I had a bunch of legacy Acid projects from my pre-Studio One days, as well as some Ableton Live projects that were part of my live performances. With live performance a non-starter for the past year, I wanted to turn them into songs, and mix them in Studio One’s environment.
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Gregor’s clever video, Ableton Live and Studio One Side-by-Side, shows how to drag-and-drop files between Live and Studio One. But I didn’t want individual files, I needed entire tracks…including ones I could improvise in real time with Live. The obvious answer is ReWire, since both Acid and Live can ReWire into Studio One. However, you can’t record what comes into the Instrument tracks used by ReWire. Nor can you bounce the ReWired audio, because there’s nothing physically in Studio One to bounce.
It turned out the answer is temporarily messy—but totally simple. First, let’s refresh our memory about ReWire.
Setting Up ReWire
Start by telling Studio One to recognize ReWire devices. Under Options > Advanced > Services, make sure ReWire Support is enabled. In Studio One’s browser, under the Instruments tab, open the ReWire folder. Drag in the program you want to ReWire, the same way you’d drag in an instrument. (Incidentally, although you’re limited to dragging in one instance of the same ReWire client, you can ReWire two or more different clients into Studio One. Suitable clients includes Live, Acid Pro, FL Studio, Renoise, Reason before version 11, and others.)
After dragging in Ableton Live, open it. ReWired clients are supposed to open automatically, but that’s not always the case.
Now we need to patch Live and Studio One together. In Ableton Live, for the Audio To fields, choose ReWire Out, and a separate output bus for each track. In my project, there were 9 stereo tracks (Fig. 1).
Figure 1: Assign Ableton Live’s ReWire outputs to buses. These connect to Studio One as track inputs.
Then, expand the Instrument panel in Studio One, and check all the buses that were assigned in Ableton Live. This automatically opens up mixer channels to play back the audio (Fig. 2). However, the mixer channels can’t record anything, so we need to go further.
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Figure 2: Ableton Live loaded into Studio One, which treats Ableton Live like a virtual instrument with multiple outputs.
My understanding is that my operating system should already have Open Transport built into it. I tried to download O.T. From Cnet, but my machine doesn't like the file and won't run it. Has anybody overcome this issue before? Do any of you rewire Ableton 8 into Pro Tools 12 successfully on El Capitan? Do I need to just bite the bullet.
Recording the ReWired Program
As mentioned, the following is temporarily messy. But once you’re recorded your tracks, you can tidy everything up, and your Live project will be a Studio One project. (Note that I renamed the tracks in Studio One as 1-9, so I didn’t have to refer to the stereo bus numbers in the following steps.) To do recording:
- In each Studio One track, go to its Send section and choose Add Bus Channel. Now we have Buses 1-9—one for each track.
- Our original instrument tracks have served their purpose, so we can hide them to avoid screen clutter. Now Studio One shows 9 buses (Fig. 3).
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Figure 3: The buses are carrying the audio from Ableton Live’s outputs.
- Create 9 more tracks in Studio One (for my project, these were stereo). Assign each track input to an associated bus, so that each of the 9 buses terminates in a unique track. Now we can hide the bus tracks, and record-enable the new tracks to record the audio (fig. 4).
Figure 4: Studio One is set up to record the audio from Ableton Live.
- Now you’re ready to record whatever is in Ableton Live over to Studio One, in real time.
- Fig. 5 shows the results of unhiding everything, narrowing the channels, and hitting play. At this point, if everything transferred over correctly, you can delete the ReWired tracks, remove the buses they fed, close Ableton Live, and you’re left with all the Live audio in Studio One tracks. Mission accomplished!
Figure 5: The Ableton Live audio has completed its move into Studio One. Now you can delete the instrument and bus channels you don’t need any more, close Ableton Live, return the U-Haul, and start doing your favorite Studio One stuff to supplement what you did in Live. Harmonic Editing, anyone?
Bonus tip: This is also the way to play Ableton Live instruments in real time, especially through Live’s various tempo-synched effects, while recording them in Studio One. And don’t forget about Gregor’s trick of moving Studio One files over to Live—this opens up using Live’s effects on Studio One tracks, which you can then record back into Studio One, along with other tracks, using the above technique.
Granted, I use Studio One for most of my multitrack projects. But there’s a lot to be gained by becoming fluent in multiple programs.
- 1ReWire
- 1.2Using Renoise as ReWire Master
- 1.3Using Renoise as ReWire Slave
ReWire is only available for Windows and Mac, but Linux users have Jack Transport as an alternative for achieving similar results. It allows you to connect and synchronise multiple software applications, meaning that they will run side by side while passing Audio/MIDI information between them. For example, you could connect Renoise to Logic, programming your drums in Renoise while arranging the bulk of your song in Logic. Or you could connect both Reason and Ableton Live to Renoise, then arrange your track in Renoise, control Reason's built-in synthesizers and play around with clips in Live.
ReWire has two modes, both of which are fully supported by Renoise, allowing it to be used with any other application that supports ReWire:
- ReWire Master: Commonly known as a Mixer application, the master controls other ReWire slaves. A ReWire master has exclusive control of the soundcard, while slaves must route audio through the master application. There can be multiple slaves, but only one master.
- ReWire Slave: Also known as a ReWire Synth application. Slaves are controlled by a ReWire master and feed their audio back into it. They receive MIDI from the master, but can also send MIDI to the master and ask it to reposition itself.
Start/Stop Procedure for ReWire Applications
Starting: The ReWire master application should be started first, then the slave(s).
Closing: Close the ReWire slave application(s) first, then close the master.
Important: When working on songs, you must save them separately in both applications. You must also load them up individually when continuing a session. ReWire only handles audio and MIDI routing, so it's important to remember that songs and patches will not be automatically exchanged or restored.
The basic workflow is:
- Start the ReWire master then restore a previously saved session.
- Start the ReWire slave(s) then restore a previously saved session(s).
- Work on the song.
- Save the session and close the ReWire slave(s).
- Save the session and close ReWire master.
Using Renoise as ReWire Master
First, make sure that no other ReWire master application is open. Now start Renoise, which automatically makes it the master, then go to the Track Effects panel and insert a #ReWire Input device anywhere in the song (Send Tracks are the ideal place to use this device).
Routing Audio To Renoise
Use the 'Device' option to select a slave from the list. In most cases the slave will automatically launch. If this has not happened then just launch the application manually.
The audio signal from the slave will be routed into Renoise via the #ReWire Input device. Both applications are now bound together and everything is automatically configured for you. If you hit play in Renoise then this will trigger the slave to start playing too. Navigating around the song using Renoise will likewise cause the slave to follow. If you change the playback from within the slave then Renoise will follow.
If you want to capture another audio bus from an existing slave, simply add another #ReWire Input device then select the same slave but choose a different bus.
Trigger MIDI from Renoise
If a slave has MIDI inputs then you will find them listed as regular devices in the MIDI Output section, where you could, for example, use Reason synths from within Renoise.
Automating ReWired Synths Like Reason
As soon as you've created a ReWire MIDI instrument you can use the *Instr. MIDI Control device in Renoise to automate it. Certain synths will provide you with parameters that have already been mapped, displaying the CC numbers that will automate those parameters.
Using Renoise as ReWire Slave
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Launch the application that will be designated as the master, then start Renoise, which will ask if it should run as a slave - click 'Yes'.
In certain cases the master will need to be explicitly told to use Renoise as a slave. In most multi-track sequencers this is done by selecting Renoise as an 'Audio Input', otherwise please refer to the master application's documentation for more details. Once you have routed Renoise into the master mixer, you are ready to go and the audio signal from Renoise will be routed into the host. Starting, stopping, and navigating through the song will be synchronized in both apps.
Some hosts allow you to start Renoise from within the host when you insert Renoise as a Rewire audio/MIDI device (depending on the host - again refer to its manual). In this case you won't be asked whether Renoise should start as a ReWire slave, since it happens automatically.
You may have a scenario where you'd want to start Renoise in a forced slave mode without requiring it to confirm. To achieve this you can attach the following command to the Renoise executable '-ForceRunningAsSlave' (if Renoise is currently running you will have to restart for this to take effect). If no Rewire master is active/detected during startup, Renoise will just ignore the '-ForceRunningAsSlave' command and launch in master mode.
Note: To send MIDI data to a Renoise slave you will have to use virtual loopback MIDI cables.
Setting Up Transport Sync Mode in Renoise
When running Renoise as a ReWire slave, you have two choices regarding how Renoise should sync to the master. This can be set up in the Audio Preferences, but only after Renoise is already running as a ReWire slave:
- Full Transport Sync: Any changes to the timeline in Renoise and the ReWire master will be synced. This is very useful for creating a song in multiple applications at once.
- BPM & Bar Sync: You can start, stop and navigate freely in Renoise while the timeline of both applications remains beat-synced. Very useful for improvisations or live mixing.
- Automatically compensate latencies: The ReWire protocol does not allow the passing of latencies that either the master or slave are using. When running Renoise as a slave and the song makes use of plugins which introduce latency, Renoise must shift its timeline to compensate and ensure synchronicity. This shifting may unfortunately lead to missed first notes upon starting the song or pattern.
General Notes About Renoise as Master or Slave
Some ReWire slaves may have limited control over the song's transport functions, though it's up to the master application to allow transport changes (or not). For example, some ReWire masters might ignore tempo changes, loop changes or position changes. This is not the fault of Renoise, but rather a limitation in the ReWire implementation of the designated master application.
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Registered Renoise users have no restrictions, but if you are using the free demo then there are some ReWire limitations:
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- When Renoise is the master, only the first stereo pair is used.
- When Renoise is a slave, the demo version will occasionally generate a small, subtle hiss.