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ReWire Introduction

ReWire is a special technology for streaming audio between two computer applications. Developed by Propellerhead Software and Steinberg, ReWire provides the following possibilities and features:

• Real time streaming of up to 64 separate audio channels, at full bandwidth, from the “synthesizer application” into the “mixer application”.
In this case, the “mixer application” is of course Cubase VST. An example of “synthesizer application” is Propellerhead Software ReBirth RB-338.

• Automatic, sample accurate synchronization between the audio in the two programs.
• The possibility to have the two programs share one sound card and take advantage of multiple outputs on that card.

• Linked transport controls that allows you to play, rewind etc, either from Cubase VST or from the synthesizer application (provided it has some kind of transport functionality).

• Automatic audio mixing functions that separate channels as required. In the case of ReBirth RB-338, this allows you to have separate mixer channels for the synthesizers and the drum machines, or even separate channels for separate drum sounds.

• Less total system requirements than when using the programs together in the conventional way. When using ReWire, the order in which you launch and quit the two programs is very important: