Freaking pissed off at Reason

[keyman_sam]

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What have they done?

R7. It used to be good believe it or not.


Update: My problem is arming multiple midi tracks without a combinator. i.e. recording several instruments using one keyboard. Apparently, this feature which has existed since the 90s, is not possible with the latest Reason.

[keyman_sam]

Turns out when I imported a song from R3 or something, the combinator arm button went missing.

I don't know man. I'm sincerely disappointed at how bloated Reason feels. It used to be soooo easy to use. How'd they mess it up?

[Nielzie]

Perhaps a downgrade would be an idea? I'm still at 6.01, on Windows 8 x64. Is 64-bit, stable, don't need RE's so for me it's enough

[ObsoleteAcc99]

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[mothergarage]

What have they done?

Is there a humanly-possible way of having an audio track and midi track armed at the same time?

Can I sing and play a concert grand patch at the same time? Can someone please show how?

Fking complicated it is now.

R7. It used to be good believe it or not.

Shift+Click the record button of the tracks.

[Ingonator]

What have they done?

Is there a humanly-possible way of having an audio track and midi track armed at the same time?

Can I sing and play a concert grand patch at the same time? Can someone please show how?

Fking complicated it is now.

R7. It used to be good believe it or not.

Shift+Click the record button of the tracks.

Seems comparable to Live 9 where you have to use Ctrl+Click (Ctrl = "Strg" on germany keyboard) with the record buttons to record multiple tracks.


Ingo

[keyman_sam]

What have they done?

Is there a humanly-possible way of having an audio track and midi track armed at the same time?

Can I sing and play a concert grand patch at the same time? Can someone please show how?

Fking complicated it is now.

R7. It used to be good believe it or not.

Shift+Click the record button of the tracks.

Seems comparable to Live 9 where you have to use Ctrl+Click (Ctrl = "Strg" on germany keyboard) with the record buttons to record multiple tracks.


Ingo

Thanks, but I've found that my problem is with arming multiple midi tracks. Apparently you need to use a combinator for anything other than a single device.

However, I do like the nice presets and the quick usable sounds it has.

[spaceman]

Whatever you do, DON'T READ THE f**king MANUAL!
God forbid.

[quayquay17]

Whatever you do, DON'T READ THE f**king MANUAL!

-spaceman

[keyman_sam]

Whatever you do, DON'T READ THE f**king MANUAL!
God forbid.

Straight from the manual page 124:

Only one note lane on one instrument track can have Record Enable active at a time, unless you have locked
additional MIDI keyboard controllers to specific instrument devices in the rack (see "Locking a surface" in the
Remote chapter). If you only have one MIDI keyboard controller (assigned as Master Keyboard), you can only
record notes on one note lane at a time (see "Setting Master Keyboard Input").

[EvilDragon]

Yep, that is seriously limiting. So let's say I have a multitimbral controller with split zones, zone 1 sending channel 1 (say, my pad sound), zone 2 sending channel 2 (which I routed to control a vocoder, for example). I can't do it in Reason (and no, Combinators are not a solution here). Very stupid design decision, Props.

[keyman_sam]

Yep, that is seriously limiting. So let's say I have a multitimbral controller with split zones, zone 1 sending channel 1 (say, my pad sound), zone 2 sending channel 2 (which I routed to control a vocoder, for example). I can't do it in Reason (and no, Combinators are not a solution here). Very stupid design decision, Props.

Finally someone who shares my pain.

Is there a valid reason any audio company, especially someone like Props, would do this? Stability issues or what?

[do_androids_dream]

hmm a bit too cynical of a comment actually...