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Trying to isolate what might be causing DP8 to crash while attempting to play MIDI on buss of Reason rack. Audio seems routed fine. I get sound when I create a stereo audio track and assign it to Reason Mix L-R. The transport locks and moves reason but when I route MIDI, it crashes consistently.

Wondering if anyone else is successfully using Reason 6.53 in Rewire mode or if anyone has similar issues that they have resolved or reported. Have I missed some critical step in setting up communication between the two programs? Also, I noticed something quite weird with SYNC RECORDED MIDI TO PATCH THRU. If selected, no matter what else I change, my recordings are 240 pulses off. In detail: Set up click, countoff, push record, hit note on first downbeat after count in completes and the note does not show up at 1.1.0 but 1.1.240. It's not quantize. After hours of dicking around. I turned off the SYNC RECORDED MIDI TO PATCH THRU and VIOLA!! My note records on the downbeat. Just thought I'd throw that in. I really want to buy and use this software. I am using the demo now. Hopefully a moderator or someone at MOTU is reading these comments on the DEMO.

Just starting to work with DP8 on PC. Been a Mac user many, many, many years Nothing special about my rig. Windows 7, 64 Bit, I7 920@2.67 GHz, 9GB of ram. Only VST's currently installed for evaluation Native Instruments Komplete 6 with latest updates. Using Audio Kontrol 1 interface with ASIO.

Any and all comments solicited and welcome//// heeeeeeeeelp

It works fine on the Mac as I run this all the time - you don't say which version of DP you use but I presume its the latest one? And I presume you are running Reason in 64 bit as well?


So is this a Windows issue? Or is it an issue with other plug ins or other software? Or is it a memory issue? If DP and Reason run okay separately, then there is no issue with those versions - and Rewire is pretty solid.

Sorry I can't help more as I don't have DP on Windows yet to compare.

Thanks for the suggestions. The title contained the rig setup TO ANSWER MY OWN QUESTION: "Yes I Did Miss Some Critical Step." As usual IAK (Idiot At Keyboard) was to blame for part of my problem. I was ASSUMING rewire and Reason would open in 32 bit mode with a 32 bit host. Turns out Reason 32bit is not automatically installed and needs to be installed from your disk or download package seperately. So a mismatch between the 32 Bit DP and the 64 Bit Reason was likely causing the crashes in 32 bit. When I installed the 32 bit Reason and matched it with the 32 Bit DP8 it no longer crashed upon selecting a Reason rack module through the DP8 buss selection. It did however have latency LIKE HELL. So that is a no go. I am running 44.1/24bit with one track open and one module in the Reason rack to test. ASIO set at 256 latency with a 1ms buffer. Seems the two DAW's together are maybe too much in 32 bit mode for me. Although my processor does not view strained.

Reason and DP thru Rewire, no noticeable latency at buffer 128 here, 32 nor 64bit. On Mac 10.8.3 OS though.