buddard wrote: ↑06 May 2020
It's because the Combinator translates incoming Gate/CV to MIDI note messages that it passes on to the instruments inside.
If not, you would have to wire up every instrument inside the Combi with Gate/CV, and that wouldn't be very feasible...
Yes, and it responds to players as you would expect, so this behaviour relates only to direct CV gate/inputs.
selig wrote: ↑06 May 2020
But it is also not expected behavior (since no other synth works this way in Reason), and because of that it's also not the "Reason Way".
With all due respect I am more interested in creative potential than convention
Correct me if I am wrong but there is some functionality in this implementation that is not achievable in any other way currently within Reason.
For example, I can split a matrix and send one gate/note direct to Autosub and the other to a combinator containing Autosub - i.e. Autosub receives the same gate/note from 2 different sources. I can then delay the direct gate/note to create a note echo type of effect and can modulate the Octave/Semi/Fine/Key parameters which will only affect the Combinator gate/note input with no effect on the direct note/gate sequence. When you add portamento it gets even more interesting.
It's ok to be different?
edit to add example...