I'll say it again, (and I'll be ignored again) ....ghettosynth wrote:incubus wrote:But people have made music perfectly fine w/o this (snotty tone)machinesworking wrote:Well said.superscan wrote:Please take the ReWire tech you developed, and enable Reason to leverage it's full capability and/or extend the ReWire tech more. Just like Ableton Link, the industry will quickly adopt and leverage great tech. You have that opportunity.
Developing Rewire into the modern era, with both Reason and the other DAW hosting VST, they will gain sales, no doubt about that.
As for "the modern era" they won't. VST isn't enough of an excuse to use it. What was great about reason was the fast self-contained music making experience. VST's = more crashing and cpu issues. They are still not optimized well any longer as it is. Not hard to get crackles and for the engine to quit because if you go over 3 bars in the meter, that's more than it can handle for a huge portion of users.
Well, it damn sure is for me! I much prefer reason for getting my dance tunes off the ground. I still prefer Cubase and Reaper for everything else that isn't so pattern oriented and pretty much all mixing and mastering, but this is going to be great for me.
Hosts are so 2007. Now, you mentioned reaper and yeah, it's bad-ass. It's stable, it does a ton and it's the best CPU efficiency BAR NONE. (by a lot actually) But it's a mess unless you are the tweak head of tweak heads, and even then, it's not quite right. By the time I figure out what I want, I'm bored and don't feel like making music anymore.
Bitwig is great. I use it every day. I could never do a project in it though. Too remedial in many aspects, but I like it.
And then reason rounds out my DAW's. It was my A #1 for a long time, but the performance "issues"* and lack of workflow improvements have left me cold.
I'm interested in WORKFLOW ENHANCEMENTS more than anything else with any host. ARA? PWEWY! Panning of midi notes? (for built in synths) SPIT!
Cpu optimization, workflow, being able to get from point a to b easier. Everything is so wrapped up in nonsense it seems to me.
*Before some dinglberry starts giving me a rough time, it's not dreadful but considering that many people start experiencing drop outs with 3 or more bars, it's not me. Sorry, my expectations are to hit max bars before that happens. Don't shoot the messenger, look at that one stress-test. Almost NOBODY gets good results with it, even with a good computer.