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TUTORIAL 2 - PLAYING DEVICES

AND SELECTING SOUNDS

About this tutorial

In this second tutorial we will go through the following basics:

• How to add a mixer device and an instrument device.

• How to direct MIDI to an instrument device so you can play it.

• How to browse for and select a patch for an instrument device.

• How to add an effect.

! This tutorial assumes you have made the necessary setting up for MIDI and audio. If not,

please refer to the “Setting Up” chapter before starting.

About devices

Reason devices can be divided into the following main categories:

D Instrument devices

These are playable devices that are handled like an instrument - i.e. notes played on your master key-

board will play the instrument device.

D Effect devices

These are used to process sound.

D Other devices

These include Mixer devices (for mixing audio signals), Pattern devices (which can be used to program

patterns that can trigger notes in instrument devices), and Utility devices (these can split and merge

signals in various ways).

Adding a mixer and an instrument

device

This first section of the tutorial describes how to add a mixer device and an instrument device to the rack.

We’ll start with an empty rack to show you how it is done from “scratch”.

1. If you like, close the current song by selecting Close from the File menu.

You can have several song documents open in Reason at the same time, but each song uses some

memory and computing power, so it’s good practice to close songs you don’t need. Note that on the

Windows platform, closing a song when there are no other songs open will also cause the program to

quit.

2. Pull down the File menu and select Open.

3. Navigate to the Reason program folder and open the Template Documents folder.

4. Select the file “Empty Rack.rns” and click Open.

A song document window appears. This consists of an (almost) empty rack and one track in the se-

quencer; the Transport track, which is always present. To the right of the rack is the Tool window which

can display various pages for editing or adding devices etc.

D Normally when you create a new song, you would select “New” from the File menu. This

command opens the default song, which contains a mixer and a Combinator device

loaded with some mastering effects, which is a perfect starting point for adding instru-

ment devices and getting started with your song.

For the purpose of this tutorial however, we will start with an empty rack.

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