Reason Remote

Instruments Combinator

Combinator on a Stream Deck +

Select a Combinator in the rack and the deck follows it like any instrument. The dials hold its rotaries and the keys hold its buttons.

Full and Lite Reason Remote 1.4.0 · Lite 1.3.0

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Stream Deck + only (it needs the four dials) · Windows 10 or later · Reason 12 or later, or Reason Recon · about 20 minutes of setup, once

Patch
Button 1
Button 2
Button 3
Layout
Button 4
Button 5
Next
Touch strip: Rotary 1, Rotary 2, Rotary 3, Rotary 4
  1. Dial 1Rotary 1
  2. Dial 2Rotary 2
  3. Dial 3Rotary 3
  4. Dial 4Rotary 4
The Combinator page, full version. In Lite the first key is Back

What the dials do#

A Combinator's panel is different in every patch, so its page is built from the patch rather than from a fixed list. The dials hold the rotaries, one row of four at a time, and the pads hold the buttons, six to a page with Next and Prev. The deck shows only the rotaries and buttons the patch wires up, and follows as you browse patches.

Press a dial to step to the next row. Hold and turn to sweep through them.

RowDial 1Dial 2Dial 3Dial 4
1Rotary 1Rotary 2Rotary 3Rotary 4
2Rotary 5Rotary 6Rotary 7Rotary 8
3Rotary 9Rotary 10Rotary 11Rotary 12
4Rotary 13Rotary 14Rotary 15Rotary 16
5Rotary 17Rotary 18Rotary 19Rotary 20
6Rotary 21Rotary 22Rotary 23Rotary 24
7Rotary 25Rotary 26Rotary 27Rotary 28
8Rotary 29Rotary 30Rotary 31Rotary 32

Reason only gives a control surface the names Rotary 1 and Button 7. A layout gives them the names on your patch's panel, and many patches get one automatically.

The patch page#

Back
Prev
Next
Run
Bypass
  1. Dial 1Mixer Level
  2. Dial 2Select Patch
  3. Dial 3Pitch
  4. Dial 4Mod
The Combinator's patch page

Prev and Next step through patches, Run starts and stops the Combinator's pattern devices, and Bypass is Bypass All FX. Dial 2 browses patches and the strip shows the patch name. The full walk-through is on The Combinator.

How it follows#

Select a Combinator in the rack and the Reason Remote codec, installed during setup, tells the plugin which device has focus. The deck opens Combinator's landing page, and values go both ways: turn a dial and Combinator moves, change a control in Reason and the touch strip follows.

Which edition#

Combinator is in both editions: free in Reason Remote Lite, which follows 8 devices, and in Reason Remote ($20), which follows all 27. The pages below are the same in both.

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New to the deck? Getting started covers setup, and Instrument pages explains landing pages, sections and folders.