
MANAGING THE RACK
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About this Chapter
As you have seen by now, the central part of Reason is the rack. This is
where you create and configure your devices, and make parameter settings.
This chapter describes all the procedures for managing the rack, that is, pro-
cedures and techniques common to all devices. Device parameter specifics
are described in the electronic documentation.
Navigating in the Rack
If the rack contains more than a few devices, the whole rack will probably not
“fit” on the screen. To scroll the rack up or down, use one of the following
methods:
➜ Use the scrollbar to the right of the rack to scroll continuously up or
down.
➜ Use the Page Up/Page Down buttons on the computer keyboard to
move the view one “full screen” up or down.
➜ Use the Home or End buttons on the computer keyboard to scroll
the top or bottom of the rack.
➜ Pull down a device context menu and select another device from
the Go To submenu.
The rack scrolls to the device you select.
✪ When you select a device or its sequencer track (see page 54), Rea-
son will automatically scroll the rack to make the device visible.
Note that you can enlarge the rack area by clicking its lower edge (the divider
between the rack and the sequencer area) and dragging downwards. This
will shrink the sequencer area and make more of the rack visible. You can
also make the rack fill the window by clicking the maximize button in the top
right corner.
The rack maximize button.
Creating Devices
To create a new device, select the desired item on the Create menu. This
menu is available both on the main menu bar and on the context menus (see
page 34 for an introduction to context menus).
The Create menu on the main menu bar and on a context menu.
➜ The new device is added directly below the currently selected de-
vice in the rack.
If no device is selected, the new device is added at the bottom of the
rack.
➜ When you add a new device, Reason attempts to route it in a logical
way.
For an introduction to the auto-routing features, see page 45.
➜ A new track will automatically be created in the sequencer, and
routed to the new device.
The track will have the same name as the device. MIDI input will also au-
tomatically be set to the new track, allowing you to immediately play the
created device via MIDI (see page 48).
! By default, this only applies to instrument devices, not to mixers or
effect devices. If you hold down [Option] (Mac) or [Alt] (Windows)
when you create the device, the opposite is true, i.e. mixers and ef-
fect devices get new tracks but instrument devices don’t.
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