), where
[1] selects the default standard mapping.
How many mapping variations are available depends on the control surface and the Reason device selected. The
variation selected will stay active until you switch MIDI input to another device (or select another variation). If you
switch back to the same device it will have its default standard mapping (variation [1]).
D For control surfaces that have dedicated controls for selecting mapping variations these are used instead of
keyboard shortcuts.
D Locked devices (see “Locking a surface to a device”) can also be locked to a specific mapping variation.