Well opening this to the other DAWs means alot more customers and the development effort doesnt seem to involve that much ongoing development after it has been released and stable. So i am ok with that. There are a bunch of people who already use another DAW besides Reason (not me) and they will be happy campers i think.dusan.cani wrote: ↑26 Aug 2019Totally agree with you...artmessiah wrote: ↑26 Aug 2019I barely post here, but I have to admit I'm thoroughly disappointed with this update. It's as if PH/RS have basically decided to screw looooooong time Reason users (since Reason 1.0 for me) in favor of users of other DAWs with a "Reason Rack" VST. Not to mention if you remove the Hype - dedicated reason only users barely get anything. No free major instrument (we have to pay for the new Scenic synth - which is fine, but still). There's no major overhaul of the Sequencer, something ALL reason users have been begging for for years, and for the few upgrades to the workflow we still have to pay a full on upgrade price for WHAT exactly? The half rack SSL's are cool, but not that critical. Some like Reason and Reason alone and don't need or want a VST version of the rack to use in ANOTHER DAW. I understand the commercial strategy behind this move and I understand the need to grow the "Reason" customer base, but I feel this will just push people away from using Reason as a DAW only. Ok, rant over
I always thought that the primary vision of the company is the Reason as the fully featured unique system for the music production as a whole. I thought they will put effort to develop and improve this unique product to be better and better and more and more sophisticated tool for music production - regular major instrument AND WORKFLOW improvements based on user feedback.
But as we can see with R11 announcement, there will be no major and serious sequencer/workflow revamp . The company shifts towards business direction where only purpose is to make profit as much as possible without passionately putting efforts into developing, improving and bringing new ideas to the Reason desktop as independent music production ecosystem.
For the guys hating the Reason sequencer they now got the option to use another DAW with less hazzle. For the purists though (which i am too) this update doesnt hold alot. But there is allways a dissatisfied group of people with each update. I willd efinitly try it with Bitwig or Live to enjoy the Session view but i hold my breath that the remote control side of things doesnt come with too many restrictions.