User Manual

REWIRE
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Routing in the ReWire host application
The following description is based on using Reason with Cubase as the host application. For descriptions on how to
activate and route ReWire channels in other host applications, please go to www.propellerheads.se/rewirehelp.
1. Pull down the Devices menu in Cubase and select the menu item with the name of the ReWire application (in
this case Reason). All recognized ReWire compatible applications will be available on the Devices menu.
The ReWire panel appears. This consists of a number of rows, one for each available ReWire channel.
2. Click on the green buttons in the “Active” column to activate/deactivate the desired channels.
The buttons light up to indicate activated channels. How many and what channels you need to activate depends on
to which Hardware Interface inputs you have connected your Reason devices, as discussed above.
3. If desired, double click on the labels in the right column, and type in another name.
These labels will be used in the Cubase Mixer to identify the ReWire channels.
4. Open the Cubase Mixer.
You will find that new channels have been added - one for each activated ReWire channel. If the channels aren’t
visible, you may need to scroll the Mixer window or check the Mixer View options (different channel types can be
shown or hidden as desired in the Cubase Mixer).
5. Start playback (in Reason or Cubase - it doesn’t matter as both programs will automatically be synchronized).
You will now see the level meters moving for the playing ReWire channel, and hear the sound of the Reason de-
vices through Cubase’s Mixer. Of course, this requires that your Reason Song contains some music!
6. Use the mixing features in Cubase to add effects, EQ, etc.
Routing MIDI via ReWire 2
The following description is based on using Reason with Cubase as the host application. For descriptions on how to
route MIDI to Reason and Reason from other host applications, please go to www.propellerheads.se/rewirehelp.
1. In Cubase, select a MIDI track that you want to route to a Reason device.
2. Pull down the MIDI Output menu for the track (in the Inspector or track list).
All devices in the current Reason Song are listed on the pop-up menu, along with the conventional, “physical” MIDI
outputs.
3. Select a Reason device from the pop-up menu.
The output of the MIDI track is now routed to that device.
• If you now play back a MIDI part on the track, the MIDI notes will be sent to the Reason device - just as if the
track were connected to any regular MIDI sound source.
The sound of the device will be sent back into Cubase via ReWire - which channel it will appear on depends on
how you have routed the device to the Hardware Interface in Reason, as discussed above.
• To play the device “live”, you need to select the proper MIDI input for the track in Cubase (the input to which
your MIDI keyboard is connected) and activate the Monitor button for the track.
When the Monitor button is activated, all incoming MIDI (i.e. what you play on the keyboard) is immediately sent to
the track’s MIDI Output (i.e. to the Reason device).