Sonar, Reason Adapted and Reason Demo

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In article <1121189379.862558.61700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Sambit Basu" <sambitbasu@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I run Sonar P4. I installed Reason Adapted that came with my sound card
> and I can use it from Sonar no problem (although I have just started to
> scratch the surface of what can be done).
>
> I downloaded the demo version of Reason 3.0. After installing that,
> both the Demo and the Adapted stopped working from within Sonar.
> Whenever I try to insert one of them from 'Insert -> Rewire', I get a
> pop-up saying 'Unable to open the Rewire Device. Either it's already
> open or not properly installed'.
>
> To make things more interesting, I uninstalled the Reason 3.0 Demo. And
> sure enough, Reason Adapted again became a slave of Sonar and started
> obeying commands.
>
> So my question:
>
> 1. Is it only a demo issue of Reason? Since I am contemplating of
> buying Reason 3.0, it better work with Sonar. If it cannot co-exist
> with Reason Adapted, that's fine since I will not need both at the same
> time. I will try to uninstall Adapted and try Demo with Sonar. But I
> want to know if anybody has faced the same problem with a subsequent
> success of running Reason with Sonar.
>
> 2. With just Reason attached to Sonar (i.e. no activities), the Sonar
> CPU shots up quite a bit. What's the explanation?
>
>
> Thanks,
> - Sambit

As far as I can tell, you can only have one version of Reason installed
at a time. I think the installation instructions (at least for Mac)
mention this.

Reason 3 is a worthy upgrade!

Edwin
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