I have something to add... Perhaps before posting any questions, I would advise reading all previous Questions and Answers on this thread. If you don't find your answers in there then post your question. Many of these questions have already been asked and answered. Read what you type before hitting the button to post. (spelling/grammar) Thank you LearnReason for your tutorials. Very helpful.
See, now that's the dopeness of Reason I've been longing for. Always a process with the whole VST situation and Reason, but work arounds are blessings too.
Hey, Matt. If it works for you, that's all that matters. For me, these kinds of workarounds are never necessary with Rewire and X3. Superior Drummer is good stuff. Very easy to use compared to BFD3, but BFD3 has the most realistic samples and environment/mic-ing controls I've come across. It's a bit of a pain to use. Always cool to connect with another Propellerhead!
@ THERoryBreakerATL Make sure you have each of your digital devices setup to use the I/O correctly. Also make sure Reason and Kontakt are using the right devices. You might want to watch the video again in case you missed something.
Hey your last video about using Kontakt was great! Got me up and going really quick. However, I thought it sucked that you couldn't monitor as you record because of having to switch devices. I figured something out and I wanted to tell you in case you haven't thought of it already (since you helped me). Instead of switching back and forth from your actual interface and soundflower as you need to record, just create an aggregate device containing both sound flower and your interface. Set the aggregate as your device in reason in Kontakt, and this will allow you to monitor from reason and out of your physical interface instead of from Kontakt. It's more or less the same approach as in this video, but without needed 2 interfaces. This is cool because if you use the 16ch soundflower in the aggregate, you can multitrack record from Kontakt (or anything else for that matter
+Marcus Wiles I forgot to mention: I'm using a Focusrite Scarlett 18i8. I did have some trouble recording my interface's inputs with the aggregate (distortion), so I ended up switching back and forth between the Focusrite and the Aggregate. That's ok though because both allow me to monitor from the Focusrite. This is important too: to make it work, applications need to send their output to one of the Soundflower channels, and thus be selected as the inputs in reason so that the only virtual audio coming into the interface is output from Reason. So, my aggregate has the 18 inputs of the focusrite and then the 2 inputs of the soundflower, with 8 focusrite outputs and 2 soundflower outputs to make a 20 in/10 out interface.
+Marcus Wiles Thanks for your input ;-) Yes I know about the aggregate setups but not all people have a OSX and I wanted to show a way to use both without the need of virtual cabling. You can monitor while you record I show this in the video? You only select the track of instrument you want to play in Kontakt. I only setup two tracks for Kontakt but you could setup as many as you need and monitor all of them while you record.
LearnReason Yeah but I personally would rather not use 2 interfaces. Especially because most of the time I use this stuff for live performance. It takes up more ports, requires more cabling, and is just more hardware to go wrong.
+Marcus Wiles What ever works for you under your circumstances is what it is all about. Please stop by our forum www.reasonforums.com and share your music and videos.
Just got this set up and working! Running Reason on an M-Audio M-Track Plus, and Kontakt on a Roland Studio Canvas SD-90. Everything works in real time and sounds fantastic, the only trouble I had was getting midi data sent from Reason to Kontakt. I ended up still using loopMIDI to pass that information, though I think there should be a way to send it via the hardware only... Maybe I need physical midi cables passing between the two devices? I'll have to play with it more, but nothing I tried worked. Regardless, It plays back in real time now, and acts as if Kontakt is just another instrument on my Reason Rack. When I'm happy with the track, I just record it! Aces!
No Reason has the Midi Instrument which is a virtual midi port to any other midi port be it virtual or real. Kontakt has virtual midi ports also. If you have it working that's what counts.
Hey Matt, I'm only getting a mono signal in reason. I am using reason 8 with a Presonus firebox wired spdif into a TC Electronic Konnect 48. I'm only getting a mono signal and it sounds rather brittle as well. Also in my Kontakt under the midi tab I don't have the port connection options that you have. I hear the sound though.
You could also use a simple MIDI-interface. Route Reason, or any DAW, to your MIDI-output, then put the same cable from the output to the MIDI-input. Kontakt can be set to receive the incoming MIDI-signal. Done. You could use this for live purposes too, of course. So using Kontakt on other outputs of your Audio Interface, separate outputs, or even on another computer. Now, for Reason or in-production stuff that need bouncing or rendering, the thing mentioned in the video is complete, mine is not.
Hi, the EMI let you control cc1 and cc11 of every kontakt instrument just switching emi track and using 2 midi faders. The faders will control the instrument associated to the emi track that you select in reason. Could you please tell me if there s a way to control for example cc32 adding a third fader? It seems only cc1 and 11 work. How to control other cc (for every kontakt instrument) with one controller just switching emi track on reason? Hope my question is clear :)
I am a little confused ... why did you choose inputs 5/6 when the output of the M'Audio is connected to the SPDIF input of the Eleven Rack? Also, is the USB of the M-Audio connected to the computer or just through SPDIF?
wish the native plugins and the korg legacy collection were available as rack extensions I would ditch my other software completely and by by anoying rewire too , that would make reason the best daw in my eyes , hope it happens 1 day
i find its still a bit of hassel doing it like in the video and its still a work around , its not like its the same as it in other daws ,i love reason cause its what i started on but i think am guna get used to sonar and use it only in rewire , sonar seems to be really light on cpu compared to ableton i can run prob triple the ammount of plugins and it seems really stable nearly as good as reason , so using sonar and doing my beats in reason will do for me now, good tutorials, keep the good work up
+Arthur Batsell I do not own Battery as I find Kong to be as good if not better. Remember it is a sampler also. Correction Battery does not open in Konakt but it will open in MiniHost which you then would use rather then Konakt with Reason.
LearnReason Any advice on how use EWQL Symphonic Choirs/Play with Reason? Just bought this product thinking it would be easy to plug in but cannot find a way to do it. They recommend Protools but with Yosemite on my new Mac, my old PT8 now doesn't work and have ti update to 12 and just have spent so much money on software that I rather just use Reason for everything. I apologize I'm not much into tweaking things around, more used to old school plug and play to create music. But I'm learning as I go. Hope you can give some advice and thank you for the great videos.
Im not quite understanding what you mean. I take it the only way to use batery is that i have to use studio one and reasons for sounds only and rewire R8.
+Arthur Batsell This tutorial shows how to use Kontakt with Reason just do what I show and it works great. You trigger Battery from Reason's Sequencer or your controller it is really as simple as that.
Hi Matt nice tutorial, however i followed your instructions to the letter and yet it is not working, I have the 003 Rack Plus and the Komplete audio 6, i connected the Komplete to the 003 via Spidif like you mentioned out to in, in to out on the 003, in Kontakt i selected the Komplete as the device, in Reason the 003 as the audio device created the External midi instrument set to Kontakt 5 virtual port created an audio channel i set the input to 5 & 6 on the komplete it says spidif is 5 & 6 yet nothing works, i tried every available input, also in audio midi setup i set the komplete to external spidif clock nothing works even if i leave the clock to internal, what am i doing wrong besides writing a long letter. ja ja jaj
You need to make sure that Reason is using one sound card and Kontakt is using the other. You must be missing something, I do not have your setup so my best advice is to unhook everything and start over.
Hey, i have a HUGE problem. I have Reason 9 on Windows 10, i have Kontkat, Massive, MS-20 and a few other VST's i open them and open my loopMIDI, i can get them to play sounds on through the master and while playing on my midi keyboard i have plugged in. When i want to record into audio track it doesn't work at all. I have Focusrite and Asio everything seems to be installed and properly connected but still nothing, no Audio waves at all. i have no issues recording with my microphone and all just EMI doesnt reocrd.
I do not know your setup but with any two sound devices you should be able to link them easily and just have one for each of the programs you are using. This tutorial was for using Kontakt with Reason. I sound to me that you do not have something configured right.
Is kong just as powerful as Battery 4. What i like about B4 is they had crazy sounds not just drums. I like the crazy sounds. Can i sample B4 sounds and load into reasons 8.
+Arthur Batsell Yes, Kong will play any .wav or you can sample sound right to each pad. Kong is very powerful and also you can create sounds in Reason and sample them to a pad in Kong. You can also setup great kits in Kong and trigger them with an eKit.
My question is can i use any vst in komplete Ultimate and utilize Battery 4 and connect some how with redrum to use as a step sequencer in reasons. I have been looking for the ultimate drum machine combination within reasons 8 but i would love to use Battery 4. Can anyone help me see if this is possible im a drummer by trade so my drum programming has to be A plus programming and i want battery 4 and reasons drum racks but there is NOT one video ALL!!!!!
+Arthur Batsell No you can no use Redrum to trigger Battery as it can only be done using the Gate outputs on the back of Redrum that have to be plugged into a device. You can use the Sequence in Reason which is far more powerful then Redrum. And if you are a drummer then you can trigger Battery from your eKit, if you have one, and record it in the Reason sequencer.
I don't understand how it can it be easier to do this setup than using VB cable. being the fact I need to purchase two separate audio interfaces. is there any other way to do it 100% digitally.?.
Urbeatz I have made 3 tutorials on how to use VST in Reason all you need to do is choose one of the ways and go for it. You will need and audio interface and a midi keyboard so if you do not have those you need to get them first. Most computer come with as audio i/o
Not that simple with my m-audio fast track pro and my Focusrite Scarlet 6i6. I connected the wires as stated (Reason using the M-Audio and Kontakt the Focusrite. I get no sound from kontakt. The audio device meter in Reason doesn't pick up any sound. The midi is working, just no sound. If anyone has experience with the Focusrite 6i6 and this setup please lend some advice as I may be missing a simple step that's preventing this from working.
Figured it out. I had to plug TRS audio cables from my M-Audio 1/2 output to my Scarlette 3/4 input and in Focusrite control turn on the spdif channel and 3/4 audio channels so I can hear the other synths in reason and kontakt. This setup works flawlessly...thank you.
HELP URGENTLY NEEDED! Hi with Reason 8 I can directly take Kontakt in as an External Midi Instruement, Tho it doesn't export the Kontakt stuff. You have an idea why, the Kontakt is free player, maybe therefor, i have a deadline , need your help bro...
instead of using 2 sound cards... buy yourself a used Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 and utilize the loopback function built into the interface. Voila.... same principle!
I have the audio going into reason and I can record the audio, but the midi is not recording. Anyone else having the same issue? I have set everything up the same as the video and still no luck.
I'm trying to conect, "virus control" with my reason 10 with no results, would you do a video for everyone who have an access virus ti??... best regards, Cheers from mexico!!!
So you want to send midi data from the sequencer in Reason to your hardware synth? If so just do as I do in the tutorial and replace Kontakt with your hardware synth.
This did not work at all. Kontakt Virtual port doesn't exist on my computer. Tried searching the web and got one hit, which was a guy saying there is no such thing (?). I wound up using loopBe1 and it works flawlessly.
I ONLY GRASPED ABOUT 20% OF WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS VIDEO. IN THE LAST 1/2 YEAR OR SO, I HAVE PURCHASED KONTAKT AND LOGIC 10.2 & A MAC MINI W 16G OF RAM, AND THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL M-AUDIO M-TRACK PLUS I/O DEVICE - DOES ANYONE KNOW IF I CAN DO THE SAME THING IN THIS VIDEO WITH THOSE ? OR DO I ALSO NEED A 4TH ITEM i.e. ANOTHER SPDIF I/O DEVICE TOO !?!?! OR ARE THOSE IN THE BOX SVT I/O DEVICES ?!?!?! ALL OF THIS, DOING IT ALL IN THE COMPUTER / "THE BOX " & SVT SOFTWARE DEVICES IS RELATIVELY KNEW TO ME. I JUST RECENTLY GOT ALL THIS GEAR SO I CAN DO MUSIC PRODUCTION "INSIDE THE BOX" AND DISPENSE WITH USING A ROOM FULL OF ACTUAL PHYSICAL HARDWARE. I STARTED WITH ANALOGUE SYNTHS IN THE 70S AND MODIFYING ALMOST ALL OF THEM THEM MYSELF FOR MORE TRIGGER AND VC OPERATIONS FOR EASIER LIVE PERFORMANCES. I PLAYED IN BANDS FROM 1969 THROUGH THE MID 90S AND FOR THE LAST 30YRS HAVE BEEN A PROFESSIONAL RECORDING & SOUND ENGINEER UP UNTIL 2000 WHEN I RETIRED FROM GOING OUT ON THE ROAD ANYMORE DOING TOURS. UP UNTIL NOW I HAVE BEEN USING A PLETHORA OF OLD SCHOOL MIDI SOUND MODULES & SAMPLERS & EFFECTS FROM THE 80S THRU THE EARLY 2000'S, & JUST AS MANY KEYBOARDS, SAMPLERS, AND SOUND PROCESSORS, AND A 32-CH ANALOG MIXER. FROM THE EARLY 80S I USED 2- ROLAND MSQ-700 MIDI SEQUENCERS AND ROLAND MPU-1O1 MIDI TO CV / TRIG CONVERTERS TO CONTROL MY ANALOGUE SYNTHS -- BEING A RELATIVELY POOR MUSICIAN, IN THE LATE MID 80S I REGRETTABLY STARTED TRADING IN ALL OF MY ANALOG SYNTHS FOR POLYPHONIC MIDI KEYBOARDS .IN 1987 I DUMPED ALL THE MIDI TRACKS INTO AN ATARI COMPUTER WHICH I THEN WAS USING THE ORIGINAL STEINBERG MIDI SEQUENCING PROGRAM AFTER SEEING SOME REALLY TALENTED LAS VEGAS ACTS SOUNDING LIKE A WHOLE STUDIO PRODUCTION USING AN ATARI & STEINBERG SET UP WHILE OUT ON TOUR WITH DONNA SUMMER IN THE LATE 80S. IN 2002 I ACQUIRED AND SWITCHED TO STEINBERG CUBASE 5.1 VST/32 AND a M-AUDIO D-MAN I/O INTERFACE with the PCI CARD [which BTW is still supported today which they have updated drivers for all platforms and flavors] in a WINDOWS 2000 PRO / XP PLATFORM PC WITH 500M OF RAM .. SO ALL OF THIS IN THE BOX SEQUENCING AND MIXING IS NEW TO ME, SO SOME OF IT I DONT UNDERSTAND LIKE I DO USING ACTUAL HARDWARE THAT NEEDS TO BE PHYSICALLY CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER TO WORK AND PRODUCE MUSIC AND MIXING.
I have something to add... Perhaps before posting any questions, I would advise reading all previous Questions and Answers on this thread. If you don't find your answers in there then post your question. Many of these questions have already been asked and answered. Read what you type before hitting the button to post. (spelling/grammar) Thank you LearnReason for your tutorials. Very helpful.
See, now that's the dopeness of Reason I've been longing for. Always a process with the whole VST situation and Reason, but work arounds are blessings too.
I was about to post same message has Mike Horton did, regarding the loopback feature on saffire pro. Great vid btw, cheers.
Hey, Matt. If it works for you, that's all that matters. For me, these kinds of workarounds are never necessary with Rewire and X3.
Superior Drummer is good stuff. Very easy to use compared to BFD3, but BFD3 has the most realistic samples and environment/mic-ing controls I've come across. It's a bit of a pain to use.
Always cool to connect with another Propellerhead!
@ jeff,
I have never tried that so I am no sure. But when thinking about it you are just play Kontakt from Reason so it should work find.
Sounds to me like you do not have the spdif cables hooked up right. Unhook everything and start from the begaining and do just like I do in the video.
Do you have the right Audio Device selected in Reason?
LearnReason I have two M Audio fast track pros with digital spidf can I use that set up
@ THERoryBreakerATL
Make sure you have each of your digital devices setup to use the I/O correctly. Also make sure Reason and Kontakt are using the right devices. You might want to watch the video again in case you missed something.
Hey your last video about using Kontakt was great! Got me up and going really quick. However, I thought it sucked that you couldn't monitor as you record because of having to switch devices. I figured something out and I wanted to tell you in case you haven't thought of it already (since you helped me). Instead of switching back and forth from your actual interface and soundflower as you need to record, just create an aggregate device containing both sound flower and your interface. Set the aggregate as your device in reason in Kontakt, and this will allow you to monitor from reason and out of your physical interface instead of from Kontakt. It's more or less the same approach as in this video, but without needed 2 interfaces. This is cool because if you use the 16ch soundflower in the aggregate, you can multitrack record from Kontakt (or anything else for that matter
+Marcus Wiles I forgot to mention: I'm using a Focusrite Scarlett 18i8. I did have some trouble recording my interface's inputs with the aggregate (distortion), so I ended up switching back and forth between the Focusrite and the Aggregate. That's ok though because both allow me to monitor from the Focusrite. This is important too: to make it work, applications need to send their output to one of the Soundflower channels, and thus be selected as the inputs in reason so that the only virtual audio coming into the interface is output from Reason. So, my aggregate has the 18 inputs of the focusrite and then the 2 inputs of the soundflower, with 8 focusrite outputs and 2 soundflower outputs to make a 20 in/10 out interface.
+Marcus Wiles Thanks for your input ;-) Yes I know about the aggregate setups but not all people have a OSX and I wanted to show a way to use both without the need of virtual cabling. You can monitor while you record I show this in the video? You only select the track of instrument you want to play in Kontakt. I only setup two tracks for Kontakt but you could setup as many as you need and monitor all of them while you record.
LearnReason Yeah but I personally would rather not use 2 interfaces. Especially because most of the time I use this stuff for live performance. It takes up more ports, requires more cabling, and is just more hardware to go wrong.
+Marcus Wiles What ever works for you under your circumstances is what it is all about. Please stop by our forum www.reasonforums.com and share your music and videos.
Just got this set up and working! Running Reason on an M-Audio M-Track Plus, and Kontakt on a Roland Studio Canvas SD-90. Everything works in real time and sounds fantastic, the only trouble I had was getting midi data sent from Reason to Kontakt. I ended up still using loopMIDI to pass that information, though I think there should be a way to send it via the hardware only... Maybe I need physical midi cables passing between the two devices? I'll have to play with it more, but nothing I tried worked.
Regardless, It plays back in real time now, and acts as if Kontakt is just another instrument on my Reason Rack. When I'm happy with the track, I just record it! Aces!
realtrisk You can pass the midi between them by using a Midi Instrument in Reason and a virtual midi port in Kontakt.
I'm on PC and I don't see any virtual midi ports. Is that a Mac thing? loopMIDI works flawlessly, so it's no big deal...
No Reason has the Midi Instrument which is a virtual midi port to any other midi port be it virtual or real. Kontakt has virtual midi ports also. If you have it working that's what counts.
Hey Matt, I'm only getting a mono signal in reason. I am using reason 8 with a Presonus firebox wired spdif into a TC Electronic Konnect 48. I'm only getting a mono signal and it sounds rather brittle as well. Also in my Kontakt under the midi tab I don't have the port connection options that you have. I hear the sound though.
so this will work with komplete 10 aswell?
You could also use a simple MIDI-interface. Route Reason, or any DAW, to your MIDI-output, then put the same cable from the output to the MIDI-input. Kontakt can be set to receive the incoming MIDI-signal. Done. You could use this for live purposes too, of course. So using Kontakt on other outputs of your Audio Interface, separate outputs, or even on another computer. Now, for Reason or in-production stuff that need bouncing or rendering, the thing mentioned in the video is complete, mine is not.
You could also just upgrade to Reason 10.
Hi, the EMI let you control cc1 and cc11 of every kontakt instrument just switching emi track and using 2 midi faders. The faders will control the instrument associated to the emi track that you select in reason. Could you please tell me if there s a way to control for example cc32 adding a third fader? It seems only cc1 and 11 work. How to control other cc (for every kontakt instrument) with one controller just switching emi track on reason? Hope my question is clear :)
Get Reason 10 it works with VST's!
Hello, the option "kontakt 5 virtual imputs" does not appear in "external midi instruments", what should I do?
Video 5:09
Thank you
You are missing something in the tutorial maybe watch it again. Also Reason now takes VST/AU
I am a little confused ... why did you choose inputs 5/6 when the output of the M'Audio is connected to the SPDIF input of the Eleven Rack? Also, is the USB of the M-Audio connected to the computer or just through SPDIF?
5/6 are the 11R , The M-Audio is connected to the computer via USB and the 2 audio device as stated are connected via SPDIF...easy as that.
wish the native plugins and the korg legacy collection were available as rack extensions I would ditch my other software completely and by by anoying rewire too , that would make reason the best daw in my eyes , hope it happens 1 day
drumandbassob0007 They are VST and AU right? Just use them in Reason it's easy.
i find its still a bit of hassel doing it like in the video and its still a work around , its not like its the same as it in other daws ,i love reason cause its what i started on but i think am guna get used to sonar and use it only in rewire , sonar seems to be really light on cpu compared to ableton i can run prob triple the ammount of plugins and it seems really stable nearly as good as reason , so using sonar and doing my beats in reason will do for me now, good tutorials, keep the good work up
you mentioned that you will instruct how to use AU/VSTs effects in Reason when will this be available
goldfender I have, I made 2 videos showing how to do it. Goto the main TH-cam channel and the videos are right there.
can i use any third party vst because i read some of the comments and a few people said that it didn't work. Can you do a video setting up Battery 4.
+Arthur Batsell I do not own Battery as I find Kong to be as good if not better. Remember it is a sampler also. Correction Battery does not open in Konakt but it will open in MiniHost which you then would use rather then Konakt with Reason.
LearnReason Any advice on how use EWQL Symphonic Choirs/Play with Reason? Just bought this product thinking it would be easy to plug in but cannot find a way to do it. They recommend Protools but with Yosemite on my new Mac, my old PT8 now doesn't work and have ti update to 12 and just have spent so much money on software that I rather just use Reason for everything. I apologize I'm not much into tweaking things around, more used to old school plug and play to create music. But I'm learning as I go. Hope you can give some advice and thank you for the great videos.
metalfitness If it is a VST or AU it should work as I show in the video. I do not have it so I can not test it.
When you connected the two interfaces through the s/p dif did you mean physically with cables or through the vst and daw internally
With Cables.
Can you make a tutorial on how to install new pluggin on Reason please?
I did the same thing as the Saffire Pro with my RME Fireface 800
Im not quite understanding what you mean. I take it the only way to use batery is that i have to use studio one and reasons for sounds only and rewire R8.
+Arthur Batsell This tutorial shows how to use Kontakt with Reason just do what I show and it works great. You trigger Battery from Reason's Sequencer or your controller it is really as simple as that.
Hi Matt nice tutorial, however i followed your instructions to the letter and yet it is not working, I have the 003 Rack Plus and the Komplete audio 6, i connected the Komplete to the 003 via Spidif like you mentioned out to in, in to out on the 003, in Kontakt i selected the Komplete as the device, in Reason the 003 as the audio device created the External midi instrument set to Kontakt 5 virtual port created an audio channel i set the input to 5 & 6 on the komplete it says spidif is 5 & 6 yet nothing works, i tried every available input, also in audio midi setup i set the komplete to external spidif clock nothing works even if i leave the clock to internal, what am i doing wrong besides writing a long letter. ja ja jaj
You need to make sure that Reason is using one sound card and Kontakt is using the other. You must be missing something, I do not have your setup so my best advice is to unhook everything and start over.
i'm currently using two audio devices (pro 40 and A /D & D/A converter, can this be done with adat as well or it has to be spdif?
You just need two devices that have digital i/o and it will work.
Thanks
LearnReason i'm working with reason 8 it says it's computable with VST (plugins) and i was wondering, do i still need something else?
Morrison Bramervaer I do not understand your question. In the video I show you want you need and how it works?
Can you do this with analog connections or only digital I have a focusrite 2i2 and a m-audio firewire 410
Shant Vartanian Only Digital because analog will bring latency issues.
Hey, i have a HUGE problem. I have Reason 9 on Windows 10, i have Kontkat, Massive, MS-20 and a few other VST's i open them and open my loopMIDI, i can get them to play sounds on through the master and while playing on my midi keyboard i have plugged in. When i want to record into audio track it doesn't work at all. I have Focusrite and Asio everything seems to be installed and properly connected but still nothing, no Audio waves at all. i have no issues recording with my microphone and all just EMI doesnt reocrd.
I do not know your setup but with any two sound devices you should be able to link them easily and just have one for each of the programs you are using. This tutorial was for using Kontakt with Reason. I sound to me that you do not have something configured right.
Is kong just as powerful as Battery 4. What i like about B4 is they had crazy sounds not just drums. I like the crazy sounds. Can i sample B4 sounds and load into reasons 8.
+Arthur Batsell Yes, Kong will play any .wav or you can sample sound right to each pad. Kong is very powerful and also you can create sounds in Reason and sample them to a pad in Kong. You can also setup great kits in Kong and trigger them with an eKit.
+Arthur Batsell Read more about Kong here: www.propellerheads.se/reason/instruments/kong
try digital i/o an midi out to midi in on same interface
My question is can i use any vst in komplete Ultimate and utilize Battery 4 and connect some how with redrum to use as a step sequencer in reasons. I have been looking for the ultimate drum machine combination within reasons 8 but i would love to use Battery 4. Can anyone help me see if this is possible im a drummer by trade so my drum programming has to be A plus programming and i want battery 4 and reasons drum racks but there is NOT one video ALL!!!!!
+Arthur Batsell No you can no use Redrum to trigger Battery as it can only be done using the Gate outputs on the back of Redrum that have to be plugged into a device. You can use the Sequence in Reason which is far more powerful then Redrum. And if you are a drummer then you can trigger Battery from your eKit, if you have one, and record it in the Reason sequencer.
any chance of SampleTank 3 works whith reason
I don't understand how it can it be easier to do this setup than using VB cable. being the fact I need to purchase two separate audio interfaces. is there any other way to do it 100% digitally.?.
+Kritan Batanu No you have to have digital cabling between two devices.
thank you so much man!!!
I want to use Kontakt, Nexus, etc. in reason, but I don't have an audio interface. I read about VSTHost, but it doesn't works. Can you help me ?
Urbeatz I have made 3 tutorials on how to use VST in Reason all you need to do is choose one of the ways and go for it. You will need and audio interface and a midi keyboard so if you do not have those you need to get them first. Most computer come with as audio i/o
i already have a midi keyboard and my next birthday wish is a audio interface haha thanx a lot
i have always preferred to work in reason over pro tools. But how can I get EWQL play to work in reason.
+arima44 What is EWQL?
East West Quantum Leap instruments that load up in EWQL PLAY.
+arima44 If they come with a stand alone player and if they do not you should be able to open them up in MiniHost.
Not that simple with my m-audio fast track pro and my Focusrite Scarlet 6i6. I connected the wires as stated (Reason using the M-Audio and Kontakt the Focusrite. I get no sound from kontakt. The audio device meter in Reason doesn't pick up any sound. The midi is working, just no sound. If anyone has experience with the Focusrite 6i6 and this setup please lend some advice as I may be missing a simple step that's preventing this from working.
Figured it out. I had to plug TRS audio cables from my M-Audio 1/2 output to my Scarlette 3/4 input and in Focusrite control turn on the spdif channel and 3/4 audio channels so I can hear the other synths in reason and kontakt. This setup works flawlessly...thank you.
HELP URGENTLY NEEDED!
Hi with Reason 8 I can directly take Kontakt in as an External Midi Instruement, Tho it doesn't export the Kontakt stuff. You have an idea why, the Kontakt is free player, maybe therefor, i have a deadline , need your help bro...
+Krëscht Clement Kontakt is only used as midi instrument that you play and record in Reason. I am not sure what you mean by export?
Awesome!
instead of using 2 sound cards... buy yourself a used Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 and utilize the loopback function built into the interface. Voila.... same principle!
hello, can you please explain how use Scarlet 8i6 looback for use kontakt in reason? digital enviroment.
can you please explain how setup scarlett 8i6 loopback for use kontakt in reason? mixcontrol is a headake.
Is this Matt from Super Mega?
No
I have the audio going into reason and I can record the audio, but the midi is not recording. Anyone else having the same issue? I have set everything up the same as the video and still no luck.
+Fred Fernandez If you set everything up as it should be this would not be happening, maybe watch the video again you my have missed something.
sao32 Yes just open it up in Midi Host.
So you can't import kontakt in reason 5?
mok beatz No you need Reason 7 because it has midi I/O. You do not import Kontakt you play it and Record it in Reason.
LearnReason Ok thank you!
I'm trying to conect, "virus control" with my reason 10 with no results, would you do a video for everyone who have an access virus ti??... best regards, Cheers from mexico!!!
Why would you need virus control with a DAW, I have never heard of this?
Well maybe i didn't explain the right way, sorry, i want to trigger 16 midi channel from my virus using the reason sequencer. Thanks for your answer.
So you want to send midi data from the sequencer in Reason to your hardware synth? If so just do as I do in the tutorial and replace Kontakt with your hardware synth.
oh thank you very much, that's what I though when i saw this video, i'll try. Thanks again man!!!
I can't connect my kontakt 5 with reason 8...
+Adrian Wójcik (ARDI) Sorry to hear this did you follow the tutorial advice?
This did not work at all. Kontakt Virtual port doesn't exist on my computer. Tried searching the web and got one hit, which was a guy saying there is no such thing (?). I wound up using loopBe1 and it works flawlessly.
Glad you go it to work, just know the Kontakt virtual ports must be turned on in midi preferences.
Thanks!
I ONLY GRASPED ABOUT 20% OF WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS VIDEO.
IN THE LAST 1/2 YEAR OR SO, I HAVE PURCHASED KONTAKT AND LOGIC 10.2 & A MAC MINI W 16G OF RAM, AND THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL M-AUDIO M-TRACK PLUS I/O DEVICE - DOES ANYONE KNOW IF I CAN DO THE SAME THING IN THIS VIDEO WITH THOSE ? OR DO I ALSO NEED A 4TH ITEM i.e. ANOTHER SPDIF I/O DEVICE TOO !?!?! OR ARE THOSE IN THE BOX SVT I/O DEVICES ?!?!?!
ALL OF THIS, DOING IT ALL IN THE COMPUTER / "THE BOX " & SVT SOFTWARE DEVICES IS RELATIVELY KNEW TO ME. I JUST RECENTLY GOT ALL THIS GEAR SO I CAN DO MUSIC PRODUCTION "INSIDE THE BOX" AND DISPENSE WITH USING A ROOM FULL OF ACTUAL PHYSICAL HARDWARE.
I STARTED WITH ANALOGUE SYNTHS IN THE 70S AND MODIFYING ALMOST ALL OF THEM THEM MYSELF FOR MORE TRIGGER AND VC OPERATIONS FOR EASIER LIVE PERFORMANCES. I PLAYED IN BANDS FROM 1969 THROUGH THE MID 90S AND FOR THE LAST 30YRS HAVE BEEN A PROFESSIONAL RECORDING & SOUND ENGINEER UP UNTIL 2000 WHEN I RETIRED FROM GOING OUT ON THE ROAD ANYMORE DOING TOURS.
UP UNTIL NOW I HAVE BEEN USING A PLETHORA OF OLD SCHOOL MIDI SOUND MODULES & SAMPLERS & EFFECTS FROM THE 80S THRU THE EARLY 2000'S, & JUST AS MANY KEYBOARDS, SAMPLERS, AND SOUND PROCESSORS, AND A 32-CH ANALOG MIXER.
FROM THE EARLY 80S I USED 2- ROLAND MSQ-700 MIDI SEQUENCERS AND ROLAND MPU-1O1 MIDI TO CV / TRIG CONVERTERS TO CONTROL MY ANALOGUE SYNTHS --
BEING A RELATIVELY POOR MUSICIAN, IN THE LATE MID 80S I REGRETTABLY STARTED TRADING IN ALL OF MY ANALOG SYNTHS FOR POLYPHONIC MIDI KEYBOARDS .IN 1987 I DUMPED ALL THE MIDI TRACKS INTO AN ATARI COMPUTER WHICH I THEN WAS USING THE ORIGINAL STEINBERG MIDI SEQUENCING PROGRAM AFTER SEEING SOME REALLY TALENTED LAS VEGAS ACTS SOUNDING LIKE A WHOLE STUDIO PRODUCTION USING AN ATARI & STEINBERG SET UP WHILE OUT ON TOUR WITH DONNA SUMMER IN THE LATE 80S.
IN 2002 I ACQUIRED AND SWITCHED TO STEINBERG CUBASE 5.1 VST/32 AND a M-AUDIO D-MAN I/O INTERFACE with the PCI CARD [which BTW is still supported today which they have updated drivers for all platforms and flavors] in a WINDOWS 2000 PRO / XP PLATFORM PC WITH 500M OF RAM ..
SO ALL OF THIS IN THE BOX SEQUENCING AND MIXING IS NEW TO ME, SO SOME OF IT I DONT UNDERSTAND LIKE I DO USING ACTUAL HARDWARE THAT NEEDS TO BE PHYSICALLY CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER TO WORK AND PRODUCE MUSIC AND MIXING.
+MANTHRAX Maybe watch it again it's actually very simple.
very good tutorial, but for me this type of connection are useless
+Faxe Sperlenbacher But it is allows good to know they are there if you need them right?