I'm expanding on an earlier review.......
the sequencer is OK...limited but fine for most electronic work. If it lacks...please tell people where...rather than saying it just sucks.
regarding RAM usage....It's very efficient...CPU use...the same. It's very stable & effiecient. Try running anything like Cubase or Pro-tools on any old PC and see how it goes after a while......hit and miss. Yet you can throw Reason on nearly ANY computer...and it still runs well.
"Ok little kiddies. If you know your shit than you will admit that Reason is lacking in sound quality no matter what.".
I hope that's not who i think it is! Reasons synths aren't the fattest in the world...but lacking sound quality? That's so vague! How exactly is it lacking in sound quality? We have sampled many different synths into Reason....Virus...Micro Q, Juno...jupiter..MS20 etc etc... and we have gotten 99% excellent results. We use VST filters and FX to get the sound similar to the h'ware version.... anyone with a decent sound source can get Reason sounding similar to that source. High Quality interpolation set's all samplers to a higher rate...fine for the work I do.
So many people grab a demo or a crack of this program....and run a few presets in it...hoping to get a great sound. This program starts to come into its own when you start adding your own WAV's / AIFF's and Re-wiring it to another App, which i'm sure some of you do.
Reason is freakin cheap for what it does.....if your ready to go further than it can provide...and want to up the ante on thje budget....it's MADE to be rewired...doing which completely negates most of the so-called 'negatives' like the sequencer and EQ's & filters (which IMO are OK...not fab).
Anyone telling us it lacks in sound quality...say how!!!! I hear it said sometimes...but I use and TEACH the program everyday @ SAE!!!!! I hear Protools,Cubase, Logic and Reason being used on a daily basis , and i go home to Cubase SX and Reason 2.5...and I'm telling you guys if you think the sound quality has issues....then I'd appreciate you saying where and how.
I've heard SHIT come out of ALL the above programs...and I've heard some pretty amazing stuff also come out of the above group........
An artist called Motion Worker has just released an amazing CD done entirely in Reason.....there is NO hint on the whole CD that it was done with Reason........ a good artist who wants to can allow the medium used to create the art to become invisible.
The Prodigy is using Reason then dumping it to protools....this is an act that has been around since b4 i started (and finished) raving....and they have been thru the WORKS in terms equipment useage. They say the same thing many people see:
that Reason is so popular not because it REPLACES hardware (which is really a marketing ploy by Props)...but because it offers a FRESH and NEW perspective on writing music that still fits perfectly for those who either are old gear gurus... or have never layed hands on a synth in their life! It's very adaptable.
Don't ever let anyone tell you something like this can or cannot replace hardware...or be used professionally.
It, along with other bits and pieces HAS replaced h'ware for me and a colleague or two,,,in the sense that we still use Hware to sample.....but Reason and Cubase/Logic pretty much do the rest!
i'm not going to score as i already have.
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