How do you get Reason 4 into PT ??

[Inca]

Hey Slutz-

I'm a school teacher doing a kids record. I'm doing everything for a big show I have in June and I'm in need of some ideas to complete my project as quickly as possible. I was wondering about your thoughts on the best way to get Reason tracks into PT. 6.4?

My method: I lay down all of my drum beds and instrumentation in Reason and then rewire into PT. I create an aux track (reason inserted on aux track) and bus it to my audio track. I then bounce my REX loops in stereo and comp them all to 1 PT audio track. I also bounce my mono/stereo instruments this way.

Is this the most efficient way in your opinion? It works well, but is a bit tedious when working with a bunch of Rex loops if you know what I mean.

I know I can export Reason files as an audio file, and then import them into PT. I have heard that this degrades the quality of the Reason samples. Don't know if that is true, but I have stayed away from that method.

Any replies are greatly appreciated. Thanks slutz. Let me know if you need more info. My brain is a bit scrambled after a marathon session last night.

I'm doing this show for 1,200 kids, so I just want it to rock!!!

P.S. got some Adam A7's thanks to you guys here, and I can get away from listening to them. Holy Shikes!!! hahah. Pure sonic bliss.

[SaschaP]

I have the same set up. The two methods you mentioned are usually the best way to go. I rewire to an Aux and print tracks if I'm taking the song to another studio to mix or if I'm running out of CPU juice.

I find myself just leaving Reason rewired and tracking in Protools the whole way from start to finish more and more lately. Again, unless I run out of power.

Printing tracks is also safer in the long run. You can lose the Reason file and or associated samples sometimes. If its all printed, its all there...

[Roc Mixwell]

Originally Posted by SaschaP

I have the same set up. The two methods you mentioned are usually the best way to go. I rewire to an Aux and print tracks if I'm taking the song to another studio to mix or if I'm running out of CPU juice.

I find myself just leaving Reason rewired and tracking in Protools the whole way from start to finish more and more lately. Again, unless I run out of power.

Printing tracks is also safer in the long run. You can lose the Reason file and or associated samples sometimes. If its all printed, its all there...

I would agree,
Print the audio.........

although it forces you to commit, it frees up DSP.

My G4 is no Quad Core. When I'm on a better machine, I leave it all rewired through Logic. I do think it sounds way better than Reasons audio engine.