Reason is a DAW made by Propellerheads and can be found at www.propellerheads.se. Reason costs $399.00 and comes with 10 software instruments. Reason Essentials includes six software instruments and costs $99.99. A prerequisite for rewiring is to have purchased Reason and have it installed on your computer.

Reason's greatest advantage is that it includes remarkable high-quality software synthesizers and drum samplers. However, the interface for creating and building your song with FL Studio is a bit faster, more intuitive, and has a more capable Piano roll. Consequently, rewiring Reason means that you can simply hijack the software synths and samplers in Reason, but continue to use FL Studio as a sequencer and mixer. We are basically telling Reason that we don't care about their program; we are, however, very impressed with their virtual instruments. The purpose of rewiring is to still use FL Studio's step sequencer, Piano roll, and ease of composing.

FL Studio will be the host and Reason will be the slave. This means that FL Studio will be the hub of your music production; you are simply able to incorporate Reason's sounds into an FL Studio channel and mixer slot like any other sound you work with. There are a couple of things you need to set up, which we will review in this chapter. After you set it up, you can save it as a template in both FL Studio and Reason. In that manner, you can be up and running quickly when you want to utilize Reason's sounds in your FL Studio music production.