Specifications

SONG FILE HANDLING
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Creating a New Song
To create a new song, select New from the File menu. This makes a new song
document window appear.
D By default, the new song will contain a mixer and an MClass Mas-
tering Suite Combi.
If you want to start with your own selection of devices (or an empty rack),
you can customize your default song, as described below.
✪ An alternative to creating a new song would be to open one of the
templates found in the Template Documents folder (within the Rea-
son program folder).
Creating a Default Song
If you often start off with the same set of devices, patches, patterns and settings,
you may want to create your own custom default song. Proceed as follows to
specify a song as the default:
1. Select New from the File menu to create a new song document win-
dow.
2. Add/remove devices and make settings as desired.
Typically, you may want the default song to contain your choice of devices
and possibly some patterns. You could also make some special routing be-
tween devices, or even add some sequencer data.
3. Save the song anywhere you like, and under whatever name you
like (to keep things organized you might want to save the song in
the Reason program folder).
4. Open the Preferences dialog from the Edit menu (or from the Rea-
son menu, if you are using Mac OS X).
5. On the “General” page, click the radio button to select “Custom” in
the section called “Default Song”.
6. Click the folder icon to the right to open the file browser.
7. Navigate to the song you created earlier, select it and click “OK”.
The name of the song appears in the textbox.
8. Close the Preferences dialog.
The next time you launch the program or select New from the File menu, the
new song document will contain the devices and settings you made.