novation circuit as controller

[ry10]

Hi. First post, totally new to reason here. Was working dawlles until recently. As I will be moving to another place for 6 months and I just got a new MacBook Pro, I thought this was a good time to go ITB. I'm wondering if it's possible to use a Novation Circuit as a midi controller in reason. Well I know it should be possible, but any experiences / opinions whether it works well and hassle-free? Or should I just invest in a mini all in one keyboard/pad/knob controller. I want to keep things as portable as possible but still prefer to carry along a hardware controller instead of using a mouse. thx

[fieldframe]

I've used Circuit with Reason before, and it's not bad. Playing scales on the grid works well, although I wouldn't bother with Circuit's chromatic mode. You'll have to manually map encoders to things, but Remote override makes it fairly painless (and you get quite a few encoders, since each synth and drum channel gives the encoders different MIDI CCs).

The one thing that annoys me about Circuit as a Reason controller is that you have to use chromatic mode for Kong or Redrum - there's no way to map it to use a 4x4 grid.

[ry10]

thx. If the drumpad mapping is an issue, then I think I will settle for a mini keyboard with some pads.

[Cultor]

I've used Circuit with Reason before, and it's not bad. Playing scales on the grid works well, although I wouldn't bother with Circuit's chromatic mode. You'll have to manually map encoders to things, but Remote override makes it fairly painless (and you get quite a few encoders, since each synth and drum channel gives the encoders different MIDI CCs).

The one thing that annoys me about Circuit as a Reason controller is that you have to use chromatic mode for Kong or Redrum - there's no way to map it to use a 4x4 grid.

Hey,
You can actually create a grid yourself.
Put a Kong inside a Combinator and a RPG-8 for every pad you want to control. Don't forget to turn them all off.
Now go inside the Combinator programmer and adjust the keyrange for every RPG-8.
Lastly wire all the CV Gate's from the RPG's to the Pad gate in

It's a bit of work but you only have to set it up once!