I seriously doubt the hi res change would ship without custom scalability. complaining about the lack of features is one thing, but when RS give us features, they’re generally really well thought out. if they just gave us a fixed zoom option, I’d be super surprised. You mean a complete free zoom? L...

I unreservedly love the vintage hardware aesthetic of the Ekssperimental Sounds catalog of devices. It's something that's been missing from far too many Rack Extensions in recent years, even many of Reason Studios' own – far too many modern REs have gone down the path of "VST with some 3D knobs" rat...

Has anyone guessed recently? I’m assuming an April announcement. And no I don’t have any insider knowledge. Might be a good time for another Reason Almanac update. https://presteign.com/temp/img/Reason%20Almanac%203-31-2021.png We are already past the 3-version minimum of 491 days. If the Reason 11...

How does this company make any money?

Oh well, another free Unfiltered Audio plugin to add to my collection. Maybe I'll get Byome next time it's $30 minus a $20 voucher.

I don't think "Reason has always been an instrument first and foremost" quite hits the mark. It's been an instrument, but more than that, it's been a groovebox since day one. That is, an instrument that is also a lightweight workstation, that lets you build complete songs. Reason 1.0 had more in com...

The biggest problem with the rack metaphor is the cables. The fact that stereo connections must always be made one cable at a time*, and that reordering devices requires four actions (move L from source, move R from source, reconnect L to destination, reconnect R to destination) is a workflow killer...

Full MIDI 2.0 support with an improved sequencer would be a worthy feature for Reason 12. Lol. Reason doesn't even have MIDI tracks. It has the worst midi implementation I have come across. The chances they will jump out ahead of the curve on this are pretty slim imo. This actually puts Reason in a...

Was there a thread about some kind of hint at a Combinator 2 here earlier, or did I just imagine that? It doesn't look like it was merged into anything.

My SEM family is growing..... https://i.imgur.com/L7Ch50K.png That's about 40 voices, by my count! 😛 I only have the Arturia, which I use occasionally for basses, but it's not one of my go-tos. I'm curious what your round-up take is... Most versatile of the bunch? Best sound? Best UI/workflow?

I wonder how this stacks up to GForce's version that came out last month... at six times the price.

I love this concept, like a lost, alternative synth architecture rediscovered. Like something Hainbach would unearth and do a video about.

The rack can always use more Eurostile.

Izotope's FAQ dances around this question, so to put it bluntly: If I buy, say, RX 8 Advanced ($1,199) today, will it never get updated? If the next version of MacOS breaks compatibility with RX 8, is my copy of RX now worthless? Will there never be a non-subscription RX 9, so buying the full licens...

Beyond the high resolution refresh, I'd be happy if they just dedicated a few more CPU cycles to oversampling on all of the old synths. They did something like this in the old days with NN-19 and the "high quality interpolation" button, or the improved EQ on the 14:2 mixer. My guess for why the old...

I was reading a comment by popular patch creator Data Broth about how Algoritm seems like it could be the beginning of a larger system, when it hit me: That larger system would have a lot in common with Thor. When you look at the two synths side by side, the similarities are hard to miss: Interchang...

Anyone use Byome / Triad?

R12 is likely to be one of those core overhauls, not just for the highDPI GUI and GPU acceleration, but for other things too like native VST3 and Apple silicon support. As mentioned before, now that Steinberg has officially discontinued VST2 it would make sense for this to be a higher priority item...

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25 Feb 2021

I don't understand the mix of 3D red push buttons (the unison) in a sea of flat look, but other than that the interface is cool and easy to get.

Well, now I can't unsee that!

Are there any oscilloscopes in the store that take a note input so they can automatically sync to a single cycle?

Srsly tho, everyone will have their own taste so this is purely from my point of view; but Monotone is A: ugly, and B: far too limited in scope to be an interesting sound design tool, and a painful reminder that the actually really good Subtractor has been left to rot for 20 years while much less i...

I agree the pricing is excessive though. I was very happy to get those two bundled with R10, and was very happy with Complex-1 at 50% off. But these new Synths there's a good chance I'll never own because I'm covered well enough at this point. If they were included in R12 Suite then that would be a...

Do you activate the license for this from within the plugin, or does it use yet another license manager?

And Monotone is an embarrassment that annoys me every time I see the thumbnail taking up space in the browser. I use Monotone all the time. I think it sounds great and has one of the best UIs of any recent first-party synth. Obviously it doesn’t work for your needs, but I’m curious where it fails f...

The Raspberry Pi is already powerful enough to run a number of synths; I wonder if Subtractor is lightweight enough that you could get by with a Pi Zero.

Aquila wrote: ↑

17 Feb 2021

Auryn wrote: ↑

17 Feb 2021

I wonder what the "earth" device will sound like

Apparently it's quite muddy

Mix not warm enough? Mixfood Fire!
Mix not airy enough? Mixfood Air!
Mix sounding too dry? Mixfood Water!
Mix not not muddy enough? Mixfood Earth!