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Using ReWire with ProTools is easy!

To Use Reason Within Protools:

- Start fresh without any programs open.

- Open ProTools first, then open Reason. This is important in establishing the master/slave relationship between the two softwares.

- Now open a new file in both ProTools and Reason; or just a new Reason file if you are using Reason for an existing ProTools session.

- Within ProTools, create a stereo audio track.

- In this new track, under inserts, select “instrument” –> “Reason.” This will automatically route the master output of your Reason interface to ProTools. (To route individual channels from the Reason mixer, you must route the individual mixer channels through the Reason Hardware interface. Then within ProTools, select the channel input that corresponds with the Reason interface routing.)

- Now you should be able to hear a signal from your Reason file running through ProTools.

- When you are ready to record your Reason file into ProTools as a stereo audio track, simply route the output of your Reason track to the input of a new stereo audio track. i.e. Within ProTools, the Reason track’s output can be sent to channels 19-20 while the new tracks input is 19-20.

- Activate the record button on the new Reason print track and there you have it. If you have routed the individual Reason elements to individual ProTools tracks, simply activate all of their “record” buttons to record them to ProTools at once.

If this tutorial didn’t help, do what I did and read the Reason user’s manual!  ;-)

- Mike with the Mic

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