REWIRE: Do you use it?

[festeringheap]

I'm curious as to who uses Rewire and why.

Personally, I don't. I think with all DAWs easy bounce capabilities, it is far easier, for me, to just pop over .wav file(s) from one application to another. Project files are just way easier to keep track of when you want to revisit something later on. Having just one DAW running saves on computer resources as well.

Maybe, I'm missing something here, but is Rewire still relevant in your music production these days?

[festeringheap]

Looks like Rewire is a dead protocol.

Maybe the new generation of music producers are using Ableton Link.

[THE INTRANCER]

More like somewhere between never and sometimes here... but never during a middle of track. Rewiring Studio One 3/3.5 to Reason 7.02 is typically just for fun and messing around with Kong. Possibility I might use the recorded material for track ideas or to add some variation in an empty song that I can copy over to use. So in all.. quite rarely.

Any audio / midi connection system, doesn't just die, it either remains the same or evolves just like the midi protocol today. Rewire does both Midi and Audio simultaneously, sorta like a virtual network cable in the real world. In a practical sense, it's typically a negative use of resources and a hindrance to general workflow and thus may never actually occur within one's mind to even use Rewire.

But it's better to have something like Rewire than not have it... It would be like saying to someone that we are going to no longer use 5 Pin Din sockets any more and use USB forever instead.

[superscan]

Yes, still used and quite fun in the studio.

Two uses here:
ReWire Ableton Live + Push 2 into Logic Pro X. With Ableton 10 you can now use Push 2 as a Control Surface in ReWire mode.
Rewire Reason into Logic Pro X.

Not an everyday thing, but allows me to continue to leverage investments and have some more creative tools.

[ontol]

I haven't used it since I switched from using ProTools 3 or 4 years ago.

[Tj Shredder]

I use Dante, works within one and between several computers. To send Midi around the world was never a problem and for syncing Link seems to turn into a standard...

[3ee]

I use Reason rewired into Reaper sometimes... but more like fun to play with Reason's rack, don't tend to reach for it for "serious" work when time is concerned... Rewire seems a bit time-consuming to set up especially if you don't have a template in place

[dukeitch]

I used to use Rewire a lot to connect Reason to Ableton Live and Logic. In fact every day, but I haven't used Rewire for quite some time now. Nowadays I use Ableton Link with Reason and Live as I only have Push 1 and you can't really use Push 1 in rewire mode, plus VSTs are not working in Reason when Reason is rewired. You have best of both worlds and they run in sync.

[kb420]

There was a time when I would use Reason together with Ableton Live. I loved to layer sounds in Live with Ableton's instruments. For that, Rewire is great, but since I really don't use Reason anymore, I simply don't find the need for Rewire.

[kb420]

There was a time when I would use Reason together with Ableton Live. I loved to layer sounds in Live with Reason's instruments. For that, Rewire is great, but since I really don't use Reason anymore, I simply don't find the need for Rewire.

[kb420]

Double post

[Jafo]

Double post

Nah, just rewired together.

[Mattt12345]

I switch back to Reason 10 and Cubase Elements 9.

I use Reason as Synthrack and automation and cubase for Note edit and arrange.
Feels better as in Ableton with this clear borders to each window.
I hope rewire is not dying. With link all those connections wouldn't work.

[festeringheap]

Rewiring Studio One 3/3.5 to Reason 7.02 is typically just for fun and messing around with Kong.

Rewire Reason into Logic Pro X.

Not an everyday thing, but allows me to continue to leverage investments and have some more creative tools.

I use Reason rewired into Reaper sometimes... but more like fun to play with Reason's rack,

I used to use Rewire a lot to connect Reason to Ableton Live and Logic. In fact every day, but I haven't used Rewire for quite some time now.

There was a time when I would use Reason together with Ableton Live. I loved to layer sounds in Live with Ableton's instruments.

I switch back to Reason 10 and Cubase Elements 9.

I use Reason as Synthrack and automation and cubase for Note edit and arrange.
Feels better as in Ableton with this clear borders to each window.
I hope rewire is not dying. With link all those connections wouldn't work.

Looks like most use(d) Reason and Rewire. Back when Reason had no audio in, it definitely made more sense to use another DAW for audio, and use the Reason rack for instruments.

Now, with Reason having audio tracks, and other DAWs having capable and robust instruments (as well as the many VSTi out there), there seems to be no good reason anymore to Rewire - other than maybe you like and are familiar with the instruments in the other DAW.

More like somewhere between never and sometimes here... but never during a middle of track.

This was always an annoyance about Rewire. You wanted the capabilities of the other DAW, but sometimes had to shut down programs in the middle of something and open up in the proper order. Set up routing or find a template if you had one.Buzzkiller

[Jace-BeOS]

I never found it convenient. Actually, I found it the opposite of convenient. Oh well.