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Rewire problem with Reason
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:23 am
by tonfedd
When I try and launch Reason in rewire mode with Live I get the following error message
'Rewire installation failed because access to to (sic) a file or directory was denied while installing the Rex DLL in the System directory'
I have the most up to date versions of both programmes and I am running Windows 7 service pack 1
Has anyone else had a similar problem - and better still - has anyone got a solution
Thanks
Re: Rewire problem with Reason
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:42 pm
by dentaku
If you search for that error message in Google or Bing there are links to other people who have had the same problem.
It looks like you can simply rename (don't delete if you don't have to) ReWire.dll or REX.dll to something like ReWire.dl_. In Win7 they should be in C:\Windows\SysWOW64
Cubase installs an older versions of the ReWire.dll and (in some cases) the REX.dll in the wrong place, so they won't get replaced by the new ReWire REX file that Reason installs. Reason needs the ReWire 2 file in order to run, but when Reason asks the system for the file, all it gets is the older version. This is how to fix it:
1. Go to the Windows\System directory (usually C:\Windows\System\). On some systems this directory shows up empty until you click the 'Show files' link in the explorer.
2. Locate the files ReWire.dll and REX.dll in this directory and simply delete them.
3. Launch Reason again - now it should work!
tonfedd wrote:When I try and launch Reason in rewire mode with Live I get the following error message
'Rewire installation failed because access to to (sic) a file or directory was denied while installing the Rex DLL in the System directory'
I have the most up to date versions of both programmes and I am running Windows 7 service pack 1
Has anyone else had a similar problem - and better still - has anyone got a solution
Thanks
Re: Rewire problem with Reason
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:32 am
by tonfedd
Thanks for that dentaku,
I had seen that on the internet but without you extremely helpful addition of saying the files were in c:\windows\sysWOW64 it was not making a lot of sense. Anyway I went for the delete programme and reinstall option with reason and that seems to have solved the problem.
Live now crashes totally and suddenly every time I try and load Camel Audio Alchemy - but hey it would be making music on a PC without a few challenges and I guess there is a lot to be said for using a limited palette to aid creativity
Apologises to all for the double posting
Re: Rewire problem with Reason
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:18 pm
by vanil2
YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That does the trick, thanks a bunch