i love reason..but...
Posted: 21 Sep 2016
let's rewind like 13 years, maybe more. i was a teenager. just discovered "fruity loops" .. cool i can make songs for free! (yes i was a young pirate) .. export songs to audacity and record my vocals. after playing with fruity loops for a year or so i realized i didn't like the restriction of loop based recording (yes fl studio has come a long way, more on that later)
i then discovered reason! wow everything is right there in the box! and it comes with record now so i can record my voice along with my songs! i was probably around 20 years old around this time and decided to fork the 400 dollars on legit buying the software. i figure i'm going to take my music seriously, so i will do things legit. plus i'm discovering morals, becoming a person, blah blah
couple months later, a brand new version of reason came out, and they want me to pay like 150 bucks to upgrade or something like that. wow that burns. i just spent 400 bucks (a lot to me at the time) on a program, ditched my pirating ways, and was burned. oh well, let me see if i can get a free upgrade since it was so soon.. talked to support. looks like i missed a free upgrade window by one week! great. well now i don't feel like supporting this company, but the software i bought works, so i used it for many years and was overall pleased with my purchase.
fast forward to 2016. i'm a few months from 30 years old now. i saw a discount on a digital upgrade to reason 8! now record and reason are all in 1 program! i can download my program and ditch my installation cds! along with some other new features to play with ..sure why not! then right after i upgrade, REASON 9 COMES OUT! again i miss the free upgrade window by under a month. and they want 150 bucks to upgrade again. meanwhile i take notice of how far fl studio has come.. and it's only 200 bucks, and it has free updates for life.. along with reaper which doesn't even want to take your money .and both of these programs have better support for my midi controller hardware.
now i have used and grown to love reason over the years. but not only have other programs gotten better, they are also more affordable and have free and more frequent updates.. also they listen to their userbase more (still no vsts? oh well rack extensions are kind of cool.. too bad those cool softsynths that came with my new mpk261 are useless with reason though, too bad i have to map each synth with unecessarily complex map and lua files. that's actually been a common theme with my experiences with reason over the years.. "too bad" ) i really don't want to switch to another daw. i have learned and grown on reason.. but man i get tempted more and more each day
i then discovered reason! wow everything is right there in the box! and it comes with record now so i can record my voice along with my songs! i was probably around 20 years old around this time and decided to fork the 400 dollars on legit buying the software. i figure i'm going to take my music seriously, so i will do things legit. plus i'm discovering morals, becoming a person, blah blah
couple months later, a brand new version of reason came out, and they want me to pay like 150 bucks to upgrade or something like that. wow that burns. i just spent 400 bucks (a lot to me at the time) on a program, ditched my pirating ways, and was burned. oh well, let me see if i can get a free upgrade since it was so soon.. talked to support. looks like i missed a free upgrade window by one week! great. well now i don't feel like supporting this company, but the software i bought works, so i used it for many years and was overall pleased with my purchase.
fast forward to 2016. i'm a few months from 30 years old now. i saw a discount on a digital upgrade to reason 8! now record and reason are all in 1 program! i can download my program and ditch my installation cds! along with some other new features to play with ..sure why not! then right after i upgrade, REASON 9 COMES OUT! again i miss the free upgrade window by under a month. and they want 150 bucks to upgrade again. meanwhile i take notice of how far fl studio has come.. and it's only 200 bucks, and it has free updates for life.. along with reaper which doesn't even want to take your money .and both of these programs have better support for my midi controller hardware.
now i have used and grown to love reason over the years. but not only have other programs gotten better, they are also more affordable and have free and more frequent updates.. also they listen to their userbase more (still no vsts? oh well rack extensions are kind of cool.. too bad those cool softsynths that came with my new mpk261 are useless with reason though, too bad i have to map each synth with unecessarily complex map and lua files. that's actually been a common theme with my experiences with reason over the years.. "too bad" ) i really don't want to switch to another daw. i have learned and grown on reason.. but man i get tempted more and more each day