Rewire, 1010lt and my sanity...

Question

(Reason4.0) okay...Ive got rewire setup in Audition and it all interacts properly. Using an m-audio delta 1010LT. Sound is there, all seems proper. I just cannot figure how to record it. I record into Reason and the block is there but how the hell do I get it back into audition?
Ive been thru so much lately with broken computers, trying multiple soundcards, configurations out the wazoo...omg OMG.
HELP.

Answer 1

Okay. There's obviously a lot of confusion here about how all of this works. It's certainly not a simple setup.
ReWire is a technology created by Propellerhead that allows a Host application to open virtual line-input connections to Slave applications. When Audition is running as the ReWire Host or ReWire Master, it creates a track (or tracks) that accept input from a ReWire Slave application - in this case, Reason.
So Reason launches and any audio that is created and output by Reason is sent to Audition. All Audition really sees is audio input being fed to it, the same as if a microphone, turntable, or mixer were sending an audio stream. Audition does NOT know about any MIDI data - all that processing is done by Reason.
When you press PLAY or perform a mixdown in Audition, it sends an instruction to Reason telling it to begin playback, along with extra data needed for time synchronization, sample rate, etc. Reason begins processing its composition, and rather than sending its output to the soundcard, routes it directly to Audition. Audition mixes this stream with any audio or midi tracks in its own session and outputs everything to the speaker or down to an audio file.
If Reason is running as a ReWire slave application, that may explain why the "Export as Audio File" option is disabled. Try launching Reason all by itself, load your composition, and export to a file again. You can then import those audio files into an Audition as if they were any other recorded file.
jon, you said "Audition outputs it to where? I hear it but where is it going to after Audition processes it? I feel like I am missing something very simple and yet I have tried everything I can think of. "
Audition is passed the audio stream from Reason. Audition doesn't save this stream unless you perform a bounce of the ReWire track or mixdown the entire session. Make a time selection in Audition's multi-track that is equal to or longer than your Reason composition. Right click on the ReWire track in Audition and choose "Bounce ReWire to Track." It will render the audio stream from Reason into a normal audio file on a new track. (At this point you'll need to either disable or mute the ReWire track as you'll hear both the stream from ReWire AND the new audio track play simultaneously.)
Perhaps if you're still having trouble, you can describe exactly what you're trying to do and how you have things setup right now, and we can give more precise steps.
Durin