Apple Logic Express 8 - Manual (Page 260)

260 Chapter 10 Working With Instruments and Effects
Working With ReWire Applications
Logic Express acts as a host for ReWired applications such as Ableton Live and
Propellerhead Reason.
Important: Start Logic Express first, and then start your ReWire application(s).
When these applications are run alongside Logic Express, synchronized audio
information is routed out of them in to aux channel strips in the Logic Express Mixer,
where it can be combined with other tracks, run through effects and bounced to new
audio files.
In essence, the output of these ReWired programs is handled in much the same way as
you would deal with internal Logic Express audio data. Synchronization is automatic, so
you don’t really need to do much to ReWire the applications, apart from setting up aux
channels, if desired.
Beyond routing the outputs of ReWired applications into Logic Express, you can also
directly play, record, and play back the software instruments available in these
programs. Propellerhead Reason, for example, is the software equivalent of a rack of
synthesizers and samplers.
You can directly play each synthesizer in the Reason rack, and can record these parts as
MIDI regions on Logic Express tracks, much as you would with Logic Express’s internal,
or external MIDI, instruments.
To access a ReWired instrument:
1 Create an External MIDI track in the Arrange window.
2 Double-click the ReWire application name in the Library tab (Reason or Ableton Live,
for example).
This will launch the ReWired application, and a list of all available ReWire instruments
appears in the Library.
3 Click the desired instrument track in the Library.