Goriila Texas wrote: ↑16 Jan 2022
Which DAWs?? Be honest do you really think the perception of Reason is above Live, Studio One, Cubase, Reaper or FL Studio? How do you know they never demoed Reason and just didn't like it?
So, you've got:
1. Cakewalk Sonar
2. Reaper
3. Acid Pro
I've not suggested the perception of Reason is higher.
There would be signs of those millions of users demoing Reason:
1. Many explicitly citing those shortcomings
2. Inquiries about the features (e.g. I'm demoing Reason but it's not finding xyz VST)
It's also just not typical user behaviour to demo various applications. Usually they'll go be recommendation. That's why people often ask which DAW is best (or good for *insert genre*). It's why review sites exist - to save people from demoing the application.
Another indication is piracy statistics.
DAWs would have a much more even distribution of illegal downloads if people typically tried a number of DAWs first. They most certainly won't demo an application legally to decide which one to download illegally. Instead, you'd see the demoing task executed via illegal download.
Instead, illegal download numbers seems to reflect popularity.
I'm sure a survey on KVR would show they've not.
And then you have the question of, ... so then why does anyone use Reason? Wouldn't it turn away every user if those features are as much of a showstopper as you say? Or are Reason users the only exception to the behaviour you imply all other users have (demoing various DAWs first)?
There's also the problem of those who have used multiple DAWs and still prefer Reason.
Reason had differentiated features.
Real music makers don't obsess over feature lists. There's lots of things each application I use doesn't do what I want. That's just life. And by not using Reason I lose out on the aspects of Reason I do like.
I've got Studio One. I've used ProTools, Logic, Live and Cubase for sufficient periods of time. Reason is just preferable for me.
I've been using maschine exclusively for the last few months, and while it lacks lots of features I want, it still gets the job done.
I adapt.
I've even tried running multiple DAWs on different machines (or the same), and feeding the outputs back and forth between the audio interfaces so that I could sample the DAWs in each other to give me the best of both worlds.
This is what music makers do. They get the job done.
Reason is just not everyone's cup of tea. It's never tried to be a vanilla type of tool.
And even if it had, they're still struggling to give away Sonar