What's the favored method these days to get Pure Data to communicate with Propellerhead Reason?

The immediate goal: I have a home-made reactable that talks to pd through OSC. I'd like to use the reactable to control Reson.

More broadly: it would be great to be able to use pd patches to feed into and run Reason instruments.

Thanks!

You can use a virtual midi port ... depending on your OS.
Just use the same MIDI output on PD and MIDI input on Reason. That's it.

@alistair_blunt said:

You can use a virtual midi port ... depending on your OS.

What would that look like under Windows?

Is that something that I would select from within Reason?

(Note: I'm normally a Linux user, and so not quite familiar with finding my way into MIDI issues on Windows.)

Thanks!

@Samuel said:

@alistair_blunt said:

You can use a virtual midi port ... depending on your OS.

What would that look like under Windows?
Is that something that I would select from within Reason?
Thanks!

You need a virtual midi (cable, port) driver like
http://www.midiox.com/myoke.htm
or
http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/virtualmidi.html

Set pd to output midi to midiyoke1 and reasons input to midiyoke1.