Subject:New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Posted by: MyST

Date:8/3/2004 4:47:13 PM

Ah, feelin' like a kid again!
Just started playing with my newly installed Reason-Adapted that came with my Firewire 410.
Love it!!

OK, so I can finally agree... Rewire's great!

Damn! They're forecasting nice weather tomorrow. Oh well, at least it looks like rain for a couple days after that. :-)

Mario

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:8/3/2004 5:13:22 PM

Welcome to reason world!

Have you checked Propellerheads for refills? Reason station? esoundz? Lots of free stuff out there, and with the variety of styles, you'll find stuff that works for you.

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: coolout

Date:8/3/2004 5:28:22 PM

i told ya...

reason w/ rewire works like a REALLY BIG stable vsti.

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: ozzborn

Date:8/3/2004 5:53:38 PM

the sonic refill is the best overall refill ive used in reason.it gives the nn-xt the soundset of a triton,jv-2080,motif.

if anyone knows a good refill for bass please chime in.

i want that sub bass sound on the mobb deep espically murder music.
that sound is so deep yet it does not distort,and its still clean.

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: MyST

Date:8/3/2004 5:56:11 PM

LOL!
Tell you what DKeenum, maybe you can supply me with some links...cuz www.reasonstation.com takes me to a whole nuther "playthang".;-)

Mario

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: MyST

Date:8/3/2004 6:22:00 PM

Whoa!
What's with the painfully slow download from Propellerhead's site??
+/- 2Kb/sec! I'M used to about 450Kb/sec.
Guess I'll try some other time.

Mario

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:8/4/2004 5:02:53 AM

I would be interested in knowing what style of music you Reason owners are making with it and whether or not you primarily use audio loops or do MIDI recording. I looked at the Reason 2.5 demo and, like ACID, it has no pre-roll for recording (athough it does at least have a metronome) and I couldn’t find any way to edit the MIDI after the fact other than that tiny timeline. I also couldn’t find a way to use my VST instruments which leads me to believe it’s a closed system.

That combined with the abundance of drum machines (which I never use) gave me the impression that Reason is geared towards a certain style of music but was not for recording rock songs (which is what I do in ACID). That’s why I’d like to understand what you guys use it for because I didn’t think it added anything I needed other than what ACID already provides. Just curious because it has a number of MIDI instruments but no good way to record and edit MIDI. (although I noticed it records in loop mode which is something I wish ACID would do)

~jr

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:8/4/2004 6:09:31 AM

There is pre-roll in reason. At least what I would call pre-roll.

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:8/4/2004 7:06:37 AM

How do you turn on pre-roll in Reason? I saw the button for metronome but I didn't see one for a count-in or pre-roll. Is it in a menu somewhere?

~jr

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:8/4/2004 7:27:51 AM

http://www.reasonstation.net/refills/browse.phtml

http://www.peff.com/home/index.html

http://www.reasonrefills.com/

http://www.reasonfreaks.com/bridge/phpBB203/index.php?sid=7ec03fe379d073c2372f0a891362e5b6

But this can become overwhelming quickly. There are a lot of refills and rx files floating around the internet.

David

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: David_Kuznicki

Date:8/4/2004 8:47:06 AM

--and I couldn’t find any way to edit the MIDI after the fact other than that tiny timeline.

You can unlock the timeline & expand it. I LOVE that feature, especially with dual monitors! I've always found Reason's midi tools to be relatively top notch, to be perfectly honest!

I also couldn’t find a way to use my VST instruments which leads me to believe it’s a closed system.

That is correct, you can't open VSTi's in Reason... they've always maintained that it made the program more stable, if I remember correctly. But, that's why they created ReWire, I imagine, so it wouldn't be so closed.

But then, I'm hardly unbiased here! I absolutely LOVE Reason.

David.

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:8/4/2004 1:50:26 PM

> But then, I'm hardly unbiased here! I absolutely LOVE Reason

Then yours is the kind of answer I was looking for. I know that a lot of people love it and I’m trying to figure out what I was missing. I’ll go back and try figure out how to unlock the timeline and expand it. I’m keeping an open mind and really trying to understand how to best use it. Thanks for your reply,

~jr

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: ozzborn

Date:8/4/2004 6:07:48 PM

in reason theres a button at the top left of the seqeuncer page hit this button toggles back and forth between full project view and single track view.

you can view pianoroll,drum editor,automation,etc..

(very important) at the top right corner of your reason project(right above the scroll bar for the rack) theres a button to undock the sequencer from the rack.this way you can resize the sequencer page

i make hip hop,neosoul,rap/rock,and dabble in breakbeat electronica,film score, and trip hop.

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: MyST

Date:8/5/2004 5:37:09 AM

Bummer!
Refills can't be added to the Adapted version I got. Actually, it's not a problem, what comes included is plenty for me.
As far as how I use it? Well, give me a chance to start using it before I can give you feedback. However, any synth is great for creating original one-shots to add to projects. Reason is, to me anyways, a really great synth. The sounds are excellent quality.

Mario

Subject:RE: New REASON to rejoice! WooHoo!

Reply by: Ruben_B

Date:8/5/2004 7:29:56 PM

Hi guys,
i just recieved Reason adapted with my Protools digi002. Just wondering is reason adapted something i can use standalone or only within an app ie. Protools.

Thanks,
Ruben