Reason 6
Propellerhead Reason Tips & Techniques
Robin Bigwood
Reason 6 in all its glory — modular mixer, multiple racks, audio tracks. Look familiar? It’s essentially the old Reason/Record duo in one rack.
The dawn of version 6 brings to a close a slightly awkward period in Reason’s development. With the inclusion of audio recording, it can now rightfully claim to be a full‑blown DAW, capable and characterful, all by itself. There are no confusing spin‑offs, application combinations, or feature overlaps. It sports a better and more configurable rack and acquires a great new modular‑style mixer that’s ready for songs of any complexity, so the nightmare of managing multiple Remix 14:2 devices should be well and truly gone. Let’s dig into some of the new features.
Adding an audio track to your sequence is as easy as hitting Command‑T (OS X) or Ctrl‑T (Windows). You choose which inputs from your interface it’ll record via the pop‑up menu next to the level meter. This is also where you choose between a mono and stereo input, and hence whether it’s a mono or stereo track.
The green button — Enable Monitoring for Track — routes the input to the track’s output. It’ll activate automatically, or not, according to the monitoring mode you’ve chosen in Preferences (see the ‘Audio Options’ box).