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USING REASON AS A REWIRE SLAVE

About this Chapter

This chapter describes how to use Reason as a ReWire slave, that is with

Reason delivering audio to another ReWire compatible application. It does

not deal with using ReBirth and Reason together; that is described on page

156.

Why use Reason with

ReWire?

While Reason is a complete music tool in its own right, you might want to add

other elements to the music, such as:

• Vocals.

• Instrumental recordings.

• Hardware synthesizers (controlled via MIDI).

Connecting Reason to another application allows you to do just this, inte-

grate your Reason songs with any other type of music, external MIDI and

acoustic recordings. By recording Reason onto audio Tracks in an audio se-

quencer you can also continue processing your Reason tracks with other in-

ternal and external effects.

Introducing ReWire!

To make this integration between two audio programs possible, Propeller-

head Software has developed ReWire. This technology provides the follow-

ing possibilities and features:

In ReWire version 1

• Real time streaming of separate audio channels, at full bandwidth,

into another audio program.

• Automatic, sample accurate, synchronization between the audio in

the two programs.

• The possibility to have the two programs share one sound card.

• Linked transport controls that allows you to play, rewind etc, from

either program.

• Less total system requirements than when using the programs to-

gether in the conventional way.

In ReWire 2

A number of features were added in Reason version 2. The following are the

most important:

• Up to 256 audio channels (previously 64).

• Bi-directional MIDI communication of up to 4080 MIDI channels (255

devices with 16 channels each)

• Automatic querying and linking features that (among other things)

allow a host to display the slave’s devices, controllers, drum

sounds etc. by name.

About ReWire 2

As of this writing there were no applications other than Reason supporting

ReWire 2. Hence, as we write this, teaming up Reason with another program

would only give you the features of ReWire version 1.

This chapter describes the ReWire version 1 feature set. As ReWire 2 imple-

mentations will start to appear in other audio applications we will post up-

dated information on our web site, www.propellerheads.se.

How Does it Work?

Basically the key to ReWire is the fact that Reason is divided into three com-

ponents:

• The Reason application.

• The Reason Engine (a DLL on the PC and a Shared Library file on

the Macintosh)

• ReWire (also a DLL on the PC and a Shared Library on the Macin-

tosh).

ReWire and the Reason Engine are common resources to the two programs

(the other application and Reason) that generate the audio and passes it

onto the other audio application.

Terminology

In this text we refer to Reason as a ReWire slave and the application receiv-

ing audio from Reason (Steinberg Cubase, Emagic Logic Audio and Mark of

the Unicorn Digital Performer for example) as the host application.

About System Requirements

To run Reason together with another audio application of course raises the

demands on computing power. However, adding ReWire to the equation

does not in itself require a more powerful computer. On the contrary, it is

likely that ReWiring two programs requires less power than for example run-

ning them with one audio card each.

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