problem wit reason,anyone eve have thi hapen to hem

[The Bastard]

i ve been using reason for a month straight now ,all of a sudden in my prefrences every now and the my oxy 8 keyboard is not listed under the devices,and when it is and i select it,no sound is played back when i try to play a sample back,any suggestions?

 

[Ominous]

What operating system are you using? And do you launch any other programs like Recycle?

Sometimes when I launch programs like Quark or Recycle, it kicks out the midi connection to my Oxy 8. I have to restart the whole computer and then they are back. That I noticed that when I would launch Recycle 2.0 while I was in OS 10.2.8 it would launch Classic 9 and then all my midi prefs would be lost.

So I started working strictly in OS 9.2 thinking that would solve the problem but it still happens eveytime I launch Recycle. I would have to restart Reason 2.5 to get the Oxy 8 to work again. I have no other work around and haven't tried to find one since my version of recycle is illegal.

I am not sure when or why that is happening to you but I have to do all my Recycle editing frst before I launch Reason so it doesn't mess with my midi control.

On a side note, I noticed a huge difference in midi latency between my Dual 867 G4 and my buddy's Pentium 4 PC. It almost felt like a whole half a secnd before you would hear the notes one his computer....

 

[The Bastard]

THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME FOR A WHILE BUT NOW IM GETTIN NO PLAYBACK ON THE SOUND ,THIS IS NEW

 

[vitaminman]

Hey,

I gotta ask...are you using a pirate or a legit version? Reason has copy protection built into it, if it gets bypassed all sorts of weird things can happen.

Years ago I was running a crack of Cubase 3.5, it performed very well on my machine for about a month until one day my MIDI devices were no longer functioning. Windows could see each port, and the transport bar lit up when I sent MIDI in and out of Cubase, but I couldn't trigger my synths or record anything.

I had to wipe my drive clean and reinstall Windows before I could get MIDI to work again...about a month later the same thing happened! I finally saved up enough money to buy a real version of Cubase (with a hardware dongle), and I've never had any problems like that since.

Take care,

Nick

 

[The Bastard]

but wait noww i know its a setting that needs to be fixed because im getting playback in other reason projects its just this one that wont play back the audio

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

vitaminman - i just want to explain about this whole copy protection issue.
cubase has been protected by a dongle, that's why the crack was supposed to bypass the dongle protection. it did work, but it had its issues, as it's *almost* impossible to imulate a dongle bypass with software code. that's why users who have been using a pirate version of cubase have had various crashes\so-called-bugs.
reason on the other hand, is protected by a triple cd check.
the literal meaning of this is that the software checks for the full package (aka 3 cds) at the startup (after you enter your serial number, which is a check by itself). no hardware plugs involved.
hope i cleared it out...

 

[vitaminman]

Hey,

As far as devices are concerned, how is a hardware cd-rom drive with a Reason disk in it different than a USB key with Steinberg code in it?

Reason checks for this every time you start the program, not just the first time you run it.

Nick

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

Well, if we're getting to that point:

dongles are a relatively "strong" way to protect a program (a dongle
can contain locations where the program needs to jump, etc...).
in some hard cases (i.e. when the locations of the jumps are stored *directly* inside the dongle) you'll need ABSOLUTELY the dongle, or you can't do anything... the program will not run.

reason's copy protection is based on the CD-KEY which has a certain algorithm programmed to be checked on each loading of the program.

in that case i'd consider dongles a harder scheme of copy protection.

:headscrat

 

[Copenhagen]

Originally posted by vitaminman
Hey,

As far as devices are concerned, how is a hardware cd-rom drive with a Reason disk in it different than a USB key with Steinberg code in it?

Reason checks for this every time you start the program, not just the first time you run it.

Nick

Reason only checks for the CD's and serial the first time you run it. After that, it'll start without requiring anything.