New track produced entirely in Reason.

Of course man! Sorry wasn't trying to convince you otherwise :) 3 and 4 definitely showed potential. But SNW is definitely closer to what I'd like. Picard was a real disappointment, I'd maybe rank it lower than Discovery tbh. At least Disco had (mostly) new characters. Picard just felt like it was ...

Always find it helpful to learn the DAW is not fit for purpose…

Discovery...I dunno I just couldn't get into it. S1 and 2 I thought were pretty dire. 3 was an improvement. 4 was the best. 5 was a step backwards and I couldn't finish it. More than anything it felt like they went out of their way to tear up the rule book and say "this isn't your dad's Star Trek"....

Just had a blast watching "The Decameron". It did require subtitles (for us) as one of the main characters has a very strong Northern Irish accent, but she's also the funniest character so you don't want to miss her wit.

This seems like the right approach to me and is very similar to how I go about it. It's all about making sure you've got some headroom when everything comes together, so hitting at -10db is about right. I'll use an instrument volume to get the patch into the rough ball park (unless it's a VST) and t...

Why not call your music "scientific dance music"? I made up a name for my music (soundtracks in search of a film) early on. Probably could have come up with a better name. Thing is, I wasn't writing to a genre, I was following my muse. Some called my music ambient, some called it new age. Of the ex...

Having reverb as one of the options seems odd, because that's typically a send effect rather than an insert. Otherwise I just look at them as convenient insert effects to sculpt the sound a bit.

Great production! Congrats on getting selected again.

(Was just in Portland a few weeks ago.)

I agree with much of the comments above, but I find the drums very distracting and counter-rhythmic if that's a word? The vocal groove and the drum groove feel at odds and make it seem very un-New Romantic. Perhaps it's in an odd time signature, but the vocal has a lovely bounce to it that is comple...

I usually sidechain with vocals to some synths and realized I'd rather feed the synths the processed vocals instead of dry Or is the best way to put a spider audio splitter at the end of my main vocal bus and send an output to master and other to sidechain input of plugin doing the sidechaining? Yo...

Git can work for versioning if you're technically minded, but it's not necessarily a substitute for proper versioning if disk space is the main concern. If a small change to a song can drastically change the underlying file, then git's packing wouldn't be much help. I'm not familiar with how much a...

You’ve seen this thread I’m sure? https://forum.reasontalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7534648 The best option on Mac is to install the OS on a huge external drive. Thunderbolt speeds are more than capable for most projects. You could also use git to implement some basic version control system. Just hav...

I’d recommend getting the oxygen free copper rack wiring cables to unleash the high frequencies…

Here’s Apple’s official guide: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111336

I know this doesn't help you now, but when I was recently setting up my new music Mac I plugged in a large (2TB) fast external SSD (Apple's HD prices are insane). Then I installed the OS on that drive (the internal one becoming an emergency backup) so that the User folders would also be on the exter...

It seems to me that the popular music charts have always had a lot of junk in them, because most listeners are not wanting to be challenged in their musical tastes. That tendency has gone off the charts with the ability for people to remain in their comfort zones by streaming just music that they al...

Keep Me Fed - The Warning. Some great tracks on the new album and it’s starting to grow on me. This is representative (and the first track on the album) and the video is great.



Looking forward to seeing them in September.

Hi! This is a bug we caught last minute, Reason 13 changes the shared resources that Reason 12 uses so the last installed version takes precedence. You can re-install Reason 12 at any time and it'll work fine. We're fixing this ASAP in a point update, sorry about that! Ah, the good old "Oh Shit!" r...

Wait what? No more modifying midi clips directly from the arrangement??? I cannot emphasize enough how much time I've saved when changing velocity/transposition/legatos and not having to open the piano roll... I think your workflow will change slightly. When editing midi you’ll keep the editing Spl...

Some of the things that have prevented me (i.e. made it less fun) when trying, is not finding the kind of sounds that I need i also struggled with that until I took a weekend devoted to curating the sounds I like from all the various synths into an easily navigable collection of folders. Now when I...

How do you create favorite folders with this approach, which is what made the previous feature so useful for me? yeah, that’s more tricky, but favorites combined with the filtering already available (compressors, samplers, etc) would surely get 90% there unless I’m not getting how you group things?

Any plans to add the favorite list function for devices back? That's kind of dealbreaker for me here. Polytone and Ripley, both look like really fun devices. But I just can't let go of my favorite list workflow. What's weird is that this seems like such a simple thing to implement. Just have a litt...

The Ripley video was great. The comments on YouTube are overwhelmingly positive. I think they are rolling out 13 in a nice way. I enjoy Ryan's videos. That banjo fretless banjo is a beautiful instrument. I give Reason and Rayn an A+ on the last two videos. Yeah, they've been a great pair of videos....

For me as an old school music producer from analog times, the mixer is very (!) important. I very seldom use any compressor or EQ outside of the mixer. These tools in the mixer are so good, nothing else needed. Even this beautiful spectrum screen thing is not required, I have two ears to check the ...