After playing around in MainStage for a couple of weeks now, and getting a good layout set up, and some sounds I like, I am going to be using it live this Sunday for the first time at my church, and this is the first time in 7 years of playing keyboard at church that I am using something other than ...

Just wanted to mention that I have experienced some serious tuning drift in my reason Essentials. A lot of trial and error seemed to point out my Behringer ASIO USB Audio interface. A delete of the driver and a re-install fixed it. This is in Windows 8.1 Just sayin'... in case it helps. Thanks! I c...

Please don't get upset when trying to help someone if they simply disagree with your suggestion. I am not upset. You have a problem - my system runs fine. Just wondering why you spend as much time discussing as it would take to check for random MIDI messages. Especially MOTUs OSX MIDI drivers are k...

Ok, so don't check for stray midi messages and keep on guessing.. Internal sync is correct, yes. Please don't get upset when trying to help someone if they simply disagree with your suggestion. It's not personal. I appreciate your help. And I may come back to this, but for now it seems pretty unlik...

But where would that random midi signal come from? I tried two different controllers. I've been using Reason for live use for a long time, and I've never had this problem before. It's only since I reinstalled Yosemite clean that I've been experiencing this. You try to solve a problem that shouldn't...

But how would a stray midi signal affect two instrument in the same combinator differently? If it were a random pitch bend, it should bend everything in the combinator the same amount. That's not what happened. Maybe via control messages, instruments react to various CCs for various parameters. But...

Dante wrote:Radpi has a fine tuning knob, I use it to tune the thing to the rest of the arrangement, did you check/fiddle with that ?

If that were it, it would've reset when I re-loaded the preset.

normen wrote:
On OSX theres "MIDI Monitor" for that purpose.

But how would a stray midi signal affect two instrument in the same combinator differently?
If it were a random pitch bend, it should bend everything in the combinator the same amount.
That's not what happened.

normen wrote:What audio interface do you use and is there any digital connections or wordclock connections to it?

I'm currently using a MOTU 896Mk3 via firewire.
The only connections I'm using are analog.

I have another interface, do you think it would be worth trying it to see if that is the problem?

So I had reinstalled OSX on my MacBookPro a few weeks ago from scratch (i.e. formatted the hard disk and did a clean install), and then after that I installed the latest Reason, and then started downloading my RE's and Refills, etc. I opened a blank project and loaded up one of my saved combinators ...

I didn't realize that. It is certainly a steal at $30. Which is why I originally bought it, not much to lose if it didn't work out. The main attraction for me what the ability to sustain one patch while loading up another for smooth transitions between songs. This is something that only the Korg Kro...

Anyone use it for live performance? I bought version 3 a little while back, and I tried it out, but it wasn't very user friendly for me, so I just forgot about it. But as it appears to me that Reason isn't going to really add features for live use anytime soon, I am looking for alternatives. That be...

I think I figured out my problem of different tuning on my piano and pad sounds. Really it was Radical Piano that was out of tune. Everything else seems fine. I think maybe when I downloaded it, somehow it got corrupted. Not only is it out of tune, but when I sustain it the samples kinda wobble and ...

This is a pain.

Maybe I should just sell it and get a used Korg M3. lol

The link seems to be working.

Thanks!


edit: I think that link is just an update installer, not a full installer. It's not large enough to be the full installer.

I wonder where I can get it.

Wow that's definitely crazy behavior. One thing though? Did your laptop come with Yosemite? Not sure old your laptop is but sometimes Newer OS apple puts out are compatible with older hardware but not efficient for it. Personally I Have a 2010 MBP Intel core 2 duo with 8GB ram. When I upgraded to Y...

So at the recommendation of several forum members, I wiped my hard drive and installed OSX Yosemite fresh. It seemed to make an improvement at first. I got much further in the Benchmark song. But then when I tried to run just a simple combinator, with a Radical Piano, a Thor and a Malstrom, after I ...

Thanks for the advice!

keeverw wrote:Just trying to figure out why I'm having poor results.

Just did a fresh install of OSX Yosemite, and then Reason, then RE's and Refills.
Ran the test with internal soundcard.

Got almost 9 seconds!!

Before the wipe/reinstall, I got almost 2 seconds.

With a fresh install I got about 9 seconds on the StressTest Song.
Before I got about 1.5 seconds.

That's a pretty big difference.
And I haven't done any optimization stuff yet.

I think I'm just gonna stay with my current rig.

Just finished clean install of OSX Yosemite! Downloading Reason 8.3 now. More to come... I was still downloading Reason 8.3 when I went to bed last night. Tonight I will install and run the test song again, and see how things go. I am hoping they will be better. They couldn't really be any worse.

Just finished clean install of OSX Yosemite!
Downloading Reason 8.3 now.

More to come...

I was at the front of a New Order concert when Gillian Gilbert's synth froze up. I think it was a Roland JV. The tech guy scooted out from side stage and worked on it (eventually with success) while Gillian tried to look composed. What I liked was that her synth lines were missing so it was nice to...

Thanks for the info! I usually have 2 controllers a 61 key Axiom on bottom locked to a Piano/Pad combinator. And a 49 Key Oxygen controller on top set as the master. Since I use the same piano and pad for most songs, I can just leave that on the bottom controller. Any song-specific patches I will ha...

So I have been using Reason as my live rig for 6 years or so now, and it has been really solid for me. I've only had two major problems. One time my midi controller just died on me in the middle of a set. And another time, during setup, I couldn't get audio out but I was using a new interface and as...