Reason Studios is led by knuckleheads

[xmstkvr]

The people at Reason Studios are complete amateurs and frauds. Still, after everything in 2026, they didn't fix that subscription from broswer. Are you guys normal? If anyone from Reason Studio or LANDr is reading this - shame on you.

Btw this is the latest version of Reason Studio, downloaded today. Of course, this has happened before in v13. I haven't opened this piece of software crap in months. Today I actually said to myself "let me see what they done in half year". And of course ss soon as I start, I can't even work.


1. I open Reason. I will add a couple of instruments. I open the famous "Browser". and I attach it to the left side so that it at least behaves like the previous browser from v12 (for which they also promoted the revolutionary workflow).

2. Resize my browser so that I can actually see the names of the folders. God forbid.



3. I save the project. I close Reason.

4. I open Reason. Btw Reason is set to open my last project. And it opens fine. I then open the browser, and this is what awaits me. The browser does not remember the size at all.



All this time, those knuckleheads from Reason expect me to resize the browser to a usable width every time I start Reason.

Fantastic fools. If only I could sell this software crap. I am done with this crap.

[eLawnMust]

Someone who sees with clarity...

After visiting a Soothsayer over 20 years ago he gave me a grim foreboding "Thou shalt stick with Reason 3.0.4 forever more, forever more lest pain & pestilence overshadow your life for all time, FOR ALL TIME!!"

So keeping with the foreboding I have stayed with Reason 3... That was back when Propellerhead were good people, didn't take long after that for changes though...

[LaLivre]

It is obvious that they don't use their own software for music production on a daily/weekly basis. If they did, they would have noticed that a mixer in a dark theme should also be dark or that e.g. midi note chase is an indispensable time saver.

They are not able to realize things like the browser issues described in the first post. They just don't use Reason that often, so they can't understand the need for QOL features in music production.

Who even knows if those guys in the upper positions are into music production at all.

[Pepin]

Make a change to the actual content of the song, and the new window layout will save. Window layout changes alone won't "dirty" the song file. I just tried it, and the browser size did get saved in my case.

[jens]

Make a change to the actual content of the song, and the new window layout will save. Window layout changes alone won't "dirty" the song file. I just tried it, and the browser size did get saved in my case.

This is KVR - most folks on here don't use DAWs to actually make music...

[CapnLockheed]

This is KVR - most folks on here don't use DAWs to actually make music...

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[sellyoursoul]

This is KVR - most folks on here don't use DAWs to actually make music...

Who has time to make music with all the exciting dramas going on to keep up with?

[eLawnMust]

Well, I remember when Reason 4 came out it was a min of 512 MB RAM which was double of Reason 3 & Reason 3 was quadruple of any earlier versions (due to combinator) yup, 2.5 & down was just 64 MB RAM minimum... All I had then was 512 but I was turned off by those 'device browser wings' which were an idiotic & unnecessary addition & no longer can Reason be used on an 800x600 screen either... Hell I still use Reason 3 on a 1000x600 netbook...
When they introduced track bouncing later on I knew they had 'lost it'... You never ever needed it in early versions because Reason's efficiency was so high nothing could touch it or even close...
This is above & beyond the Soothsayer warning...

[jens]

Ah, the good old days...

[xmstkvr]

Make a change to the actual content of the song, and the new window layout will save. Window layout changes alone won't "dirty" the song file. I just tried it, and the browser size did get saved in my case.

What are you implying, genius, together with your friend Jens, who seems to be calling for another ban in a series of bans on KVR?

In your wise knowledge of Reason, what is considered "content", what magical thing do I have to do to make my browser remember size?

Can't you see in my screenshot that I uploaded my custom patch to Reason Redrum and that I added 10 individual audio channels and routed cables from Redrum to each one (I think it would be easy for a beginner to guess).

Is adding your own patch within the Reason session and custom cables and routing not considered content, tell me genius?

Don't just tell me that I have to do specific steps to save the window setting somehow, and that I have to do it in every song because that's a solution for idiots.

[xmstkvr]

Ah, the good old days...

Here is a biscuit for you and your wisdom

[Pepin]

Make a change to the actual content of the song, and the new window layout will save. Window layout changes alone won't "dirty" the song file. I just tried it, and the browser size did get saved in my case.

What are you implying, genius, together with your friend Jens, who seems to be calling for another ban in a series of bans on KVR?

In your wise knowledge of Reason, what is considered "content", what magical thing do I have to do to make my browser remember size?

Can't you see in my screenshot that I uploaded my custom patch to Reason Redrum and that I added 10 individual audio channels and routed cables from Redrum to each one (I think it would be easy for a beginner to guess).

Is adding your own patch within the Reason session and custom cables and routing not considered content, tell me genius?

Don't just tell me that I have to do specific steps to save the window setting somehow, and that I have to do it in every song because that's a solution for idiots.

By content, I mean anything that writes to the undo history and displays unsaved changes (asterisk by the file name). If you resize the browser before making those changes instead of after, does it still not remember? If I do this, there is no special "trick" to make it work on my machine. It always saves.

I would also note that it's not typical for the left sidebar of the browser to be so narrowly collapsed by default in an empty song file, so that already indicates something strange going on. Are you using a particularly small screen resolution (sub-1080p)? Did you initially start with an empty song file or with a template created using an older version of Reason 13? Those are the types of questions you could ask if earnestly trying to solve the problem.

I overlooked your initial hostility and tried to help, which was a mistake. Good luck.

[sellyoursoul]

Looks like a usability bug that could probably be addressed pretty easily. I wouldn't describe anyone from Reason Studios as a knucklehead for it. It will likely get fixed if it is reported. Reason isn't the most featureful daw, but it generally is low on bugs and solid at what it does offer up. I never really worry about anything in Reason behaving erratic, not working, or crashing. It generally just works as expected. Obviously this browser issue is an exception to that.

[jens]

Don't just tell me that I have to do specific steps to save the window setting somehow, and that I have to do it in every song because that's a solution for idiots.

No, you don't have to. Whenever you add anything (a track, a plugin, etc.) this will result in a saveable change of the project-file. If this doesn't save the browser-settings in your case, then that is a bug that is specific to your system.

So that's a whole thread of entirely unwarranted vitriol over some probably relatively rare bug.

Instead of starting this thread and insulting basically everyone (including those who wanted to help you), you could have simply filed a bug-report.

(I don't think insulting the developers is likely to have helped your case much though.)

[VariKusBrainZ]

Knucklehead is more fitting than Propellerhead