where the part about assigning reason to my soundcards outputs was actually different from waht i was asking, the part about hooking everythign up to a diff channel on the mixer is prob what i am looking for..that way i can then hook the mixers main outs to reasons main outs..

so now i can hear everyhtign at the same time being all i need now is to have the faders i want to hear up.. (assuming this will work after i try it)

the problm i was having was if i want to run multiple set ups of reason gear all at the same time (each set up for a diff sound or part of the song ) i was only able to hear one at a time..
at the very top of reason you have the MIDI INPUT area that is always there..from channel one you select from teh drop down box what instrument/setup you want to hear..but the MIDI INPUT area has like 32 channels..but if i select anythign on any of the other MIDI INPUT channels i cannot hear what i selected..which seems kinda pointless having 31 other midi channels..

however i was aware that you can use CUBASE to trigger reason..i wasent sure if this is what the other 31 channels of the MIDI INPUT area was for.(to be connected to cubase or the likes..).