I'm currently working with my friend who is a fantastic piano player. The way we work involves me creating a synth device for him to play on while I lay out the drum track in ReDrum or Dr. Rex. It used to be that you had to double click on a device to get the midi keyboard to control it. For some reason, whatever track I click on now is immediately set to be controlled by the midi keyboard.

So he can't play the subtractor device while I track out the drums. When I click on the redrum to start working, it makes it so the midi keyboard starts playing the Redrum. Is there some setting in Reason 4 that I need to change so it won't do this or what? If this is something I can't change, I'm gonna be real upset cause thats just silly.. Thanks for the help

A way around it might be to have two songs open, one for the drums and one for the piano.

I don't think there is a way around this, it's something that propellor should look into if they read this.

Here here,

In Reason 3 I used to watch one track while I recorded another on the keyboard, this way I could watch for chord changes etc, now however I need to remember what chords or notes are on the other track, it sucks.

exactly! i almost had a mental breakdown when i realized they changed it to be like that.. i dont understand why they would do something like that.. does logic do this? if not, i think im going to start looking into logic.. or maybe ill revert to reason 3 and keep 4 around for specific tasks.. but this basically makes it impossible for us to work together. im upset. and im not an expert user of reason so i might not know the purpose of this, but whats the point of having to take the pencil tool and dragging out an area that you want to lay notes in on instruments? that just seems like another hassle they've put in to slow down your work..

anyone know someone at propellerheads that i can bitch at? hehe just kidding, but i wish they would fix the whole midi thing..

I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this using the "hardware interface" device, but I'm not at a computer with reason right now so I'll have to check later.

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EDIT: yes, you can use the hw-interface to assign a MIDI channel fixed to a device.

Yep all you have to do is to go to your "Advance Control" page in the preference menu and assign your midi controller (or controllers) to a bus, then in extend your hardware interface device and select the bus thats assigned to your controller, then select channel 1 (or whatever channel your midi controller is using) and with the drop down box select the device you want your controller to lock to. I did it with two of my midi controllers and was able to play two devices just fine (one using bus A the other using bus B), however I dont think you can multi track record, so you'll have to record midi from the two devices separately.

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Oops forgot a step, also after you assign your piano device to a channel 1 of your keyboard, right click the redrum and lock that to your midi device, so now when you click on your redrum track in the sequencer the keyboard playing shouldnt affect the redrum device.

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Nice work SG, I'll give it a go next time i'm on Reason.