Specifications

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Handling Missing Sounds
Sampler patches, drum machine patches and Soundfonts contain references to
samples - files on your hard disk. The same is true for songs that contain sam-
ples (in sampler or drum machine devices) or REX files. If any of these files have
been moved, renamed or removed when you try to open the patch or song, Rea-
son will alert you that files are missing:
Click one of the four buttons:
The Missing Sounds dialog
This dialog appears if you clicked the Open Dialog button in the previous dialog,
or if you clicked the Search & Proceed button but the program couldn’t find all
missing sounds.
The main display in the dialog lists all missing files. The four columns show the
following properties:
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Option:
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Description:
Search & Pro-
ceed
Reason will search for the missing files in all Locations added
by the user and in all known ReFills.
• If all files are found, the song or patch will be opened without
further ado.
• If one or more files cannot be found, the Missing Sounds di-
alog will appear (see below).
Note that the file search will look at the file names only - files
that have been renamed will not be found!
Proceed The song or patch will be opened, with sounds missing. This
means that sampler patches, drum machine patches and/or
loop players will not play back correctly.
On the device panels, missing samples are indicated with an
asterisk (*) before the file names:
Open Dialog Opens the Missing Sounds dialog (see below).
Cancel Cancels the operation, i.e. no song or patch will be opened.
The “Intruder” sample is missing.
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Column
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Description
Device Shows the name of the device in which the missing sound is used,
along with a device type icon.
Sound Shows the name of the missing file.
Part of Re-
Fill/Sound-
font
If the missing file is part of a ReFill, or a Soundfont within a ReFill,
this column shows the name of the ReFill/Soundfont If there is an
URL (Internet address) associated with a ReFill, you can download
the necessary ReFill(s) from this dialog, as described below.
Status When the dialog appears, all files will have the status “Missing”.
Files that are found by the auto-search function or manually re-
placed will be indicated as “Replaced”.