1. Reason Control Surface Installation

Run the installer on MacMacOS or PCWindows and it will install the following:

1. The Reason Control Surface app. Mac: Applications folder and Windows: Program Files/ MP Reason Control Surface
2. The Reason Control Surface launcher on your Desktop
3. The presets for Reason native devices in the /MP/Host/MP Reason CS Presets
4. The Reason Control Surface scripts and remotemap file in
   Mac OSX:
   ~/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Remote/Codecs/Lua Codecs
   Windows:
   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Propellerhead Software\Remote\Codecs\Lua
   Codecs
   
   Mac OSX:
   ~/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Remote/Maps
   Windows:
   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Propellerhead Software\Remote\Maps

Run the Reason Control Surface launcher from your Desktop and it will start the control surface app and Reason.

When you close Reason, the control surface app will quit as well after a couple of seconds.

When opening it takes a few seconds for Reason to send all the necessary data to the control surface. You can then select any device or track to control it.

Installation on Windows:

To use the MP MIDI on Windows, you need to install a virtual midi port software.
We recommend loopMIDI which is a free utility software. There are others as well like LoopBe30. LoopMIDI allows you to create many virtual ports you need and set custom names for each port.
For the Reason Control Surface we need two ports, one for sending another one for receiving MIDI CC messages. After you install loopMIDI, open loopMIDI and add a port, name it "FROM REASON CS", then add another port and name it "TO REASON CS" so it will look like this:

 

Run the Reason Control Surface launcher from your Desktop and it will start the control surface app and Reason.

Open Reason > Preferences and add the control surface. Select the available MIDI ports. For Windows Select