"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

[gorillacake]

Reason can be hooked up to other sequencers via Rewire. Using rewire you can route the outs of all your reason instruments into individaul tracks in your Sequencer allowing you to use your plugins with Reason. I'm not sure if you can do this with Bias deck but the others can (cubaseSX, logic if using os9 although logic6 is supposed to have rewire, DP, and Pro tools). I recommend getting Reason. It's easy to use (lot's o' fun), and is quite versatile. With reason you can throw your drum machine away. Redrum rocks. I think you'll find that you will be able to use Reason to compose a substantial amount of your songs. Even if you can't use rewire with your sequencer there's still so much you can do. If you want to add live bass, guitar, drums, vocals, or whatever, just export what you've done in reason as a WAV or Aif and then import it into Bias deck and then build on it from there.