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athens · Post by **athens** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:57 am

can the roland mc303 play in sync with reason 3? i want to use is a a drum machine...

how am i gonna do that?

thanks

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:45 am

Reason doesn't feature midi output.

There are two things you can do:
1) make samples of the mc303 and use one of Reason's samplers
2) use ReWire to direct midi commands to another host (e.g. Reaper) and let that second host spit out the midi to the mc303.

Chopper · Post by **Chopper** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:55 am

I used those two as part of live sets a few times years ago.
set reason as a midi slave. make it answer to external midi sync (read the manual) and there you go.
now the real problem you gonna face is the latency...
using the mc303 as slave is impossible with reason as it doesn't spit out midi. and rewire would be the only option.

athens · Post by **athens** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:49 am

i just need to tempo sync the two for live sets...beats will come directly from the mc303.

BTW. i use ableton live to trigger midi parts for reason...i use reason(slave) as an instrument only and the midi notes or grooves comes from ableton...

can ableton live control mc303's tempo? e.g. i changed the live's tempo from 100 to 130, will mc303's tempo will change as well?

Muzik 4 Machines · Post by **Muzik 4 Machines** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:55 am

yes if 303 is set to external sync

roland mc303 question