Hello and greetings from Norway First post here. Looking forward to helping and getting help from you guys

I'm working on getting a decent studio setup. I recently purchased the M-audio Prokeys 88 along with the Korg NanoKontrol to get a good studio and live setup. My "problem" doesn't really concern the studio setup but it could be vital for a good live performance.

Is there a way for Reason to more clearly state what device my MIDI is currently hooked up to? Or some way I can write a program to read this and output with relatively large letters? The ultimate solution would be a "live window" that updates on each device change (Set up a midi hotkey for this).
I'd set up a screenie of the NanoKontrol and explain what each knob, slider and button does depending on the currently active device

Anyone got any ideas or tips about this? Is there a DAW that does this through ReWire perhaps? Can I achieve this through ReWire?

I've never heard of such a thing being done, but I'm willing to bet you get used to the interface and don't need to worry about it after a while. However, if the screen is too small to see what's going on you can adjust the resolution of the monitor down a step or two, that's the best I've got.

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You can use multiple Midi busses inside reason and also use multiple hardware interfaces. I have seen this one done once. And what it comes down too is that you should program would devices to respond to the responding busses. But also, make the keyboards play on those busses which are programmed.

So, for instance: NN-XT, midi bus 1. The ProKeys 88 to bus 1
Take a redrum and make it listen to the Bus 2, and set the midi output of the nanopad on bus 2.

The bus changes can be made somewhere at the top of the rack. That is one thing I can remember (don't have reason at work, so I can't fact check it here).

This is the basic theory behind it. Like I said, I have seen some live perfomance artist make it happen with 2 keyboards where he was playing 2 different NN-XT patches at the same time. I think it could/should work the exact same way.

However, I am not sure if your midi keyboard / nanopad supports midi bus changes. This part is vital (since it listens to a different MIDI input port, where there are 16 in total if i can recall correctly).

It's all a bit vague I am typing here, since I can't fact check it at this point. But hopefully this will kick you in some direction which you might find usefull on this matter.

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