How to recommend Reason Studios to your friend

[Mohammadyarahmad]

Hello,
You have a friend who is using Ableton or Logic Pro for example.
What do you say to attract him and bring his attention to Reason Studios?

Thanks

[dioxide]

Ha ha. I'm waiting for advice on how to approach this. I know two Ableton Live users who are fighting limitations and technical problems that come with VSTs and hardware. I just don't have these problems because I'm using Reason standalone with REs. Their lives could be so much easier.

[crimsonwarlock]

What do you say to attract him and bring his attention to Reason Studios?

Just show them this picture

[Bes]

why would you recommend reason?

[Mohammadyarahmad]

why would you recommend reason?

Rack-based ( makes a sense of reality )
The unique distortion, Scream 4
low RAM usage
Speed of running the Daw even on medium systems

[crimsonwarlock]

why would you recommend reason?

For me, one of the big distinctions with other DAWs is that fully emulated SSL-mixer. That's why I'm running the mixer on that big screen

Also, when hitting a track in the sequencer of the rack-button on a mixer channel, automatically focuses the rack-screen for the related instruments and FX. All this gives a very hardware-like experience that no other DAW gives you.

[scotward57]

Reason is still the King when it comes to giving you the closest hardware experience in software. And for sound design, the Combinator is hard to beat. Only if the RRP would allow VSTs and stock devices from other DAWs!!

[avasopht]

I focus on the tools most appropriate for the individual.

Reason is the easiest way to empower yourself as an engineer, though Bitwig Grid has similar capabilities.

But I'd recommend Studio One as a safe DAW default, Reason, Live and FLStudio offering very different alternative takes, ... And so on.

Logic is another no brainer starting point (especially since Apple practically give it away).

Personally I like having the availability of alternate workflows.

Sometimes I'll see what happens if I work in studio one with only Xpand!2, or the Korg Collection for instruments.

But Reason is my box of tricks.

[QVprod]

Make good music. When they ask tell them what you use.

[avasopht]

Make good music. When they ask tell them what you use.

Best approach

[DaveyG]

I've read lots of music interviews over the years and there have occasionally been people who say "I started out on Reason but then moved to Live (or AnotherDAW). I've never seen anyone say they moved the opposite way.

As for the rack, mixer and cables paradigm, I'm not sure it's as relevant as it once was. There are now several generations of musicians who have never seen a 19 inch rack in the flesh and who have only ever plugged cables directly into their audio interface. Everything else is in the box. For those people it makes more sense to select a sidechain input from a drop-down menu than to flip to the back of a rack and start plugging pretend cables into pretend sockets.

I'm convinced Reason's future is as a plugin to other DAWs. They just need to sort out their pricing, maybe by offering the plugin as a separate product or by including a free a cut-down version with any RE purchase, because right now Reason has a very high entry cost for those just wanting to use it as a plugin.

[crimsonwarlock]

I've never seen anyone say they moved the opposite way.

Not only did I move the opposite way, it is in my signature below for quite a while now

[DaveyG]

I've never seen anyone say they moved the opposite way.

Not only did I move the opposite way, it is in my signature below for quite a while now

I must have missed reading your interview.

[crimsonwarlock]

I must have missed reading your interview.

Aah, I forgot you must be famous (in one way or another) for your view on things to be legitimate

So my decision to move to Reason from Reaper has no merit because... what?

[DaveyG]

I must have missed reading your interview.

Aah, I forgot you must be famous (in one way or another) for your view on things to be legitimate

So my decision to move to Reason from Reaper has no merit because... what?

Lots of things you say have no merit.
I suppose you could read the whole of the first paragraph if you wanted to understand rather than just quoting a subset. Selective quoting is a very easy game.

Here:

Reaper has no merit

[selig]

The best you can do is encourage someone to TRY Reason.
As everyone is different, Reason is not the best music creation software for EVERYONE (even if it IS the best for me).
See "how to recommend the color Blue to your friend"…

[robussc]

Getting this back on track… fighting with VSTs in Cubase was exactly the reason I fell in love with Reason and rack, because with it the true power of “virtual studio technology” was realized. That got turned up to 11 when audio recording and the SSL mixer were added.

Any missing bits (better reverb, LUFs metering, classic synths) can still be added thanks to VST and RE support. But for an all in one package that makes sense and gets out of your way (mostly) Reason is the answer. Especially for the home studio.

(I’ve tried ProTools and others but the amount of mental mapping you need to remember how things are hooked up is staggering!)

[tomusurp]

You don't really need to. For example I collab with producers who use different DAW's. Reason is my main DAW but I also use FL Studio and Logic here and there.

[bxbrkrz]

Hello,
You have a friend who is using Ableton or Logic Pro for example.
What do you say to attract him and bring his attention to Reason Studios?

Thanks

Among your musician friends and others, people you talk to etc, how many of them use Reason like yourself?

[avasopht]

I've read lots of music interviews over the years and there have occasionally been people who say "I started out on Reason but then moved to Live (or AnotherDAW). I've never seen anyone say they moved the opposite way.

As for the rack, mixer and cables paradigm, I'm not sure it's as relevant as it once was. There are now several generations of musicians who have never seen a 19 inch rack in the flesh and who have only ever plugged cables directly into their audio interface. Everything else is in the box. For those people it makes more sense to select a sidechain input from a drop-down menu than to flip to the back of a rack and start plugging pretend cables into pretend sockets.

I'm convinced Reason's future is as a plugin to other DAWs. They just need to sort out their pricing, maybe by offering the plugin as a separate product or by including a free a cut-down version with any RE purchase, because right now Reason has a very high entry cost for those just wanting to use it as a plugin.

Well, there's DJ Khalil (who I'm guessing just uses RRP now).



RRP is strong and if RS could just buy out the Sonic Reality samples and let RE developers and sound designers loose on them, they'd be close to a no-brainer purchase for DAW users.



Maybe add a sort of "Lab mode" for designing and experimenting with sounds, ... ... ...

[antic604]

Hello,
You have a friend who is using Ableton or Logic Pro for example.
What do you say to attract him and bring his attention to Reason Studios?

Thanks

How much do you value their friendship?

Seriously though, I'd sit down with them and create a project to show "what's what" and then encourage them to try it either using the demo or paying the $1 for a month of R+. Everyone's different. I found the hard way that the best DAW for me "on paper" (Bitwig) doesn't actually work for me because I need a specific ratio of flexibility / limitations to be able to start & finish stuff. That's not something you can know from talking with people or watching a YT.

[antic604]

As for the rack, mixer and cables paradigm, I'm not sure it's as relevant as it once was. There are now several generations of musicians who have never seen a 19 inch rack in the flesh and who have only ever plugged cables directly into their audio interface. Everything else is in the box. For those people it makes more sense to select a sidechain input from a drop-down menu than to flip to the back of a rack and start plugging pretend cables into pretend sockets.

You'd think so, but my son - 20 at the time, who never used a music hardware other than a guitar - liked Reason the most (having tried Bitwig, Live, Studio One and Cubase) simply because the "virtual studio" paradigm was actually making the most sense for him, as he could intuit how it would translate into the "real" world.

Other DAWs kind of assume you already know how real world studio works and expect you to agree to the metaphors of the digital world representing it.

Obviously, that's circumstantial evidence

I'm convinced Reason's future is as a plugin to other DAWs. They just need to sort out their pricing, maybe by offering the plugin as a separate product or by including a free a cut-down version with any RE purchase, because right now Reason has a very high entry cost for those just wanting to use it as a plugin.

God, I hope you're wrong. I really don't see RRP value proposition in other DAWs, especially in something like Live or Bitwig, where doing the patching is so much faster, more flexible and easier to edit. The only value of RRP - for me, obviously - is the ability to use the Reason's instruments, effects & players elsewhere and those should be offered as individual plugins, instead.

I agree on the idea of "free empty RRP", though - I feel like this would (ironically) bring them a lot more money from RE sales, that they could put in good use towards new devices and the DAW.

[visheshl]

Read this thread a little bit, not the whole thing, the reason I keep going back to ableton live is control surface integration.
In live you have your controller is configured to control 8 knobs and it works on every device, you just select a vst and move whatever knobs you want to control, and then your controller automatically controls the knobs.
Reason lacks such a system.
And making controller maps for thousands of devices is a tedious process.
So with reason you're back to keyboard and mouse.
With live my small controller dynamically controls the whole application.
reason needs to provide an easy gui tool to map your controller quickly for hundreds of devices once and then you're set.

[antic604]

Read this thread a little bit, not the whole thing, the reason I keep going back to ableton live is control surface integration.
In live you have your controller is configured to control 8 knobs and it works on every device, you just select a vst and move whatever knobs you want to control, and then your controller automatically controls the knobs.
Reason lacks such a system.
And making controller maps for thousands of devices is a tedious process.
So with reason you're back to keyboard and mouse.
With live my small controller dynamically controls the whole application.
reason needs to provide an easy gui tool to map your controller quickly for hundreds of devices once and then you're set.

Was about to ask this w.r.t. Reason, thinking I've missed something. Too bad

[tewoc]

To my friend:

"So my dear friend, I love Reason and use it since the early days, but the company is not spreading trust to its own DAW userbase. To be honest to you my friend, I would not recommend you to buy it, because there is a strange "once a year go online" licence sheme and some hard missing core features, too. See my friend, the main reason is the lack of sequencer and workflow features, even if the sequencer is not that bad at all and the rack & ssl mixer for sure are very cool.
Nobody really knows how everything will develop in the future with this software and in my personal feeling there is a lack of community communication. I hope they change this strategy, but it doesn't look like they will do it soon. So right now I just can't recommend it to you, even if I would like to."

I love you my friend.