Updating the Reason Browser

[DaveyG]

They just need to give us tags and the ability to search and sort by them.

[lowtom]

I am asking how can you load FXP preset directly from the browser? You can not! In Reason you can.

That's very good! But you are fixated on this one option - loading FXP. Everything else I mentioned is not that awesome.
I am Reason user, Live user and Maschine user. I see differences and would love to have at least similar options available across different software solutions. I'm not saying Live or Maschine browsers are superior, but RS could take some inspiration from both. You can never go wrong with expanding browser capabilities and no one wants to remove anything, just add more options and possibilities.

[kbard]

No man I am not fixated at anything really. If anything then you are fixated in proving that I am fixated. Nice. You told that there is not anything different in Reason browser vs live. Now you see it is. There are even more different features.

Regards

[EnochLight]

What's there to explain with so simple yet not simple thing let me see (please forgive me my english is not first language). A drag and drop to a DAW is all it need + basic customization (which it have now).

I don't think you have to worry about losing that sort of functionality as Reason's browser matures. Smart folders/tags or whatever they end up doing will likely just "add on" to the current feature set, so your workflow shouldn't change for the most part. I'm just hoping it's made faster, as the way indexed files are handled is nothing short of buggy as we've discovered, and it doesn't even index file folders and keep them in a cache currently. That's a major pain in the ass, IMHO. Everytime I click on the same sample folder I've had for the better part of 20 years in a new song project, it has to index the folder. EVERY. TIME. It's archaic and painful.

[stratatonic]

It's OCTOBER ! !

Where Is that Browser Update?

Midi Preview as well would make for a decent R12 Browser Update!

I would guess that the update will be closer to the end of the month rather than the beginning especially as the latest update was only released a few days ago.

Less than a week to go!

Can't you just feel the excitement?

[stratatonic]

It's OCTOBER ! !

Where Is that Browser Update?

Midi Preview as well would make for a decent R12 Browser Update!

And not just tempo sync'able but also a play on next Bar, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8th, 1/16th, 1/32ndth, 1/64th, 1/128th not that I could see anything smaller than 1/16th being needed myself but they're all the currently available snap options.

Don't forget these! :

Please please please Reason Studio's make it very smart / advanced. I can think of 27 feature's for it.

* Audio wave display
* Highlight any part of the wave with the mouse and it plays that section
* Auto-Looping
* Also click anywhere in the audio with the mouse cursor and it plays from there
* Tempo match with double speed / half speed
* Tempo and key Display
* Pitch Shift + or - 12 semitones
* Reverse Auditioning
* Play through track
* dB display for the volume slider
* Sync both browsers (on or off)
* Tag and branch searching
* Put dots next to already auditioned samples in a folder
* Refresh button for folders (and any added samples show up in a different colour)
* New section at the top of the browser thumbnails where newly added vst's are listed for 24 hrs after adding (thumbnails can be added after if you so wish)
* Patch auditioning (like you can already do with Dr.Octo.Rex files)
* Midi auditioning (plays with the patch from whatever devices of whichever track is selected in the sequencer)
* Device searching in projects
* Slice audio up by transients and apply all the above to the transients
* Scrub Samples
* All changes applied (pitch shift / tempo match etc) will apply when dropping into the sequencer
* Volume adjustment tick box (ticked will apply volume adjustments to the sample when dropped into sequencer)
* Remember browser state when re-opening project

I hope at least 15 of those are added but would like 20. Lol! I think about 7 could be considered icings on the cake / advanced features.

[Billy+]

I would guess that the update will be closer to the end of the month rather than the beginning especially as the latest update was only released a few days ago.

Less than a week to go!

Can't you just feel the excitement?

Um no..... I've removed R12 and am happy to sit this one out

I do hope that you all start getting a better experience though....

[Oper-8]

OK... I was happy with the fix/workaround, but that didn't last... Indexing is sssslllloooowww again. :/

[Creativemind]

Less than a week to go!

Can't you just feel the excitement?

Um no..... I've removed R12 and am happy to sit this one out

I do hope that you all start getting a better experience though....

Well if you have a paid Reason 12, you can just install it again?

[Billy+]

Um no..... I've removed R12 and am happy to sit this one out

I do hope that you all start getting a better experience though....

Well if you have a paid Reason 12, you can just install it again?

Thankfully I was trying a cheap subscription so I managed to get a good collection of packs for R11 along with access to R12 without wasting to much money, however that does mean that I don't have an R12 license not that it's a problem as currently I have no wish to reinstall it.

If things start getting better and I see something worth upgrading to then I'm happy to pay the extra but as things stand the roadmap shows me nothing worthy of the price tag.

[stratatonic]

It's OCTOBER ! !

Where Is that Browser Update?

Midi Preview as well would make for a decent R12 Browser Update!

I would guess that the update will be closer to the end of the month rather than the beginning especially as the latest update was only released a few days ago.

Looks like closer to the end of next year.

[Billy+]

Looks like closer to the end of next year.

I care less and less as each day passes happy in to enjoy what I hold rather than endure the constant disappointment of empty plans for features that matter not......

[Liimusic]

The new „smart“ browser needs to auto sync long samples to bpm. I mean how hard can it be to develop this…

[stratatonic]

And not just tempo sync'able but also a play on next Bar, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8th, 1/16th, 1/32ndth, 1/64th, 1/128th not that I could see anything smaller than 1/16th being needed myself but they're all the currently available snap options.

Don't forget these! :

Please please please Reason Studio's make it very smart / advanced. I can think of 27 feature's for it.

* Audio wave display
* Highlight any part of the wave with the mouse and it plays that section
* Auto-Looping
* Also click anywhere in the audio with the mouse cursor and it plays from there
* Tempo match with double speed / half speed
* Tempo and key Display
* Pitch Shift + or - 12 semitones
* Reverse Auditioning
* Play through track
* dB display for the volume slider
* Sync both browsers (on or off)
* Tag and branch searching
* Put dots next to already auditioned samples in a folder
* Refresh button for folders (and any added samples show up in a different colour)
* New section at the top of the browser thumbnails where newly added vst's are listed for 24 hrs after adding (thumbnails can be added after if you so wish)
* Patch auditioning (like you can already do with Dr.Octo.Rex files)
* Midi auditioning (plays with the patch from whatever devices of whichever track is selected in the sequencer)
* Device searching in projects
* Slice audio up by transients and apply all the above to the transients
* Scrub Samples
* All changes applied (pitch shift / tempo match etc) will apply when dropping into the sequencer
* Volume adjustment tick box (ticked will apply volume adjustments to the sample when dropped into sequencer)
* Remember browser state when re-opening project

I hope at least 15 of those are added but would like 20. Lol! I think about 7 could be considered icings on the cake / advanced features.

Well, we got tags.

In almost seven years since this thread started.

And with Reason Studios writing stuff in that same time from their blogs:
we're also improving the Reason browser. Search is now blazing fast and your search results are categorized to easily find what you want. 

We now build a search index from all your locations (you know, the things you keep in your Browser sidebar)


I dunno, it really seems they haven't done much. Talked about the browser a ton over the past many years.
Maybe their market research really says that no one cares about any other improvement for the browser.

[EnochLight]

I dunno, it really seems they haven't done much. Talked about the browser a ton over the past many years.
Maybe their market research really says that no one cares about any other improvement for the browser.

I disagree. The changes in the new browser are a stark improvement in so many ways, I think you're missing the forest for the trees. The tags alone were a much needed improvement, and it cannot be underestimated how much of an undertaking it was to tag all of that content. And using said tags, you can now instantly pull up content that simply was not possible to do in any other previous version of Reason over the past 24 years - not without wasting an inordinate amount of time anyway.

And don't get me wrong - I have plenty of complaints - I hate that the browser is locked to one window (I use dual displays). I don't like how it covers the rack in RRP. I feel the removal of devices being able to be saved as Favorites was a miss. I absolutely feel a scrubbable waveform display is required in any browser in 2024, and hate that it's not in the new browser. I also can't understand why we still don't have samples time-stretched to Project BPM in the browser (hello Ableton Live!), and I have a myriad of other complaints. But you know what? When I go back to Reason 12, the old browser is painfully slower and I hate using it now.

So have they done much? Yeah, I'd say they have done much. They've done a ton, in fact. Have they done enough? Well, that's an entirely different conversation LOL!

[Sargie]

"I feel the removal of devices being able to be saved as Favorites was a miss."

100%. This is the thing I miss the most too. I have so many devices, not being able to sort them this way is a real dent to my workflow.

[Sargie]

Should add, I think the rest of it is a marked improvement... I think when a few teething troubles are sorted out, this is a great upgrade overall.

[stratatonic]

I dunno, it really seems they haven't done much. Talked about the browser a ton over the past many years.
Maybe their market research really says that no one cares about any other improvement for the browser.

I disagree. The changes in the new browser are a stark improvement in so many ways, I think you're missing the forest for the trees. The tags alone were a much needed improvement, and it cannot be underestimated how much of an undertaking it was to tag all of that content. And using said tags, you can now instantly pull up content that simply was not possible to do in any other previous version of Reason over the past 24 years - not without wasting an inordinate amount of time anyway.

So..tags added.

I have plenty of complaints -
I hate that the browser is locked to one window (I use dual displays).
I don't like how it covers the rack in RRP.
I feel the removal of devices being able to be saved as Favorites was a miss.

So...functionality removed...

I absolutely feel a scrubbable waveform display is required in any browser in 2024, and hate that it's not in the new browser.

I also can't understand why we still don't have samples time-stretched to Project BPM in the browser (hello Ableton Live!),

and I have a myriad of other complaints.

So...stuff brought up even before this thread started almost seven years ago still not implemented.

So have they done much? Yeah, I'd say they have done much. They've done a ton, in fact.

So...what exactly is your definition of "a ton"?

[EnochLight]

So..tags added.
So...functionality removed...
So...stuff brought up even before this thread started almost seven years ago still not implemented.
So...what exactly is your definition of "a ton"?

Reason 13.0.0 Release Notes

General

• New visual design of the Reason UI
  
  • New top bar with buttons for Device Palette, Browser, Sequencer, Rack, Mixer, and Help
  • Old area handles replaced with slim dividers
  • Changed all colors in Light and Dark mode, removed Blue mode

• Ableton Link update
  
  • Reason now supports Start/Stop sync over Ableton Link

• MIDI Clock
  
  • It’s now possible to send MIDI Clock to multiple MIDI Out ports
  • MIDI Clock sent from Reason is now more stable

• New “Reason Studios” folder in your Music folder for easier organization of your content, including:
  
  • New ReFills folder to store your ReFills, automatically indexed by Reason’s browser (see below)
  • New User Library folder where patches are saved by default, automatically indexed by Reason’s browser (see below)

• Improved and re-organized Context Menus
  
  • Access to new features previously not available on context menu
  • Re-organized and re-grouped for easy access
  • Some Context Menu options now bring up a dialog window with settings, for example Note Tools > Transpose…

• The Tool Window has been removed, all features moved to the new Edit Area or context menus

• Optional Refills and devices (i.e. Drum Supply, Loop Supply, Radical Piano, Klang, Pangea, and Humana) are now handled within Reason Companion

• Updated Companion with a new design

Sequencer

• New Edit Area
  
  • The Edit Area is visible at the same time as the main Arrange Area and can be re-sized
  • Double-click/Enter to open clip and zoom its contents to fit Edit Area
  • Single-click/select to open clip and scroll to it in Edit Area without changing zoom
  • MIDI notes can now be joined with the Join menu item or cmd/ctrl+J
  • New edit mode: Audio Overview Edit, the new default for audio clips
  • Razor now snaps to Slice Handles/transients in Audio Overview
  • Speaker Tool is now available in Audio Overview for quick auditioning
  • New shortcut: Opening a selected clip in Edit Area is now “Enter” and showing/hiding Edit Area is now F8.

• Edit Area Inspector
  
  • New area with inspectors for all events in the edit area
  • Moved all applicable Tool Window functions to Edit Area next to its related inspector
  • Added “Make Velocity Ramp” to the Edit Area Inspector

• Zoom improvements
  
  • Zoom by dragging in the top of the timeline, in both Arrange and Edit Area
  • Pinch Zoom is now possible with trackpads
  • Improved scroll wheel zoom (cmd/ctrl+scroll and shift+cmd/ctrl+scroll)

Browser

• Device palette
  
  • Only shows devices and plugins
  • Filter on device categories and formats
  • All Rack Extensions are now categorized
  • Device palette now reads built-in categories for VST3 plugins
  • New shortcut: F3 to open/close Device Palette, cmd/ctrl+F to open and set focus to text field in Device Palette

• Browser
  
  • Brand new separate browser with a new design
  • All Locations is now default and shows all browsable files (patches, audio files, MIDI, REX loops) in locations that Reason’s aware of
  • Filter results using any combination of name, category, tag, kind, device type
  • Suggested filters will appear while typing
  • Category and Tag buttons for quick filtering
  • Browse Focus mode and Add Instrument/Effect/Player now loads an item in the background as it’s clicked
  • Users can edit/add tags to content in the browser by right-clicking items
  • Browser window automatically hides when dragging items outside it
  • Improved Favorite List handling—right-click an item to add or remove it from Favorite Lists
  • New shortcut: F9 to open/close browser, cmd/ctrl+F to open and set focus to text field in Browser
  • New shortcut: cmd/ctrl+E to Add Effect.

Devices

• Ripley Space Delay
• Polytone Dual-Layer Synthesizer
• Sidechain Tool
• Stereo Tool
• Gain Tool

Sound content

• All sound content included in Reason and Reason+ is categorized and tagged
• 1000+ new patches, loops, and samples (1 GB of content)
• Two new demo songs
• Updated song templates

Bug fixes

• General fixes and improvements