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I started off on a cracked version of Reason 2.0 and found it one of the most confusing programs for a newbie. Not to mention the sequencer itself has only got worse and worse with updates. The program is great, but for a new producer, I would never recommend it.
Even once you get the general gist of reason, there lies the overwhelming and infinite routing processes which can create OCD worse than vsts in a program like Cubase or Fl Studio. It took me about 6 months just to learn the sequencer and how everything worked together. Than I started pressing the tab button to take a look at the backside, and with in another year said "fuck it". Some of the routing capabilities in Reason ARE awesome, which is still why I go back to it. Not to mention I always had a hard on for redrum, subtractor and the matrix. It IS a nice sequencer, but I think its best to come back to it at a later time.
Most newbies I think wind up getting FL Studio, as the interface is extremely easy to understand, and it has a more "humorous" approach to it.. if you're into fruit and dancing animations. I still wound up staying with Fl Studio just because I know the program too well at this point. And its quicker than quick to get a basic beat down.
With that said I think newbies should start off on either FL or Live, and than play around with more serious sequencers like Logic or Cubase in later years. I've always wanted to move over to Logic, but I refuse to get a mac, so one day I will prob wind up veering towards cubase (when I get more hardware). But for now Fl Studio is really an awesome program.
I bought the XXL package, and than wound up downloading about 5 trillion cracked vsts.. and eventually my computer was raped by viruses and I had to format it.
I started clean and tried to limit my cracked vsts, but over another year had wound up redownloading most of them... and than boom there goes half my cpu power due to all the spyware and shit that virus programs suck at detecting.
I support cracks on one hand, but on another hand its not worth it for what they wind up doing to your computer.
I still use cracks, but have narrowed it down to only a few specific synths. I prob have about 10-15 cracks now in total. But even with that amount I still notice a slowing in processing power. So in another month or 2, I'm getting a 6 core processor (from a core2duo), 8gb of ram, and trying to limit myself to only 4-6 cracks.
I notice NO MATTER WHERE you get them from, or how many different anti-v programs you use to scan the cracks, they ALWAYS wind up slowing down your computer.
I need speed more than I need certain vsts, so its a matter of reaching that balance I guess.
In the long run there are certain synths I use a lot that I plan on buying, like trillian and nexus, but for now I only own a few cheap ones, like Z3ta and vanguard. And eventually I need to buy a few waves plugins too. But the longer I produce the more I try to buy shit basically. In another year or 2 I'd like to have no cracks at all on my pc, as my computer runs a thousand times better w/out them.
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