It’s frustrating to see how they’ve handled the recent changes to the RE/VST Favorites behavior in Reason. While the team’s ideas and efforts are usually 98% extremely well thought out, this particular change feels like a complete misstep. An essential part of the workflow, particularly for managing devices, has been broken. Their proposed workaround with device tagging is only half-baked, as it completely overlooks a key feature of the old Favorites system: the ability to order devices within lists and customize the order differently for each list.Arrant wrote: ↑27 Dec 20242. All of my painstakingly assembled favorites lists (which all contained different categories of devices, not patches) are now blank. Thanks a lot for wiping my lists. I suppose I could use device tagging but that's a job I'll have to do all over again. When you have a large amount of VSTs, this is very time consuming.
I’ve personally invested a lot of time and effort into organizing and optimizing my device library over the years. It’s hard to believe they didn’t consider this critical aspect during their development process. Did they fail to see the importance of this feature, or did they simply choose to ignore the effort of long-term users? It’s confusing how they envision and reflect on their own ideas when such an obvious issue is left unaddressed.


Additionally, I have a question: Is there any way to export Tags or Favorites in Reason 13? I use three installations of Reason (my main studio, home studio, and a laptop for on-the-go work). Previously, I could simply copy the contents of the Favorites folder to ensure a consistent environment across all my setups. Is there a similar way to achieve this in Reason 13?
I hope the team takes this feedback seriously and considers reintroducing this functionality. It’s essential to ensuring Reason remains as intuitive and inspiring as it has always been.
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