Re: Are you taking advantage of blocks?
Posted: 09 Jan 2023
No, I agree with crimsonwarlock - the UI is just fine for Blocks - its not cluttered at all and its very clear that blocks exist as a layer under your main arrangement.BeReasonable wrote: ↑09 Jan 2023You may like it since you're used to it. But as a UI goes, combined with the reason "this is our way take it or leave it" philosophy, it puts people off. Giving users the ability to make it more friendly for them would harm you in no way.crimsonwarlock wrote: ↑09 Jan 2023
That is personal perception. I see something entirely different: clips in the sequencer are clearly laying on top of the underlying blocks information. I work constantly with blocks as my main composition tool, into arrangements and then with all kinds of stuff added on top in the sequencer. It works like a charm, and I wouldn't change absolutely anything. I really hope Reason Studio leaves Blocks as it is now, it is precisely how I think it should be, a pure genius implementation of a composing and arranging toolbox.
If you gave a complete reason newb a sequencer window a regular view and one cluttered with blocks, most of them would say that the blocks version looks cluttered, because it simply does. Not a personal preference thing either, just basic facts - the more stuff you put in a space, the more cluttered it looks and feels. To get around it they have to give users the ability to lessen the clutter to meet their preferences.
The only change I'd ask for us a "duplicate block" feature (to move content from Block X to Block Y) and a way to pull an individual track's clips from a block into the arrangement (vs. all tracks).