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Reason 3 (pg. 6)
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| pnutz409 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJMaytag
CRACKER!! |
LOL!! I admitted it earlier but yeah... I've been buying all the tutorials and everything for reason and have purchased R3. Just waiting for it to come in. I think the place I bought it doesn't import the european version. So i have to wait for a little bit longer... |
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| TonyZ |
Reason 3.0 user for about 7 days now and I say it's an improvement over the 2.5 release.
Things I noticed right away:
1) You have to turn off the soft clipping on the MClass limiter to see how much you're actually clipping by for the Mastering Suite, then reduce the volumes until you kiss the redline. Otherwise you get that ducking effect that totally s your sound up (which is probably why the n00bs are crying "bad sound quality!")
2) The MClass stuff isn't as useful as I thought it would be, although it does give a better representation of what the final song will sound like. (real men use external mastering suites)
3) Default Combinator patches are way too wild for me (except the Sonar...try that! :D) so I managed to create the normal trance "instruments" in Combinators with all the effects and everything. The ability to save entire instruments/effects in the Combi. patch is awesome.
4) No more muting through the mixer. OMG. Sequencer much improved.
I thought they would have added Tempo change capability (so you could slow to a crawl) but it still has to be done manually (usually I just create the slow part and sample it with the NN19 then paint that onto the main track anyway...)
Other than that it's the exact same thing so there's not much learning curve if you're comfy with 2.5. Pretty expensive for a minor upgrade though. |
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| MegaMan |
| respects to what you said man, and to you as well |
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| Airbase |
| quote: | Originally posted by TonyZ
4) No more muting through the mixer. OMG. Sequencer much improved.
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Hum, I've never muted anything on a mixer before, what is it about the sequencer that you find so much better than before that makes you not need to mute the mixer? The solo and mute things where there in Reason 1, 2 and 2.5 as well. |
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| teknasia |
you have to play with it for about a couple of hours before you start to notice the big differences!
The first hour I worked with it I didn't even used the new tools! But then I gained some courage and forced myself to learn how those new tools work, and I must say: they are awesome! :)
The filebrowser is also improved but I really liked the soundlocations in R2.5.. |
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| Airbase |
| quote: | Originally posted by Massive84
lol *blushes*
Combinator..well what i need that for? to layer sounds? i can do that without it. And i hardly layer tbh.
If i wanne layer samples, i can use the NN-XT.
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Im a bit amused about the fact that you are judging on the new things of Reason 3 without even having it tried out. The Combinator does so much more than just layer sounds. First of all its an amazing time saver when you have patches you usually start out from. The neater things about the Combinator is however the rotary controls and the Button Switches, which you can connect to as many of your units in the rack as you want. you can make one rotary to turn the cutoff up on one unit, while it turns it backwards on another, while it adds reverb the more you turn, while you can have a EQ make the EQ-changes. You got unlimited posibilities to modify your Combinator patch with just one rotary, and then let me add that you have three more Rotarys. You can even have one rotary editing up to three different things in each unit of you like. You can make so spaced out things you wouldnt believe it.
And you probably wouldnt, as you refuse to try it out. |
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| teknasia |
| quote: | Originally posted by Airbase
Hum, I've never muted anything on a mixer before, what is it about the sequencer that you find so much better than before that makes you not need to mute the mixer? The solo and mute things where there in Reason 1, 2 and 2.5 as well. |
yeah but you could'nt muted them with the sequencer! If I wanted to mute a synth I first had to search in what channel it was plugged.. And if you're working with big files with many subs & malls :eyespop:
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| Airbase |
| quote: | Originally posted by teknasia
you have to play with it for about a couple of hours before you starting to notice the big differences!
The first hour I worked with it I didn't even used the new tools! But then I gained some courage and forced myself to learn how those new tools work, and I must say: they are awesome! :)
The filebrowser is also improved but I really liked the soundlocations in R2.5.. |
You still have sound locations? On the upper left, you can drag and drop those directories you want as shortcuts. I'm not sure I want the reason folder, the Soundbank and the Orkester-shortcuts there by default though, I dont use neither of them. |
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| Airbase |
| quote: | Originally posted by teknasia
yeah but you could'nt muted them with the sequencer! If I wanted to mute a synth I first had to search in what channel it was plugged.. And if you're working with big files with many subs & malls :eyespop:
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Yes you could :) Just click the little white square on the sequencer channel next to the name on the right. You didnt know you could mute there? Damn, how did you survive :)
By holding alt and click, you'd solo that instrument.
Welcome to Reason :) |
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| teknasia |
| quote: | Originally posted by Airbase
You still have sound locations? On the upper left, you can drag and drop those directories you want as shortcuts. I'm not sure I want the reason folder, the Soundbank and the Orkester-shortcuts there by default though, I dont use neither of them. |
yeah I noticed it, but I thought it was just temporary..
Ok, i checked it out, thx mate :)
I tested it yesterday for just a couple of hours, sun was shining :)
today it's raining so I'm going die-hard with R3! hehe |
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| teknasia |
| quote: | Originally posted by Airbase
Yes you could :) Just click the little white square on the sequencer channel next to the name on the right. You didnt know you could mute there? Damn, how did you survive :)
By holding alt and click, you'd solo that instrument.
Welcome to Reason :) |
in R2.5? omg indeed.. how did I survive! :)
No the only thing I used was the keyboard-shortcut to play and stop, and the copy/past stuff offcourse. |
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| Trancevision |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJFreaq
GOOOD idea.
Yea i am waiting for them to fix the sound...
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Quality matters...
You got my vote.
Trancevision |
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