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[. . . ] Operation Manual D Table of Contents 7 8 8 8 8 9 10 10 11 Common Operations and Concepts About this manual About this Chapter Conventions in the Manual Making Settings Tool Tips Context menus Undo Window Techniques 51 52 52 61 64 69 70 70 78 89 92 94 96 The Sequencer Introduction Sequencer basics Recording Recording automation About the toolbar About Snap Editing clips in Arrange mode The Edit mode Tool window - Tools page note editing functions Copying patterns to sequencer tracks Automating tempo and time signature Importing and Exporting MIDI Files 15 16 16 18 20 20 Audio basics About this chapter How Reason communicates with your audio hardware General Information PC Specific Information Mac Specific Information 97 98 98 102 104 106 107 The ReGroove Mixer Introduction The ReGroove Mixer Groove Settings Working with grooves Groovy tips & tricks The ReGroove patches in the Factory Sound Bank 21 22 22 26 29 32 33 Sounds, Devices and Patches Introduction Rack device procedures A Quick Note on Routing About patches About ReFills Using the Browser 109 Remote - Playing and controlling Reason devices 110 110 110 112 113 115 117 118 119 About the various MIDI inputs About Remote Setting up Remote basics Locking a surface to a device Remote Override Additional Remote Overrides. . . Keyboard Control Saving Remote Setups 45 46 46 47 48 49 Routing Audio and CV About the various signals that can be routed About Cables Automatic Routing Manual Routing Using CV and Gate 121 Advanced MIDI - the External Control Bus inputs 122 About the External Control Bus inputs 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 123 Using Reason as a ReWire Slave 124 124 124 125 125 125 126 126 127 127 About this Chapter Why use Reason with ReWire?Launching and Quitting Using the Transport and Tempo Controls Synchronization Routing Audio Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 Converting ReWire Channels to Audio Tracks Details About Various ReWire Hosts 149 Reason Hardware Interface 150 Introduction 150 MIDI In Device 150 Audio Out 151 The Combinator 152 152 153 153 155 156 157 157 158 Introduction Creating Combinator devices Combinator elements About internal and external connections Adding devices to a Combi Combi handling Sequencer tracks and playing Combis The Controller panel Using the Programmer 129 Synchronization 130 130 130 131 131 ReWire users ­ Read This!Slaving Reason to an External Device Slaving Reason to Another Program on the Same Computer Synchronization Considerations 163 The Mixer 164 164 166 166 166 166 167 168 Introduction The Channel Strip The Mixer signal flow About the EQ modes The Auxiliary Return Section The Master Fader Connections Chaining Mixers 133 Song File Handling 134 135 136 136 136 136 136 136 137 About Self-contained Songs Song Information Saving a Song Publishing a Song Opening a Song Closing a Song Creating a New Song Creating a Default Song Exporting as an Audio File 169 The Line Mixer 6:2 170 170 170 170 171 Introduction Channel parameters The Auxiliary Return Section Master level Connections 139 Optimizing Performance 140 140 141 142 143 Introduction Optimization and Output Latency Optimizing Your Computer System Optimizing Songs Songs and Memory Requirements 173 Redrum 174 174 175 176 180 183 183 Introduction About File Formats Using Patches Programming Patterns Redrum Parameters Using Redrum as a Sound Module Connections 145 Transport Panel 146 Overview TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 185 Subtractor Synthesizer 186 186 191 194 195 197 199 200 Introduction The Oscillator Section The Filter Section Envelopes - General LFO Section Play Parameters External Modulation Connections 255 NN-XT Sampler 256 256 257 258 259 260 261 263 264 266 267 270 271 272 274 275 276 277 284 Introduction Panel Overview Loading Complete Patches and REX Files Using the Main Panel Overview of the Remote Editor panel About Samples and Zones Selections and Edit Focus Adjusting Parameters Managing Zones and Samples Working with Grouping Working with Key Ranges Setting Root Notes and Tuning Using Automap Layered, Crossfaded and Velocity Switched Sounds Using Alternate Sample Parameters Group Parameters Synth parameters Connections 201 Thor Polysonic Synthesizer 202 202 203 204 216 221 224 Introduction Thor elements The Controller panel Using the Programmer Modulation bus routing section Step Sequencer Connections 225 Malström Synthesizer 226 227 229 230 234 236 238 239 Introduction The Oscillator section The Modulator section The Filter section Routing The play controls Connections Routing external audio to the filters 285 Dr. [. . . ] Please refer to the Subtractor chapter for a description of these parameters. D The "Gate Trig" button can be used to switch off the envelope triggering from notes (which is the normal mode) and allow the envelope to be triggered by some other parameter. "Gate Trig" should normally be activated. Gate Trigger This can set a delay before the onset of the envelope. If this is activated, the envelope phase from Delay to Decay will continuously loop. If this is on, each stage will have a length that corresponds to beat increments of the current sequencer tempo. you can have a 1/4 delay before a 1/16 attack phase followed by a 1/8 decay. Each stage can be set a range from 1/32 to 4/1 (4 bars). If this is off, the envelope times are free running and can be set in seconds (same time ranges as for the Filter Envelope). The "Gate Trig" button can be used to switch off the envelope triggering from notes (which is the normal mode) and allow the envelope to be triggered by some other parameter. "Gate Trig" should normally be activated. 214 THOR POLYSONIC SYNTHESIZER Global section Global Envelope The Global Envelope 4 is an advanced envelope that is free to use for whatever purpose, but remember it is "single trigger" so it will not retrigger legato notes as explained above. It is an ADSR envelope with a pre-delay stage and a hold stage before the decay phase. You can make it Loop and Sync the time settings to the song tempo. Apart from standard ADSR parameters, the Global Envelope has the following parameters: | Parameter | Description Delay Loop Hold Tempo Sync The Global section contains parameters that affect all voices. It contains two effects, an open filter slot, the Global Envelope and LFO 2. Effects section There are two global mono in/stereo out effects, a Delay and a Chorus. These effects affect all voices coming from the Amp section equally if activated. The effects are placed after the Global Filter in the signal chain. D There are controls for standard Delay/Time and Feedback parameters. Delay differ only in the delay time range - Chorus is for chorus effects, i. e. short delays, whereas Delay produces echo effects. This is set with the Tempo Sync button - if on the delay time is set in beat resolutions synced to the main sequencer tempo. D The Delay and Chorus effects can also be pitch modulated by a built in LFO (the "Mod" parameters). "Rate" controls LFO speed and "Amount" the Stereo width. [. . . ] D The master keyboard device cannot be locked!If you select the master keyboard in the Preferences, you can click the "Use No Master Keyboard" button. You can then lock this control surface to a device and use its controllers to tweak parameters, but you will not be able to play the device. D Each control surface can be locked to one device at a time (but you can lock several control surfaces to the same device). [. . . ]