Converting ReWire channels to audio tracks

Most often, there is no need to convert individual ReWire channels to regular audio tracks. The channels already appear in the host application’s Mixer, and you can typically perform the same kind of real-time processing as with regular audio channels (effects, EQ, volume, pan and mute automation, etc.).

Still, you may need to convert the ReWire channels to audio tracks, for example if you want to continue working in Cubase only. This is probably easiest done by using Reason Essentials’s internal “Bounce Mixer Channels” function, described in “Bouncing Mixer Channels”. When you have bounced the desired Mixer Channels, you could then import the generated audio files to tracks in the host application for further processing.

Alternatively, you could use the host application’s “Export Audio” or “Bounce” function. In Cubase, you would proceed as follows:

1.	Make sure your Reason Essentials devices and/or audio tracks play back properly via ReWire.

2.	In the Cubase Mixer, activate Solo for the ReWire channel you want to convert to a regular audio track.

Make sure no other channel is Soloed.

3.	Go to Cubase’s Project window and set the left and right locator to encompass the whole song (or a section, if that’s what you want).

Make sure the Cycle (loop) function is turned off.

4.	Pull down the File menu in Cubase and select “Audio Mixdown” from the Export submenu.

The Export Audio Mixdown dialog appears.

5.	Activate the “Import to Pool” and “Import to Track” options and fill in the rest of the dialog as desired.

You can choose to include any Cubase mixer automation, select a file format and file name, etc.

6.	Click Save.

The ReWire channel is now rendered to a new audio file on disk. A clip referring to the file will appear in the Pool, and an audio event playing this clip will be created and placed on a new audio track, starting at the left locator.

•	If you now play back the audio track you will hear exactly what was played on the ReWire channel.

This means you should keep that ReWire channel muted (or deactivated) now, since otherwise you would hear the sound twice - once via ReWire and once from the audio track.

To convert all your ReWire channels this way, simply proceed as above (but solo another ReWire channel in the Cubase Mixer).

Converting ReWire channels this way results in a number of audio files that can be very large (depending on the length of the song). Make sure you have enough disk space!