Reason RE:: Sequences polyphonic step sequencer, released

[xbitz]

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Sequences is a polyphonic step sequencer in the Rack. With Sequences you can play your favourite instruments directly from the rack. Featuring 32 steps, 8 patterns and tons of tweakability, Sequences offers a completely new way of making music in Reason.

Product details
With both Step and Realtime Recording Modes, you easily get your pattern up and running the way you want to. Features like step timing handles, and global scaling of velocity and note length, allows you to tweak your pattern in an instant. And with four different Playback Modes combined with Keyboard or CV Transpose, the creative possibilities are endless!

Step and Realtime Recording
4 Playback Modes (Looped, 1-Shot, Gated, Stepped)
32 Steps
8 Patterns
Global controls for Velocity, Note Length, Rate, Slide, and Shuffle
Keyboard, CV and Manual Transpose
Full note editing directly in the display, including selecting, deleting and copying notes
Velocity and Octave Edit Lanes
Reset and Auto Reset for evolving patterns
Tool Menu (Reset Notes Length, Notes Side By Side, Reverse, Duplicate)
Combine with other Players for endless possibilities
Great automation and Remote support
CV inputs for Reset, Trig, Transpose, Velocity and Note Length Scaling

In the meantime you can download the User Guide from Dropbox! https://www.dropbox.com/s/i3nt7cwm0wevq ... e.pdf?dl=1

https://www.propellerheads.com/shop/rac ... sequences/
https://forum.reasontalk.com/viewtopic. ... &t=7512075

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[kmonkey]

Wow...

[xbitz]

yepp, finally Reason also has ghosting/looping clip feature with this RE, definitely a warmly welcomed one

possibilities are endless ...

[antic604]

yepp, finally Reason also has ghosting feature

That's what Blocks are for, though.

[xbitz]

^^^ Blocks aren't/can't be used clip based, unfortunately

[antic604]

^^^ Blocks aren't/can't be used clip based, unfortunately

I get around this restriction by using several MIDI lanes for a single track in the same Block and then I just mute those I don't need at given point

But I agree this looks to be a great RE and I'll likely get it after testing.

[Psuper]

I'm genuinely curious why someone would not just use the typical MIDI lanes for this kind of stuff? Call me oldschool, but I find it very simple to make any midi sequences, loops, edits, etc I need in the lane itself without length restriction or complication -- been doing so for 15 years in Reason and all my years in other DAWs. Am I missing something?

[xbitz]

^^^ this is about the DRY(Don't Repeat Yourself) programmer principle, so we/I have a "bad" habit

The DRY principle is stated as "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system..."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself

and Reason breaks this rule with unnecessary clip duplications, in our case the "authoritative" representation goes to the device above, much more practical if any change has to be done only one place/one time

[antic604]

I'm genuinely curious why someone would not just use the typical MIDI lanes for this kind of stuff? Call me oldschool, but I find it very simple to make any midi sequences, loops, edits, etc I need in the lane itself without length restriction or complication -- been doing so for 15 years in Reason and all my years in other DAWs. Am I missing something?

Because lots of people like to make a change in one place that is propagated to other instances. Say you have a bass sequence consisting of four different 1-bar clips going:
1.1.2.1.1.1.2.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.4

If you only want to change the notes (or whatever other MIDI parameters) for clip #2, then you have to change it in 4 places. With Sequences, you change it once. In Reason you can sort of achieve that using Blocks, but it only works for the whole vertical slice, which is limiting - in this case you'd need to have 3 separate 4-bar Blocks.

If Reason had shared/linked/ghost clips feature, this wouldn't be needed (although still fun to have for Rack only music-making).

[Distorted Horizon]

yepp, finally Reason also has ghosting feature

That's what Blocks are for, though.

Ghost notes? Been there since v10..

[xbitz]

^^^ not notes but clips

[antic604]

yepp, finally Reason also has ghosting feature

That's what Blocks are for, though.

Ghost notes? Been there since v10..

Clips, though.

And what are ghost notes?

EDIT: oh, I thought you said "since v1" so now I know you meant multi-track MIDI editing. That's not ghost notes

[xbitz]

^^^ Step recorder knows ghost notes, it's the little ghost on right side


so maybe it will be a future addon

[reggie1979]

I'm genuinely curious why someone would not just use the typical MIDI lanes for this kind of stuff? Call me oldschool, but I find it very simple to make any midi sequences, loops, edits, etc I need in the lane itself without length restriction or complication -- been doing so for 15 years in Reason and all my years in other DAWs. Am I missing something?

Ditto.

[Psuper]

I'm still not quite certain it actually saves any time if that's the main draw, unless its just a preferred workflow. I can adjust a section of midi or multiple sections as quick if not quicker than adjusting the rack devices and propagating it to the sequence lanes like we do with drums and other devices. I really dislike blocks though the way its implemented so never use it, and have given it more than a fair shake attempting to like it.

Regardless I think I will trial it eventually after reading up more on it, if for nothing other than wanting to support RE developers and loving Resonans and Buds stuff in general, maybe there's something I'll like about it I'm not seeing.

Anyone know if the real time recording automatically quantize it, or can it be 'loose' within the sequence? I don't like being bound by discrete steps, another reason I prefer the sequencer lane workflow.