Operation Manual

MENU AND DIALOG REFERENCE
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File menu
New
When you select this, a new song appears. The exact contents of this song is determined by your Preferences set-
tings (see “Default Song”).
Open...
To open a Song, proceed as follows:
1. Pull down the File menu and select Open.
The Reason song browser window appears.
2. Use the browser to navigate to the desired folder on disk or within a ReFill.
3. When you have located the song file, select it and click Open (or double click on the file).
The song appears in its own document window.
q You can have several songs open at the same time if you like. This allows you to copy and paste note and au-
tomation clips, tracks, devices and patches between songs. However, all open songs consume some memory
and performance, so you may want to close songs you don’t need.
See “Opening a Song” for more details.
Close
D Select “Close” to close the active window.
If the window is a song document window and has unsaved changes, you will be asked whether you want to save
those changes.
Closing the last open song document window will quit Reason (Windows only).
Save
This saves the active song document to disk.
• If the song document hasn’t yet been saved, the “Save As” dialog appears, requesting you to enter a file name
and specify a location for the file on disk (see “Save As...”).
• If the document has already been saved at least once, the document will simply be saved without any ques-
tions.
Save As...
This saves the active song document to disc. A standard Save As dialog appears requesting you to enter a file name
and specify a location for the file on disk.
q You can set things up so that any samples used in the song are included in the song file itself by specifying
self-contained settings (see “About Self-Contained Songs”).
Song Information...
This brings up a dialog that allows you to add contact information and comments etc. about your song.
See “Including Song Information” for information.