If you're using Live Intro or Lite, see step 5 (and following) instead. Note: External Instrument is only available in Live Suite or Standard. Find out how to use the External Instrument device here. The External Instrument device is the most convenient way of using a ReWire device in Live.By pressing the play button in either the ReWire Host or the ReWire Device application, both DAWs will playback in sync.Once the program has finished loading, you can launch the second application, which will automatically run as ReWire Device (provided that the DAW can be used as ReWire Device).In order to use Live as ReWire Host, start Live first.Leave it unchecked to use the program in 64-bit mode. Tick the 'Open in 32-bit mode' checkbox here to run the application in 32-bit mode.

Select the application file and press Cmd + I to display the Info window (alternatively, right click on the application file and choose 'Show Info'.).Open the Applications folder in Finder.Make sure to install the 64-bit or 32-bit version of your ReWire application as required.Ĭertain applications include both 32-bit and 64-bit formats. You can switch between the two formats as follows: This is handled differently on Windows and Mac: Remember that Live 10 is only available in 64-bit mode, so the other DAW must be running in 64-bit mode too. ReWire is bit depth dependent, therefore both DAWs need to run with the same bit depth (64-bit or 32-bit). Simply enter the admin password when prompted. To launch a program as Administrator, simply right-click the Live or other DAW icon from your desktop and select 'Run as Administrator'.įor Mac users, Live may also request admin privileges when first trying to configure the ReWire engine.

On Windows both the ReWire Host and ReWire Device may need to be run in administrator mode to successfully ReWire. In order to download and install the ReWire engine, Live needs to be launched successfully once.

Limitations of using Live as ReWire Device.

Note: Live is capable of running as either ReWire Host or ReWire Device, however certain DAWs can only be run as ReWire Host.

While ReWire may still be visible in Live 10 and earlier, we cannot guarantee that it will work as normal since the technology is no longer updated. Support for ReWire was ended by the developer in 2020 and ReWire is not available in Live 11.

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