Have you ever wanted to use Propellerhead’s Reason but don’t have a Midi Keyboard? Well, there is an easy solution. You can use a virtual midi controller that you can manipulate with your mouse or computer keyboard. This is a great way to test out reason before you buy a keyboard or just a good way to save money.

Virtual Midi Keyboard for Windows

This virtual keyboard was designed by Bome.com. There are two components to install this virtual keyboard into Reason. You need first, the virtual mouse keyboard and second, the Bome virtual midi driver. Although the tutorial included on their website is designed for Reason 3, it will also work with Reason 4.0.

Bome Virtual Keyboard Tutorial

The virtual midi driver can be found at this location as well. A link is also included for the virtual keyboard, or you can click on this link: Bome Virtual Keyboard

How to use computer keyboard as a midi keyboard [Midi Input Device] with Reason

Alternative Method – If you prefer to watch a video or view an alternative method of using the Bome Virtual Keyboard watch this tutorial.

Virtual Midi Keyboard for Mac

If you have a mac, unfortunately, there are appears to be no freeware programs that allow you to use a virtual Midi Keyboards on a mac. There are, however, program demos that will allow you to this. The first is the Chirp virtual keyboard, and the second is the µ midi controller.

Chirp

µ Midi Controller

If anyone finds a midi keyboard simulator for Mac that is free be sure to comment and let me know. Another easy alternative to this problem is to use ReWire in Fl Studio to control the Reason Control Surface.

Click here to view the Reason ReWire Tutorial

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