Reason Studios 13.3

[jjpscott01]

As powerful as Reason is as a collection of excellent devices, at this point I'd say $199 is a steal. I actually use it as my main DAW but even using it along side something like Studio One it gives you everything you'd ever need instrument or effect wise. For me there isn't another software that begs me to make music like Reason does whether your using as a standalone DAW or as a massive collection of music making toys and tools for use in another software.

[BrokenTrance]

Imagen they dump vst integration
Imagen they introduce clip launch

[Grumbleweed]

I didn't think I'd update to Reason 13, but the bargainous upgrade price I got made it a no-brainer. £69 is going back to the upgrade price of long ago!
I'm not a fan of the new browser though .

Grum.

[Trancer]

Although this purchase wasn't planned at all, I plan to buy Reason 13 and Play effects.

What interests me is that it can be used as a VST rack in a DAW.

Hence the appeal for me: creative tools all in a single rack.

I'm also taking advantage of the promotion, which really helped me decide to buy it.

[TheMaestro]

I didn't think I'd update to Reason 13, but the bargainous upgrade price I got made it a no-brainer. £69 is going back to the upgrade price of long ago!
I'm not a fan of the new browser though .

Grum.

Didn't they add the old browser as an option now in v13.3?

[jjpscott01]

Yes the old docked browser is now an option so you can have it either way you like it. This came in an update a while ago.

[Grumbleweed]

Yes the old docked browser is now an option so you can have it either way you like it. This came in an update a while ago.

It wasn't where it sat, it was that I couldn't see any Reason devices! I found the tab to show the devices and things are groovy now

Grum.

[kidslow]

I still keep Reason 11 Intro on an older computer, when I want to play around. Upgrade pricing for Reason 13 is finally compelling enough to get my attention, having accumulated a number of REs over the years that I wouldn't mind to continue using.

But I recall when I installed 11 that there was no ability to locate the content anywhere but the root drive partition (on Mac in /Library). When I check the v13 docs, I see:

6.5 GB free system disk space required, plus 8 GB for optional content (and another 12 GB if you are using Reason+). Additionally, the program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space

Helpful, but doesn't really say if I can install the optional content on a secondary disk. That'd be good enough for me. Kontakt handles this exactly how I would expect and works just fine in such a configuration.

Unclear if I can even do it "unofficially" with symlinks?

This nugget from the docs suggests maybe some things can be stored in the user folders, which theoretically could be on an external drive, although not every vendor even understands that.

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Optional REs

I see there is a preference "Folders" in the documentation, but seems limited to VST folders and Scratch Disk. Nothing about secondary content.

So what is it? Have they improved the configurability so that some content can be stored on external drives or is all still just dumped into the system library?

[Trancit]

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Unclear if I can even do it "unofficially" with symlinks?

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I can´t tell if a mac is smart enough for that but on Windows symlinks always work no matter what you want to symlink for any programm.

Everything I have installed on my machine uses just 25 gigs of my system drive (and already 24 gigs just from Windows) because I have outsourced everything via symlinks to other drives.

No matter what plugins, DAWs or other programms...everything works fine and is able to access needed data via symlinks.

This way i keep my system drive backup very small and can easily restore from backup everything in just 2-3 minutes if I need to.

[starflakeprj]

You can do it with symlinks on MacOS as well. Works well with Reason Rack Extensions.

[kidslow]

I assumed it would work with symlinks, but you never know. It's not an obscene amount of space required, but when I sourced my current MacBook, the internal SSD was under-spec'ced to economize.

Checking to see what my unknown space hogs are, and it's mostly Adobe, which is unfortunately necessary ... for now. Then I checked to see the cost of a new computer. Symlinks it shall be.