Specifications

USING REASON AS A REWIRE SLAVE
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Preparations for Using
ReWire - Mac OS 9 only
When you use ReWire, some of the system resources normally occupied by
Reason are “transferred” to the other audio application: More specifically, the
RAM required for loading samples in Reason, must now be provided by the host
application instead. Therefore, when using ReWire we recommend you to make
the following changes to your memory settings for the two programs (for details,
see your Macintosh manual):
1. If you have raised the maximum memory setting in Reason (to be
able to use more samples) lower it back to the recommended value,
but make a mental note of how much it was set to.
2. Raise the Maximum memory for the host application by at least the
amount that you just lowered for Reason.
Launching and Quitting
When using Rewire, the launch and quit order is very important:
Launching for normal use with ReWire
1. First launch the host application.
2. Then launch Reason.
Quitting a ReWire session
When you are finished, you also need to Quit the applications in a special order:
1. First quit Reason.
2. Then quit the host application.
Launching the host application for use without Reason/
ReWire
If you don’t plan to run Reason, just launch the host application as usual. We
recommend that you then also deactivate all ReWire channels if required (see
the relevant section for your program, below). But this is not completely critical,
ReWire does not use up very much processing power when it isn’t used.
Launching Reason for use without the host application
If you want to use Reason as it is, without ReWire, just launch it as you normally
do.
Launching both programs without using ReWire
We don’t know exactly why you would want to run Reason and a Rewire host
application at the same time on the same computer, without using ReWire, but
you can:
1. First launch Reason.
2. Then launch the host application.
You may get a warning message in the host application, regarding ReWire, but
you can safely ignore it. Please also note that the two programs now compete
for system resources such as audio cards, just as when running either with
other, non-ReWire, audio applications.