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ReWire Hosting In Notion 3
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 One exciting new feature in Notion 3 is
support for both ReWire host and slave
functionality. Originally designed to let
you stream the audio output of Propellerhead
Reason into the DAW of your
choice (as Reason doesn’t record audio),
ReWire now lets you transmit audio and
sync between any two supported applications
that reside on the same machine.
Thus, you can sync a sequencer and
Notion 3 together on a single DAW in
your studio and use the power of both
applications for your project.
This quick lesson will help you get
acquainted with setting up Notion 3 as a
ReWire host for your sequencer.
1. Launch Notion 3. As with any other
ReWire application, you need to launch
the host application before you launch
the application it will control. 2. Make sure ReWire support is enabled
in Notion 3. This is found in Preferences
under Audio, where the “Enable
ReWire” box needs to be checked.
3. Create a new score, or start from
scratch, and write a new piece. In
either case, you need to have some
score opened in Notion 3 to use the
slave application.
 4. Go to the Mixer and find the ReWire
group. It looks like this:
You’ll notice the plus sign right after
ReWire. Clicking on it will reveal a
pop-up menu of all available ReWire
applications that can serve as a slave to
Notion 3.5. Each entry will also have a fly-out menu
with different numbers of channels.
Choose which ReWire output pair you
would like to create an aux channel for;
just select the first one if you’re unsure.
6. You have now created the necessary
aux track that will receive audio from the
slave application and route it into
Notion 3. You’ll be able to control this
audio from the Notion 3 mixer, assign
effects to it, route it to a bus, pan it — in
other words, you can manipulate the
audio just as if it was coming from a
Notion 3 instrument. You are now ready
to launch the slave application. In this
example, I’m launching Ableton Live.
From this point on, I can use both
applications in the regular workflow that
they offer, and I’ll get all audio into
Notion 3.
Using Notion 3 as a ReWire host has many
benefits. For example, if I start Performance
mode in Notion 3 and begin performing
the score with its live performance
features, then the slave sequencer will follow
my tempo and my performance. Any
project that I have in the sequencer,
regardless of whether it’s audio or MIDI,
will follow my performance in real time.
This is especially useful in film scoring sessions
or a live performance setting. I can
also use any sound or technique that the
sequencer can offer in real time, together
with the Notion 3 score
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