First Time Reason Setup Video Lecture | Reason Tutorials: The Ultimate Guide - Video & Sound Editing

congratulations you've just got reason
you're ready to make some amazing music
but first you've got to do a little
one-time setup and let's face it the
setup screens are not the most exciting
process but in a couple minutes we'll
walk you through the process and get you
on to the fun stuff and as a reward for
sticking out the boring stuff with us we
just might show you an adorable puppy at
the end of this video the first time you
run reason you'll be asked to set up the
inputs and outputs for your audio and
midi hardware first up is the sound
input and output here we see every sound
Hardware option we have available to us
this includes any external USB audio
interfaces with custom drivers we may
have installed or it could be as simple
as the built-in sound card on our
computer will choose the built-in sound
card and we'll leave the sample rate at
its default setting if you have a MIDI
keyboard a hardware mixing controller or
a drum pad controller you can set it up
for use in reason if you don't have any
such hardware simply click skip many
popular brands and models of keyboards
will be recognized and set up
automatically simply by choosing auto
detect like this
but what if your particular controller
isn't auto-detected fortunately setup is
still a breeze choose your manufacturer
and keyboard model if your manufacturer
or specific keyboard isn't listed you
can always choose other as your
manufacturer and MIDI control keyboard
as a generic profile when choosing your
controller manually you'll also be
prompted to specify any MIDI inputs or
outputs that are available on your
device reasons main window uses the f5
f6 and f7 keys for switching between the
mixer rack and sequencer views on Mac
computers you may want to change your
system preferences to activate these
keys which are reassigned by Apple for
control of iTunes and keyboard
backlighting the next screen helps us
improve reason by having your copy of
reasons and us error reports and usage
statistics to make sure it's performing
as expected we're not collecting any
personal information and certainly none
of your music if you're the private type
you can uncheck this box to disable this
the last screen is where you choose what
you want to do next you can open a demo
song to start looking around a finished
song and getting inspired or you can set
up a template that will be used every
time you start a new song I like to
choose a new song template set it to
empty plus effects and click finish this
sets me up in reason with a blank song
ready for me to do my thing but it also
pre wires some basic effects devices
into my mixer which I use all the time
when writing new music and that's it
you're set up and ready to go if you're
wondering where to go next be sure to
check out our other getting started
video with DJ lucky date where he makes
your first beat together with you good
luck and enjoy reason
oh I nearly forgot about that promise
okay you earned it
here you go