TheGodOfRainbows wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018
Forgot to answer the OP question. Yes! I read most articles (more than sometimes). As I think has been mentioned, I'd like more articles on things like workflow tips, Reason specific tricks, as well as general productions guidelines and practices.
I like practical information. I feel I never get enough mixing and mastering tips, despite how many videos and other forum resources there are on the subject. Sometimes I need to see/hear several different people's advice on the same subject because depending on how the information is being presented, something will click with me, where it might not have via another person's perspective on the matter.
I'm a pretty committed Reason user, so I want for this forum to build up it's own foundation in everything from the basics, to advanced techniques ever more.
I like the idea of forum members contributing and would love to see a lot more of that.
That just reminds me that it's the very reason why I joined ReasonTalk in the first place: tips and tricks, tutorials, etc. Then I became a mod by sheer luck - the gods were smiling on me that day - (all right, I'm atheist but "the hydrogen atoms were smiling on me" just doesn't ring as nice), right when kenni decided to create the www site, primarily as a repository for those tips and tutorials that had already been posted here.
At that time, we asked ourselves: who's going to scrape the forums for all those techniques, and present them in a convenient, sorted, searchable way? Everybody took a step back because that's a huge undertaking and we all have an IRL to attend to, so we decided that, until we had enough time, we could already fill the site with new tips and tutorials, and why not add interviews, and chronicle new Rack Extensions, etc, and that's pretty much what we have today.
Hence Joey's call for contributors a few months ago (
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7501936). After all, we being mods doesn't mean we're the most qualified to write said tips, nor that we would be prolific or savvy enough to supply the community with an endless stream of excellent and original techniques. We've been lucky, recently, to have excellent contributors join us: Mike McKew, modecca, Evan (StockMusicMusician) and a couple more that I won't spoil because they haven't published yet, but I'm sure you'll be very pleasantly surprised. They help us a lot with good new content.
Yet, there's one part of the content that we need to address: the short tips, much like PH used to do a while ago. We all love them, and we all want more of them, clearly. We have discussed this a lot, and we have an idea that still needs to be ironed out, but which essentially goes like this: each of us know shortcuts, workarounds, tricks, that we take for granted but that others don't know. Yet, we often don't bother to post them, for fear of being put down by the "I knew this already" types, for lack of time, or laziness.
So, the plan would be to ask all members (mail? pm? other? we don't know yet) a couple of questions like "what's your favorite shortcut", "what's your favorite trick", etc, and then highlight them on the site, until we have the biggest resource on earth of fun stuff to do with Reason.
Again, we're toying with the idea, it isn't ready for prime time yet, but it's in the making, and (checks list) "we hear you".
On an unrelated note, CaliforniaBurrito recently posted a two hours session of him composing a song. I watched it all and loved it, I find fascinating to see other people compose/mix music in a different way. Anyone else interested in that? Anyone else volunteer to film their sessions?