Is Project 5 good for writing while travelling
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- KVRist
- 457 posts since 14 Aug, 2001
But most of the VST hosts mentioned in this thread have freeze, so Reason's CPU efficiency is somewhat less of an argument in it's favour than it used to be. The sequencer is a big negative against Reason when compared to pretty much all the other sequencers that are out there...quite why the Props haven't seen fit to upgrade this in 3 major updates (and around 4 years?) is beyond me.
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- KVRAF
- 2217 posts since 15 Jul, 2003
i'd say for creating and working through audio ideas Live 5 is still the way to go. For working through the same sort of ideas for midi I'd say P5 is the way to go.
with P5 I sometimes record into a track and that creates a pattern, and goes on as long as you play in (as one might hope) -- within the pattern editor it's often easier to step record. I think as I've noted once that pattern is in place it can be cleaned up, duped and modified and copied into diffrent tracks to generate pads, melody and bass line.
P5 v2 can record only one stereo or two mono channels of audio. But one very cool thing is for a given track start/stop positions the host will loop and create a new audio layer on every iteration -- till you get it just right. With midi it goes back and records over the layer added (if I remember right)
then there's the whole Groove Matrix thing which is sort of Live like -- but my feeling is within P5 its still focusd on the composition process and not as suitable for Live' live performance orientation. afaik Live is also more feature rich for editing audio once recorded
with P5 I sometimes record into a track and that creates a pattern, and goes on as long as you play in (as one might hope) -- within the pattern editor it's often easier to step record. I think as I've noted once that pattern is in place it can be cleaned up, duped and modified and copied into diffrent tracks to generate pads, melody and bass line.
P5 v2 can record only one stereo or two mono channels of audio. But one very cool thing is for a given track start/stop positions the host will loop and create a new audio layer on every iteration -- till you get it just right. With midi it goes back and records over the layer added (if I remember right)
then there's the whole Groove Matrix thing which is sort of Live like -- but my feeling is within P5 its still focusd on the composition process and not as suitable for Live' live performance orientation. afaik Live is also more feature rich for editing audio once recorded