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Would be a nice to have delay compensation built-in!

Maybe a changeable panel for the delay shifters volume and dry volume to a simple combined Dry/Wet knob so you don't have to mess about with a combinator or additional RE to have it operate like The Echo's roll function!

Reason instruments and effects are rarely/never updated with something new(because they are so perfect). Backward compatibility they say. So, good luck!

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I know. It's a shame because Polar and Synchronous in particular feel incomplete and only need minor tweaks to make them so much more useful.

Would love to see all the devices get improved upon

Been trying to improve myself recently.
Results are inconsistent.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother,
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These three OctoRex presets against your pitifully arrayed ReDrum lameness.
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Was just thinking about this as I updated Pigments to version 5. Yea, Reason itself has version updates but its instruments almost never do. But we get plenty of NEW instruments, which I'm guessing is because they make more $$ than updates.

But at some point you just end up with a super cluttered mess, with no way to even find the good stuff. So if you're going for quantity over quality, at least give us the browser tools to quickly find the "good stuff"!

Looking back I think I would have preferred a more balanced approach overall, with updates for many of the existing devices along with some of the more innovative new instruments.
But it's easy to be an arm chair quarterback and hindsight is 20/20, I get that.

as a company, I think they’ve consistently failed to grasp the importance on maintaining good fundamentals in terms of long term user retention. they’re very good at getting the initial stuff working well when it first comes out, but when it comes to retrofitting (usually minor) modern features to older devices and functions, they just don’t—unless they absolutely have to (hi res is a great example, and they did pretty much the bare minimum there).

selig wrote: ↑

24 Jan 2024

Was just thinking about this as I updated Pigments to version 5. Yea, Reason itself has version updates but its instruments almost never do. But we get plenty of NEW instruments, which I'm guessing is because they make more $$ than updates.

But at some point you just end up with a super cluttered mess, with no way to even find the good stuff. So if you're going for quantity over quality, at least give us the browser tools to quickly find the "good stuff"!

Looking back I think I would have preferred a more balanced approach overall, with updates for many of the existing devices along with some of the more innovative new instruments.
But it's easy to be an arm chair quarterback and hindsight is 20/20, I get that.

Agree. I think now there are so many Reason synths to learn.

I think at some point they should seriously rethink existing devices than just making a new device. Maybe even making advanced modes for some where it makes sense where you still have a simple GUI but an advanced mode that gets you deeper features for those who need them.

Redrum, Matrix, Thor, Kong could be perfect candidates as well as most samplers. I think Mimik could have been NN19 as it makes NN19 less useful now.

That said it needs to make sense. But I think many of their devices and synths could have been rolled into other things or merged such as the Humanas and Klangs, the Umpf drum modules, the rhythmik module.

I kind of like how Ableton does their devices as they continuously add features, merge devices, update GUIs to their stock plugins (all while maintaining backwards compatibility). Some of these really expand their devices. But even they are guilty of device clutter as well just a bit less so than RS. Some of it is unavoidable but I think Reason tends to go way overboard when creating a shiny new device that pretty much is just an improvement of an existing device or create multiple new devices that are basically just the same device with a few different parameters and/or samples.

jlgrimes wrote: ↑

05 May 2024

Some of it is unavoidable but I think Reason tends to go way overboard when creating a shiny new device that pretty much is just an improvement of an existing device or create multiple new devices that are basically just the same device with a few different parameters and/or samples.

I really believe that the Props devs are tinkerers whose skills are geared towards DSP. Total conjecture on my part but I think the shoe fits.