Let me know if I'm missing part of your issue. Does that help? Are you able to record midi into reason and have reason play notes in the VST? That would be my recommendation if you have say someone playing guitar or keyboard and then someone else wanting to play drums along with them and record both parts at once. I know I'm missing some features in EZ by doing this. I actually did the crossgrade late summer and now mostly use superior 2.0 which doesn't have the whole separate sequencer within the programs, so that may explain my workflow. That's not my usual work flow, I usually skip the ezdrummer sequencer and just do record everything in directly reason. i guess then you'd have to do the drag into reason thing you are having to do. but still aren't in the reason sequencer. if you then play reason later, the notes captured in the ezdrummer sequencer are played. If I do that notes are recorded on the sequencer that's part of ezdrummer but not in reason. What I think you may be doing is opening the actual ezdrummer interface, and hitting record on the transport there. If I hit record on the reason transport and play midi notes they will be recorded into the reason sequencer and trigger drums in ezdrummer. So when I open a new session and then create an easy drummer vst in reason I am able to play EZdrummer using any midi input that's connected to reason. not sure in what ways essentials would be different. I have EZdrummer and reason 10 so can give you my experience using that. Is that correct? Not sure if that is possible, as that is not how I use Reason, but couldn't you record the midi into Reason (using EZD as a VST) instead of into EZD? If I understand correctly you want to record the audio from a guitarist at the same time as the MIDI from a drummer playing an electronic drum kit. I'd like to be able to import the whole track with the rest and everything after the rest. When I drag the whole MIDI track from EZDrummer into Reason, Reason imports everything up to the rest and then breaks the track. The intended workflow is to record a guitarist and drummer playing together at the same time, where the drummer rests for a few bars. Thanks for your reply! By record other instruments I mean simultaneously. What are you trying to achieve? What is your workflow / intended workflow? Not sure what you mean in regards to record other instruments. I think you might need to drop the MIDI into Reason or export / import it. In my understanding Reason cannot record MIDI from VST instruments at this time.