Midi Controller for Reason (sliders, knobs)

[theapex]

Can you control the knobs and sliders withing reason using a midi controller...

basically the same way you can control logic (and other DAWs). controlling the mixer faders and turn knobs and things like that....

thanks.

 

[Bobbi Flekman]

First off, I have absolutely no experience with Reason.

Within DAWs just about any knob/slider/whatever that can be manipulated through a MIDI controller, will be documented. Check your documentation which CC number it will be and then check the controller on how to program the knob/slider/etc. of your choice.

I know it is not a direct answer, but it will help when you want to remotely manipulate some other filter of a synth to know how to find the needed data.

 

[Drumjim85]

Yes you can, but good luck getting it to work exactly how you want... I've never been able to get it to work %100.

 

[fmason3]

I first got Reason 3.0 and an m-audio oxygen 61 midi controller. You can assign sliders and knobs to different features in the software. I recently started using Reason 4.0 with my Yamaha S90ES as my controller. My midi set-up was S90ES>midi out>Roland MKS-20>midi thru>Edirol USB/Midi adapter>USB Port of my macbook pro. It will allow me to play instruments in Reason, but I was not able to assign my sliders.

So I took a regular USB (printer) cable from my S90ES to my laptop and I was able to assign my sliders to different volume buttons. So I've found that I can do more things from my controller when I use a USB cable to transport my midi signal than when I use a standard midi cable.

 

[cschreppel]

Yep. You can do this pretty easily. I've found that Reason is more easily controlled by a keyboard controller like the Oxygen 8 than something that is meant to replicate a recording console.