USING THE REASON 6 MIXER
Reason 6 adds a more comprehensive mixer than the standard 14:2 previously used.
To control the Reason 6 mixer with the Nucleus, the 1st thing you need to do is right click on the master section in the rack view and select 'create track for master section'.
With this new track selected in sequencer, the Nucleus faders now control the Reason mixer's faders, and you can bank left and right to access all available tracks.
The VPots can control many different things depending on what mode they are in, which is set by the buttons above the left hand display.
Working through the options from left to right:
With the Instrument button selected, the VPots
With the Plugin button selected VPots
With the EQ button selected the Vpots control the channel input gain, which if you then hit a channel select button, VPots 1- 8 toggle to controlling the selected channel's dynamic section.
With the Pan button selected the VPots control Pan, which if you then hit a channel select button, VPots
With the Send button selected the VPots control FX1 send level, which if you then hit a channel select button, VPots
With the Track button selected the VPots control FX2 send level, which if you then hit a channel select button, VPots toggle to controlling the selected channel's Filters and EQ.
Once you get used to this control methodology, it becomes very quick and easy to control the entire Reason 6 mixer, toggling between seeing one parameter for ever channel (e.g. Pan) to having total control of an entire mixer section for the selected channel, (e.g. EQ).
Hopefully this makes sense, and should increase your enjoyment of Nucleus within the Reason environment even more.
Once you have mastered controlling the mixer, if you want to get really advanced it is also possible to set up 2 Nucleus layers to both control Reason simultaneously. Then, by using surface locking, DAW layer 1 can be set to always control the Reason mixer and DAW layer 2 can be used to control the rest of the rack, edit all your devices etc...
Nucleus’ User definition and Reason’s creative habitat make for a powerful combination.
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