Getting Started Guide

SETTING UP
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Mac OS X
D Normally, you should select one of the driver options that start with
the word “CoreAudio”.
Select the option that corresponds to the hardware you want to use (the
built-in audio connectors or some additional audio hardware that you have
installed).
D Other options may be available, mainly for compatibility with all
possible hardware/software configurations.
Use these only when required.
Mac OS 9
D If you are using audio hardware for which there is a specific ASIO
driver, you should select this.
With an ASIO driver written specifically for the audio hardware, Reason can
communicate more or less directly with the audio hardware. The benefits are
lower latency (see below), support for higher sampling frequencies (up to 96
kHz in 24 bit/32 bit float resolution) and possibly better support for addi-
tional hardware features such as multiple outputs.
D If there is no specific ASIO driver for your audio hardware, you will
use the Apple Sound Manager.
This is the sound driver protocol that comes with the Mac OS, and Reason
communicates with the audio hardware using this.
D If you plan to use the internal audio outputs on your computer,
please select “SM Built-in”.
D If you have some additional audio hardware (such as USB-speak-
ers) installed, please select “SM Device Name”, where “Device
Name” is the name of your audio hardware.
Windows
D If you are using audio hardware for which there is a specific ASIO
driver, you should select this.
With an ASIO driver written specifically for the audio hardware, Reason can
communicate more or less directly with the audio hardware. The benefits are
lower latency (see below) and possibly better support for additional hard-
ware features such as multiple outputs.
D If there is no specific ASIO driver, you should select the Direct
Sound driver for the audio hardware.
This makes Reason communicate with the hardware via Direct Sound (a part
of the Microsoft DirectX package). For this to be possible, you need to have
DirectX installed on your computer, and there must be a Direct Sound driver
for the audio hardware.
The Direct Sound driver for a Creative SoundBlaster PCI card selected.
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Please be aware that as of this writing, Windows XP ships with Di-
rectX version 8.1, and Windows 2000 with DirectX version 7.0. So if
you’re using one of these operating systems it is not necessary to
separately install DirectX, since it’s inherently a part of the operat-
ing system.
D If the audio hardware doesn’t support Direct Sound (i.e. there is no
Direct Sound driver available for the audio hardware), select the
MME driver.
This makes use of Windows Multimedia Extensions, the part of Windows
that handles audio, MIDI, etc. Using MME often results in larger latency val-
ues (see below).