Reason 4 and Keyboard

[Goku7]

Hey peeps,
i have no money to buy some midi, and i want still using my keyboard (Genius)....
When I go to Reason's preferences, and Keyboard and Control surfaces, and i press "auto detect keyboard", Reason find nothing....manualy I set
ADD then
Manufactures I am set to other Midi Keyboards Control or Midi Keyboard (no control) and when I press Find, and pressing some button on keyboard Reason dont see nothing...
hope someone can help me.
cheers

[Peppi]

I work also with reason and I don't have this problem

[Betatron]

err, reason isnt going to pick up your pc keyboard as a control device. you HAVE to buy a midi controller...

[sceyefeye]

err, reason isnt going to pick up your pc keyboard as a control device. you HAVE to buy a midi controller...
Are you running on Windows?

If so, download either midiyolk or maple midi (google em) I use mapel virtual midi cable with Bome's mouse keyboard controlling reason 3 (R4 beta worked fine too). There are at least 3 virtual midi keyboards that I can think of off the top of my head for windows (Bome, Fractalis and General Midi keyboard). I believe there is a Mac equivalent way to do this too. I think I recall seeing links to these on the propellerheads website somewhere, but i can never remeber where I saw it

But a real midi controller of some sort is a lot more fun and hands on than mouse and virtual keyboards.

Sorry I am a bit pressed for time at the moment else I would post the linkes here.


might come back and edit this if I have the time.

PS if you are windows and still not on R4 you can downlaod Roni Music Sweet Midi Arpeggiator and use it with mapel midi or midi yolk too either via a real midi keyboard or a virtual one.

Hoep this helps