Scenic!!!

[rorystorm]

I agree, its needlessly complicated. The gui is garbage. The stock sounds are ok tho, and the saturation and reverb models are really nice. I've been using it as an effect device with the external audio inputs and it works quite well there.

[strangers]

I've really wanted to like Scenic. It's clunky to use and doesn't offer much, if any, of a workflow boost. Adding sample loading was a nice touch but I can still do the same and then some by loading samples into the sequencer and running wild from there.

[Harpuia]

I like a couple of the stock presets as just "grab and go" sorts of things. Shaman drums is a great instant war drum for dubstep or other darker genres (especially if you run it through the default Scream 4 preset). I wish there were more "clean" patches, but I guess I can also just make my own from the built in samples.

[eXode]

I would like to see the master reverb put to use in a stand alone device (or some of the algos added to the RV7000)

[AnotherMathias]

I would like to see the master reverb put to use in a stand alone device (or some of the algos added to the RV7000)

That reverb is just a standard convolution reverb with a selection of some funky impulses.
You can pretty easily extract those by loading up an impulse sample (super short single cycle square wave) in the oscillator, and record the output as WAVs, and use them in RV7000.

[Marc64]

I would like to see the master reverb put to use in a stand alone device (or some of the algos added to the RV7000)

Create a scenic reverb combinator

[challism]

I wish Scenic was able to be installed WITHOUT the factory soundbank (I wish all REs and Reason itself were available without mandatory soundbanks). I prefer to use Scenic for its effects section - with my own samples; since I rarely use stock samples, I feel the HDD space is really wasted, so I don't even have Scenic installed. It's a shame because I do like the effects section.

[adfielding]

Scenic is, imo, the worst instrument RS have ever put their name to by quite a considerable margin. I don't know if it was developed in house or by a third party (though I strongly suspect the latter), but it seems bananas to me that the same folks who made Europa and Grain shortly beforehand would then put their name on this.

My mother always said if you don't have anything nice to say, it's better to say nothing at all. In that spirit... Scenic certainly is an instrument.

[QVprod]

I know it’s not a very deep instrument. But there’s some nice presets in it. I think it has a bit more potential than it’s given credit for. I did this pack layering it with Pangea

https://share.reasonstudios.com/pack/642/

[fceramic]

I don't think it is the worst in Reason Studios' increasingly disappointing RE releases. Layers, Umphf and that absurd Processed Pianos (the refill version sounds better and uses 1/10 of the CPU) are all that I would call underwhelming, uninspiring, unoptimised and with terrible page-heavy menus and tiny knobs. I only use Reason these days because of the old classics from the time Propellerhead was thriving and really cared about making the highest quality music software. Those were the days!