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Mac status
What works on a Mac today, and what does not. The plugin is Windows-only, so the deck does not follow your selection.
There is no Mac build of the Stream Deck plugin, and no date for one.
| Mac | Windows | |
|---|---|---|
| Reason codec and maps | Installs | Installs |
| Both control surfaces | You add them yourself | The installer registers them on Reason 13 or later |
| Virtual MIDI ports | IAC Driver, four buses, created by hand | loopMIDI, created by the installer |
| Stream Deck plugin | No | Yes |
| Auto-follow | No | Yes |
| Dials drawing live values | No, because that is the plugin | Yes |
The installer is the same command on both:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automate-Pros/reason-remote-setup/main/install.ps1 | iexOn a Mac it copies the codec into Reason's Remote folders. Without sudo that is your user Library, which Reason reads. The IAC buses and the two surfaces stay manual. The steps are in the setup repo: create four IAC buses, restart Reason, add Automate Pros Stream Deck+ Remote on ports 1 and 2 and Stream Deck+ Master on ports 3 and 4, then lock Master to the Master Section.
What you get is a pair of working Reason surfaces. You can drive them from a Stream Deck profile you import yourself. The plugin is what switches pages when you select a device, and that plugin does not run on macOS. The setup guide says the macOS paths follow Reason's documented layout and have not been tested on a Mac.
Buying the full version does not change this. Lite and the full version are the same Windows plugin with a different instrument list.
If a Mac plugin ships, this page will say so, with a version. Until that sentence is here, it has not shipped.