Reason fanboy's thread

[IncarnateX]

Check out some iPad 2 Techno at:

http://soundcloud.com/incarnatex

Your stuff sounds good - it's a similar genre to what I work in. What apps are you using on your iPad to compose this? Record the vocals? What are you using for mixdown?

I have an iPad (new), but I mostly use it with TouchOSC and ReTouch Control to control Reason.

You are most kind Sir I have a thread in the music cafe with some info on how it was made.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... highlight=

If you have specific questions , I'll gladly answer them there.

Cheers

[leggie]

I still have my reason 1.0 CD from f**k knows how along ago complete with serial ! upgraded to 3 something then sold the lot of it as i had a VST fixation! imagine that! sadly i had to say goodbye for [no VST integration] but i missed the Reason editor sooo much ive never got over it.

[drloop]

Well I am a Reason fanboy, yes I am.

Here is my latest work made with Reason, guitarpop with soft vocals...
http://soundcloud.com/third-machine

[GregHPSon]

I am a proud Reason user since 2008 & I set out to use Pro Tools at first but tried out Reason Adapted that came packaged with my M-Box & I was instantly making music like I used to on my ASR-10. No reading manuals or opening up layers & layers of pages not knowing what they would do or what I was doing. I made song after song so fluidly with reason that I quickly purchased the Reason 4 upgrade & eventually deleted PT off of my computer.

I am not saying that everything else sucks, Reason works for me & I will always use it. In 2010 I purchased Logic 9 with the intent of Rewiring Reason & opening up to plug-ins to improve my craft, well that didn't work out so well for me & I have since sold Logic with the announcement & beta testing of Reason 6.5 (Rack Extensions).

The future is bright folks!!!

[IDM Superstar]

I've hated Reason for about 10 years. Haha, why would anyone use a DAW without VST plugins? Scoffed at it in classes and at producers who used it.

Then, this year it just hit me. All plugins are garbage, all DAWs are trash, everything is a horrible waste of time. Reason's "in the box" approach of limiting your options makes it an instrument of genuine experimentation. While playing Pokemon with plugins has been a creativity destroying waste of time and life for me.

I'll never use Reason because I've found another really simple host that fits my needs, but I now really appreciate what it is, and wish I had settled down with something like Reason years ago.

I've wasted years chasing spectral morphing this, generative that, additive resynthesized something or other, and in the end I feel like I can do more with the basic lame ass built in FX packages that come with Renoise, Energy XT, etc, than I can with these ridiculous gaudy interfaces made by IDM failures cashing in on some dad-step bullshit.

Interface and workflow above everything. I'm done with multiple windows of clashing design language, rewired monstrosities, etc. As long as your host can make a sound, any kind of peep, you'll be able to shape it into something of your own.

[V0RT3X]

I've hated Reason for about 10 years. Haha, why would anyone use a DAW without VST plugins? Scoffed at it in classes and at producers who used it.

Then, this year it just hit me. All plugins are garbage, all DAWs are trash, everything is a horrible waste of time. Reason's "in the box" approach of limiting your options makes it an instrument of genuine experimentation. While playing Pokemon with plugins has been a creativity destroying waste of time and life for me.

I'll never use Reason because I've found another really simple host that fits my needs, but I now really appreciate what it is, and wish I had settled down with something like Reason years ago.

I've wasted years chasing spectral morphing this, generative that, additive resynthesized something or other, and in the end I feel like I can do more with the basic lame ass built in FX packages that come with Renoise, Energy XT, etc, than I can with these ridiculous gaudy interfaces made by IDM failures cashing in on some dad-step bullshit.

Interface and workflow above everything. I'm done with multiple windows of clashing design language, rewired monstrosities, etc. As long as your host can make a sound, any kind of peep, you'll be able to shape it into something of your own.

I agree with this insight of yours.

Hey got a link to your music?

[V0RT3X]

This was more of a electronic cinematic style track for a short film project I was working on.

It uses Reason 6 100%

http://soundcloud.com/vortex1-1/esrt

[trimph1]

This was more of a electronic cinematic style track for a short film project I was working on.

It uses Reason 6 100%

http://soundcloud.com/vortex1-1/esrt

This makes me want to see the project. Very well done!!

[IDM Superstar]

I agree with this insight of yours.

Hey got a link to your music?

Nothing worth posting.

The thing is, some people out there are so into it that they can take a different piece of hardware or software every other day and do something new. One day they'll be on an MPC and a Kyma and the next they'll be digging in Reaktor or CSound or something. I can't do that.

To focus on a sound I have to have a DAW I can call home. And I prefer a cabin in the woods where I can look around and count every log at a glance rather than some pirated hyper mansion highrise penthouse with 10 chefs and a helipad in the middle of a jacuzi.

I love how Reason lets you be as simple as you want to be. Want to bang out a 2 note melody on a drum machine with a few effects? Go ahead, save it and call it finished. You won't even have to look at anything else.

[V0RT3X]

This was more of a electronic cinematic style track for a short film project I was working on.

It uses Reason 6 100%

http://soundcloud.com/vortex1-1/esrt

This makes me want to see the project. Very well done!!

It was a psychological horror short I was making, but we scrapped it and lost the footage in a HD failure unfortunately. I kind of miss making short films, Im gonna have to get back into that at some point.

Final Cut Pro looks good but I've heard how it's not as good as it used to be.

Below is another track I made 100% with Reason and Ableton Live for the sequencing

http://soundcloud.com/vortex1-1/plotting

[drez]

http://soundcloud.com/dreznicek/getbackup

Not done in Reason. Done on my iPhone with Nanostudio while traveling. Plan on moving it to Reason to expand.

[headquest]

Nice one drez - love the way it develops!

Seems to be your only track on SC - do you have any of your Reason tracks somewhere?

[drez]

Nice one drez - love the way it develops!

Seems to be your only track on SC - do you have any of your Reason tracks somewhere?

I'll see if I can render some.

My whole issue in my musical life is not finishing tunes. I have soooo many loops. My issue is continuity of creativity: I work a ton, 2 kids, work, ...my life is a loop, really.

So, I'm just trying to get back into writing again after a super long hiatus. Like years. So I've found that I can write on Nano anywhere. At softball practice, on the plane, when I have a few minutes. My "plan" is to transfer that via MIDI and wav exports to Reason to expand on the sketch.

Last night I took a couple loops that I had done in Nano, exported, and then imported in Reason. It worked very well! Hopefully this workflow will support my lifestyle while letting the creative side out when it get's a chance

Thanks for the listen! BTW, you are truly a gifted pianist. Your progressions are wonderful and thankfully not formulaic. All your tunes are pleasant surprises throughout!

[headquest]

That's really gracious of you drez, and I appreciate you listening to my music ... Thanks for the compliments!

Our lives aren't so different - wife/two children/busy working life. I'm really impressed and pleased to see how nanostudio has opened things up for you to complete that track, and look forward to hearing the next one

Someday quite soon I need to get something similar. A few years back I made complete complex tracks, but these days I rarely get time to do more than five-minute piano improvisations between other stuff! I will check out nanostudio for sure. Thanks again

[IncarnateX]

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