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I spent a bit of an evening scratching the noodle on this one. What a pain in the cavities…

Before beginning, make sure you have the latest ReWire dll on your system. Get it from Propellerhead’s website.

Next thing you need to do is:

1. Start->Run
2. “sysdm.cpl”
3. “Advanced”
4. Select “Turn DEP on for all services except…”

You may need to reboot. Do it for “teh lulz”, if nothing else.

Now you’re on the mission. You need to add the Reason executable (C:\Program Files\Propellerhead\….\Reason.exe), the Audition executable (C:\Program Files\Adobe\….\Audition.exe), and all copies of ReWire.dll to the DEP exceptions list.

Here comes the non-obvious part, you may have more than one copy of the ReWire.dll library. The even more nonobvious part is that DEP doesn’t allow you to select libraries, by default you can only select executables. See below. I found two on Windows 7 ×64, the updated DLL kindly provided itself under C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ReWire.dll, and Reason itself had left it’s own droppings under C:\Users\bla\AppData\Roaming\ReWire.dll. It may be worth overwriting any others you find with the latest library from Propellerhead given above.

If it didn’t work, either Reason or Audition is likely picking up another library somewhere you haven’t excluded from DEP. You can use ProcessMonitor (filter on Rewire.dll) to track it down.

So there you have it. Or at least, you’re likely to be one step closer. Bon chance à vous – à la prochain…