dusan.cani wrote: ↑24 Sep 2019
Thanks guys for support. The more people will give some feedback to these things, the bigger chance they will update the sequencer.
I just hope they will notice the thread and consider it seriously.
There is a ground swell of producers and media personalities who have worked exclusively in Reason leaving the software because they can load their rack investments in other programs with better features. Nearly all of the people who have covered the release has leaned in that direction of being fed up and grabbing the chance to cash out and leave.
Part of that is because they don't have to eat the cost of what they purchased, part of that is excitement over the ease of transition that bringing part of the Reason workflow with them, but a very significant amount of that exodus is the pervasive perception that -- given the evidence so far over the course of 20 years -- RS can't provide meaningful improvements.
In short, there's no belief that the company behind this software is capable of stepping things up to the right level. No one believes that, full stop. And why should they when everything comes out "weird" and half-formed, as though the concepts involved in the design of features that are attempted are themselves poorly understood or beyond the reach of the expertise of those building them.
The best thing out of this release so far is that more and more and more people who have used Reason as their primary production tool are exploring other apps and beta testing the plugin -- and they're opening up with more and more surprise to the features those other apps provide them and that they can no longer live without.
I really have to wonder what they were planning by doing that. The semi-pros who were treating Reason seriously are all stating how blown away they are by "new daw x" they have been trying out now that they can take their racks with them. This isn't a way of strengthening Reason itself, but a gateway drug to the greener grass over the fence. The logical result of this is that people will have their eyes opened wide and never look back.
That's a good thing, because it will ultimately improve the productivity and expressive potential of those producers in ways they can't imagine. In some cases, the tools and techniques available to them now aren't even things they knew existed.
I'm digressing. I'd like to think that they would address feedback, but that's a bit late now.
I personally believe "Reason" will become the company, while the company will mostly just produce effects and instruments.
Because, based on how many rack units there are and how few meaningful and fundamental feature improvements there are in the main program, they just aren't able to deliver anything further than the rack they started with. That's why they're contracting their focus and scaling back to mostly provide the rack no matter where you want to use it. It's all they really know how to do.
They're just hobby synth makers that have been out of their league for a long time, trying to force something to be what it was never meant to be.
They do rack units, not big, complex app designs that have a ton of moving parts that form a cohesive and intuitive gestalt. No way they have the manpower or skillset for that, and it shows. The new blood seems to have made a decision to drop what clearly isn't working and move ahead with what they actually know how to do: crank out lots of devices.
Even the headline marketing video for their core product asks "What is Reason?", not "Welcome to Reason" or anything else. As if to implore their audience, "please tell us, what is this thing and what should it do?"
The dabblers and the hobbyists have largely matured beyond the days of just being happy playing around with old projects that don't crash, stay backward compatible, and never get finished. The paradigm shift that is happening is that on one hand, people want their music to thrive and they are clearly voicing that it can't in this program's best effort at workflow, but on the other hand, there is a silent admission that "times have grown up" and it's probably the better move to seek what you need elsewhere.
But yes, it would be nice if they addressed feedback. I just opine (at length) that this is a bit late in the game.
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