Reason to Cubase SX

[Mister_Ed]

Hey anyone....

I have a reasonable track in Reason2, and have just got Cubase SX. How would I go about making each of the reason instruments a seperate track in Cubase?

ED : )

[djneo]

Read the manual, it's on my PC in My Documents - My Recieved Files - Cubase SX something something...

It'll be in the section about "ReWire"

Otherwise wait till I get home :)

[Phibbler]

Welcome to a world of pain.:|

Rewiring anything into cubase is vicious as they don't play well together as you might think but here goes...[list=1]
Open cubase_sx
Open reason
You will see that the hardware mixer in reason now has all these lights on it. they are the rewire outs
Start a project in cubase, and open up the device menu ( inthink thats the name of the menu) and there should be a reason option. Click it
It pops up with a black window with dark green buttons with names next to them. These are the "enable rewire inputs" buttons. I think it starts with two of them on mix l and mix r
the more buttons you enable ,the more outs from reason are wired into cubase.
Now you can route all the modules in reason to different rewire outs and into the cubase mixer ( if you so desire )
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Issues with rewire start when you open and close them in the wrong sequence
Starting up: cubase then reason
shutting down: Reason then cubase

If you try doing it any other way, you will be lucky if you just get away with a window warning. If you are lucky... i wasn't so lucking and corrupted a reason song doing it ( mind you reason was playing through cubase, with cubase triggering reason instruments and accidentaly shut down cubase in the middle of it.... Frustrated just isnt the word X(

[hpstekno]

thats odd reason and cubase usually talk to each other very well..infact i'd say that cubase is the best program to use rewire with...
havn't had a problem on my machine except cpu overload hehehhehehe

ya just open the midi out dialog and select which reason device you want to control from each track and whalla malstrom on channel 1 redrum on channel 2 dr rex on channel 3 etc. etc.

[Phibbler]

Don't you find problems switching between cubase sx and reason windows? i get a buzzing noise and the music locks up some times, especially when there's plenty of disk tracks on cubase

[viceversa]

My advice would be to just mix each track down to a seperate wave and then load each up in a separate audio track in Cubase. You might be limited by your HD space, but if you have enough room this is the best way to go, as it frees up all your memory and allows you to put FX on each track (as well as your individual channel EQs in Cubase). Trust me (and I know people might disagree here), once you get your head around Cubase it won't be long before you put Reason completely behind you for most things, except maybe beat sequencing.

[hpstekno]

phibbler no never had that problem i could see how it could happen under heavy load but that would be the processor tryen to catch up

[Phibbler]

actually after uninstalling and reinstalling i don't seem to have that problem any more....
Hmmm...