joeyluck wrote: ↑30 Nov 2020
DecafDreams wrote: ↑30 Nov 2020
I've adopted this approach too. It's a shame UJAM have abandoned doing REs. I'm finding Friktion very powerful for Strings though so am not too fussed at missing out on this.
They have stated that they haven't abandoned the RE format and would like to revisit it at some point. They mentioned that they simply shifted focus to VST/etc.
They have been putting out stuff at a fairly high frequency. Developing for RE in tandem would slow that down a bit and cost a little more in hours. There's no denying VST/AU is a bigger market. I think the smart thing to do is to get the products out to the larger market faster, see what's most popular, and then revisit the RE format with the greatest hits (if not all of them).
If there's two developers that Reason Studios need to listen to on bringing the RE SDK up to scratch, it's UJAM and Sonic Charge.
Both of these developers have got amazing VSTs out that it turns out couldn't have been faithfully ported to RE due to limitations with the format.
Permut8 should have been an all-star RE, but Reason Studios missed a killer opportunity so we're left with only Echobode and Bitspeek natively.
Likewise the A-List REs showed how powerful the concept could be of these kind of auto-accompaniment instruments, but when the RE format lacked the ability to do drag and drop of MIDI within the GUI to the sequencer, the subsequent Virtual Instrument and Beatmaker products were made VST only.
I know we have VST support now, but floating windows are just not the same as native rack support.