...I bet you eat Weetabix with baked beans.
Srsly tho, everyone will have their own taste so this is purely from my point of view; but Monotone is A: ugly, and B: far too limited in scope to be an interesting sound design tool, and a painful reminder that the actually really good Subtractor has been left to rot for 20 years while much less interesting and less powerful devices get added to the lineup.
I don't wanna bash the new Reason synths like Europa or Grain, they are not terrible, they are fine for built-in DAW synths (*Europa's filter section is very underwhelming tho). But the focus on the R.R.P. seems like RS thinks they have an amazing collection of killer instruments that will shine in other hosts, when honestly there are much better instruments out there.
As for Grain: I like the layout (despite the weird half-flatness of the UI, I wish they would pick one or the other) and I want to like the synth itself. But: they only went halfway. The grain emitter rate does not go anywhere near high enough. The grain envelope isn't fully adjustable and you often get often clicks; this is a real minus point compared to other granular synths. As usual, these are flaws that could easily be fixed with a point update, but they won't do it.
fieldframe wrote: ↑24 Feb 2021
I use Monotone all the time. I think it sounds great and has one of the best UIs of any recent first-party synth.
Obviously it doesn’t work for your needs, but I’m curious where it fails for you.