1. Reason Control Surface Installation
Run the installer on MacOS or Windows and it will install the following:
- The Reason Control Surface app. Mac: Applications folder and Windows: Program Files/MP Reason Control Surface
- The Reason Control Surface launcher on your Desktop
- The presets for Reason native devices in the /MP/Host/MP Reason CS Presets
- 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
Installation and Control Surface configuration on MacOS:
Run the Reason Control Surface launcher from your Desktop
and it will start the control surface app and Reason.
The launcher app is made for Reason 13 and requires Reason to be in the Applications folder. If it does not start the Control Surface app and Reason, it is probably an issue with the permissions required.
Open Reason > Preferences and add the control surface. Click on "Add Manually" and select the MP Controller and the available MIDI ports.
When you close Reason, the control surface app will quit as well after a couple of seconds.
When running the Launcher 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.
The Reason Control Surface app must alway be ran before Reason so that it finds its MIDI ports.
Installation and Control Surface configuration 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.
Select TO REASON CS as the input port and FROM REASON CS as the output port.
When you close Reason, the control surface app will quit as well after a couple of seconds.
When running the Launcher 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.
To view the version or quit of the Reason Control Surface right click on the bar icon
To quit click OK on the popup window:
Documentation of the Reason Control Surface