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Call for Layouts: Reason 6.5 - MIDI Designer Q&A

Call for Layouts: Reason 6.5

+1 vote
Hi guys.  Just installed this for the first time.  Would LOVE a Reason layout.  Anybody?
in Community Requests by ibanez1998 (150 points)
What do you want to control in Reason? How are you using Reason? What would a standard Reason layout do? I'm just trying to get a feel for your needs here to see what's possible with a request like this. Thanks!
Dan
by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)
That's a really great question.  There is only one company I can think of that has really ever utilized the Reason Remote features of the software and that would be Nektar the designers of the Panorama P4.  Their approach is probably how I would approach the MIDI controller.  There are three main functional areas (or modes) in Reason.  There's the Mixer which has of course: Faders, Trim, Compression, Effects, EQ, Muting, Panning etc etc.
Then theres the Transport Mode which is the sequencer and has the Play, Stop, FFwd, Rwnd, Record, Click on/off, Tempo, Quantizing (Q Rec), and time information.  Last there is Instrument mode which has control of instruements and their plethora of parameters.  

I already have a basic MIDI control of the mixer though doing more than fading and turning on or off the eq (not even setting the settings of the eq) is not available.  

I'd love to see the approach mirror what Touchable has done for Ableton, but that I think would be a HUGE undertaking.  Why someone hasn't come out with a Reason controller for iPad yet to the tune of Touchable is beyond me.
by ibanez1998 (150 points)
reshown by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)

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+1 vote

Something im working on

by indijinouz (160 points)
edited by indijinouz
thanks for this, looking forward to seeing it when you are done!
by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)
Awsome! Will keep u posted, there wouldnt by chance be a way to do this on the computer though would there, i could probably go alot faster.
by indijinouz (160 points)
What i really need to do is probably sit and give myself a good indepth crash course on ALL the features and how to get around. I always end up going the wrong way to get to something or sometimes if i dont plan, i find myself wanting to highlight a bunch of stuff and make changes to all.
by indijinouz (160 points)
@indijinouz, we do too. We've been promising multiple selection for a long time, but we keep getting distracted by performance/design features (and we've still got a list of over 100 that we love). Workflow does matter, though: it's just a question of when we can implement it.

MIDI Designer cannot be run on a simulator unless you have the source code, which is hard to get ;) A lot of our users like using a stylus, and personally we use Bluetooth keyboards whenever we can. There's an insanely cheap one that Amazon sells by Sparin which is great.
by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)
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