I hope you mean "we have limited development resources, so when we work on new functions for basic devices like compressors or EQs we add them as new devices and the old ones remain as museum pieces"
Because the alternative is "we don't innovate and develop because we think it is more important that some people can play 15 year old files even though they could still play them on the older version if that is what they really wanted" ...and I can't imagine anyone at a tech company saying that and expecting to still be in business in ten years.
It is also objectively false:
Rv7000, Europa and Dr. Rex all got updates and everyone was very happy with them.
Things like adding 2 extra para bands to the EQ wouldn't affect compatibility at all because older songs could use the existing 2 bands just the same as before.
And maybe more importantly:
Stop caring about backwards compatibility if it is holding you back. I'm serious; draw a line under Reason 11 and say that any version after that will have newly updated RE-based devices that may sound different from the old ones, or whatever it takes to get back to innovating.
Or is Reason just a museum for old song files from the early 2000's?
Would any of the users here NOT want a modern sampler, compressor and EQ, just because they would have to use Reason 11 to load old songs they made years ago?
supersplaron wrote: ↑18 Dec 2019One of the reasons is that we want to ensure backwards compatibility. Creating a newer version of a device could potentially make your (old) song sound different or just plain wrong, and we wouldn't want that.