Rewire Reason Ableton Mac
You may be using other audio software and are wondering how you can use this software with Bitwig. For example, maybe you're using Reason or Ableton Live and would like to use the two together. The problem is that Bitwig doesn’t support the ReWire protocol, but there is a workaround to this. Bitwig recommends that you use the Jack Audio Connection kit to route audio between the applications. I'll take this a step further showing you how you can route the MIDI between the applications. I'll be demonstrating this on a Mac, but you can follow along on a PC with the PC equivalent software.
ReWire allows you to stream upto 64 audio channels and ReWire2 supports upto 256 channels.ReWire helps in sharing the resources between the applications, especially to share the audio card and control the outputs of each channel via the card. It also synchronizes the Transport of both the DAWs so that you need to only control the Transport in Cubase and it will automatically be mirrored in. Live replaces Reason in Cubase Mixer when used as ReWire Device. If after installing Live, the Live ReWire channels replace the Reason channels that had been automated in the Cubase mixer, this can be solved by disabling ReWire in Live. In order to do this, use the 'ReWireMasterOff' command in the Options.txt file option. Mar 13, 2014 Mac OS 9.2.2 w/ Cubase 4.1r2 Installed. For some reason when i use cubase rewire from ableton live. Things sometmes sync up properly but not in this case. Duno if u can see at this zoome. But check the pic below its off every beginning of every bar is off by a few ms. Jan 19, 2015 Setting up ReWire with Pro Tools and Ableton Live - Duration: 7:47. Sweetwater 39,303 views.
Installing Jack
Before you start, there are some steps required to get everything set up. But once you have configured this it's just a matter of starting up the Jack server. No need for starting your audio applications in specific orders like with ReWire. First download the Jack Audio Connection Kit.
Download the correct version for your OS, then unzip the package and install it. You'll need to restart your computer when it is done. After restart notice that there is now a Jack folder in your Applications folder. Navigate into this and launch the Jack Pilot. To start the Jack audio server, click on the start button.
If you go to the preferences, you can specify the amount of virtual audio inputs and outputs in the interface inputs and outputs. But you’ll need to stop the server first and then restart it when you have set the new input and output configuration.
Setting Up the Audio in Bitwig
Now launch Bitwig and go to the Options menu, and then Preferences. Under the Audio Input and Output Device in the Audio tab choose the Jack Router.
Then open up the other audio application you want to use, on my side it’s going to be Ableton. Go to the preferences menu. Set the output of the device to the Jack Router.
Now here is an important step. Go back to the Jack Pilot and click on the Routing tab—this launches a window so you can do your routing setup. I want to send the audio from Ableton to Bitwig. Under the Send Ports section click on the out1 and out2 under Ableton Live. These will now go red in color indicating that they are active. And on the Receive ports section click on the in1 and in2 under the BitWigStudioEngi so that they are active as well. So you are now virtually routing your audio from Ableton to Bitwig. If you don’t see your audio applications here by any chance, then go back to the applications’ preferences window and reselect the Jack Router audio device again. I found this can be a bit buggy. But it’s a quick fix.
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Now the audio is being routed between Ableton into Bitwig. But to hear this in action you’ll need to set up an audio track in Bitwig. On the audio track, make sure the Jack Router is chosen as the input for the device. Then record arm the track, and then if you play back your Ableton song, you'll hear the audio coming through Bitwig. Notice also on your audio track how there is an audio signal on the track’s meters. So you could record audio from Ableton on this track in Bitwig.
Using the IAC Bus
Now let's look at how you can route MIDI between the two applications. For example let's say you're going to use Ableton's Analog instrument, but you want to program the MIDI in Bitwig. With a Mac, you can use the IAC bus to route MIDI internally. I'm going to demonstrate setting up the IAC bus. You can also use MIDI Pipe or MIDI Yoke on the PC. Open the Audio MIDI Setup (Applications > Utilities). Then open the MIDI Window (Command-2). Double-click the IAC Driver to open up its properties window. Tick the ‘Device is online’ box. And then click the + sign to add Bus 1.
Now go back to Bitwig and go to the Preferences, and then go to the Controllers tab. Click on Add controller manually and select Generic—MIDI Clock Transmitter. And for the MIDI output here select the IAC Driver Bus. Bitwig Studio now acts as the master clock for the audio, and any other audio applications with slave to its clock.
Next create an Instrument track, and on this track add the Hardware Instrument, located under the Routers section. On the MIDI Output select the IAC Driver Bus 1.
Now jump across to your other audio application, on my side it's going to be Ableton, and to its Preferences section. Click on the MIDI Tab, and in here make sure that the IAC Driver is enabled for Track and Sync. Then select the instrument in the software, I’m going to select my Ableton track with the Analog synth on it.
Here’s the true test to see if it’s all working. Go to Bitwig and select the Hardware instrument track and when you hit some keys on your Bitwig instrument track you'll see Ableton pick up the external MIDI signal. Using the Jack and the IAC bus together can really add to your audio skills toolbox. Now I can record my MIDI on the Hardware instrument track in Bitwig and it'll be sent to Ableton and I'll hear Ableton's Instruments audio coming through in Bitwig. This allows me to contain all my MIDI within Bitwig even though I am using two audio applications.
Conclusion
That’s how to be able to use other audio applications in conjunction with Bitwig. Jack allows you to route the audio between the two applications. And the IAC Bus (or MIDI Yoke on PC) allows you to route the MIDI between the two. So you can make use of software instruments in your other tracks. Or you could even pass audio out of Bitwig and into the other software to process it with its effects. This really does open up some extra possibilities for your music production with Bitwig.
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Live and Reason running side‑by‑side. Live's tracks are colour‑coded to match the Reason instruments.
All the Propellerhead buzz right now is around the upcoming product Record, which will integrate audio recording and mixing with all the stuff we love in Reason. Of course, we'll be getting our teeth into Record in these pages as soon as the final release is available, but in the meantime, many Reason users have already had great results running audio alongside Reason using other DAWs. This way of working will continue to be advantageous to those who use third‑party plug‑ins and/or hardware MIDI instruments, or who prefer another DAW's approach to recording, mixing or arrangement.
Ableton Live is a particularly popular host among Reason users, and has a number of features that offer tight parallel operation with Reason. This month, we're going to look at some tips for combining Reason with Live.
How It Works: Rewire
Reason and Live can be used together thanks to Rewire, a clever bit of Propellerhead technology that is supported by most major audio applications. Rewire allows audio signals and MIDI events to be passed between two open programs. Audio signals from the 'slave' program (Reason) are routed to the 'master' (Live), where they appear in the mixer alongside other local audio sources. The Rewire link also synchronises playback position and tempo between the two applications. Either program's transport controls can be used, so you don't need to flick back and forth.
This idea can be used for glorified synchronisation, with two independent sequences running and a stereo mix routed from Reason into Live's mixer. However, Live and Reason can be integrated much more tightly, so that Reason acts more like a powerful plug‑in rack within Live.
Get Started & Get Organised
Each Reason instrument is routed to Live via discrete Rewire buses.
Launch Live, then launch Reason. Reason will detect that Live is running, and will switch itself into Rewire Slave mode. Reason's audio outputs are now hard‑wired to Live via 64 internal buses.
To keep track of Project Files you'll need to save your song in both Live and Reason, so you will always have two project files. Before doing anything else, save the Live Set. Live always creates a project folder for a newly saved Set, providing a default place to store audio recordings and anything else. Switch to Reason and save your Reason Song to the same folder, giving it the same name. Now, you'll easily be able to locate the correct Reason Song that partners your Live Set.
Most modern computers and laptops sport a high-resolution wide‑screen display. The Reason rack is narrow enough that you can usually view it alongside the Live window, eliminating the need to keep switching your view from one application to the other. To maximise screen space in Live, hide the Browser and Help columns when you don't need them. You can also narrow the track widths in Live's Session View by dragging the track boundaries. Finally, as you can see in the screen on the previous page, you can colour‑code the tracks (and regions) to match the devices in Reason. Simply right‑click and choose a colour from the palette.
Monitoring Self‑sequenced Reason Instruments
The External Instrument device adds MIDI and audio links between Live tracks and Reason.
There are two types of instruments that we'll connect to in Reason: those running internal sequences, such as Redrum, and those that you want to play with MIDI notes. The first sort are very simple to set up. Create a Redrum device in an empty Reason rack. We're going to forget about Reason's mixer (one of the keys to integration is to bring up all your Reason instruments on discrete channels in Live's mixer). In Reason, press Tab to view the rear of the rack, and cable the Redrum's outputs to outputs to 1 and 2 on the Hardware Device.
Switch to Live and create a new audio track (or use the default one that appears in a fresh Set). Make sure the input/output routing options are visible using the I/O button to the right of the Master channel. Click the top pop‑up menu in the audio From section of the Audio track, and choose Reason. The pop‑up menu below then lets you choose from the 64 Rewire audio buses, so choose '1/2 Mix L, Mix R'. In the Monitor section, switch from Auto to In, to tell Live to pass through audio from the input source.
Add some trigger steps to the Redrum's Step Sequencer, and hit Play in either Reason or Live. Both Live and Reason's transports will start and you should hear and see the audio arriving at the audio track in Live.
Sequencing Reason From Live
To play a Reason instrument from within Live, and record your performance as MIDI, the approach is basically the same as when using instrument plug‑ins. First create a MIDI track, then go to the Live Devices browser (the first folder in the browser that holds Live's Instruments, MIDI Effects and Audio Effects). Open the Instruments folder and locate the External Instrument device. Drag this from the list onto the MIDI track.
The External Instrument Device (shown in the screen to the right) adds an audio path to the MIDI track, turning it into what most other DAWs call an instrument track. The device's panel extends the track's I/O controls with routing options for both MIDI output and audio input. The MIDI To section has two pop‑up menus for choosing the basic destination (Reason) and a specific device in the rack. The Audio From selector gives you the list of 64 Rewire buses so that you can route the audio back from Reason.
The final step is to disable MIDI keyboard input in Reason, to prevent notes being doubled up as MIDI is received both directly and via Live. The safest way to do this is to open the Preferences in Reason, switch to the Control Surfaces and Keyboards page, then un‑tick the 'Use With Reason' option for your controller keyboard and/or pads.
With these settings in place, you can treat the Reason instrument just like an instrument plug‑in. Record‑arming the MIDI track will allow you to play the instrument from your MIDI keyboard. Recording Clips on the track will record MIDI that sequences the Reason device.
Freezing & Flattening
A basic Reason Rewire template with routing notes in the device names.
Live has a Freeze function (right‑click on a track and choose Freeze) which invisibly bounces tracks to audio Clips. To the user, a bounced MIDI track looks the same as normal, except that control of MIDI notes and device parameters is 'frozen out'. All the individual Clips are still available and can be triggered as normal. This means you can continue to trigger Clips live, or edit or record arrangements in the Arrange view.
Normally, when you freeze a track that has a hardware insert or controls an external instrument, Live does a real‑time record of all Clips, which may take time. However, Reason sources are bounced much faster than real time — just like a plug‑in — because Reason is sharing Live's audio engine.
Although originally conceived as a way to free up CPU power, freezing is equally useful as a way to capture your Reason sound sources as audio. In fact, after a MIDI track which sequences Reason is frozen you can use the track without Reason even being open, although of course you can't edit the contents of the Clips.
Frozen tracks can be used without Reason being present, and you can still have the option of running Reason at a later time and unfreezing the tracks to make changes. However, sometimes you want to convert your Reason tracks into actual audio tracks, with editable audio Clips. Again, this can be done in just a few seconds, with no manual routing or recording. Simply Freeze the track you want to bounce, then right‑click it again and choose Flatten. The track will be replaced with an audio track, with all the MIDI Clips (in both Session and Arrange views) converted to good old‑fashioned audio.
Template For Living
If you plan to work with Live and Reason in tandem on a regular basis, it can be really useful to create a Template in Reason, with your favourite instruments all ready to go. By including the output number(s) that a device is routed to in its name, you can avoid turning the rack around just to see the routing (as shown in the screen below). This name also appears in Live in the Reason MIDI device list. To make a Template, set up a Reason Song the way you'd like the Template to appear, then save it as something memorable. Then, open the Preferences, and switch to the General page. In the Default Song section, choose Custom, then click the Folder icon and navigate to the Song you saved.