If you like Reason's instruments but need a good host, rewire it to Acid pro 7.

Acid rewires to Reason without any problem and treats the progam like it's own. Acid even allows you to automate Reason's device parameters within the program (so you can draw curves on top of the midi).

Other than that, I would try samplitude/reason together.


Personally, I haven't produced for months. I'm waiting to buy a good pair of headphones (mine's been broken since december lol). But when I do get them, I'm only going to use:

1)Sony Acid Pro 7
2)Propellerhead Reason 4
3)Waves Plugins
4)Lots of samples

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Originally posted by Beatflux There's a lot of little things you can do to improve the sound quality. -Change the internal recording to 32 bit -Don't warp unless you don't mind the grit -Turn off "fade" in clip view, introduces a 4 ms fade -Enable Hi-Q mode in the clip view -Adding groove in Ableton 7 does this by warping the track -Right click the top of EQ8 box and enable Hi-Quality Mode -Reverb has three options for it's quality

Ok, thanks for clearing me up.

Hey Robby - I started to learn Ableton (Live 8) two days ago and figured that it would take me all weekend to get comfortable with it. I'm coming from a Sonar/Cubase/Project5 (similar to Live in many respects). I even started a thread:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...0&forumid=48&s=

It turns out that after only a few hours with it, I knew it well enough to create a song. Like others have said, it's dead simple to use. The videos that atxbigballer1 pointed out are great and there are a ton of other vids on youtube that will answer most of your questions as you move from the basics (i.e., getting audio/MIDI into Live) to your everyday production techniques.

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Originally posted by SGL If you like Reason's instruments but need a good host, rewire it to Acid pro 7.

interesting, i love reason but liked to do the mixdown elsewhere.

I moved from FL to Ableton myself. I have been using Ableton for about 8 months and had used FL for 5 years.

But honestly i tried pretty much every DAW out there that works with Windows for at least a week or two. I like a workflow that allows me to get my ideas out quickly and is not overcomplicated with menus and things like "oh i have to go through 4 different actions just to get this one small change or effect." Ableton is the one that i feel lets me get my ideas out the fastest and most efficiently.

People say there's sound quality problems with Ableton but I disagree. As long as you set it up right and use the right warp modes and settings, you will not have problems with the sound at all.

Some of these solutions were stated above in a previous post.

Just my 2 cents.

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Originally posted by palm interesting, i love reason but liked to do the mixdown elsewhere.

you won't be disappointed. It's the best rewire host I've ever used for Reason 4. There's another good host called Mackie Tracktion 3. Workflow is super-fast on that, but it's got shit load of bugs.

If you rewire reason to acid, to automate...right click on the midi track you create for say for example a 'thor'...then you click 'properties' i believe and you'll see the automation parameters.

It's dead simple to use once you figure it out & quite intuitive.

you can rewire to ableton too...

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i tried traction once and i loled actualy. reminded me of when i made tracks on PS1 haha. but it has probably become better. Right now I have Reason 4, Live 7 LE (which doesnt allow rewire) and Logic Express 8. Should do for a while, might upgrade Live and Logic once i get more money and knowledge. Dont want to get into any other software right now (well maybe dj software).

I'm basically in the same situation as you are. I recently tried out Ableton and I really liked it, it wasn't hard to learn and it was great to no longer make patterns. That's probably what I liked best about it. It is a bit intimidating to leave FL when I think about having to learn a new way of doing everything but i think that it's for the best. Like you, it has suddenly become a hassle for me to do anything in FL, I just can't get motivated to do anything worthwhile. I'll be getting my first (well... second, sort of) MIDI controller in a week or so and from then on I think I'll be switching to Ableton for good.

u know u can make your loops in FL and throw them in LIVE!

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Originally posted by atxbigballer1 u know u can make your loops in FL and throw them in LIVE!

This man speaks the truth. I make perc loops in FL then shoot them over to Live sometimes.

Getting the best of both worlds really.