Hola. A few quick, noob questions... I'm using an Axiom 25 w/Reason 3.0 (OS X).

1) I create a DrRex Loop Player and load a loop, I can trigger slices of that loop with the keys of the Axiom 25 after I map the Dr.Rex to the Axiom via the MIDI IN. (a) How can I trigger the entire loop with a single key? (b) How do I make a note sustain so even after I remove my finger from the key, it fades off instead of ending abruptly? (c) How do I make subsequent key presses "chop off" the previous note? (d) Inversely, how do I allow subsequent notes to "layer" over each other?

2) In the sequencer, I've created a new sequencer track, hit record, then play and hit a few keys mapped to the subtractor. I play for a few minutes with the keys and come up with a section I like. I know how to select that group but how can I (a) tell Reason to delete everything that isn't selected? (b) I've noticed that if I select a group of notes, pasting WILL paste them but at the same place in the song from whence they were cut. Why can't I just cut/copy those four beats and paste them in blocks wherever my cursor is?

3) Suppose I load a Redrum patch and want to map the first bank (say, a kick drum) to Middle C. I want to map the second bank (high hat) to C# and finally the third bank to D. How would I do this? Would I use the same method to map, say, the next five keys to control a synth, or the pads to some FX on the Malstrom? How about mapping knobs on the MIDI to various knobs on different instruments?

The Axiom came with very little (read; zero) documentation.

Thanks much in advance,
bodhiSoma

Make sure you have the right sound card selected in Preferences.

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1. As for making a rex loop and making it play all the way, load it up in Dr. Rex player and press "to track" if your track is at the correct tempo, and you've set everything correctly before you made it into a rex file, it should play back smoothly. As for making it "fade out", that can be done by adjusting the fadeout opitions in nn-xt, make sure you click on what sample(s) you want to fade out first then use the option.Also, if you just want to hit a key once and then let the sample play out, try increasing the release amount on the nn-xt to your liking. As for trying to make subsequent tracks interrupt each other, you simply don't fiddle with the release option so the sample doesn't play longer then you hold the key and then you play according to how you wanted your sampled played out. And as for them layering over each other, well you just press both keys your samples (the samples you wanted to layer) were assigned to at the same time>

2. As far as I know reason has no ability to delete what isn't selected. As for the pasting issue. Just create a group of your midi notes, select that group, press "ctrl+c"(the copy shortcut) you see the "Play line or P line" move infront of the group, now press "ctrl+v"(the paste shortcut). It will move right infront of you last group you can keep on pasting till you have as much groups and if you don't want them immediately after the last one just copy then change where the "P" line is and it'll paste right infront of the line. By the way it doesn't just work with one group, you can copy whatever you select on the sequencer, including automation data.

3. Okay maybe I'm just extremely dumb, but I've found that you can't not remap the assigned keys on the redrum. So my guess is that you just have to use the default assigned keys that begin on the starts at key C1 on your keyboard. However you want to play multiple instruments without on one keyboard, or "have the next five keys be a synth", you can select the devices you want to be played all with one key range and then right click and press combine, this will put them into a combinator,which you can then use "Show Programmer" and program what devices play on what key ranges. This is probably the most difficult solution without visual aid I explaned, so if you need further help, just ask.


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For problem 3 - just load up the samples in an NNXT sampler and route the samples to the keys you want them to be triggered by. You obvioslly lose the ability to use the redrum pattern editor. But by the sounds of things you want to play them "live".

yeah, I've had to do that before, it's a lot easier than you'd think.

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