I still have ReasonCompact on my iPhone, which hosts one limited instance of Europa, Monitone and Rytmik. But it can only create up to 8 bars, very similar to Groovebox - but can then export to Reason, of course. Im not using it anymore as the 8 bars for me is too limited, and I think ReasonStudios ...

I would mostly appreciate the possibility for more midi routing options, especially midi fx as a built in option. Today I use kushview to achieve that, but setting it up is disturbing my creative workflow. I know I can put it all in a combinator (eg with scaler set up, or captain plugins), but then ...

You can create scenes (say scene1…scene9), and then assign just a pattern from one or from multiple groups to each scene. Then you need to define in machine setup that midi notes control scenes changes - and then you can select the scenes with C0 and higher notes. If that’s what you‘re after?

Actually, the Captain modules work within Reason 11 and 12, as they can produce sound on their own. You can set up several models like Chords, Deep, Melody, Beat following the chords defined in the Captain Chords module. If you are happy with the results, you can drag the midi data out of each VST p...

One thing to keep in mind is that there are many 3rd party plugins which do not run yet on M1, like MassiveX from Native Instruments, and many of the older Plugins like from Air etc.
Although knowing this, I completely forgot when switching to a new MacMini.