I noticed that the package of promo images Reason Studios has supplied retailers with includes this image: https://media.sweetwater.com/api/i/q-85__ha-cbce54b21ae81206__hmac-b362ed67c9dd3490535357b220459d6884fdfdbc/store/enhanced/items/Reason12Up/e0d54f-01_Reason12-Rack.png ...which includes Pattern...

Now that this groundwork is in place (RRP, R+, tech overhaul), we now enter the stage where we will really get to work on some of the more core parts of Reason itself, which we've stated in the latest roadmap blog post (vst3, m1, workflow, sequencer etc). We have also stated that we plan to move to...

flexluthor wrote: ↑

15 Sep 2021

. You've tried to jump on every other industry trend in the past decade (App Store, mobile apps, social site, ect) lets see how bad you screw this one up. Given your past success with every other me too move, I'm sure it will work out fine!

Wow, ouch…

Judging by the thread, it looks like popular opinion swings strongly in one direction, but let’s see what a slightly more scientific approach yields.

It is almost as if it went something like this in the Reason Studios boardroom: "Right, we've annoyed the users who use it as their only DAW by doing absolutely sweet FA with the quality of life sequencer upgrades. We have narked off the users by implementing a Reason + subscription, which seems to...

If you own V Collection, it's $49. Related, I'm still on V Collection 5, and have not upgraded as I've thought the upgrade prices for the past few versions have been too high. However, I just checked my Arturia account page, and it's offering me version 8, plus SQ-80, for $149... which is not bad at...

Reason has long had one of the lowest upgrade prices in the DAW market.

Interesting strategy to leapfrog to the highest upgrade price in the market.

I'm no expert on how the GE works as I've never used it, but I always thought the point of it was to bring your sample sets out as REs, if you had access to sampling everything in a good hardware studio etc? Gorilla Engine markets their product as such. The home page of their company site bears the...

I do question further development of the SDK. I mean, I don't want to be a Debbie Downer here but there are only like 5-10 active developers left and around 75% of them are Gorilla IDT devs who won't really benefit from new SDK features anyway. For resources to be directed at further SDK developmen...

Imagine the roadmap as the part of an iceberg above the water. Below the water are probably at least a dozen epics (the agile development term for a feature or supporting part of a feature) and hundreds of user stories (agile speak for an individually identifiable task that contributes toward define...

This is not a new suggestion, but with Subtractor and the other long-time Reason devices looking so dazzling with their new graphics in Reason 12, I thought now would be a good time to revisit this idea. Just like how Subtractor had a "high bandwidth" switch years ago, Reason could bring back the sw...

I'm not sure why people who bought Suite expected new instruments, but it seems to be a very common misconception. Looking back, they probably should've named it something different. I think the reason many Suite customers expected new instruments is pretty clear: it’s exactly what Ableton has done...

The arrange page is very good and my second favourite after logic. Ableton is just such a clunky experience I have never gelled with. This is actually the thing I've struggled with the most in Ableton. I'm not sure it's any one aspect of it in particular, but I feel the same way; Live's arrange vie...

If there are Boxed versions, they might be reserved for in-store purchase on the shelf. I finally called the local Guitar Center to check, and the guy confirmed that they had not been shipped any boxed copies. So I guess it really is the end of an era. No more green and orange boxes to decorate you...

It's been a few days now, and every music retailer I've checked only lists a download SKU for Reason 12, with no boxed versions in sight. Granted, software boxes are more of a nostalgia item today, given that they haven't actually contained discs in years. Still, does this mean Reason 11 will be the...

I have a LUMI Keys and the only thing worse than the build quality is the support. My original unit had keys that stuck together, and it literally took two months of extremely slow email back-and-forth for me to get a replacement processed. The replacement has sharp/flat keys that only work half of ...

I've been playing with the demo for a few days now, and as an Ableton user... I don't think I get it, at least not yet. The workflow is close enough to Live as far as recording clips into scenes, and then recording scenes into the timeline... but I'm not seeing why people say this is so much better ...

Combinator 2 enables something I've wanted to do for a long time in Reason: Build a drum machine out of individual synths. The idea behind Drumbinator is to let you control up to six synths as a single drum module, while making it easy to swap out each drum voice with a different synth. The way it's...

craste wrote: ↑

31 Aug 2021

It’s such a shame that only 54% of the people responding to the poll are excited about the next version of Reason.

That would really demoralise me if I worked for Reason Studios.

Worth remembering that the people who post on this forum likely account for less than 1% of active Reason users.

I managed to resist the annual sale earlier in the summer, but this is going to be harder to turn down: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/3-Studio-Tools/23-DAW/8002-Bitwig-Studio-4-Crossgrade-from-Another-DAW Reason qualifies as one of the packages to crossgrade from, all the way back to versio...

Reason Suite has unfortunately been discontinued (along with Reason Intro): https://help.reasonstudios.com/hc/en-us ... scontinued

It was too good of a deal to last!

I thought the lack of a mod matrix would be a bigger disadvantage, but the contextual mod source menus actually go a lot further than I expected.

Proboscis wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2021

[A little unsure why the screenshot shows 'pedal-board.jpg', which would suggest a mockup.

It’s a screenshot displayed inside the Preview app on MacOS.

Some nice observations in this piece. I've long said UX design is about putting things on rails, and that the hard part is determining which parts should go on rails and which shouldn't. Bob Moog's stroke of genius was in deciding that the signal path was the thing to put on rails – it's amazing how...

Edin_16 wrote: ↑

13 Aug 2021

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This reminds me of the design critique I did on Europa a few years ago.