52 Reason / Record Tips - Week 23: Record Key Commands to Speed up Your Work

This week I'm coming to you from the UK with round two of our key command bonanza. This week we go over some of the commonality between Reason and Record then look at some Record specific shortcuts. Once you master these you could practically throw out your mouse... one hand on the computer keyboard and the other on a controller keyboard.

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[LeeyaK]

This is great, but I still have one extremely basic question: What is the key command to bring the cursor back to the beginning of the session??

Thanks.

[PropellerheadSW]

@LeeyaK press the Enter key once to stop, twice to return to your loop marker, and three times to to go the start of the session

[jexter1983]

L don't reduce cable, it turns on/off Loop (Record 1.5)

[PropellerheadSW]

@jexter1983 true story. some key commands changed in Reason 5/Record 1.5

[kittehjam]

I'll put them here if anyone is curious anyway;

(/) loop on/off

(*) record

(+ -) tempo up/down

(4 5) Rewind Fastfarward

(1 2) align cursor to L or R marker

(0) pressed once stops, twice moves cursor to last position you played from, three times back to start of track

(enter) play

[PropellerheadSW]

@ASharawadji Based on my understanding from talking to the engineers, all the audio passed around inside of Reason is 32bit floating point. It's 24bit when bouncing out to a file on your desktop. To my knowledge, there is no music delivery format higher than 24bit when sharing with consumers and listeners.

[djangotsp]

The change from using cmd+1 and cmd+2 (control+1/2 on Windows) to F6 and F7 for the rack and sequencer views was the only thing I hated about switching to Record. It seemed totally arbitrary and annoying. For a few weeks I was even pressing cmd+3 expecting to see the mixer!

After more than a year I still have to look down to find F5-F7- they're furthest from either hand's default typing position and squashed between other important windows. The old ones you could find blindfold!

[djangotsp]

@Iceboy575655 Sounds like you're suffering form latency. Hooking your MIDI keyboard up won't help. Go to Preferences > Audio and decrease the buffer size. If you pull it too low you may hear cracks and pops, so try and find a balance between the speed you want and the speed your computer can handle. If you're on Windows and can't get the delay short enough for your liking, check out a piece of software called ASIO4ALL.

[mcRioRemedy]

great tip number 23

[mcRioRemedy]

@Iceboy575655 yes, hook up your midi

[Iceboy575655]

Hello. I havent hooked up my midi keyboard yet so I just use my keyboard keys. But whenever I use the keyboard keys, the piano always is delayed or just fades out. Any tips? Thanks.

[dodexodus]

Great tutorial as always! Any chance of getting the title of that first track that played? Cheers

[ASB259]

Loving the opening delay line!! I want to hear the full song!!!

[benitoruben]

@jexter1983 its K reduce cables