So, is Rewire a sampler/sample-player like Kontakt, Play, etc.?  If so, no further explanation is needed.

konradh
So, is Rewire a sampler/sample-player like Kontakt, Play, etc.?  If so, no further explanation is needed.

 ReWire is a protocol developed by Proppellerhead that, with some limitations, allow for easy synching of two DAWs.


 
 Respek.

BenMMusTech

WallyG

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

Hi Walt, no it's not easier to transfer midi files, in fact it's a bit of a ****.  Where Notion is the killer is in the sample library.  Whereas Sibileus is a stronger notation piece of software (from the little I have used it) the samples just aren't as good as Notion IMO.
 
Ben 

Ben,
Thanks for the clarification.
 
Walt

worstcaseontario

konradh
So, is Rewire a sampler/sample-player like Kontakt, Play, etc.?  If so, no further explanation is needed.

ReWire is a protocol developed by Proppellerhead that, with some limitations, allow for easy synching of two DAWs.

It's also about streaming audio from one DAW into another DAW's mixer, as well as directing MIDI data from the host to the synched DAW. Konrad, I suggest you read the article I wrote, it will take 5 minutes and you'll know all you need to know about it.

Thanks, Craig.  Will do.

I still rewire Giga Studio 3 in Sonar 4.0.2 in XP when I'm working on my old ( and very familiar ) rig.
It's awesome most of the time but the is some unfinished business there, either with GS3 or how Sonar 4 deals with rewire.
Using 1 port 16 instruments in GS to 32 mono audio tracks is Sonar it all just works very easily.
No problem printing a full mix. ( File > Export > Audio ) or freezing GS3.

Going to 2 ports or above it gets strange because either GS3 or Sonar won't render or freeze anything other than the first port so to get a full mix I have to do a bit or rewiring of my own, changing the sound card output in Sonar to my second sound cards digital channel, and then using Sound Forge 7 to capture a real time digital mix off of my first sound cards digital channel which is receiving the full mix from the other sound card.
It works. It sounds just like it should. It's just a few more button pushes to get to the end of a project.

Now as to my new rig ... X3 in Win 7 with Komplete 9 Ultimate ...
I still haven't proven to myself that Kontakt can be as powerful and run as many instruments as GS3 can in XP
without bringing X3 to it's knees. I already suspect that latency is more of a problem in X3 on Win 7 than in Sonar 4 on XP. I almost always get a drop out when starting something up in X3 when set to 2.9 MS (ASIO 128)
I never get drop outs in Sonar 4.0.2 on XP and I almost always am running at 1.5MS WDM.
Well, once in a blue moon.

I'd like to switch over to WDM in X3 to test but the "friendly" ( yea right ) driver names thing is a nightmare and I'm going to have to really mess with it to find the audio ins and outs I want used, because I don't want them all in use.
There seems to be one major down side to Kontakt compared to Giga Studio.
In GS I can build a performance and have all of the outputs assigned to just mesh flawlessly with all of the audio tracks in Sonar ... and THEN ... swap out remove, replace instruments and there's no change to the output assignments.
I'm not seeing that ability in Kontakt. Any time I change an instrument I need to re assign it's out put back to where it should be. That's a real time waster so far.

Anderton

Mosvalve
Rewire is greyed out in Sonar. 

That likely means you either don't have any ReWire-compatible programs on your computer, the ReWire dll is missing, or you're using a 64-bit system but your ReWire dll is 32-bit. (Propellerheads was a bit late to the 64-bit party.)
 
You can download the dll here.
 
Also Propellerheads has a document on using ReWire with Sonar. It's fairly old, but the techniques remain valid.
 

Craig, I am running Sonar 64bit. I found rewire.dll in c:\program files(86)\common files\Propellerheadsoftware\rewire. This file version is 1.8.1.40960 dated 2-17-14 and I assume this is a 32bit version. In c:\program files\common files\Propellerheadsoftware\rewire is empty but there is another folder called Rex with a Rex Shared Library.dll file in it. The link you provided contains version 1.7 and tells me when I run the installer that I already have a newer version of the file. I cannot find a 64bit version of the rewire.dll on Propellerhead website. Studio One finds Waves and Melodyne rewire when it loads and like I mentioned I used to see Waves rewire in Sonar. I'm stumped at this point. I think the 64bit version gets installed by Reason. I'm assuming when I installed X3 64bit that the 64bit rewire would be installed to but apparently not. Any help is appreciated. I would really like to try rewire.

Mosvalve
Rewire is greyed out in Sonar. 
 
Craig, I am running Sonar 64bit. I found rewire.dll in c:\program files(86)\common files\Propellerheadsoftware\rewire. This file version is 1.8.1.40960 dated 2-17-14 and I assume this is a 32bit version. In c:\program files\common files\Propellerheadsoftware\rewire is empty but there is another folder called Rex with a Rex Shared Library.dll file in it. The link you provided contains version 1.7 and tells me when I run the installer that I already have a newer version of the file. I cannot find a 64bit version of the rewire.dll on Propellerhead website. Studio One finds Waves and Melodyne rewire when it loads and like I mentioned I used to see Waves rewire in Sonar. I'm stumped at this point. I think the 64bit version gets installed by Reason. I'm assuming when I installed X3 64bit that the 64bit rewire would be installed to but apparently not. Any help is appreciated. I would really like to try rewire.

On my computer a 64-bit version is in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Propellerhead Software\ReWire\ReWire.dll. I'm going to guess that's where Sonar looks for it, because you don't have it and Sonar can't ReWire.
 
I can't find a download either, so at this point I'm grasping at straws and maybe someone else will have an idea of what to do...I think maybe the 64-bit version should have been installed with Sonar. Perhaps doing a minimal Sonar re-install will give you the 64-bit dll.

Or, try this: I searched on ReWire.dll and eventually, found a bunch of ReWire.dll files sprinkled all over my computer...in the Live 9 Suite Redist folder, C:\Windows\SysWOW64, C:\Program Files\Common Files\Propellerhead Software\ReWire, ProgramFiles\Waves\ReWire, Samplitude, Sony Acid, etc. If one of these is the 64-bit 1.8.4 version, try copying it into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Propellerhead Software\ReWire, re-boot, and maybe Sonar will see it.

"On my computer a 64-bit version is in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Propellerhead Software\ReWire\ReWire.dll. I'm going to guess that's where Sonar looks for it, because you don't have it and Sonar can't ReWire."
 
thats where to copy the dll
 
"C:\Windows\SysWOW64"
thats where you copy the rewire dll for reason in 32 bit mode, if installing it 32 bit mode, but try copying the dll there as well

I just tried rewire with Live. it's pretty easy to set up, like inserting a soft synth. Once it's set up you just route midi tracks to the sounds you set up on live channels. Can you trigger cells in the Live session view using rewire?
Now I want to get a copy of Reason to play with :)