I just got Reason 3.0 today and I'm having some trouble with my Yamaha E403 keyboard. Reason recognizes it and everything is installed properly. The only problem is that the mixer in Reason only shows activity when one of the Synthesizers is open and even then, the sound is all distorted (as if it has been synthesized)

How can i get straight output from the keyboard to Reason and then proceed record it?

Thanks in advance

Well, let me tell you that if you want record the sound of your keyboard this won't happen, cause reason don't work with analog audio in that way.

It's good thing you have a keyboard working with reason, it seems like some people, would but they can't. With reason, your keyboard behaves like a MIDI controller, in other words, like a remote control of reason devices (as you said, the synths, even the drum box called redrum, and all other stuff you put on the rack). Always you want record something on reason you must do it with the KEYS of your keyboard, through reason instruments.

In the secondary window —sequencer— will appear tracks for each instrument you add into the rack. In the left side of those tracks you choose the instrument you want to be controlled by your physical keyboard —as said, your midi controller—, alright? Then, just press record and play.

I hope this can help.
greets, Darbo

So there's abselutley NO way I can play sound (either from the keyboard or Reason) on my Yamaha keyboard?

I'm pretty sure I saw a video on YouTube of a guy doing just that...

*Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58COwXfBzdY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0UPKqJjHwU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pgvzua6SB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0psmHuwSIo

And there's plenty more...

AS I SAID IN MY LAST POST: REASON CAN'T REPRODUCE THE INCOMING SOUND OF YOUR KEYBOARD. But it plays sounds from libraries called patches. You can put notes in reason for play them by two ways: using the pen tool in the sequencer view OR USING A KEYBOARD, sending midi signals that reason's instruments traduces in its them sound.

Example: connected to REASON, try to figure that YOU KEYBOARD is configured —setted?— to reproduce flute sound, alright?
1) then select a Substractor in the Reason's rack, click on the browse-patch button and
2) select the Reason Factory Sound Bank folder located at left of the browser window
3) choose the substractor patches folder
4) then select the Bass folder and make a decision between a patch.
Are you ready?
now: tell me WHAT YOU EAR? a flute?! no! you ear a BASS, cause in fact, really reason reproduces sound, but no the sound of you keyboard, not the sound that comes out from your keyboard SPEAKERS!!! (i've seen photos of your yamaha). Now, why? well, let me try to xplain it to you: Not all keyboards comes with integrated sounds. There are keyboards called midi controllers that works with sofware applications or other kind of sound modules as a remote control. Reason, as a sound bank, needs an external keyboard to be properly used. You attach to REASON you keyboard to useit lke a remote control, not like a normal keyboard.

Please, read your keyboard manual, from page 85 ahead, you will see what happens in the midi world:
http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/...e403_en_om.pdf

I hope this helps

Darbo

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http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=...ardcontrollers

Check this link, this is a clear example of midi controllers, there is a lot of other brands like edirol, novation, korg, roland.

Read this definition taken from wikipedia:

[edit] MIDI controllers which are hardware and software

The following are classes of MIDI controller:

The human interface component of a traditional instrument redesigned as a MIDI control device. The most common type of device in this class is the keyboard controller. Such a device provides a musical keyboard and perhaps other actuators (pitch bend and modulation wheels, for example) but produces no sound on its own. It is intended only to drive other MIDI devices. Percussion controllers such as the Roland Octapad fall into this class, as do guitar-like controllers such as the SynthAxe and a variety of wind controllers.

The complete article is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_controller


Now, reason takes your yamaha keyboard like a midi controller. If you want record the sound of your keyboard, you need another kind of application (cubase, protools, motu DP) and other procedure to get the sound of your keyboard into your computer.

i hope this will be more helpful than confusing.

Darbo