Friktion on a Stream Deck +

Select a Friktion in the rack and the deck shows its controls: 12 pages and 77 parameters, built from Friktion's Remote parameters.

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

Friktion landing page. Back goes to the hub

Bowing — Friktion landing page. Back goes to the hub

Landing dials#

The landing page opens on Volume, Patch, Pitch and Mod. Each dial has more banks behind it: press and turn a dial to step through them. Friktion has 8 banks. Where a cell lists more than one parameter, tap it on the strip to choose which one the dial turns. See dial banks.

Bank	Dial 1	Dial 2	Dial 3	Dial 4
1	Master Level	Select Patch	Pitch Bend	Mod Wheel
2	Articulation Attack / Decay / Release / Shape	Bow Pressure	Vibrato Amount / Rate / Delay / Scale Select	LFO Rate / LFO Wave / Mod Env Attack / Mod Env Decay
3	Sustain Level / Sustain Control Select / Velocity Curve / Velocity to Start Level	Bow Position / Noise / Accent / Variation	Key Mode / Glide Mode / Glide Time / Pitch Bend Range	Mod1 Amt / Mod2 Amt / Mod3 Amt / Mod4 Amt
4	Resonator Select / Size / Smear / Direct	Pluck Level / Pluck Noise / Pluck Position / Pull Level	Octave Transpose / Sustain Pedal Function / Vibrato On	Reverb Level / Decay / Type / Early Reflections
5	Resonator Width / EQ Lo Gain / EQ Hi Gain / EQ On	Pull Velocity Threshold / Articulation to Bow Pressure / Bow-Pluck Mode / Pluck Style	Number of Players / Random Timing / Stereo Image / Tremolo Rate	Reverb On
6	EQ Parametric Freq / Gain / Q	String Decay / Hi Damp Frequency / Hi Damp Slope / Hi Damp Keyfollow	Doubling On / Tremolo On	–
7	–	Release Damp Amount / Finger Non-linearity / Fingerboard Collisions / Release Damp On	–	–
8	–	Harmonics Position / Touch / On	–	–

Pages#

The keys on the landing page open Friktion's sections. The Groups key opens Harmonics, EQ, Reverb, LFO/Mod Env, Players and Performance. Each page puts that section's controls on the four dials, labelled with the parameter names Reason gives its Remote protocol. Switch keys light up when the setting is on.

From the landing keys

Page	Dial 1	Dial 2	Dial 3	Dial 4	Keys
Bowing	Bow Pressure	Bow Position	Bow Noise / Accent	Bow Variation / Articulation to Bow Pressure	`Pluck`
Pluck	Pluck Level	Pluck Noise	Pluck Position	Pull Level / Velocity Threshold	`Col Legno`
String	String Decay	Hi Damp Frequency / Slope / Keyfollow	Release Damp Amount	Finger Non-linearity / Fingerboard Collisions	`Rel Damp`
Articulation	Articulation Attack / Decay	Articulation Release / Shape	Velocity Curve / to Start Level	Sustain Level / Control Select	–
Vibrato	Vibrato Amount	Vibrato Rate	Vibrato Delay	Vibrato Scale Select	`Vibrato`
Resonator Body	Resonator Select	Resonator Size	Resonator Smear	Resonator Direct / Width	–

Inside Groups

Page	Dial 1	Dial 2	Dial 3	Dial 4	Keys
Harmonics	Harmonics Position	Harmonics Touch	–	–	`Harm`
EQ	EQ Lo Gain / Hi Gain	EQ Parametric Freq	EQ Parametric Gain	EQ Parametric Q	`EQ`
Reverb	Reverb Level	Reverb Decay	Reverb Type	Reverb Early Reflections	`Reverb`
LFO/Mod Env	LFO Rate / Wave	Mod Env Attack / Decay	Mod1 Amt / Mod2 Amt	Mod3 Amt / Mod4 Amt	–
Players	Number of Players	Random Timing	Stereo Image	Tremolo Rate	`Double` `Tremolo`
Performance	Master Level	Key Mode / Glide Mode	Glide Time / Pitch Bend Range	Octave Transpose / Sustain Pedal Function	–

How it follows#

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

Which edition#

Friktion is in Reason Remote ($20), which follows all 27 devices. It is not in Lite: select one with Lite installed and the deck shows a page saying the full version covers it. Lite vs full.

Get Reason Remote · $20 Lite: 8 other devices, free

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