I opened an old project today and found that I could not get anything I played to Record. I looked around and here is what I saw...

- All cables and device connections were unchanged\fine.

- I noticed that the little piano icon in the sequencer (next to the Record-Arm button) did not activate when I pressed a key, though I heard sound. I figure that until I can get that Icon to respond, nothing will record.

- In the Hardware Interface I have my external audio interface selected on Bus A. This is normal. When I play, channel 1 lights up, and I can select any synth via the hardware device and hear it play, but nothing is responsive in the sequencer.

What am I missing here? What did I do?

Assuming that you've armed the right track, try reinstalling drivers?

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thanks, but that doesn't seem to work. Besides, I'm using a mac, and the drivers ain't failed me yet.

Normally you don't need to have the channels up at the hardware interface set to a synth to make them work, right? Now if I want to activate an instrument, thats what I need to do. But the sequencer just doesn't seem to be aware of it. the "In" icon down there doesn't register, even though the instrument and the hardware interface does.

Does this sound like something's wrong in my preferences menu? Not sure where else to check...

Normally, the hardware interface has a stereo bus coming from the master out of the mixer. You should see a green light for those two busses on channels one and two.

Joe

I certainly do see those green lights on channel 1 and 2.

But the volume bars do not register (nor does anything else) until I select a device on channel 1 to the upper left. I've never had to do that before.

Even then, the sequencer track is unresponsive. It registers no input, and can't record, even though the instrument is clearly activated and making noise.

Also, another thing I noticed, which appears to be a symptom of this problem:

I can't assign any knobs on my midi controller. When I edit remote override mapping, and click "learn from control surface input," it can't detect the controller. As I said before, I can play the synths with this controller, so long as I manually select them on a channel in the hardware interface.

So reason is definitely detecting the controller in that case, since I'm using the keyboard to play audible notes. I dunno, this is really weird. Its like the midi has no trouble getting in to reason, but it hits a dead end halfway in there somewhere.

I don't know man. I'm at a loss here. You might have some corrupt files or something like that. If it were me, I would reinstall Reason. I know that's like a catch all solution, but maybe, just maybe that will fix it.

Joe

Fixed it.

Turns out the issue was my keyboard. I can't tell you why, but reinstalling M-Audio's midi software did the trick. Of course, I also went through the trouble of uninstalling and reinstalling reason, but it looks like that was just for the fun of it.

Well, sorry about the Reason reinstall, but I couldn't think of anything else. Anyway, I'm glad that you've got it working.

Joe