Reason rewire into pro tools

A NonLinear Educating Company. Mike Watkinson shows you how to get connected. Mike Watkinson More articles by this author. Related Videos. Discussion cgl I enjoyed reading this post about Rewire. I would like to get audio from reason and or pull over a whole session. Is there a video explaining all of this? I am new to Pro-Tools and still going through the learning process. Thanks for all your help. Once reworked, Reason's audio routes back through Pro Tools' mixer so you can record it there if you wish, or combine it with sound originated in Pro Tools itself.

I' m just finishing off some more Pro Tools videos for macProVideo which show this process In more detail When I wrote 'reworked' I meant 'rewired' of course - damn this iPad autocorrect!!

Step 3 : create Rewire inputs in Pro Tools. Inputs are accessed from RTAS plug-ins inserted in standard audio tracks or aux input tracks. If you have LE, you should definitely use aux input channels, whereas TDM users will need to use record-armed audio tracks.

The screen shot left shows an example. The plug-in is named simply Reason and has a pop-up channel selector to pick from the 64 available connections in Reason I've picked channel 3. Step 4 : connect something in Reason. If Reason is fired up with the default song, you'll have a mixer module with the main stereo outputs connected to Rewire ports 1 and 2 always labelled Mix L and R.

When using Rewire it makes more sense to connect your Reason sound modules directly to the interface module so they are routed directly to individual channels in Pro Tools.

Otherwise you'll end up with two mixers to deal with, and lose the advantage of Pro Tools's mix environment and plug-ins. In the screen shot above you'll see that the Subtractor and Malstrom modules each have their own channels in my Pro Tools Session. The screen shot above will probably tell you most of what you need to know. Here, I've created a MIDI track, clicked on the output selector, and by some voodoo all the instruments in the Reason song are presented for selection.

The Transport linking and sync are just as clever. As soon as you've made a connection between Pro Tools and Reason, hitting Play in either application will start up both. Sync between the Pro Tools timeline and Reason's sequencer is automatically handled without any messing about with timecode or Beat Clock.

In fact I was amazed to see that even the left and right loop locators will follow each other when moved in either program, and looping can be switched on or off from either side. A quick warning if you're planning to rush out to buy one of the new G5 Macs: if you've got Digidesign PCI cards they may not be compatible — ever.

This includes the lower clock-speed G5 models that don't use the newer PCI standard, as they still don't supply the voltage required by the older cards. Most notable among the incompatible systems is the Digi Two channels can be brought into a stereo track via a multi-mono Rewire plug-in.

Switch off the Link button linked rings icon to set the L and R separately. Logic X integration works slightly differently, due to the fact that it cannot operate as a slave and will be discussed in part two of this tutorial. Note: The following tutorials presume you have a basic knowledge of Pro Tools and the DAW application you wish to sync.

The process for shutting down applications is reversed and you should quit the slave application prior to quitting the master application. Both the master and slave application must also be running at the same internal application bit-rate.

Pro Tools 10 and earlier versions could only be run in bit mode. Rewire requires the setting up of the flow of both audio and MIDI from one application to the other.

We will look at the audio side of the process first. The following method will allow the audio from Reason to be combined and input into Pro Tools arriving on a stereo audio track in the mixer. Select Multichannel Plug-in from the menu and choose Reason Stereo from the instruments drop-down menu. Press tab in Reason to show the rear of the interfaces. You should now hear the Reason audio passing through Pro Tools and also see the audio in the Instrument tracks VU meters indicating the audio is routed through Pro Tools correctly.

Note: Change the Mixer channel's name first as changing the Mixer channel's name also changes the Instrument's name to match. Select Multichannel Plug-in from the menu and choose Ableton Live Stereo from the instruments drop-down menu. Although Pro Tools and the slave application are connected via ReWire, they are still running independently.