
THE BROWSER
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Background
About the Database
Reason songs and patches can contain references to other files on your
hard disk, namely samples (wave or aiff files) or loop files created in ReCycle
(REX files, see below). To keep track of all files, Reason makes use of a “da-
tabase”. If you keep your Reason files within the database, Reason can up-
date file paths, automatically search for missing files, etc.
➜ You specify the search path(s) for the database on the Sound Loca-
tions page in the Preferences dialog on the Edit menu, as described
on page 16.
You can specify up to four different search paths. However, it is normally
enough to specify a single path, since all underlying folders are automat-
ically included in the database. Use the additional paths if you use more
than one hard drive, CD-ROM drives etc (see also the note about finding
ReFills on page 73).
An example of the database. If the folder “Reason Sounds” is specified as search
path, all its subfolders are automatically included in the database.
! It is possible to select the root of a hard disk as search path, thus
making the database contain all files on your hard disk. However,
this will make search times much longer, since Reason will have to
look at a lot of unnecessary files. Generally, to keep things as
snappy as possible you should avoid having files unrelated to Rea-
son in your search paths.
About ReFills
A ReFill is a kind of component package for Reason which can contain
patches, samples, REX files and demo songs. If you like, you could compare
ReFills to ROM cards for a synthesizer. On your computer, ReFills appear as
large files with the extension “.rfl”.
All sounds included with Reason are embedded in a huge ReFill called “Rea-
son Factory Sound Bank” (which was either installed on your hard drive or
kept on the Factory Sound Bank CD, depending on the choice you made
during installation - see page 10). You can also download ReFills from other
Reason users on the Internet, purchase them from sample manufacturers,
etc.
✪ Samples (Wave and AIFF files) are compressed to about half their
original file size when stored in ReFills.
In Reason, you can use the browser to list and access the embedded sounds
and other components within the ReFills. just as if the ReFills were folders on
your hard disk.
Furthermore, if a song makes use of components from ReFills, Reason will
tell you which ReFills are required.
Double clicking on the ReFill in the browser...
...opens it for navigation, just like a folder.
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