
REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING REASON DEVICES
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About the various MIDI
inputs
This chapter describes how you use Remote to set up your master keyboard and con-
trol surfaces, allowing you to play Reason devices, adjust parameters and control var-
ious Reason functions. This is the main way of sending MIDI to Reason, but there are
also some additional methods:
D Using ReWire 2.
ReWire allows you to run Reason together with another application, such as a se-
quencer or a DAW. With ReWire 2, you can send MIDI from the other application
directly to devices in Reason. See page 126.
D Using the External Control Bus inputs.
The External Control Bus inputs (set up on the Preferences - Advanced MIDI page
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 from an
external sequencer, etc. See page 122.
D Sending MIDI Clock to Reason.
This allows you to synchronize Reason’s tempo to other devices. See page 130.
About Remote
MIDI from control surfaces (keyboards, remote control units etc.) is handled by a pro-
tocol called Remote. The Remote protocol allows for seamless integration between
Reason and control surface devices. It is basically a mapping system that provides di-
rect hands-on control of parameters for each Reason device - including transport and
sequencer track selection!
At the time of this writing, Reason supports a large number of control surfaces and
keyboards - the knobs, faders and buttons on the devices are automatically mapped
to parameters on each Reason device.
Remote drivers for more control surfaces will be added continuously. Check the Pro-
pellerhead web page in case your model isn’t listed on the Preferences- Control Sur-
faces and Keyboards page.
Remote controlling Reason devices couldn’t be made any simpler. Set up your control
surface once and for all for use with Reason - the program handles the rest!
Setting up
Adding a control surface or keyboard
This is how you add your control surfaces - including the master keyboard.
1. Open the Preferences dialog and select the Control Surfaces and Keyboards
page.
2. If your control surface is connected via USB (or if you have made a two-way
MIDI connection), try clicking the Auto-detect Surfaces button.
Reason scans all MIDI ports and tries to identify the connected control surfaces.
Note that not all control surfaces support auto-detection.
All found surfaces are listed in the Attached Surfaces list.
3. To add a control surface manually, click the Add button.
This brings up a new dialog.
4. Select the manufacturer of your control surface from the Manufacturer pop-
up menu.
If you can’t find it on the menu, see below.
5. Select the model of your control surface from the Model pop-up menu.
If you can’t find it on the menu, see below.
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