rewire and downmixing

[Rozegeur]

I'm messing around in Cubase in the ReWire mode with Reason now
Never done it before
The sound does seem to be a bit better ... but my question is simple:
you have a song with many melodies etc., and you made it entirely in Reason
Now, you want to have the right spot for all those melodies in the freq spectrum, with one or two overruling the other a bit.
How will you start mixing this off?

Do you do it like me, and export similar sounds seperately as a wave, so you can work on their freq without interferring with the others? (it's a "lot" of work: undoing all the other automations in Reason .. exporting all those tracks, maybe up to 20)
But it seems you get a pretty dynamic and clean sound like that.

Or in what way can I use Cubase for this? I've heard it has a better mixer, but the signal of Reason is still coming out as a whole, so you cannot work on the sounds seperately ... OR is it maybe useful to export your seperate tracks through Cubase to get a better quality already

it's a jungle out there with all those programs

[bombastique]

With ReWire, you can output up to 64 separate channels from Reason into Cubase - just connect the ouput of the device directly to the Hardware Interface in Reason, then create a track in Cubase with that same channel input, that way you can eq each separate track in Cubase...

[Rozegeur]

thanks!
I'll try that

[Rozegeur]

btw, I've been experiencing some serious synchronisation problems when using Rewire ... any way to avoid this?

[tomcat]

sync problems? like what? make sure you are using ASIO drivers if your soundcard supports them.

[notch]

when i use dr rex for loops how can i get a good sound. whats the best way to set the filter.

[bombastique]

rozegeur - what kind of synchronisation problems have you been having? rewire is sample accurate timing, so I can't think of any reason for sync problems.

notch - you'll have to be more specific about what constitutes a 'good sound' and what kind of sound it is you're currently getting. where are your loops coming from? how do you have the filter set (i'm assuming you're talking about the filter on dr. rex..)? how does your sound differ from a 'good sound' - and how about an example of what you consider a 'good sound'?

[Rozegeur]

A good sound is the sound I hear in professional techno tracks like from the advent ... fat, mostly analogue, deep and broad, not too clear and yet sharp http://www.audioforums.com/forums/smile.gif

can't upload any sounds right now, have a connection problem ... later on for this

I'm having another problem though: when I export my file as an audio file in Cubase, I have two problems
The first one occures always, ie the volume is much lower in the exported file compared to when I play it in cubase ... I'd expect it to export it at the same volume as I hear it
The second occures when ... wel, when it feels like I guess, ie the exported file is completely silenced ... no sound whatsoever. export again and sometimes I'm lucky and there's sound, sometimes it won't happen at all