Hardware only makes sense if the value proposition is good. Considering you can get M1 MacBook Airs for $900 and Ryzen 9 PC Laptops (with upgradable RAM and Storage) for ~$1,150... $899 is too high for something like an MPC One. And with software, you don't have the issue of mechanical breakdown. As...

Kinda buggy. Arturia Efx Fragments shows up as an FX for VST2 (correct) but a Utility for VST3 (incorrect). Also, no granular control over what shows up and what doesn't in the browser. Some VST2 plug-ins on Windows have to exist for NKS compatibility (Arturia, iZotope, etc.) but are otherwise redun...

Anyone using the RX plugins in Ventura? Any issues there? Yes. They're fine. I do think the ARA2 plug-ins run via Rosetta 2, though. I read somewhere that ARA2 is still not M1 Native. Some Intel plug-ins (e.g. Serato Sampler) are quite buggy/glitchy when run out of process in an M1 Native DAW like ...

That's fine, but the extent to which it is behind means that most people are still going to be better off just racking it into another DAW. The best thing about Reason was always the players and synths. The Sequencer was never it. Disagree. Both the rack paradigm and Reason’s sequencer (and the rac...

I do feel like the entire produce will end up backed between a "rock and a hard place." Reason has always been in this situation but what makes it great is that they have always had their own way of thinking about what the future is about and although it's not entirely what you want it's always bee...

So, anyone else noticed that the last two promotional/tutorial videos promoted by Reason Studios featured Reason as a standalone DAW? No RRP in sight. ;) :clap: In particular, “How to make REX Loops” on November 7, 2022 and now “From Raw Chord Progressions to Full Songs with Chord Sequencer” on Nov...

I would suggest that most people interested in video would be choosing software that was already much more capable than Reason Studios could ever produce and you should probably look for one using rewire and running Reason 10 for the best experience ;) ReWire is being dropped like a hot potato in e...

In fairness, Ableton supports VST2, VST3, AU and AUv3 now. In fairness, Reason only started hosting VST 5 years ago. Ableton has been hosting VST for 18 years. And as mentioned, for 11 of those years (after VST3 was introduced by Steinberg) Ableton Live didn't have VST3 support. It's funny to think...

Almost tempted to get the Reason Suite so I can use on my Laptop, and just keep 12 on my desktop.

Would putting Suite on my account unlock all of the extra Rack Extensions for 12, as well?

I’m aware. It’s a DAW. With a shitty browser that doesn’t allow for one of the most basic things that one could possibly ask of a browser within a DAW. Can you do that in other DAWs then? I just tried it in Ableton 11 and it doesn't seem to work either. Depends on how the file browser functions. It...

The Application Optional Content in the User Music Folder is such a bad application design that I am shocked it persists. It doesn't help that the application installer does nothing to inform the user where that content is being downloaded and unpacked to. I found it completely by chance... when I w...

I stopped using Recycle in 2008... if it was made free perhaps I would have a try at it again... I moved away from that workflow from so much time now I have completely forgotten how was used... by that time I was consistently using Reason in rewire mode with Ableton... I was still a pirate back th...

They could just make it free? When you think about it, Reason Studios doesn't have anything for the desktop that is free to entice people to explore the brand more. Even if Recycle isn't typically enticing for many people, they will come in the boatloads, because few people can resist those article...

I miss Recycle. It was a great bit of software. So easy to slice up loops and export as REX files (and to this day I still prefer REX for drum loops over timestretching algorithms in Ableton Live). The other day I had a bunch of breakbeat wav files I wanted to slice up and play around with in DrOct...

Yes it's true that Win10 is slightly less resource hungry than Win7. I hate two things about Windows 10: 1) Automatic updates that I am not allowed to control. I could put up with it, but at some point it broke down, and now my PC is trying to download the regular update every night and failing eac...

Thanks for info. Happy I migrated my daw last year to Windows10 :P Though I still prefer Win 7. I prefer Windows 7, too. I don't like 10 at all. Truth be told, I was happy with Windows XP and would gladly go back to that, if I could. The only reason I updated from XP was so I could get a 64bit vers...

Any who knows what api r12 highres will use - openGL, DirectX, or vulkan ? Everything since Windows Vista that was developed for GUI work has been driven by DirectX - starting with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It would make little sense to use OpenGL for this. OpenGL in desktop applicatio...