did Reason change your "producer" life ?

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Posted by Trancevision on Jun-18-2004 21:43:

did Reason change your "producer" life ?

Although I sometimes made some critical remarks about certain points in Reason (...) I just wanted to say that it really changed my way of production.

No other software allowed me to create my Ideas that fast, to use all my samples in different formats and layer some really weird sounds to create some new sound.

What about you people here ? Did you start production with Reason ? Or did you change to Reason when you felt curious about its possibilities...?

Trancevision

Posted by Psy-T on Jun-18-2004 22:05:

my path was:
impulse tracker - rebirth - reason
and im not planning on moving to any other software anytime soon.

/me LOVES reason!!

Posted by FuzzyGreen on Jun-18-2004 22:34:

quote:
Originally posted by Psy-T
my path was:
impulse tracker - rebirth - reason
and im not planning on moving to any other software anytime soon.

/me LOVES reason!!

I love Reason too, it helped me finally concentrate on software instead of hardware synths.

My path was:

Alesis MMT-8 8 track hardware sequencer + Yamaha DX-7 ->
Korg 01/W FD hardware sequencer/synth + Mirage sampler ->
Opcode Vision + Samplecell + hardware ->
Cakewalk 5.0 + hardware synths ->
Acid + cakewalk pro audio 7 + hardware synths ->
Rebirth + Acid + cakewalk pro audio 8.0 + hardware synths ->
Reason 2.0 + Acid + Sonar 2.0 + Hardware synths ->

Now

Reason 2.0 + Acid + FLP + Sonar 2.0 + controller keyboard.

Posted by Massive84 on Jun-18-2004 22:38:

irony..the ones that were bashing Reason, now saying it changed their lifes.......

do i need to put a rolleyes smiley here?

Posted by FuzzyGreen on Jun-18-2004 22:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Massive84
irony..the ones that were bashing Reason, now saying it changed their lifes.......

do i need to put a rolleyes smiley here?

Care to show me the quote where I "bashed" Reason?

Posted by Massive84 on Jun-18-2004 23:33:

quote:
Originally posted by FuzzyGreen
Yes you could make your entire track in Reason, but you will lack a lot of creative possibilities.

Uh so wrong and untrue.

quote:
Originally posted by FuzzyGreen
1. Without a keyboard controller you WILL lack creative control over your music and will be extrelemely limited.

2. You are locked into reason's architecture. Not expandible, no plug ins, only 2 softsynths and samplers, missing lots of effects.

am not really missing anything and I don�t use a keyboard and I don�t feel powerless.
Reason missing a FEW effects maybe a better compressor and a separated chorus and flanger device.

quote:
Originally posted by FuzzyGreen
Dude, chill, I wasn't saying that. But to answer the original question you would need to have at the very least a keyboard controller if you want your music to sound somewhat human (velocity/aftertouch).

ya man reason missing alot and you need stuff with it to make it sound "human" but hey it sure changed your life!!! high five

Posted by FuzzyGreen on Jun-18-2004 23:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Massive84
Uh so wrong and untrue.

am not really missing anything and I don�t use a keyboard and I don�t feel powerless.
Reason missing a FEW effects maybe a better compressor and a separated chorus and flanger device.

ya man reason missing alot and you need stuff with it to make it sound "human" but hey it sure changed your life!!! high five

Geeze, who put that stick up your ass? It figures anyway, your sticking with this boards standard of asshole burnt out Europeans.

Yes, it is my opinion that reason alone is quite limiting. Maybe it's because I've used programs with FAR better sequencers and I find it extremely limiting to rely on the same 2 softsyths for everything. At the same time I still love the program, I use it in just about every one of my compositions, but only for a few tracks (channels) because it doesn't provide me with the sounds that I need. Also, YES your music will sound VERY robotic without a decent human input device. Maybe when you mature musically you will be capable of understanding this fact.

Posted by Massive84 on Jun-18-2004 23:42:

quote:
Originally posted by FuzzyGreen
Geeze, who put that stick up your ass? It figures anyway, your sticking with this boards standard of asshole burnt out Europeans.

ahaha that made me laugh so much.

fuzzyjoker?

Posted by Subtle on Jun-19-2004 00:53:

No, it didn`t change my producer life at all, once I started using Reason I thought, wow! what a powerful combination rewiring this to Cubase (being used to cubase) and using the Redrum, ...

well , I stopped doing this, cause there are way better ways to drums in Cubase alone

Posted by Thunder5 on Jun-19-2004 00:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Subtle
well , I stopped doing this, cause there are way better ways to drums in Cubase alone

Tell me more... Asking because I might buy Cubase for myself as a birthday present..