"live"recording Usage Of, For Example, Reason 2, maybe i´m going about this the wrong way Options

[skogge]

Hi guys, and girls if there are any ;-)

Need some help here. I´m not a midi guy, i´m a songwriter in the lo-fi, indierockfield that switched the Tascam for 450MP, also used for graphic design. OS is Jaguar.
I use the computer like I would the Tascam, recording old organs and guitarsounds channel by channel. The first thing I record is a basic drumtrack from an external drummachine just for tempo. Since I don´t have a sampler and no real piano (just a wurlitzer, my neighbours would n o t enjoy a real piano...), I´ve been looking into the softsynth alternatives and I found Reason 2. I love the woodwinds, the strings and pianosamples! It´s perfekt for my arranging/recording needs (until someone gives me money to go in to an all analogue studio ;-)
But how do I get those sounds recorded into the audioprogram (for the moment Deck 3.5, another soon to come option is digi001)? My current setup is the G4 450MP running OSX Jaguar, M-audio Audiophile 2496 and Bias Deck 3.5. I´m trying out Reason as earlier stated. Any suggestions? Maybe i´m missing out on possibilities here, stuck as I am in old habits and ways of doing things.

Regards

/skogge

[rickenbacker]

ReWire would seem to be the answer to what you want to do, Skogge. It means you have both programs running at the same time (so your CPU has to take the strain) and the output of Reason appears in the mixer of your chosen sequencer app. Use all the best bits of Reason (drums, strings, synths etc) and add guitars, vocals etc in the other multitracker.

Logic 6 is supposed to have support for ReWire 2, but their implementation of ReWire so far has been sketchy to say the least. Cubase SX and ReWire from Reason works like a charm for me under OS X - even though a Steinberg rep told me it wouldn't! Ableton's Live 2 might also be worth a look for ReWire. But I love SX - got it about a month ago and I don't know if I'll ever go back to Logic now.

If you buy a Digi001, you're tied in to Pro Tools. I don't know about ReWire support there. But like Synthetic said, if you don't want to run two programs together with ReWire anyway, you can just export Reason tracks as audio or midi files and import them into your recorder. Or doing it the other way round, you could record audio sections in your multitracker and drop them into Reason's samplers.