Grumbleweed wrote:I downloaded the 8.3 beta, tried it and uninstalled it. I just don't get why it costs £89 and I hate that it creates a new device when I want to change a patch within a device. Reason 9 had better offer something groovy or else it's R7 for a few more years. Grum.
selig wrote:
The beta doesn't cost anything (does it?), nor does the update IIRC, but I could be wrong here.
And it DOESN'T create a new device when you "want to change a patch", assuming you understand that to change a patch you must be "browsing" for a patch with the desired device (indicated by the bright orange color around the browser icons in the target device).
Of course, if you switch focus to another device or to NO device and then continue browsing, a new device WILL be created (as expected) because at this point you are telling it to create a new device!
I understand this can accidentally happen at first, but this has not happened to me since about five minutes after learning how it works.
Yup, it used to happen to me all the time! And after a little bit of time with Reason 8.3, it happens less often, but it still happens. I'm hoping I get used to it. I'm sure I will. But for others who find it impossible to work with... I had an idea in the past, but not sure if there was a reason it wouldn't work...?
What if a 'single click' loaded a patch for which you are browsing and a 'double click' created a device? That way, if a device did not have browse focus, you would realize quickly because a single click would not load the patch. You would then apply focus to the device in which you want to browse patches and continue on... And there would be muscle memory involved in single click to load a patch vs. double click to create a new device. Kind of like double clicking in the sequencer to create a note.
Or, if that doesn't work, maybe a Preference to turn on where the only way to create a device is via Dragging and Dropping or 'Create...' via the drop down. And it wouldn't matter if a device had focus or not, as any clicks in the browser wouldn't do anything but load, or not load patches.