User Manual

SOUNDS AND PATCHES
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D If you click on the Patch Name display on the device panel, a pop-up menu will appear, listing all patches in the
currently selected folder - see “About browse lists”).
This allows you to quickly select another patch, without having to step through the patches one by one. You can
also choose to open the Patch browser from this pop-up menu.
When you select a patch in any of the ways described above, the device’s parameters will be set according to the val-
ues stored in the patch, and the name of the patch will be shown in the Patch Name display.
! Any parameter adjustments you make on the device panel after selecting a patch will not affect the actual
patch file. For this to happen, you need to save the patch - see “Saving patches”.
! You can also select patches from a MIDI Master Keyboard or Control Surface - see “Remote - Playing and Con-
trolling Devices”.
If referenced samples are missing (Record+Reason)
As described above, patches for the Redrum, NN19, NN-XT and Dr. Octo Rex contain references to samples or REX
files. Just like patches, samples can be independent files on the hard disk or elements within a ReFill. However, if
sample files have been moved or renamed after a patch was saved, the sample file references in the patch will not be
accurate.
If this is the case when you select a patch, the program will tell you so. You can then choose to either manually locate
the missing files, to have the program search for them, or to proceed without the missing sounds. For details, see
“Handling Missing Sounds (Record+Reason)”.
! Proceeding without locating or replacing the missing samples will result in silent drum channels, key zones or
loop slots (for the Redrum, NN19/NN-XT and Dr. Octo Rex respectively).
About selecting Combinator patches that contain Reason devices
If you’re using Record stand-alone (without Reason), it’s not possible to select Combinator patches that contain any
Reason devices. The Combinator patches will be visible in the Explorer (Win) or Finder (Mac) but won’t be visible in
the Record patch browser. If you use Record+Reason, the Combinator patches will of course be visible and select-
able in the Record patch browser.
Saving patches
Saving device settings in a song
When you save a Record song, all settings for all devices are automatically included in the song file - there is no need
to save the patches separately.
! It’s important to realize that it’s the actual settings that are saved in the Song - not references to patches on
disk. The next time you open the song, all devices will be set as they were when you saved it (regardless of
whether you have removed or edited any patches on disk).
! Note that device samples are not stored with the Song by default. This means that if you edit any Redrum or
NN19/NN-XT samples in an external application and then open a Song containing devices that use these sam-
ples, the sound will be different. It’s possible, however, to store actual device samples together with the Song
using the “Self-Contain” feature. See “About Self-Contained Songs (Record+Reason)”.