Specifications

TRANSPORT PANEL
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Additional Transport Panel Items
Click
When this is activated, you will hear a click on each beat, with an accent on the
downbeat of each bar. The click is played back during recording and playback.
You can adjust the volume of the click by using the Level knob.
MIDI Sync and Focus
This section of the Transport Panel contains items relating to MIDI sync.
D The “Enable” button puts Reason into MIDI sync mode.
The transport controls will be disabled, and Reason will not run unless MIDI
sync data is provided from an external device.
The MIDI and Play Focus buttons relate to how incoming MIDI and MIDI sync
should be handled if there are several open Song documents. If you have two or
more Songs opened, and no MIDI sync is used, the currently selected Song (the
document “on top”) always has MIDI focus. If MIDI Sync is enabled (which is
global for all currently open Song documents), this functionality changes in the
following way:
D If both “Play” and “MIDI” are activated for a Song, incoming MIDI
data and MIDI sync will be sent to this Song, regardless of whether
another Song is currently in focus.
D If only “MIDI” is activated for Song, and another Song has “Play”
focus, incoming MIDI will be sent to the former and MIDI sync to the
latter (i.e this Song will play back), regardless of which Song is cur-
rently in focus.
Automation Override
Automation override is activated when you manually “grab” a parameter that is
being automated. If you change the setting of an automated parameter, the
“Punched In” indicator lights up, and the automation data is temporarily overrid-
den, until you either click the “Reset” button or press stop on the transport. As
soon as you click Reset, the automation regains control.
See also page 9.
Audio Out Clipping Indicator
All signals that are being fed into the Hardware Interface (to your audio hard-
ware’s physical outputs) are monitored for clipping (signal overload) at the out-
put stage.
If clipping occurs this indicator will light up, and stay lit for several seconds. If
this happens, you should reduce the output level, in one of the following ways:
D If the signals are being sent to your Hardware Interface via a Mixer,
you should reduce the Master output level from the Mixer.
This will ensure that the relative levels of the mix are kept intact. Alternatively,
if the current mix doesn’t represent a “final balance”, and the clipping seems
to be caused by individual channels in the mixer, you could also try reducing
the output of the connected device(s), or pulling down the channel faders a
bit for the “offending” channels.
! Clipping can only occur in the output stage of the Hardware Inter-
face, not in the Reason mixer or in any other Reason device. How-
ever, it is good practice to keep all mixer channel and master levels
as high as possible within the normal range, for best results. For ex-
ample, having to compensate channel levels by drastically reducing
the Master output to avoid clipping is indicative of the mixer chan-
nel levels being set too high.