Reason 3.0 Matrix issue

boaf · Post by **boaf** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:02 pm

If anyone is familiar with Reason:
I've got a Combinator with a Malstrom, some effects and a Matrix (controlling volume levels of the malstrom for gating) rewired into live but when I play it back the matrix doesn't gate the volume for some reason. I can hear the malstrom as if there wasn't any gating on it. Any ideas?
Thank you!

Clarification: I have the Combinator sound rewired into live. If I play the sound directly with reason (into live) it gates. If I use MIDI to control the pad (with live) it doesn't. And the midi notes are long...like 9 or 10 measures of just two notes. So the notes aren't controlling the gating either, just so you know.

And while I am here, can anybody explain how to get knobs on a midi controller to work with knobs in reason through Live?

boaf · Post by **boaf** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:13 am

Is there really nobody who can answer my question?

biorhythm · Post by **biorhythm** » Sun May 28, 2006 3:04 am

I tried to replicate your situation and was able to gate the Malstrom from Live with no problems. To get gating in my case I either had to activate the matrix manually or start playback in Live so that playback would also start in Reason, thus activating the matrix.

Another option would be to add a Subtractor to your combi and wire CV from its LFO into the Malstrom's level mod input. Use a sync'd square waveform at 1/16 note rate. The gating isn't quite as defined as with a matrix, but the CV from the Sub is on all the time. On my end, I can't see any reason why the matrix wouldn't work for gating, though. Hope that helps.

boaf · Post by **boaf** » Sun May 28, 2006 7:03 am

Well, when stuff starts playing the Matrix automatically runs...at least, it should anyway.

Scratch that, it's working now. I don't have the slightest clue as to what it could have been doing before. Thanks for your input anyway!