When this is activated, the program is not synchronized to any external source. It plays in the tempo set on the Transport Panel.
When this is activated, the program is synchronized to external MIDI Clock, as set up in the Preferences dialog. The tempo setting on the Transport Panel is of no relevance; Reason Essentials plays in the tempo of the incoming MIDI Clock signals. See “Synchronization and Advanced MIDI” for more details.
When this is activated, Reason Essentials is synchronized to another application via ReWire. This is not a setting that you can activate yourself, it is automatically enabled when the program is in ReWire slave mode. See “ReWire” for more details.
When this is activated, the computer’s keyboard keys can be used to control devices, as set up with the Keyboard Control Edit feature. See “Editing Keyboard Control” for more information.
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Each device you select will show a yellow arrow symbol next to every parameter that can be assigned.
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The “Key Received” field momentarily indicates that it is “learning” the keystroke(s), and then the dialog displays the name of the key you have pressed. If [Shift] was used, the box beside the word Shift in the dialog is ticked.
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A rotating yellow rectangle appears, indicating Learn mode. Press the key (or key combination) you wish to use to remote control the parameter.
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Note that the transport panel uses the numeric keypad for various commands. If you assign a parameter to a single numeric key, the corresponding transport functionality will be overridden!
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Another way to assign keyboard control commands is to have “Keyboard Control Edit Mode” deselected on the Options menu, and to right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) the parameter you wish to keyboard control.
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This opens a pop-up menu, where one of the options will be “Edit Keyboard Control Mapping”. Selecting this opens the Keyboard Control dialog. Thus, you do not have to enable/disable Edit mode from the Options menu if you know that a parameter is assignable.
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See “Editing Keyboard Control” for more information.
All supported control surface devices have “standard remote mappings” for each Reason Essentials device. If you wish to override this standard mapping, you can do so in the following way:
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To get an overview of which parameters can be assigned remote overrides, select “Remote Override Edit Mode” from the Options menu.
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Each device you select will show a blue arrow symbol beside every parameter that can be assigned a remote override. Standard mappings are marked with yellow knob symbols (only shown when the device has MIDI input). Assigned overrides are marked with a lightning bolt symbol.
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If you click on an assignable parameter to select it (selected parameters are orange in color), you can then select “Edit Remote Override Mapping...” from the Edit menu.
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The “MIDI Received” field momentarily flickers as you turn the knob, and then the dialog shows the control surface device and the control you used.
If Remote Override Edit Mode is enabled on the Options menu, mapped parameters are “tagged”, and the arrow indicators show the assignable parameters. In this mode, however, you cannot operate Reason Essentials normally. Remote Override Edit mode is primarily for overview of available parameters and the current assignments.
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Another way to assign keyboard remote commands is to have “Remote Override Edit Mode” deselected on the Options menu, and to simply right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) the parameter you wish to control.
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This opens a pop-up menu, where one of the options will be “Edit MIDI Remote Override Mapping”. Selecting this opens the “Edit Remote Override Mapping” dialog. Thus, you do not have to select Edit mode from the Options menu if you already know that a parameter is assignable.
See “Remote Override mapping” for more information.
Selecting this opens a dialog with remote functions that cannot be assigned using Remote Override Edit mode, such as switching target tracks, Undo/Redo etc.
See “Additional Remote Overrides...” for details.
This means that the locked device is always “tweakable”, regardless of which track has MIDI input in the sequencer. This enables you to play and record notes for one device and at the same time control parameters for another device from a control surface.
For example, you could lock a control surface to control the main mixer, so you can always control overall levels while playing/tweaking other devices.
If you select the Master Keyboard in the Preferences, you can click the “Use No Master Keyboard” button. You can then lock this control surface to a device and use its controllers to tweak parameters, but you will not be able to play the device.
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This locked device will always be controlled by the selected control surface, until you unlock the device or lock the surface to another device. You can lock as many devices you wish, as long as you have enough control surfaces.
In other words, even if a device is locked to a control surface, some parameters could be overridden so they are controlled by another control surface, or some controls on the locked surface could be override-mapped to another device.
See the “Locking a surface” for more details.
If there are many connections in Reason Essentials, the cables can sometimes obscure the view, making it difficult to read the text printed on the back panels of the devices. Cables can be displayed in “normal” mode and in “Reduced Cable Clutter” mode.
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Select “Reduce Cable Clutter” on the Options menu to “hide” the cables according to the setting you have made in the “Appearance” section on the “General” page in Preferences.
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See “Cable appearance” for information on how to use this function.
A Device Group is a series of interconnected devices that “belong together”. A Device Group could, for example, be an instrument device connected via an effect device to a Mix Channel device. With the “Auto-group Devices and Tracks” option selected, moving/cutting/copying/duplicating and pasting a device in a device group will perform the operation on all devices in the device group.
See “About Device Groups” for more details.
Deselecting the “Show Navigators” option will hide the Channel Strip Navigator in the Main Mixer and the Rack Navigator in the rack.
When this is activated, the sequencer Arrangement and Edit Panes will automatically scroll along with the song position pointer on playback. When this item is deactivated, the Arrangement and Edit Panes will remain stationary.
This function determines how note and automation events behave if they are drawn, moved or pasted outside the boundaries of the open clip in Edit mode in the sequencer.
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With “Keep Events in Clip while Editing” selected, events drawn, moved or pasted outside the boundaries of the open clip will still belong to the original clip - but will be masked.
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With the “Keep Events in Clip while Editing” deselected, the open clip will expand to contain the drawn, moved or pasted events - or, if this is not possible, the events will be placed in an existing, or new, clip.
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See “About drawing notes outside an open clip”, “About moving notes outside or between clips” and “Pasting events outside an open clip” for detailed examples.
When this option is activated, a color will automatically be assigned to a new sequencer track or mixer channel when you create it. Any new clips created on a track will get the same color as the track.
With this option activated, any device parameter automation will be automatically recorded into the note clips as “Performance Controllers” instead of on separate Parameter Automation Lanes.
Here you select the number of pre-count bars to use when the “Pre” button on the Transport Panel is on. When you record in the sequencer with the “Pre” button active, the recording will begin after the set number of precount bars.