Okay friends I need some help here. I have a small gig at this cafe on friday the 27th, nothing too fancy, just me and a MIDI keyboard playing through reason with some Jazz stuff. I have all my tunes set up so there is a solo section in the middle which I improvise over while reason loops it. Depending on how the song feels and how the audience is reacting I may let it loop 1 time or 10 times, the problem is that toggling the loop off when I want continue to the end of the song is a real hassle on the laptop since I have to move the mouse over the button and the usually forces to make a gap in my playing which sounds pretty bad, so is there a way I can maybe map the loop toggle to the enter key or some other button so that I can turn it off without having to pause too much in my playing? Or could I map it to a button on the keyboard? This is my first solo gig (I've played a handful of shows with bands but never completely by myself) and I want it to go as smoothly as possible. In case it matters I'll list my equipment.

MacBook Laptop
Reason 4
Roland Phantom Keyboard
Turtle Beach MIDI to USB cable

Thanks alot guys.

I can only answer this Q with one answer ... Yes !

The "loop" button can be assigned to a button/controllerknob , i do own a Behringer BCF2000 , and i have the "loop" button assigned to one of his buttons (on/off)
So i can imagine with a program like "Bome's virtual KB" you should be able to assign it to your pc's Key's ...

(Thats one of the best parts of Reason .. every knob init can be controlled through a midi-controller ... )

Greetzzzzzzzzz

Remy aka SCEZ

(I do hope i answered your Question ... , cos my English aint as good as my Swahili ...lol)

(Just right-click the lill button ... and choose "Edit Remote Override mapping" to assign a button on your Keyboard ...)

One cool thing you could do to set the loop left and right indicators faster, is to use the key cmd's ctrl+click to set the left indicator and click where you want the left indicator to be placed and the same for the right indicator with the alt+click key to set the right indicator, in the time line up in the sequencer window, make it quantize to bar then you can quickly set the loop where you want, go to the end of track and set the the right indicator with the alt+click at the end if you wanna make it to continue to the end.

I didn't know this - neat trick! Thanks for sharing.

I believe you can map the loop on/off function to a key on your laptop very easily. I'm not sure about the Mac version but on my PC, if I mouse over the loop on/off button, right click and select "edit keyboard control mapping" I can assign that function to any key.