Skullture wrote:boobytrap wrote:[
Predator is my very First Re with Reason Essential 1.5. really hi class synth and I love it. also other synths too. because all of the developers putting there hard effort to make them. i respect that, coz i can't make them or I'm not rich enough to buy a real synthesizer. ( like mini moog or DX 7).
reason only i mention Antidote, it is the only one Re Like Sylenth1(one of top 5 vst).
i like to see native instruments, fabfiler, waves, like pro works in PH shop
Propellerheads strategy has led this platform to become sort of "hobbyistic". But that's OK, I like indie stuff. it has a different appeal and at least it works a lot more pleasant than an obnoxious VST system.
Some interesting comments there.
I think there are plenty of very high-end synthesizers in Reason now, providing different tools for different genres, and different methods of usage. Yes, there are still some gaps: something like Serum is definitely on many people's wish-list, but that's still not possible. But there's no such thing as "pro" or "amateur". Plenty of pro photographers have used Polaroid. Everything is a tool for someone, somewhere.
However, that's a really interesting point above about the "hobbyistic" nature of Reason.
A growing problem that Reason now has is that the preponderance of cheaply-sold IDT sample players posing as synths (typically named by picking a random element from the Periodic Table), which as one of my esteemed fellow-devs pointed out to me, seriously risks devaluing the RE marketplace, for a very small, and generally short-term gain. Now, someone else pointed out that of course not everyone can afford the more expensive synths, and that a $9 "synth" still offers something useful at the lower end of the market. That's a valid point and I cannot disagree with it from a consumer standpoint. But from a developer standpoint it's incredibly naive. There are diminishing returns there. A $9 synth can't be put on sale. So when the initial 6-week sales period is over, that device is pretty much dead in the water from an income perspective, so the dev has to repackage it in a new format and pretend it's a new thing for another nine bucks. But all those $9–19 synths stack up and take money out the market that some people might have saved for a better, dedicated synth with all the advantages that confers. People complain there are not enough high-end synths, yet in VST land, people happily pay £200 for an Arturia product; our own HS, for example, is easily a match in terms of quality for any softsynth Arturia ever produced, but try to charge that amount in Reason and it would be like getting pubic hairs ripped off, one curl at a time!
So the net result is that it becomes even harder to make a return on the kind of synths people actually want, as devs find they can't sell, and do a runner. Really, it's only RP who's stuck around from the wider DAW world, and at least tried to do some Reason-exclusive stuff as well.
So while IDT "synths" are tolerated—and not unexpected—it really wasn't what IDT was created for: it was devised primarily for
sampled instruments, but particularly to encourage Kontakt instrument conversions. The problem is that those who
have done Kontakt>IDT conversions have all been flawed by being rushed or through a general lack of understanding of the Reason format (just as I suspect I'd have the same issue going IDT>Kontakt
), got their pubes scorched on the forums and in the PropShop, and then seem to have done a runner. ProjectSAM's failure, for example, to set the correct graphic size (resulting in blurred text), then altering the instrument order, is a good case study.
edit: I must appreciate the amusing and remarkable irony of another being announced in the time it took me to write that missive!
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