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SONG FILE HANDLING

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About Self-contained Songs

The song is the main file format in Reason. A song contains the device setup and all

settings in the rack, as well as everything you have recorded in the sequencer.

However, this is not always sufficient! Should you open your song on another com-

puter or send it to another Reason user, you would also have to bring all samples and

REX files used by the devices in the song. To make this easier, Reason allows you to

create “self-contained” songs.

A self-contained song contains not only the references to the used files, but also the

files themselves. You can choose exactly which files should be included in the self-

contained song, with the following exception:

! Files that are part of a ReFill cannot be included in a self-contained song.

If your song contains samples or REX files from a ReFill, other users must have the

same ReFill to be able to play the song.

To specify which files should be included in the song, proceed as follows:

1. Pull down the File menu and select Song Self-Contain Settings...

A dialog appears, listing all samples and REX files used in the song.

2. Tick the checkbox in the Sound column for the files you want included in the

song.

D You can use the Check All button to activate all checkboxes in one go.

Similarly, the Uncheck All button deactivates all checkboxes.

D Files that are part of a ReFill are indicated by a lock symbol instead of a

checkbox (since they cannot be included in the song file).

The rightmost column indicates to which ReFill each such file belongs.

3. When you have selected the desired sounds, click OK.

The dialog is closed. The next time you save, the specified sounds will be included

in the song file.

! Note that a self-contained song file will be considerably larger than the

original song file.

However, samples included in a self-contained song are automatically

compressed by approximately 50%, meaning that the self-contained

song will still be a lot smaller than the original song and the sample files

combined.

“Un-self-containing” a Song

If you have opened a song that is more or less self-contained (i.e. contains one or sev-

eral sounds embedded in the song file), you may want to extract these sounds and

make the song refer to them on disk as usual. This is done in the following way:

1. Select Song Self-Contain Settings from the File menu.

The dialog appears.

2. Locate the sounds you want to extract from the song file, and deactivate their

checkboxes (or click Uncheck All).

3. Click OK to close the dialog.

Now, the program will check for each “extracted” sound file whether it is available

(at its original, stored location) or not.

D If the program finds the sound file at the location stored in the song, it is

simply removed from the song file, and the original file reference path is

used.

This would be the case if you made the song self-contained yourself, and un-self-

contain it on your own computer (provided that you haven’t removed the original

sound files from disk since you made the song self-contained).

D If the program doesn’t find the sound file, a file dialog appears, allowing

you to select a folder and name for the sound file.

The extracted file will be saved in the specified folder, and the path in the song will

be adjusted. This would be the case if you got the self-contained song from an-

other user, for example.

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