Remote - Playing and Controlling Devices

About the various MIDI inputs

This chapter describes how you use Remote to set up your master keyboard and control surfaces, allowing you to play Reason Essentials devices, adjust parameters and control various Reason Essentials functions. This is the main way of sending MIDI to Reason Essentials, but there are also some additional methods:

Using ReWire 2.

ReWire allows you to run Reason Essentials together with another application, such as a sequencer or another DAW. With ReWire 2, you can send MIDI from the other application directly to devices in Reason Essentials. See “Routing MIDI via ReWire 2”.

Using the External Control Bus inputs.

The External Control Bus inputs (set up on the Preferences - Sync tab and in the MIDI In device in the hardware interface) let you send MIDI directly to the individual devices in the rack. This is mainly used if you control Reason Essentials from an external sequencer, etc. See “About the External Control Bus inputs”.

Sending MIDI Clock to Reason Essentials.

This allows you to synchronize Reason Essentials’s tempo to other devices. See “Synchronization to MIDI Clock”.