Hi,
I was trying to use two keyboards together on the same time during a live performance. I had this problem that I couldn't play two different instruments at the same time.

what I want to do is to play on one instrument with the first keyboard, and with the other keyboard to play on a different instrument.


can I do such thing in reason?
Thank you,
Roy

Hmm.. Good question. From my understanding you can have only one "active" instrument at a time. You can see which instrument is active by looking in the sequencer section, the active one would have a keyboard icon next to it.

Hi. Ive tried to work this out too but couldn't. I've ended up using 2 laptops ( i know a bit swish) but then had clocking issues linking up abelton and reson on different machines so they ran i time. im afraid i havnt over come this yet, ill let you know if i do, i have a my resident techy onto a solution.

you should use the combinator

put the two instruments in the combinator, then split the keyboard in the combinator "show programmer section" (you should click the button in front of the panel to open it)


you could obtain the same goal by usin the "midi device in panel" at the top of the sequencer page

here you have 16 midi channel, every device or instrument you made can be assigned to a singular channel

enjoy it!

Well how about using the program in rewire with an host application that can use two keyboards. Assign the instruments to two different audio channels in that program and the keyboard to each. If you want a solution using only reason then the above post is a very good suggestion.

Edit: Well now that I think about it I'm not even sure if my suggestion would work, now I gotta test it out.

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i guess this should work ..but you should use midi channels instead of audio channels...(audio channels doesn't carry any midi message)

Yeah I typed audio by mistake because usually when I create a midi channel for a device in rewire I almost always accompany it with an Audio channel. Thanks for pointing that out.

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