Axiom 25 / 49 / 61 knobs and sliders not working in Reason 4? FIXED!!

The 1st gen M-Audio Axiom controllers are a pain to get working in Reason. There's also one HUGELY IMPORTANT step that M-Audio only lists as a "side point" that most people ignore... myself included. The instruction guide must have been written by an intern. Very stupid, M-Audio! Thanks for a great product and terrible instructions, as usual in this industry!

Here's the edited instructions, in case the video doesn't work for you. The video ONLY covers the "missing"/hidden instruction, so you need to have your Axiom working with at least the keys responding. Follow the guide on M-Audio's site, making sure to recall preset 10. THEN:

THE MISSING STEP: You need to select all groups. Hit the "Zone/Group" button, then press all group buttons at once: A, B, C, D. If you have an Axiom 25, it will just be A, B, C. Group A is for the keyboard alone, I believe, whereas the others control the knobs/sliders.

You should see all groups lit up on the LCD screen.. "GROUP A" "GROUP B" "GROUP C" "GROUP D"... Your knobs and sliders should now work.

Category:

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• axiom
• reason
• knobs
• sliders
• buttons
• not
• working
• broken
• fix

[Mrmtjones]

baaaa! i think i have an axiom 49 second generation and I don't see ABCD. I have Zone and then 1234 and groups FEP but I dont get how to make this work. SOO frustrating. help?

[dugwyler]

@Mrmtjones On the 2nd gen, it looks like they tried to make it a little more intuitive, because obviously the way it was designed on the 1st gen made it really hard for people to use properly. I took a look at a detailed image of the 2nd gen and it seems like in the top left corner of each section of special inputs (sliders, knobs and drumpads) there's a tiny button marked Group. Just make sure all of those are depressed to be sure the input gets through.

[TheVividCode]

Didn't explain how to use the knobs.mNm

[dugwyler]

@TheVividCode Once you enable all groups you'll be able to control knobs and sliders in Reason by following the normal directions. Try it out.

[nraph707]

thanks so much - that was incredibly helpful!

[tandra14]

you just made four producers engineers and general music enthusiasts very fucking happy

[estrathmeyer]

You are a hero! Worked for my Axiom 25 1gen.

[DjTheVision]

@dugwyler My led screen says off instead of a number.. what do i do to change that?

[ginghamslut]

@dugwyler I believe what the FEP buttons do has to do with DirectLink. I guess, if I read it correctly, DirectLink is basically a premapped layout of fader/knob/button/key assignments within the various devices found in reason. The idea, yet again I may be reading it wrong, is that when the button is on, let's say the F button, all the various premapped assignments will be active, when it's off they're all free as a bird. I'll having trouble with my 2nd gen axiom 49 as well.

[Reevesbeatz1]

Thanks alot man!!!

[jimdino77]

lmao & thanks @ ur tutorial ....

[dugwyler]

@dunklk Cool, glad it worked in the end. Yeah, preset 10 is the one that's written to by Reason, so make sure you have that selected when using it. (For old versions of Reason, the Axiom used something like 6 different presets, each for a different instrument, which is now thankfully unnecessary.)

For anyone else, if following this vid doesn't fix your problem, make sure you're familiar with how control surfaces work in Reason in general (select the instrument you want to use for example).