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AUDIO BASICS

About this chapter

This chapter contains some useful information about how audio is handled

by Reason. Some of it may seem a bit technical, but we recommend that you

read it, to get the most out of Reason.

How Reason

communicates with your

audio hardware

Reason generates and plays back digital audio - a stream of numerical val-

ues in the form of ones and zeroes. For you to be able to hear anything, this

must be converted to analog audio and sent to some kind of listening equip-

ment (a set of speakers, headphones, etc.). This conversion is most often

handled by the audio card installed in your computer (on the Macintosh you

can use the built-in audio hardware if you don’t have additional audio hard-

ware installed).

To deliver the digital audio to the audio hardware, Reason uses the driver

you have selected in the Preferences dialog (see page 13). In the rack on

screen, this connection is represented by the Reason Hardware Interface.

The Hardware Interface is always located at the top of the rack.

! If you are using ReWire, Reason will instead feed the digital audio to

the ReWire master application (typically an audio sequencer pro-

gram), which in turn handles the communication with the audio

hardware. This is described in the electronic documentation.

The Reason Hardware Interface contains 64 output “sockets”, each with an

indicator and a level meter. Each one of these indicators represents a con-

nection to an output on your audio hardware (or a ReWire channel to another

application if you are using ReWire - see the electronic documentation).

However, the number of outputs available depends on the number of outputs

on your audio hardware. For example, if you are using a standard sound

card with stereo outputs (or the built-in audio hardware on the Mac), only the

first two outputs will be available. In the Hardware Interface device, the green

indicators are lit for all currently available outputs.

In this case, a standard stereo audio card is used, and only the first two outputs (marked

“Stereo” on the device panel) are available.

Here, an audio card with eight outputs is used.

To send the sound of a device in the rack to a specific output, you route the

device output to the corresponding “socket” on the Hardware Interface. This

is done by using the “virtual patch cables” on the back of the rack, as de-

scribed on page 45. In most cases, you will want to connect a mixer device to

the Stereo outputs (outputs 1 and 2).

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