
MENU AND DIALOG REFERENCE
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Preferences – MIDI
Sequencer Input
The Sequencer is the “standard” port for receiving MIDI input. This is what
you should be using if you intend to use the Reason sequencer.
Once you have selected your MIDI interface on the Sequencer Port pop-up
(and which channel it should receive on), you can direct incoming MIDI to
any device by just clicking the “In” column to the left of a track name in the
track list.
External Control Bus Inputs
The External Bus inputs provide up to 64 MIDI input channels divided into
four buses, each with 16 channels.
➜ These MIDI inputs are primarily for controlling Reason Devices from
an external sequencer.
This could be an external hardware sequencer or sequencer software that is
installed on the same computer as Reason. You should preferably use a
multiple port MIDI interface, so you can select separate ports for Reason and
the other MIDI devices to use, although this isn’t strictly required.
Remote Control Input
The Remote Control input is used for assigning a MIDI port for receiving MIDI
Controller messages. How to use Remote Control is described in the elec-
tronic documentation in the chapter “MIDI and Keyboard Remote Control”.
MIDI Clock Input
Using MIDI Clock, you can slave (synchronize) Reason to hardware devices
(tape recorders, drum machines, stand alone sequencers, workstations etc.)
and other computer programs running on the same or another computer.
MIDI Clock is a very fast “metronome” that can be transmitted in a MIDI Ca-
ble. As part of the MIDI Clock concept there are also instructions for Start,
Stop and locating to sixteenth note positions.
➜ By first selecting the appropriate MIDI input using the MIDI Clock
pop-up and then selecting “MIDI Clock Sync” on the Options menu,
Reason is ready to receive MIDI Clock sync.
See the “Synchronization” chapter for more information.
Disable MIDI Priority Boost
Reason normally tries to trim your computer system so that MIDI Input gets a
higher priority than it normally does. This is to ensure best possible perfor-
mance when for example recording notes via MIDI.
However, we can not guarantee that this attempt to boost MIDI priority will
work on all systems and with all MIDI Interfaces. If you run into problems with
your MIDI, try activating this switch.
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