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Incorporating ProTools or Logic, Cubase, etc. with Reason is made easy and efficient with Rewire. The process is like this

— Start by quitting all applications and beginning anew.

— Now open your host application (ProTools, Logic, Cubase, etc.) and next open Reason. This order is important to establish the Master-Slave relationship between softwares. Quitting is equally important and needs to be Reason first, then the host software - but that’s getting ahead.

— With your host software open, I will be using ProTools, create a new stereo audio track.

— In the track insert, select “Instruments” and choose “Reason”.

— When using a stereo track, ProTools will automatically route the Reason Hardware Output to “mix L R” and you are ready to start triggering your midi data or audio signals from Reason to your host software.

— If you want to have separate Reason tracks in your host app, you can do this by changing the Reason Hardware output to another channel. For instance, you have some synthetic drums and a bass line that you want Rewired into ProTools in separate tracks… At the top of your Reason song file there is the Hardware Interface with inputs 1 and 2 routed from the Mastering Combinator. Disconnect this connection and simply route the stereo, or mono, outputs of your devices into these hardware inputs. Now in your host application, change the Rewire “Instrument” insert output to match the corresponding hardware input for the device you want. e.g. In Reason, the stereo drum mix can be routed to the Hardware inputs 1 and 2, the stereo bass output routed to hardware inputs 3 and 4. After creating 2 new stereo audio tracks in ProTools, change the “instrument” insert on one track to 3 and 4. Sound foreign still? Don’t worry, we do tutorials. Call Mike at CCM Studios to set up a time: 720.941.6088

Once all your signals are routed as you’d like from Reason into ProTools, you can tweak the sound in Reason and then record the signal into ProTools to finish the mix.

— Mike with the Mic