How Many Here Use ReWire?

When ReWire first came out, some of the folks at Propellerheads commented that Sonar's implementation was one of the best. It certainly was rock-solid. I often used Reason as an outboard "instrument rack" for Sonar, and it still does that well. Even though I have Komplete, which has a lot of overlap, I still like Reason's virtual instruments. (I used to ReWire Live into Sonar, but that became less important with the arrival of the Matrix view.) 
 
So I was wondering how prevalent ReWire use was among the community here. Do you use it? Used to use it but don't any more? Want to check it out? If you use it, what do you ReWire into Sonar? Inquiring minds want to know...

I rewire Reason. Very fun combo.

It's not Cakewalk testing out anything, I'm checking out the level of interest to see if I should write anything applications-oriented about it.

There's a way to use Sonar but mix in Mixbus. It seems complicated and a lot of work but I would like to try it once. If I like it I'll continue but MB only has 4 busses at present and 4 is not enough.

I got it working, but never actually used it in a project, when some vsti were working in an other DAW but not in Sonar X.  That issue has since been fixed, so I do not use it at all.....but it was cool once I got it working and saved as template.
 
I would be interested to see what other uses rewire has.
 
JR

Anderson -
I do use rewire with Reason - I would be greatly interested in your insight to gain and/or add new tools to my "toolbox".
 

I've never used it with Sonar but I used to ReWire Reaper into Pro Tools. It was pretty rock solid and enabled me to use a lot of synths without 32-bit Amateur Tools crapping out on me. The only downside I guess was having to open and close both programs when loading a project. Other than that it worked perfectly. 

Very interesting responses so far. Now that I think about it, Reason is kind of an alternative to Komplete...what with Thor, Kong, Subtractor, Malstrom, and the NN-XT, that's a pretty cool collection of instruments.

I tried it when Groove Agent didn't work properly with Sonar but gave it up. Too complicated and other drumsamplers arr far ahead and work better with Sonar than GA.

I use it with Notion with great results. I bought Mixbus 2 this year, but I haven't gotten a chance to try ReWire with it yet. I guess I should be thankful that I have been to busy to experiment too much this year. I had an LE version of Reason when I was doing a lot of hip-hop and rap sessions and it worked very well. 

Please forgive my ignorance. What is notion?

musichoo
Can I do all the midi and automation in Sonar, send midi to Reason and get multi channel audio back to Sonar for processing? Basically treat Reason as a multitimbre synth plugin? 

That's basically how I used it. MIDI went from Pro Tools to Reaper and the audio from Reaper to Pro Tools.

I tried using rewire with notation software...both Sibelius and Notion4.  I had various levels of success with each.  I work with picture and everyone in my work chain is setting things 48K.  Last I tried Notion I had to use 44.1.  Little things like that make Rewire, for me, more trouble than its worth. 
 
Shuttling back and forth between notation and DAWs requires way more labor than it should.  (We are dealing with computers).
 
Perhaps if you did an article on Rewire I might pick up a trick or two that would make a difference.
 
Thanks! 
 

BenMMusTech
I use it for Notion...
 
Ben

I used to use Notion, but upgraded to Sibileus 7.5. How does rewire help with notation applications? Easier transfer of MIDI files?
 
Walt

I used rewire for years with Melodyne.  Since I moved to Editor 2 I use the plugin version.