In part I agree with you. I felt that the latest upgrade was a lazy one. There isn't all that much new that appeals to me. It does me wonder that PH doesn't seem to notice that the midi sequencer and audio tracks are in serious need of improvement. Even now in Reason 9 throwing in note splitting and calling it a new feature is almost a slap in the face. Feature-wise the sequencer lags extremely behind other DAWs and I doubt I will use that new audio-pitch feature a lot.samardac wrote:I decided to go with Studio One because I can not see any advantages of using Reason against it.altron wrote:samardac wrote:
But back on topic ... I rather like you to go for Reason if you want to stay making music. Because it's a fine tool, despite all the bland music advertisement that is associated with it (in part thanks to the Props themselves who only seem to want to cater to mainstream pop/rock/dubstep crap). My next studio setup will reduce the DAW into a corner even further and surround myself with keyboards more. it's very inspiring!
I love Korg Legasy, I love my BBE and Focusright Red plugins there is nothing like them in Reason. The only thing I really love in reason is CV, but it is not game changer for me. Also I do not like sequencer in Reason it looks not very good for me and it lacks a lot of commands/hotkeys for fast workflow. I really hate Reason Mixer, navigate it is real pain, because it is so big and looks the same on every stage and you alwas need time to understand where you are. I alwas avoid using that Mixer, it have some crappy effects on it, compressors - I do not like how they works at all, eq also is not top notch, buss compressor is absolutley awfull like and MClass devices. I think PH spend a lot of money and affords to create and maintain that Extantion system and do not pay enough attention to vital devices.Built in Synths also are far behind top quality ones. Also I do not like that framed UI. For me Reason was cool when it was 2,5, its gesign was absolutley Perfect! I still have cracked version of it installed, it was simple and it was awaysome. Other versions of Reason become complex and complex and complex. First concepton of Reason do not assumed so dramatic updates and changes so PH had to generate tricks any time to addopt it to current market demand, and it turns into really havy complex mutant with intermediate quality devices.
But I value stability more than anything in a DAW and so I stick with Reason because, honestly, any other DAW crashes at some time during my creative phase and there are some essential things that PH really got right in Reason (compares with audio editing in Cubase ... yuck!). I upgraded to v9 to support PH in hope that they will improve Reason in the future. Because I'd hate to see Reason going down the drain. I'm not using instruments in Reason that much and instead use h/w synths & guitar/bass. I do use effects in Reason a lot though and there are some really great ones. I'm not sure what you mean by 'framed UI' but I like Reason's skeuomorphic UI paradigm and the rack format. In fact it has a HUGE appeal to me! Can't complain about the mixer. It does the job OK for me.
But PH need to get their act together! Reason 8 and 9 DSP performance sucks immensely on Mac OSX!