sonicbyte wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021
But what really bothers me is the lack of open communication about the future of Reason for the "hardcore Reason customer", the ones that don't want to use another DAW, and don't care RPP as plugin (like me)...and just wanted Reason as a solid DAW with its beautiful inspiring workflow. Of course I understand they want new customers, the RPP is a great idea to make other people join Reason...
But why we haven't an official word about the rest of us?
The irony is, there has never been more open and public communication about their (RS) plans than now. Back in the Propellerhead days, we'd never - and I mean
*NEVER* - hear about features coming in the next version of Reason several months in advance. You literally wouldn't know until it was announced and going on sale (often in less than 30 days). Also, there was no way -
NO WAY - of openingly communicating with them via social networking channels, etc. The Product Manager at the time was as elusive as bigfoot, and rarely appeared in enthusiast forum posts. We only got a limited trickle of information from cryptic dev blogs, which rarely teased anything.
But yeah, I understand your frustration. I'd love for RS to once again publically state very firmly: we are NOT abandoning the core standalone DAW of Reason in version 12 - new workflow features will arrive in 12.x update; or nothing is planned for 12.x at all but we'll add something in 13 if there is one blah blah blah. Just... SOMETHING.
In the past year, Product Manager Mattias
himself said they weren't abandoning the core standalone DAW, but then the 12 announcement occurred.
I get that the high-res graphics and improved search will of course benefit the standalone DAW, but come on now - we all
KNOW we mean standalone sequencer/main mixer improvements. Pretending high-res and improved search is a core standalone improvement is disingenuous, and frankly - should have arrived in a free point update IMHO. But... I've said all I'm going to say. No use beating a dead horse at this point. I'll still use Reason, as it was my first music software love, but the ride is over for me.
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