I just bought reason 4.0 and an axiom 25 keyboard and I've got a couple of questions.

When I click through all the different instrument sounds my keyboard seems to play them all correctly but when I try to play a drum kit through my keyboard none of the keys play the drum sounds. I can fix this problem in remote overide edit mode (which is really time consuming) but then once I close reason and try to open up the drumkit again i have to reprogram all the keys again. theres gotta be an easier way to do this right?

also when I'm using redrum and I program a beat by clicking the light up step buttons, how do I record that beat onto the device lanes below?

Right click on the numerical-pad on the redrum (pattern select) , and choose edit automatisation ... , a new track appears on the sequencer now ... , now you can automate the patterns on the redrum ... (By drawing in what pattern should play .. )

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This might be your issue as far as the keyboard: Redrum recognizes C1 through A1

Another way to get the patterns into the sequencer is to right click the Redrum>Copy Pattern To Track. If you do it this way, turn off the "pattern enable" button on redrum or you'll have it playing twice and sounding strange.

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Thanks guys that helps alot. I got one more question though. Once i got my drum pattern in my track all the notes look black instead of red how they usually are and I can't edit them. If i click around some more everything turns to blue and all sorts of weird stuff starts happening. I have the same problem if I try and edit the notes that I recorded with my keyboard onto reason.

Well ...
When u recorded something , it appears on the sequencer as an "box" ... , double-click on this "box" , and you can edit you're @ss off

Greetzzzzzz

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sweet that's really easy lol..say I make a pattern with redrum and " Copy pattern to track" How do I copy more patterns to the same track afterwards? so the patterns flow right into eachother in the same track

you can add multiple sequencer lanes to a single redrum. Right click on the left pane of the sequener and click "new note lane".

And Additional "copy pattern to track" adds this for you.

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Thanks, you guys are great! Whats the easiest way to load an entire song into reason? I converted the song I want into a wave and tried to load it into the NN19 digital sampler but for some reason it wont let me find the file (even though i saved it on my desktop in plain sight)

Well , actually thats a bit useless , loading a complete song into a NN19 ...
Reason aint the platform to perform this kinda actions .

If this is the way you work , then you should consider Rewiring into a DAW who can handle wav/mp3 files as well (Cubase , ProTools , Live , Acid , Reaper ...and off course Record )

Greetzzzzzzzz

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So it's not possible to get songs that Ie recorded before onto reason? Like I have songs from audacity that are just bass and guitar so I need to load them into reason so i can add drums. theres no way to do this? say I want to repeat a certain drum pattern for a few mesures and then repeat another drum pattern with a faster tempo afterwards. is there any way to do this or does reason only allow you to create beats with redrum that are all the same tempo for a song?