The Combinator lets you join two or more effects, instruments or samplers in the Reason rack. You can ‘Combine’ multiple units by selecting two or more units then hitting ‘Combine’. Once you’ve done this, you can assign any of the combined instruments’ control parameters to any of the eight controls on the Combinator interface.

Basically the Combinator is a rack within the overall Reason rack. You can link together ten Subtractor synths and have them all playing there own thing. You can also allocate the controller knobs to multiple parameters across multiple devices with the Combinator.

Once you’ve done that, you can save the whole lot as a single Combinator patch. Any changes you make to the components within the Combinator, are also saved within the Combinator patch.

How do you create your own skins for your Combinator patch?

Simple, select Backdrop… from the Edit – Controller menu.