This lets you adjust the response sensitivity of the various knobs in Reason when manipulating them with the mouse. A higher sensitivity gives a higher degree of precision. You can choose between Normal, Precise and Very Precise.
This option allows you to decide whether the Browser should display the Splash Pictures or not when Browsing for a song or a ReFill. Furthermore, if this option is deactivated, song splashes will not be shown when you open songs.
Cables in Reason are animated in a lifelike fashion when flipping the Rack and making connections. Should you so wish, you can choose to disable the cable movement animation by deactivating this checkbox.
Normally, if you hold the mouse pointer over a parameter on a device panel for a moment, a Tool Tip appears displaying the name and the current value of the parameter. If you uncheck this option, Tool Tips will not be displayed.
If a parameter is automated in the sequencer, this is, by default, indicated by a colored square around the parameter on the device panel. If you uncheck this option, automation will not be indicated.
Every time you start Reason, and every time you select "New" from the File menu, a default song opens. The "standard" default song contains a few select devices.
This section lets you decide exactly what you want the default song to look like, by using the radio buttons to the left:
Empty Rack - This is an empty rack. Well, almost empty, since it contains the Reason hardware interface.
Built In - This is a built-in Reason Song, containing a few devices. Note that it is not possible to open this song by regular means - via the browser - since it is not an "independent".rns-file, and thus does not reside anywhere in the Reason folder.
Custom - This allows you to select a custom default song. Any Reason song can be used, so if you often create songs using the same or similar device setups, you can use a previously created song as the default song. This way, all new songs you create will have the same device setup.
To customize the contents of new songs, proceed as follows:
1. Select New from the File menu to create a new song document window.
2. Add/remove devices and make settings as desired.
Typically, you may want the default song to contain your choice of devices and possibly some patterns. You could also make some special routing between devices, or even add some sequencer data.
3. Save the song anywhere you like (preferably in the Reason program folder though) and under any name.
4. Pull down the Edit menu and open the Preferences dialog.
5. Go to the General page, and under "Default Song" click the radio button marked "Custom".
6. Click the browser button to the right in the dialog, navigate to the song you saved earlier and click "Open".
The name of the song appears in the textbox in the dialog.
7. Close the Preferences dialog.
The next time you launch the program or select New from the File menu, the new song document will contain the devices and settings you made.
Reason is a powerful program but also demanding in terms of processing power. The more devices you add to your rack, the more of your computer's resources it will use.
Furthermore, as you use more and more of your computer resources for creating audio, less will be available for the user interface, resulting in slower performance in terms of graphics and overall responsiveness.
The CPU Usage Limit setting allows you to set a limit on how much of the CPU (computer processor) that can be used for creating audio. The remaining capacity is reserved for the user interface and the graphics.
Set this so that you feel comfortable using the program, even when a very demanding song document is played back.
Reason has the capability to play back samples with practically any resolution. This means that if for instance 24-bit samples are loaded in a sampler or the Redrum, playback of the samples can be in 24-bit resolution as well. If you are using such samples and want Reason to play them back in their original high resolution, make sure that this checkbox is ticked.
If this is activated, and if your audio card supports it, Reason will play back high resolution samples in their original resolution. If this option is not activated, Reason will play back all samples in 16-bit resolution, regardless of their original resolution.