
SETTING UP
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Setting up the Audio
Hardware
The first thing you need to do is to establish a connection between Reason
and the audio hardware. This is done by selecting a driver - a software com-
ponent that acts like a glue between the program and the audio hardware.
Proceed as follows:
1. In the Preferences dialog, use the pop-up menu at the top to select
the Audio page.
2. Pull down the Audio Card Driver pop-up menu and select one of the
options.
Which option to select depends on the platform and the audio hardware:
Macintosh
➜
If you are using audio hardware for which there is a specific ASIO
driver, you should select this.
With an ASIO driver written specifically for the audio hardware, Reason
can communicate more or less directly with the audio hardware. The
benefits are lower latency (see below) and possibly better support for ad-
ditional hardware features such as multiple outputs.
➜
If you are using the built-in audio hardware on the Mac (or possibly
additional audio hardware that uses the Apple Sound Manager), se-
lect “Sound Manager Default Output”.
This makes Reason communicate with the audio hardware using Apple
Sound Manager (the sound driver protocol that comes with the MacOS).
Windows
➜
If you are using audio hardware for which there is a specific ASIO
driver, you should select this.
With an ASIO driver written specifically for the audio hardware, Reason
can communicate more or less directly with the audio hardware. The
benefits are lower latency (see below) and possibly better support for ad-
ditional hardware features such as multiple outputs.
➜
If there is no specific ASIO driver, you should select the Direct
Sound driver for the audio hardware.
This makes Reason communicate with the hardware via Direct Sound (a
part of the Microsoft DirectX package). For this to be possible, you need
to have DirectX installed on your computer, and there must be a Direct
Sound driver for the audio hardware.
The Direct Sound driver for a Creative SoundBlaster PCI card selected.
➜
If the audio hardware doesn’t support Direct Sound (i.e. there is no
Direct Sound driver for the audio hardware), select the MME driver
for the audio hardware.
This makes use of Windows Multimedia Extensions, the part of Windows
that handles audio, MIDI, etc. Using MME often results in larger latency
values (see below).
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