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Setting Up MIDI

It is strongly recommended that you use Reason with at least one MIDI keyboard to enjoy its full potential. A MIDI interface with two or more ports is ideal, since you can use both a keyboard to play notes and a control surface for knobs, faders, and buttons.

Before connecting a keyboard, make sure that any MIDI interface you are using is installed with the correct drivers and connected properly.

To connect a keyboard

Connect the USB cable from your keyboard to your computer (the simpler of the two methods).

or

Connect your keyboard's MIDI out cable to a MIDI in port on your MIDI interface.

You should also connect the keyboard's MIDI in cable to the interface's MIDI out port.

Setting Up Control Surfaces" later in this chapter).