For those that subscribe to Reason +

[certifiedbeatz]

Still have no clue why this needed a 2 hour conversation nothing big if you own 11 suite..

If you have subscribed what the pro's & cons so far?

Fast downloads?

Easy to use?

Have your tried offline?

Will you keep?

Just some questions im thinking about right now

[DaveyG]

More to the point, are the sound packs any good?
The sound packs that have been in the blog over the last few months have been somewhat variable in quality.

@OP - the subs does not work offline. Or, more precisely, it needs to connect every time you run the prog and every time you load a song.

[Dogcat]

Still have no clue why this needed a 2 hour conversation nothing big if you own 11 suite..

If you have subscribed what the pro's & cons so far?

Fast downloads?

Easy to use?

Have your tried offline?

Will you keep?

Just some questions im thinking about right now

I own v11 Suite, and I went with the 1 year 50% off subscription.

Pros so far:
The sound packs are pretty cool. I've already found some very inspiring patches. Taking them apart has been a great learning experience too.

Cons so far:
I already had all the devices, so nothing new to play with. Looking forward to the new synth they talked about and other toys, but until then I only have the sound packs to play with. Kinda wish they had started this with new devices thrown in.

Fast downloads:
Nope, kinda slow. I suspect because of the traffic. Takes about 2 minutes to download a pack that's maybe only a few 100Mb, and I have a super fast connection.

Easy to use:
Yep, no issues there. Companion kind of reminds me of Output's Arcade, and the patches just appear in Reason in their own easy to navigate folders.

Have you tried offline:
Nope.

Will you keep:
Not sure yet, I have to the end of Feb to decide before the trial ends. If they manage to add one or two devices by then, that will probably be the deciding factor. If it's still only sound packs after 30 days, I'll likely cancel.

[certifiedbeatz]

Still have no clue why this needed a 2 hour conversation nothing big if you own 11 suite..

If you have subscribed what the pro's & cons so far?

Fast downloads?

Easy to use?

Have your tried offline?

Will you keep?

Just some questions im thinking about right now

I own v11 Suite, and I went with the 1 year 50% off subscription.

Pros so far:
The sound packs are pretty cool. I've already found some very inspiring patches. Taking them apart has been a great learning experience too.

Cons so far:
I already had all the devices, so nothing new to play with. Looking forward to the new synth they talked about and other toys, but until then I only have the sound packs to play with. Kinda wish they had started this with new devices thrown in.

Fast downloads:
Nope, kinda slow. I suspect because of the traffic. Takes about 2 minutes to download a pack that's maybe only a few 100Mb, and I have a super fast connection.

Easy to use:
Yep, no issues there. Companion kind of reminds me of Output's Arcade, and the patches just appear in Reason in their own easy to navigate folders.

Have you tried offline:
Nope.

Will you keep:
Not sure yet, I have to the end of Feb to decide before the trial ends. If they manage to add one or two devices by then, that will probably be the deciding factor. If it's still only sound packs after 30 days, I'll likely cancel.

Nice so just sound packs for us who owns suite.. so $20 a month to sample as many sound packs make keygroups and cancel..

[joeyluck]

I own v11 Suite, and I went with the 1 year 50% off subscription.

Pros so far:
The sound packs are pretty cool. I've already found some very inspiring patches. Taking them apart has been a great learning experience too.

Cons so far:
I already had all the devices, so nothing new to play with. Looking forward to the new synth they talked about and other toys, but until then I only have the sound packs to play with. Kinda wish they had started this with new devices thrown in.

Fast downloads:
Nope, kinda slow. I suspect because of the traffic. Takes about 2 minutes to download a pack that's maybe only a few 100Mb, and I have a super fast connection.

Easy to use:
Yep, no issues there. Companion kind of reminds me of Output's Arcade, and the patches just appear in Reason in their own easy to navigate folders.

Have you tried offline:
Nope.

Will you keep:
Not sure yet, I have to the end of Feb to decide before the trial ends. If they manage to add one or two devices by then, that will probably be the deciding factor. If it's still only sound packs after 30 days, I'll likely cancel.

Nice so just sound packs for us who owns suite.. so $20 a month to sample as many sound packs make keygroups and cancel..

Well to be clear, there were a couple devices released after Suite, Friktion and Pattern Mutator, which are not included in Suite. So whether or not you picked those up separately, those would be new to you.

[Dogcat]

Nice so just sound packs for us who owns suite.. so $20 a month to sample as many sound packs make keygroups and cancel..

Well to be clear, there were a couple devices released after Suite, Friktion and Pattern Mutator, which are not included in Suite. So whether or not you picked those up separately, those would be new to you.

I already bought those... so there was absolutely nothing new for me besides the sound packs. Geez, I spend a lot of friggin' money on Reason. But that's another pro... I love Reason and I'm happy to support the dev.

[TrueStory]

Any good drum kit packs in the library?

[Dogcat]

Any good drum kit packs in the library?

There doesn't seem to be any packs that are exclusively "drums", but most of the patches have a percussion track. This search for "drum" yielded 34 patches, not sure if they're any good...

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[Dogcat]

Any good drum kit packs in the library?

And here's a search for "beat", but obviously this doesn't necessarily mean drums... again, I haven't listened to them all, so not sure which I would consider good.

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[TrueStory]

Any good drum kit packs in the library?

And here's a search for "beat", but obviously this doesn't necessarily mean drums... again, I haven't listened to them all, so not sure which I would consider good.


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I appreciate you researching that. That could be interesting if someone makes a Kong drum kit pack with both Beatmap presets and FX like Pulverizer and Audiomatic .

Here is an example of a drum refill I found in the shop that sounds pretty good from listening to the demos.

https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/prod ... ike-drums/

Do any of the libraries you've downloaded include one shots or loop samples in wav format? Or are they all just presets with various Reason instruments?

[joeyluck]

Any good drum kit packs in the library?

And here's a search for "beat", but obviously this doesn't necessarily mean drums... again, I haven't listened to them all, so not sure which I would consider good.


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Don't forget to also browse by tag.

[joeyluck]

Also if you see a pack you like, you can share the preview link for it with others, like this:

https://share.reasonstudios.com/pack/11

That will provide a preview and a link to open it in Reason+ Companion.



You'll find that link to copy on each pack page:

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[Loque]

Any good drum kit packs in the library?

I dont think there is a "drum kit". The packs are more about style, genre, synth, musician...So you might get a drumkit sure, if they are in a pack belonging to theme like "lofi" drumkit...

[Barriott]

Hmmm I looked at the trial. Downloaded. When I open up reason it hasn't synced. And in preferences the open companion check box is greyed out. Help?

[joeyluck]

Hmmm I looked at the trial. Downloaded. When I open up reason it hasn't synced. And in preferences the open companion check box is greyed out. Help?

Did you start your free trial of Reason+?

[nickb523]

Any good drum kit packs in the library?

The packs are more like old-school construction kits or Acid loops except you can access and tweak the patches via combinators. Also a bit like ReFill demos.

[Barriott]

Hmmm I looked at the trial. Downloaded. When I open up reason it hasn't synced. And in preferences the open companion check box is greyed out. Help?

Did you start your free trial of Reason+?

Yeah. I think so. I'll have a look again after I've made the kids dinner.

[Barriott]

Hmmm I looked at the trial. Downloaded. When I open up reason it hasn't synced. And in preferences the open companion check box is greyed out. Help?

Did you start your free trial of Reason+?

Yep. I started it. Just looking at rs website. I'm logged in I've gone to manage subscriptions. It's flagged up as a month's free trial.

When I log into reason .. it's not changed. No friktion. Pattern mutator. Edit-preferences- the open companion on startup is greyed out.

[rorystorm]

Did you start your free trial of Reason+?

Yep. I started it. Just looking at rs website. I'm logged in I've gone to manage subscriptions. It's flagged up as a month's free trial.

When I log into reason .. it's not changed. No friktion. Pattern mutator. Edit-preferences- the open companion on startup is greyed out.

I'm having the same issue, have opened a ticket but no response as yet.

[joeyluck]

Yep. I started it. Just looking at rs website. I'm logged in I've gone to manage subscriptions. It's flagged up as a month's free trial.

When I log into reason .. it's not changed. No friktion. Pattern mutator. Edit-preferences- the open companion on startup is greyed out.

I'm having the same issue, have opened a ticket but no response as yet.

You all have the Reason+ Companion app installed? Can you login to that?

[tiker01]

To me deauthorizing my computer solved the issue.

[jlgrimes]

More to the point, are the sound packs any good?
The sound packs that have been in the blog over the last few months have been somewhat variable in quality.

@OP - the subs does not work offline. Or, more precisely, it needs to connect every time you run the prog and every time you load a song.

I'm guessing there will be alot of busy sound designers.

A pro is that it will probably open up alot of opportunities for Refill designers.

With all of the new REs, they will have alot more devices to work with and no fear of incompatibility as everyone will have same devices. I hope they find a way to get some 3rd party RE developers on board (maybe even hiring some). It was very cool having developers outside of RS working on devices who were thinking completely out the box but yet understood Reason.

[rorystorm]

after typing that I did some research - there's an entry on the Reason+ FAQ page about it:
https://help.reasonstudios.com/hc/en-us ... his-first-

essentially you have to go into Codemeter and click Stop Codemeter Service in the Process tab.
If like me that doesn't work you have to uninstall Codemeter instead in your Windows Control Panel.

you can tell it's worked because a. you got your devices and b. your license number has disappeared from the About Reason window and it's replaced with "Active Reason+ Subscriber".

This information would have been quite useful a bit more upfront.

[Barriott]

Yep. I started it. Just looking at rs website. I'm logged in I've gone to manage subscriptions. It's flagged up as a month's free trial.

When I log into reason .. it's not changed. No friktion. Pattern mutator. Edit-preferences- the open companion on startup is greyed out.

I'm having the same issue, have opened a ticket but no response as yet.

Sorted it!

https://help.reasonstudios.com/hc/en-us ... his-first-

[plesio]

To me deauthorizing my computer solved the issue.

I had the same problem here. (R+ not active)
Deauthorizing the PC was enough to make it work.
No deinstall of CodeMeter was necessary.
Now R+ runs with active CodeMeter instead.