Propellerhead Software Record

[Ceri JC]

Originally Posted by ~BHG~

I dont get it?!?!?!?

Why use reason when you own a Virus??!!??

Seems like a cheap downgrade to me!!!!!!

I really like Reason. Probably the fastest thing to make a track in that I've ever come across, even if you need to master the resultant output in another program to get the best sound out of it. Earlier in the week I did 80% of a whole DnB track in my lunch hour on my EEEPC. Not many music apps you can say that of. Also the most intuitive for adding groove/offbeat syncopation to things for humanised drumming, in my book. I agree not being able to use a Virus with it is a real nuisance. I wish Record had midi out capability and that Access wrote some virus integration for it. Imagine being able to do a right click, "create Virus" in your Reason rack. You could limit people to either 4 or 16 open at once, depending on the version of the Virus they had. *drools*

I concede this would most likely never happen though. The whole point of Reason being proprietary/self contained is, as Enfield says, stability and low CPU usage, both of which it has in spades. I know the built in synths can sound a bit 'typically Reason', on their own, but when you get creative with the routing, layering and effects stacks (which thanks to low CPU usage, you can do on even a v. low spec machine), you can get some surprisingly professional sounds out of it: I've managed things that other musicians have mistaken for Absynth and samples of real world sounds.

At present the nearest my Virus gets to reason is being used as the soundcard and occassionally being bounced to .wav from Ableton and loaded into NN-XT.

[TheHobbit]

Run Cubase and have reason....I understand the audio in facility - but for $150 seems steep...imho.

Can't see a reason to buy ^^