'SEQUENCES' by Robotic Bean...the sequencer I've always dreamed of.
Posted: 03 Dec 2019
No, Robotic Bean is not paying for this post, but I just had to come here to say: this is the sequencer I always wanted in Reason, and I'm so glad Robotic Bean exists and made it for me.
I'm a bit late to the party, having only discovered it last week!
But now I couldn't be happier. The interface is awesome, the functionality exactly what I need: step-input recording with easy editing, all done in the rack!
It's long been an interest of mine to create Reason songs where the ONLY thing in the entire Arrangement area is pattern automation and parameter automation. I was trying to do this with just the drum sequencer, redrum's sequencer, and the Matrix. But the Matrix is just too damn primitive; I needed more control. Props' released stuff like PolyStep Sequencer, which just doesn't quite gel with my workflow. But with SEQUENCES, I can quickly record patterns into my instruments (in the rack), then automate the pattern changes along with my various drum machines (again, just redrum with pattern automation or kong with the Drum Sequencer, etc) and Voila -- my dream come true, entire songs built from just pattern automation and all the actual sequencing contained inside the rack. Yet I can map out the pattern changes in the arrangement, as well as write in parameter automation.
I realize it's just a quirk of my tastes and interests that I want to work this way, but man am I happy I can finally do it the way I've always wanted to. I'll never touch a Matrix again
(well, I might drop one in for simple triggering or CV tasks; but not for note sequencing anymore).
So, in sum: THANK YOU ROBOTIC BEAN FOR 'SEQUENCES' - easily my favorite non-instrument Reason device ever!
*Of course, the one last thing I REALLY WANT is something Robotic Bean cant help with -- only Reason Studios can do the RIGHT thing and finally, finally, FINALLY make all devices with Patterns allow pattern triggering from other devices. I want to 'step through' my patterns in Players via a tempo-sync'd Pulsar, for example. There's any number of great possibilities for triggering Pattern changes without ever leaving the Rack, and yet, we can't do it! What the hell? For a 'fully modular' program, this is, imho, a baffling omission. C'mon Props / RS! Let's go fully modular in the rack and trigger our patterns with, well, Anything!!
cheers,
-Michael
I'm a bit late to the party, having only discovered it last week!
But now I couldn't be happier. The interface is awesome, the functionality exactly what I need: step-input recording with easy editing, all done in the rack!
It's long been an interest of mine to create Reason songs where the ONLY thing in the entire Arrangement area is pattern automation and parameter automation. I was trying to do this with just the drum sequencer, redrum's sequencer, and the Matrix. But the Matrix is just too damn primitive; I needed more control. Props' released stuff like PolyStep Sequencer, which just doesn't quite gel with my workflow. But with SEQUENCES, I can quickly record patterns into my instruments (in the rack), then automate the pattern changes along with my various drum machines (again, just redrum with pattern automation or kong with the Drum Sequencer, etc) and Voila -- my dream come true, entire songs built from just pattern automation and all the actual sequencing contained inside the rack. Yet I can map out the pattern changes in the arrangement, as well as write in parameter automation.
I realize it's just a quirk of my tastes and interests that I want to work this way, but man am I happy I can finally do it the way I've always wanted to. I'll never touch a Matrix again
(well, I might drop one in for simple triggering or CV tasks; but not for note sequencing anymore).So, in sum: THANK YOU ROBOTIC BEAN FOR 'SEQUENCES' - easily my favorite non-instrument Reason device ever!
*Of course, the one last thing I REALLY WANT is something Robotic Bean cant help with -- only Reason Studios can do the RIGHT thing and finally, finally, FINALLY make all devices with Patterns allow pattern triggering from other devices. I want to 'step through' my patterns in Players via a tempo-sync'd Pulsar, for example. There's any number of great possibilities for triggering Pattern changes without ever leaving the Rack, and yet, we can't do it! What the hell? For a 'fully modular' program, this is, imho, a baffling omission. C'mon Props / RS! Let's go fully modular in the rack and trigger our patterns with, well, Anything!!
cheers,
-Michael
