WALKTHROUGH TUTORIAL: MPC + REASON (VIDEO TO BE ADDED SOON!)

J WALES wrote:ok, how about making a tut or just a write up on how to do a one pass from reason to pt nobody seems to know or care. one way i heard, which was really idiotic was to open intances of reason to match however many devices you have and bus, WTF!

Yo J Wales, I got ya back...

Here's the link:

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=721040#721040

Not to be a prick, but instead of wading through long pages of tedious descriptions, one could better just learn the basics of MIDI and sequencing. It's really not all that hard and you can apply the knowledge to a lot of different set ups, not just MPC + Reason.

mnh2410 wrote:
I was about to do this same thing. Make a tutorial for Reason. If anybody need help with connecting there MPC2000 to Reason get at me. I can show u how to get the most use out of your MPC2000.

Nicole

I need some help hooking up my MPC2000 to Reason. Im trying to use Reason as a sound module. I believe I Have Everything I need. Its Just the matter of hooking everything up the way its supposed to be.

Lampdog wrote:

sinister_keys wrote:i dont understand why every1 makin tut's for reason 3 when reason 4 will be out soon .. if you havent learned reason 3 by now you are waayy behind the pc beat makin learning curve..

Reason 3 and4 have the same preferences so it does not make a difference

i need help with my oxygen 8 this thing is sending midi notes to be recorded on mpc
Oxygen8(keyboard out)------> MPC midi In 1

HUGE shout to OP for posting this. I was successfully able to sync my MP with Reason 5 using his instructions and am having a blast recording-in Reason's instruments. This is f*cking awesome!

Let me also add that I'm a complete nuber when it comes to MIDI, so if I can get it to work, you guys should too.

Only thing I'm having trouble figuring out is how to get all of the sounds to play thru the same output because at the moment, Reason's instruments play out thru my laptop stereo jack to speakers, and any internal sounds loaded in the MP obviously play thru the stereo/coax out of my MP so mixing Reason instruments and internal sounds from MP is a no-go.

importztek wrote:
Only thing I'm having trouble figuring out is how to get all of the sounds to play thru the same output because at the moment, Reason's instruments play out thru my laptop stereo jack to speakers, and any internal sounds loaded in the MP obviously play thru the stereo/coax out of my MP

Time for a hardware mixer/audio interface maybe? Or go the Track out/DAW/Rewire/ software mixer route.

clint246clint wrote:

importztek wrote:
Only thing I'm having trouble figuring out is how to get all of the sounds to play thru the same output because at the moment, Reason's instruments play out thru my laptop stereo jack to speakers, and any internal sounds loaded in the MP obviously play thru the stereo/coax out of my MP

Time for a hardware mixer/audio interface maybe? Or go the Track out/DAW/Rewire/ software mixer route.

Luckily my speaker system has two inputs for 1/4" stereo jack so what I ended up doing was hooking up both the laptop and MPC to it and now I get simultaneous sound from both the MPC and laptop (for Reason).

How to properly combine the two and be able to extract the recorded song is another question though...

boosh!!!