News, Reason

PanHandler Demo Videos

by  • September 28, 2018 • 0 Comments

Great news, everyone. The PanHandler is complete and very close to being released! I am finishing up some final patch designs and then will submit a release candidate to Propellerhead Software. Hopefully that will all flow smoothly and it’ll be in the Propellerhead shop before the end of October.

In the meantime, you can check out some demo/walkthrough videos on our YouTube channel.

If you watch the videos, please leave some feedback here or on YouTube. I’d love to know what your first impressions are.

-Todd

News, Reason

PanHandler Rack Extension Now in Beta

by  • November 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

You may have noticed that I haven’t made any posts to this site for a loooong time. That’s not because I’ve abandoned The Instrument Panel, but rather because I’ve been dedicating all of my spare time to development tasks. I am happy to announce that PanHandler, our first Reason Rack Extension, is almost ready for release! PanHandler is a gate-controlled panner with a built in delay. Virtually all of its parameters can be manipulated via its numerous CV inputs and outputs – I almost had to make the device bigger just to make room for all of them!

PanHandler Front Panel

PanHandler Front Panel

At this point, most of what’s left to do is develop patches, put together some demo tracks and videos, and get the product page assembled for the Propellerhead website.

If you’re interested in participating in the beta test, head on over to this article in the Reason Talk forum.

Back to the workbench…

Todd

Arturia, Reason

Arturia MiniLab Remote Codec Released!

by  • December 25, 2013 • 0 Comments

Here’s a Christmas present for those of you who were asking for this release:

The documentation is not quite complete and some of Reason’s devices don’t have default mappings configured, but overall it’s quite solid.

If you find that a device you want to use the codec with isn’t set up yet, you can of course manually set up your own mappings. The drawbacks here are that manual remote mappings don’t support multiple pages of assignments and any knobs or buttons mapped will be fixed instead of being able to adapt to the currently selected device.

Development will continue and I’ll post again when the remotemap and documentation are complete. Feedback is appreciated!

Arturia, Reason

Remote Support for Arturia MiniLab On Its Way!

by  • September 29, 2013 • 6 Comments

I got my very own Arturia MiniLab controller not too long ago and I’ve been using it to learn all sorts of Reason Remote tricks. I’m putting the finishing touches on the configuration and within the next few weeks I’ll be publishing a public version that those of you with these 2 items can make use of.

After that, I’m finally going to get back on the Maschine/Reason integration task. I’m fairly certain I should be able to crack the code to start sending text to Maschine’s displays so it’ll be possible to see what each knob and button is assigned to without even having to look at your computer screen.

News, Reason

Exciting News

by  • August 26, 2013 • 2 Comments

The Instrument Panel is pleased to announce that as of last Monday we have been approved to develop Rack Extensions for Reason!

We already have an on-paper design for our first offering, but it will take at least a couple months to get up to speed on the development tools. I will be sure to post again when there’s more to report.

Reason

Beginning Development on a New Tool for Reason Users

by  • December 15, 2012 • 0 Comments

I’ve started working on a new helper utility to be used in conjunction with Propellerhead Reason (on Windows only – sorry but I don’t have a Mac to do development on). It will add some additional keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to access some of the more common functions. For example, pressing [Ctrl]+[,] will launch the preferences dialog.

I’ll post again with a beta version once I’ve added sufficient functionality.

Maschine, Reason

Maschine/Reason Integration

by  • July 22, 2012 • 1 Comment

I’ve run some successful experiments integrating Maschine with Reason. I have a working codec that allows the knobs and buttons on the Maschine to control parameters in Reason devices and receive the correct feedback to show current knob positions and button states on the hardware. The positions and states also update to the correct values when a different device is selected in the Reason rack or when switching to a different mapping variation (the setup includes a Maschine controller template that allows using the page buttons to switch between mapping variations).
The big task now is to populate the remote map, which assigns a default function to each knob and button for each device in the Reason rack, with multiple mapping variations on more complicated devices to handle just about every controllable parameter with no override mapping required.