The Reason Q&A Thread

[therapist]

Is it possible to get a combinator with 8 knobs and buttons? Now I know how to use the Combinator properly it's a great tool.

There's ways you can link combinators together, so you either get the control from both, or you get the audio from both. It's all a bit longwinded. But some more controllers on the face would be nice.

Explain how it's done my good man!

Well I'm saying it's all a bit rough and ready. It depends what you want to do. Say you want loads of rotaries controlling LFOs you can have the Malstroms (or whatever) providing the LFO contained in another combinator, and just use their CV signals on whatever you want. You can do some crazy stuff by wiring between combis, not all of it useful mind.

[therapist]

I'm pretty well aquainted with reason but this problem keeps getting me. Only seems to happen on pitch bend automation where you are unable to edit it. It shows the automation in the notelane, but doesn't give you an actual clip to move around. It's really really pissing me off.




I don't know how I made it like that either. sorry for the picture size.

[david]

thanks for this thread. i might actually get somewhere now

[nitz]

go draw a box in there because i dont see anything atm, for example i can the lfo rate chance and you have to do the same with this, manually draw it in

[therapist]

go draw a box in there because i dont see anything atm, for example i can the lfo rate chance and you have to do the same with this, manually draw it in

Drawing a box in would just add a second load of automation on top of what's already there. I need to be able to edit what's already drawn in, usually there would be a clip as well as the automation lines in the note lane at the top.

[darkmatteruk]

I'm pretty well aquainted with reason but this problem keeps getting me. Only seems to happen on pitch bend automation where you are unable to edit it. It shows the automation in the notelane, but doesn't give you an actual clip to move around. It's really really pissing me off.




I don't know how I made it like that either. sorry for the picture size.

thats because you did it on record as opposed to drawing it in by hand

right click the pitch bend wheel on desired device, then you can draw it in

[Project EX]

I'm pretty well aquainted with reason but this problem keeps getting me. Only seems to happen on pitch bend automation where you are unable to edit it. It shows the automation in the notelane, but doesn't give you an actual clip to move around. It's really really pissing me off.




I don't know how I made it like that either. sorry for the picture size.

thats because you did it on record as opposed to drawing it in by hand

right click the pitch bend wheel on desired device, then you can draw it in

yes u can draw it, but u can also record it, but dont forget to select the channel which u want ik recorded to, or it wil just record on a existing channel

[therapist]

I'm pretty well aquainted with reason but this problem keeps getting me. Only seems to happen on pitch bend automation where you are unable to edit it. It shows the automation in the notelane, but doesn't give you an actual clip to move around. It's really really pissing me off.




I don't know how I made it like that either. sorry for the picture size.

thats because you did it on record as opposed to drawing it in by hand

right click the pitch bend wheel on desired device, then you can draw it in

This wasn't recorded though. This was edited in the clip by just opening the automation menu. I think copying and pasting parts without the auto-clips attached is part of the problem. Maybe mixing up with pitch bends on the combinator and the actual device too. Anyway, I'm going to try and make sure I always do it from the device to avoid this.

There must be a way to edit the hand-recorded data with out just recording over the top though.

[bob villain]

anyone know if you can open reason 4 files on reason 3 at all? obviously not gonna be able to use thor on this one... This is for a collaboration and I'm on 4 and he's on 3

[futures_untold]

anyone know if you can open reason 4 files on reason 3 at all? obviously not gonna be able to use thor on this one... This is for a collaboration and I'm on 4 and he's on 3

Not possible sadly...

Even patches made in R4 for the Combinator won't work in R3. Not sure about synths like the Subtractor or Malstrom though?

[DZA]

Cant seem to get te Matrix Sequence to work with the DrRex any help?

[darkmatteruk]

Cant seem to get te Matrix Sequence to work with the DrRex any help?

there is no note cv on the dr rex for the matrix to connect to

but you can load the rex file to an nnxt and use matrix, will take a bit longer as you will have to load each slice individualy

[DZA]

Cant seem to get te Matrix Sequence to work with the DrRex any help?

there is no note cv on the dr rex for the matrix to connect to

but you can load the rex file to an nnxt and use matrix, will take a bit longer as you will have to load each slice individualy

I never saved i as a rex file so cant open it up in anythng else it can only sit in that project

[darkmatteruk]

Cant seem to get te Matrix Sequence to work with the DrRex any help?

there is no note cv on the dr rex for the matrix to connect to

but you can load the rex file to an nnxt and use matrix, will take a bit longer as you will have to load each slice individualy

I never saved i as a rex file so cant open it up in anythng else it can only sit in that project

ok, try sticking the dr rex into a combi, and then connecting the matrix to the combi's cv, matrix outside the combi

[darkmatteruk]

Cant seem to get te Matrix Sequence to work with the DrRex any help?

there is no note cv on the dr rex for the matrix to connect to

but you can load the rex file to an nnxt and use matrix, will take a bit longer as you will have to load each slice individualy

I never saved i as a rex file so cant open it up in anythng else it can only sit in that project

ok, try sticking the dr rex into a combi, and then connecting the matrix to the combi's cv, matrix outside the combi

i just tried that myself and it works fine

[DZA]

YAY Thank youuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[darkmatteruk]

:D YAY Thank youuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

glad to help

[-dubson-]

Right... I want to set up a mixing desk with another desk below it, this one has every redrum channel wired into it (to make mixing easier).

This is all well and good until i create a new instrument and it will go into the mixing desk with all the redrum channels. How can i get it to go straight into the main mixing desk automatically?

[therapist]

Right... I want to set up a mixing desk with another desk below it, this one has every redrum channel wired into it (to make mixing easier).

This is all well and good until i create a new instrument and it will go into the mixing desk with all the redrum channels. How can i get it to go straight into the main mixing desk automatically?

Just click on the master mixer before you create the instrument, otherwise it will automatically route to the first thing at hand.

[-dubson-]

Right... I want to set up a mixing desk with another desk below it, this one has every redrum channel wired into it (to make mixing easier).

This is all well and good until i create a new instrument and it will go into the mixing desk with all the redrum channels. How can i get it to go straight into the main mixing desk automatically?

Just click on the master mixer before you create the instrument, otherwise it will automatically route to the first thing at hand.