7.1

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introducing ReWire! 498
In ReWire version 1 498
In ReWire 2 498
How does it work? 498
Terminology 499
About system requirements 499
About synchronization 499
Launching and quitting applications 499
Using the Transport and Tempo controls
500
Routing audio 500
Preparations in Reason 500
Routing in the ReWire host application 501
Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 501
Converting ReWire channels to audio
tracks 502
Details about various ReWire hosts 502
Synchronization and
Advanced MIDI 503
About this chapter 504
Synchronization to MIDI Clock 504
ReWire users – read this! 504
What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 504
Using Reason as MIDI Clock master 504
Slaving Reason to an external MIDI application or
instrument 506
Slaving Reason to another program on the same
computer 506
External synchronization considerations 507
Advanced MIDI - The External Control
Bus inputs 509
About the External Control Bus inputs 509
Routing MIDI to devices 510
Receiving Controller data via MIDI 510
About recording Pattern Changes 510
Optimizing Performance 511
Introduction 512
Checking Processing Power 512
Optimization and latency reduction 512
About Latency Compensation 513
Optimizing your computer system 514
Optimizing Songs 516
RAM requirements 518
Hardware Interface 519
Introduction 520
About using ReWire 521
Sampling Input section 521
Advanced MIDI Device 522
More Audio 522
The Big Meter 523
The Combinator 525
Introduction 526
Creating Combinator devices 527
Combinator elements 528
About internal and external connections
529
About External Routing 529
Adding devices to a Combi 531
About the Insertion line 531
Creating new devices in a Combi 531