For it to be financially viable, the hourly rate would have to be pretty high.
Suppose the typical user spent $5/month on average over the years, and it was priced so that 2 hours of daily use would add up to $5/month. In that case, you'd it would cost $0.08 per hour.
But ... we're still talking about trying to reach people who aren't willing to spend $5/month.
Hourly pricing just doesn't make market sense unless it's for one-off use. And to make this viable, it would have to be targeting one-off uses of Reason at a premium rate (maybe around $0.50-$1/hr).
It's just not a useful market to serve or usage pattern to cater for at these price points.
Besides, you'll soon have people asking for it to be priced by the minute, and then the second
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