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Introduction

Digidesign made yet another good move with their version 6.1 software – they added compatibility with Propellerheads Software’s ReWire 2.0 technology. This instantly made it possible to use Propellerheads’ Reason and Ableton’s Live with Pro Tools – both of which can use ReWire and both of which are extremely popular ‘tools’ for music production.

Using ReWire, you can transfer MIDI and audio data between applications running on the same computer without using any external connections – ReWire makes ‘virtual’ connections internally. MIDI data sent from Pro Tools, for example, can play back a software synthesizer in Reason – and audio ...

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