
SOUNDS, DEVICES AND PATCHES
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Using Favorites - a practical example
Here follows a practical example of how you can use Favorites for patch files:
You are preparing for a live gig as a keyboard player. You know the songs, and you
have chosen suitable patches (in various device formats) for each song.
You want to use Reason, but you want to able to switch to the right patch for each
song using your MIDI keyboard, and not have to worry about fiddling with the com-
puter during your performance.
Here is how this can be done by using Favorites:
1. Set up a Reason song with a mixer device (and send effects if desired).
2. Create an instrument device, for example a Combinator.
It doesn’t matter which instrument device you choose at this point.
3. Open the Patch Browser from the instrument device.
4. Click the “New Favorites List” button.
A new folder appears in the list. Double-click it and type in an appropriate name.
5. Select to show “All Instruments” on the Show pop-up.
Now you can start locating the patches you need by navigating in the Browser.
6. When you have located a patch that you need for the gig, drag it from the
Browser into the Favorites folder.
If this was a patch in a different format than the instrument you created, a device of
this type will replace the original device.
7. Continue to add the patches in the same way until you have all the patches
you need.
8. When done, select the Favorites List folder.
The folder is opened in the Browser, listing all the patches you added.
9. Use drag and drop to order the patches according to the set list.
10.Select the first patch in the Favorites list and click OK.
The browser closes with the patch loaded.
D If you have a MIDI keyboard or control surface with programmable but-
tons, you can assign a button to “Select next patch” on the device.
This is described in the Remote chapter.
11.Save the Song.
12.At the gig, open the song, and the first patch will be loaded.
13.When the first song is finished, use the “next patch” button on the device or
on your MIDI keyboard and the next patch in the Favorites list will be loaded!
Handling Missing Sounds
Sampler patches, drum machine patches and Soundfonts contain references to sam-
ples - files on your hard disk. The same is true for songs that contain samples (in sam-
pler 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, Reason will alert you
that files are missing:
Click one of the four buttons:
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Option:
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Description:
Search & Proceed 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
dialog 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.
This sample is missing.
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