Specifications

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The Devices
The following devices are available in Reason:
Reason Hardware Interface
This device handles Reason’s communication with your hardware.
The upper half of the hardware interface contains settings for MIDI input, allow-
ing you to select a separate MIDI channel for each device when controlling Rea-
son from an external multi-channel MIDI source.
! For standard MIDI control of one device at a time in Reason, you
don’t need to use the hardware interface (since the MIDI signals are
routed through the sequencer, as described in the tutorials earlier
in this chapter).
The lower half of the hardware interface contains audio output indicators with
level meters. This is where you connect different devices to different outputs on
your audio hardware. Reason supports up to 64 separate audio outputs. How-
ever, if you are only using audio hardware with standard stereo outputs, the con-
nections to the audio hardware are automatically taken care of when you create
a mixer device at the top of the rack.
! The Reason Hardware Interface is “riveted” into the rack, and can-
not be removed.
Combinator
The Combinator allows you to create new “custom” devices by combining exist-
ing devices. Any combination of Reason devices can be added to the Combina-
tor and then saved as a “Combi” patch. Example usage includes creating
layered instruments, instrument/effect combinations and effect chains. Devices
in a Combi can be mapped to velocity/key zones and the Combinator also fea-
tures virtual knobs and buttons that can be assigned to any device parameter or
function.
Mixer 14:2
This is a mixer with fourteen stereo channels, four stereo effect sends and a ba-
sic two-band EQ section. By connecting the different devices to different mixer
channels (and the stereo output of the mixer to the hardware interface) you can
listen to all your devices at the same time, adjust levels and pan, add effects and
so on - just like on a physical mixer.