Help !!! Live 6 + Reason 2.5

The Mysterious Flying Pum · Post by **The Mysterious Flying Pum** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:10 am

Hi,

I just bought a new MacBook with Mac OS 10.4 and I have a serious problem. I have Live 6 and Reason 2.5 installed. The 2 softwares work perfectly separately but when I try to rewire Reason to Live, I get an error with Reason asking me to reinstall it. That's what I did but still does not work.

I suspect that Reason 2.5 is too old to run correctly on new mac intel but I am not sure.

Has someone had the same issue ?

Thanks for your help.
TMFP

Kris O'Neil · Post by **Kris O'Neil** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:22 pm

I started a threat about the excact same topic around a month ago, but as far as I've seen, there is still no replies - and I havent found out the problem myself yet

I use Reason 3.0 though, and it says just the same "Reason Engine Error" message again..

Would really love to get this problem solved as well

The Mysterious Flying Pum · Post by **The Mysterious Flying Pum** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:30 pm

I finally found the answer on the propellerheads site:
- new Mac Intel computers require Reason 3.0.5. update to get Rewire work with Ableton Live :-(
F**k! I did not plan to spend 99euros more to get it work...

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:19 am

On my PC laptop, Reason 2.5 totally works great, totally no problems in rewire with Live 6. It is a single core P4 3.2 Ghz processor.

I think that something to do with dual processors was causing some problems with macbooks. Turning off dual processing in Live helped in some cases. Others never discovered why but maybe that update fixed the problems for the rest.

Kris O'Neil · Post by **Kris O'Neil** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:37 am

The Mysterious Flying Pum wrote:I finally found the answer on the propellerheads site:
- new Mac Intel computers require Reason 3.0.5. update to get Rewire work with Ableton Live
F**k! I did not plan to spend 99euros more to get it work...

Ah, that might be the answer... Thanks for the help mate

[nis] · Post by **[nis]** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:21 pm

Yes, you need at least Reason 3.0.5 for Intel Mac compatibility. Otherwise Reason will run under Rosetta, which emulates the old PowerPC environment. This is basically like running 2 apps in 2 different operating systems, hence they can't "talk" to each other. Apart from that, running any apps under Rosetta will result in poor performance.

Best regards,
Nico