I'll show you how to do this with a shortcut.ĭownload the reason installer from the account section of the propellerhead website. You can do this by running cmd.exe or you can do this with a shortcut. To install 32-bit Reason you need to start the installer with the parameter "/32". Reason 8.2 or higher only comes in a 64-bit version, so you cannot use any later version of Reason after 8.1 in conjunction with ReBirth.
Its possible to do this side-by-side with your existing 64-bit version, without uninstalling it. ReBirth is an old application from long before the 64-bit days. It seems that 64-bit Reason will only talk view ReWire to 64-bit applications, so if you have Reason 6 or later (which are 64-bit by default) then you will need to install the 32-bit version of Reason. You may need to use bittorrent to download some files if the Rebirth Museum website is offline- I recommend an open source client like Deluge as some of the past favourites like uTorrent have really gone down the pan lately. I haven't tried it so I don't know for sure, but I would expect that any songs created in 8.2 would not open in 8.1. If you have Reason 8.2 then you will have to either side-install 8.1 ( as 8.2 and 8.1 may be able to co-exist) or downgrade to 8.1 in order to use ReBirth. One important thing to note is that this procedure will not work with Reason version 8.2 or higher because Propellerheads have abandoned the 32-bit version of Reason. Next time I reinstall my computer I'll probably have to go through this all over again so I've made some notes which hopefully will also be of assistance to others.
I was eventually able to get them working together on my computer (which runs Windows 7) but it took a few hours and its not easy, as the required information is all over the internet, not in one place.
Probably because I'd been listening to some Acid Techno earlier in the week, I woke up this morning with the urge to play with a 303. So the obvious thing to do was to dig out ReBirth RB-338 and run it through Reason.