Reason 11 isn’t designed to work on an M2 chip

General discussion about Gig Performer
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Greetings,

I’m brand new to GP and am using the current demo version on a MacBook Pro using an M2 Chip running OS15.6.1 Sequoia. I’d like to be able to use Reason in GP as a tone generator live and be able to change patches in Reason mid tune from my MIDI controller.

But, first I have to get the Reason rack to load. It shows up as a plug-in but when I load it I only get the attached screen shot.

Thoughts?

Mark

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What version of Reese Rack are you using?
VST, VST3, AU ?

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Seems there is a general problem, as in Ableton Live 12 this happens also

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Reason Rack 11. On a Mac so I’ll assume AU.

Reason shows up as an option twice along with “Reason Effects Rack”

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Assume does not help :wink:
How looks your plugin manager window?
Can you try to load the AU version of that pluging and the VST3 version?

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What did you load?
Reason Rack plugin?

You can use Reason Rack Plugin (VST3/AU/AAX) as a plugin in any DAW or host or you can use Reason as a standalone music making

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For what it’s worth, I have Reason 13 and it seems to work fine (VST3 vesion on a Mac Mini M4)

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Yes, AU version. Tried all three versions with the same results.

Reason works fine as a standalone DAW and opens in Sibelius as a plug-in.

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Please download trial version of Reason 13 and try it?

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Reason isn’t loading with a VST option only AU. I really don’t want to have to upgrade Reason to use GP. There’s been a lot of grumbling about the new interface. I’m already trying to learn GP and don’t want to have to deal with another new parameter.

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Wasn’t suggesting you upgrade. Just thought it would be useful to see if it works.

By the way, I assume you are running the universal version of GP, and not the Intel version with Rosetta. The latter could certainly cause all sorts of issues

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Correct, M2 Chip MacBook so no need for Rosetta.

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Yeah, no…that’s not what I asked. My question was whether, by mistake, you downloaded and are running the Intel version of Gig Performer instead of the Universal version.

That said, I see from early posts hat Ableton has issues with earlier versions of Reason as well.

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Worked it out. Turns out Reason 11 isn’t designed to work on an M2 chip. I had to upgrade to 13. Now the rack loads instantly. Now if I could just get MIDI to the Reason rack all would be well. Posting a new thread for that issue.