I also like the „freeze“ function in Ableton. It is so easy to use and really helps with cpu usage. In reason I bounce heavy cpu vst sounds to a track. When you want to do changes you have to rebounce in a new track. It is working but requires more clicking and track mgmt. than just pressing freeze or unfreeze.
Super Video, still watching but, decided to comment halfway through, because everything is on point! We need these things like yesterday! :) ...Love your channel by the way! Very good content man! :)
Retrospective record would be amazing. The solo thing took me a while to get in my muscle memory. You can key-assign solo and mute, but you need to select a mixer channel to use them, which makes sense if you come from a studio background. You would never mute a keyboard, you would mute the channel that the keyboard was patched to. If anything, Reason needs to remove solo and mute from the sequencer, just leave lane mutes. I'd like to see a few more built-in master bus processors, like a K14 meter, perhaps a master tone and leveller/limiter like on Harrison Mixbus.
That’s how I see it too. Who mutes the synth? Still don’t get why it’s a thing. I must be missing something. They could do with a total mastering suite overhaul. To be fair, though, all the DAWs I have used don’t have the best mastering plugins out of the box. Thanks for watching!
I agree with most of your points. But, nr1 (solo on track vs solo in mixer): I think it is usefull to be able to mute/solo the input as well as the output. nr6. Have you tried "sort selected device groups" in the sequencer? (select tracks, right click, It sorts your mixer in the same way as your sequncer is sorted) Reason 3 was my first version love the cv stuff as hobbyist. Keep up the positive flow of you videos!
I hear ya it's just most of the time I want the output. Sort selected tracks has a bug (since 11 I think) and it's been disabled (pretty sure they haven't fixed it yet). It's handy when it works, tho. Thanks for watching!
I disagree with the "one too many solos"; Reason doesn't use a "one device one track" metaphor like Ableton so you can have several mixer channels all driven from a single midi channel. Muting/soloing the midi channel in the sequencer prevents notes from being played, while soloing just mutes the other audio channel. I get that it can make less sense when you have an audio track, but even if you only have one audio channel, you can have several parallel mixer channels. Finally, the solo and mute buttons in the mixer can be automated which is critical to many mixing situations where you want to isolate one lead before a drop, or prevent a channel's reverb tail from ringing out into a breakdown.
Hmm. You’re making sense. Although I never automate the solo or mutes in the mixer. I will use a utility for that so I don’t run into problems later when mixing. (Same with automation on volume and pan in mixer) Those are definitely some use cases that make Reason’s solo and mutes make sense but I’m not sure that for me it’s worth all the other times I just want it to be straight forward. I’d rather save the clicks. Thanks for watching!!
@@itsdjQuasar Rather than a utility, you can just group then channel and do your automations on the group. I agree that the track soloing and muting could use some work, but even if there was hotkey, it would still require you have all tracks (like the filter automations) selected. Regarding the filter, one solution might be for them to use whatever the default value is for the filter when it isn't automated whenever the filter is muted in the sequencer.
What I hate about automation in Reason is that if you change the location of your track in the sequencer (something I do all the time), then if you later decide to add automation to that track, the automation lane appears in the place where the track originally was, rather than the place where the track currently is since you moved it
@@itsdjQuasar No problem - thanks for the video! I've dipped my toe in the water with Live a couple of times, but can't quite commit to the learning curve. This vid makes me want to try again
@@thedavidrutledge it’s not too bad. AL+Reason rack is really the best of both worlds. However, AL isn’t perfect either. Next video will highlight places where Reason is better than AL.
Great Video.. We have been asking for sequencer and workflow improvements for years.. just like VST3..hopefully they focus on that sooner than later, finally. I use both, Reason more for sound design + sample free songs, Ableton for Sample based songs + get basic arrangements down in Clip mode (which is a beast).. Gotta say though, in Ableton there are some native mixing and mastering components that just decreases time drastically, just like those players in Reason sparks an insane amount of ideas.. I to me right now, using them together is just the ultimate way to go if your not doing original sound design.. If your in Ableton ( using Reason and a plugin), do the Combinators that have 3rd party plugins, that you created solely in Reason (that have 3rd party vsts in the devices area of the Combi) pull up in the plugin if your using them in Ableton? Or does it just not give you access to those?.. I noticed the plugin does not show many of the 3rd party Vsts as available when working with the Reason Rack Plugin..
The reason rack plugin won't pull up your vst's. That's a limitation I'd like to see changed as well. I agree, though that using both in combination mostly gets you the best of both worlds. Thanks for watching!
While in block mode, it would be great to be able to swap clips from another block without leaving the current block. That would kind of make it similar to abletons session view. Session view makes it so easy to just start sketching out ideas. One thing I love about Ableton is the ability to arm multiple MIDI tracks and record them all at once. It's a great way to layer instruments without having to group them inside an instrument rack. In Ableton I also like being able to slide audio around inside the clip without having to go to comp mode.
I agree about block mode. It’s a little too fiddley. That would fix it. It’s a great feature otherwise. Once your blocks are filled. Your other ideas are good too. Thanks for watching!
Block mode has such wasted potential. It's okay I guess, but I honestly just end up using blocks as markers most of the time. Which is another thing that Reason is missing!
Late to the party. but in Reason's slice editor (for warping audio) you can use pen tool ("W") to add them pseudo markers and then you can move those markers just like in Live. FYI in case someone didn't know that🙂.
kinda... They aren't like pseudo markers, though. They are more like the "hard" markers that happen in Live when you double click a pseudo marker. Pseudo markers add another layer of control. Thanks for watching!
This was a great video highlighting things that are needed to improve workflow! +1 to pretty much everything - Collapsing groups, the zoom strip, using the numbers and up/down arrows, the oddities with the automation lanes and clips, DRUM BUS!! There wasn't anything in this video that I thought was a poor request. My additions would be: 1. Context sensitive tools from the F8 menu always visible somewhere on the screen (why not use the Tutorials pane that no one uses?) 2. Having all sources available as Record sources and not having to check that silly little button on the mix channel 3. The default behaviour of draging and rearranging to recable (or at least give us the option to flip the behaviour). 4. The ability to select time (and not just clips) because duplicating clips with spaces of silence between them is frustrating 5. Destructive clips on the timeline (audio and midi) - currently you can layer clips on top of eaech other but this really gets annoying when you are overwriting a lot and you move something. 6. Let me use the recording tuner on a device already in the rack please 7. Looping clips 8. A better use of screen space. There is way too much unused space everywhere and on a small screen it's pretty brutal to use. DAW's like Live or Bitwig really optimize the screen when it's smaller and with Reason splitting into a Mixer, Rack, Sequencer, Browser it gets cramped. 9. Don't even get me started on the browser.... tags anyone? 🙂 10. Way too many zoom buttons. Open a MIDI clip and count em. There's one set on the right top for the lane (which imo is pretty useless overall), one below in the clip view for the vertical view of notes, the slider at the bottom for horizontal view, and the one on the bottom left for the track height... Sheesh! I'm sure there's many more but those are off the top of my head. The big roadblock when it comes to RS is that they want implement things their way. I get it you want to be unique and stand out, which is fine, but sometimes a good feature is a good feature as is. That's why all cars have steering wheels and a gas and brake pedal.
I almost added #5 to the video. I really like the way AL handles clips. We almost always want to overwrite them. #3... Hold shift to make the routing do the opposite of the default cabling behavior. This counts when moving the order of devices as well. They will re-cable themselves the way you think they should. GAME CHANGER. watch this video of mine: ua-cam.com/video/jpzIboRMOlM/v-deo.html I agree with the ideas you added. Thanks for watching!
@@itsdjQuasar yeah I know about shift to recable but whenever I drag stuff around the intent IS to recable. I often forget about Shift and wish it was the default or an option to swap. It’s refreshing to see someone else experience the same gripes I have and confirms I’m not crazy or being picky! Plus I don’t want to have to buy TWO DAWs to accomplish one thing.
@@MrMarcLaflamme Ah. I see what you mean. Yeah they could “shift” the default behavior on that one. (Hehe) Yeah similar gripes, for sure. But we still love Reason. It’s just… home in a lot of ways.
@@itsdjQuasar oh I almost forgot, MIDI plugins support! (Processors, sequencers, etc). We’re unfortunately locked into the Players ecosystem which really blocks out a bunch of cool vsts.
Nice overview! The thing I miss the most (next to the capture midi!) is simply the Session View, which I think is not replica table in Reason. I use it to sketch out a song to start. Second thing I miss is better midi support and most of all MPE support (or I'm missing something). I'd think a modern dawn should be able to work with MPE at this time. If Reason would get MPE support, and more than that, they find a way to MPE-enable their synths and perhaps REs), man, it would be a sound design monster, even more than it is today :-) And I would miss Max when switching to Reason too. So I guess I'm stuck with both of them, which is fine BTW.
Nothing wrong with using both! And yeah you are not wrong about MPE. The session view in Ableton is amazing and somehow even a bit underrated in the Ableton community as well. I was originally not too happy when they released the rack plug-in but it was the best way forward if they new they wouldn’t keep up sequencer-wise. I still think the rack is amazing for sound design so being able to use it in another DAW is great. I still make songs in Reason proper, though. Still something about it. I get a different result than I would otherwise. Thanks for watching!!
Blocks work well for sections, as they include every track in your arrangement. Clone clips, or clip instancing, would be ideal for identical musical phrases or motifs you want to repeat anywhere in the arrangement.
2:45 Sorry, but that's not "a mess" or "confusing". If you mute something in sequencer, it mutes the signal sent from sequencer i.e. midi notes, automation, etc. so the instruments don't receive them. If you mute a channel in rack or mixer, you're muting the output of that track, so the instrument plays but you can't hear it. I think it's very obvious and consistent. Although I agree we should have contextual S and M shortcuts for soloing & muting.
From the perspective of muting it makes more sense. Although I tend to mute the regions themselves. You almost never intend to solo in that same way, though. At least I don’t. When I solo I intend the “mix track solo” functionality. Usually because I want to hear the sound with all processing instead of just the region. Thanks for watching!
Bezier curves is high on my list, but when you started talking about sidechaining I had to laugh because it’s something I rarely do in Reason because I really have to put a lot of thought into how to get there. So I just don’t or if I really want to do it usually involves a visit to UA-cam😂. I wish there was some drop down and then when you turn around the rack the connections are made.
Yeah. It’s becomes pretty straight forward in Reason when you get used to it. Just time consuming at best and confusing at worst (if you have lots going on and it starts to look like a jungle of cords back there.) Thanks for watching.
A Reason tip is to assign the keys 1-9 to solo mix channels. I have 1 set to solo my frun bus, 2 for the bass bus, 3 for the pads, etc. It's not a 1:1 solo of tracks, but the good thing is that it's customizable per project. I then have 0 set to un-solo all tracks again. Similarly, I have shift+[1-9] to mute those same buses/tracks, and shift+0 to unmute. Skeuomorphic! Thanks for teaching me a new word. 😊 I agree, this list would make me upgrade from Reason 10 to 13. Let's hope they are listening. 🙏 Side-note: great minds think alike! My automation lanes are also graphite!! 🖤
I use bitwig and the rrp daily. I have ableton 11 suite but I only use it when I need to collab now. I can't escape bitwig's workflow and the way it can modulate parameters on reason devices that normally requires me to throw it in a combinator and flip the rack and route with two clicks is 🤌🏾🔥 plus more.
Thanks! This is really handy. I've been using reason since 2.5 and I'm now thinking to switch to ALive just because of the sequencer and workflow. How long does it take to pick up ableton live?
Similar to you I've been on reason since 1.0, I tried getting into Ableton a few times over the years but always end up going back to Reason, Ableton has some fancy features but also looks like a spreadsheet in excel or something 😅 in my workflow I just feel at home and comfortable in Reason.
@@EkssperimentalSoundsStudio in the wild! Still loving your plugins! If you all haven’t checked out the Ekssperimental Sounds RE’s your missing out! Really good stuff. All of them! I agree with you that Ableton is nothing to look at. My next video will be a comparison between Reason and Ableton highlighting what Reason does better this time. UI is definitely on that list. Looking forward to your next rack extensions!
The typing the number in thing kills me. I wish Reason had this. I don't like having to select "close enough" when gain staging for example. A more fine tuned selection is available in the sequencer but only for wave forms rather than recorded rack instruments. So I have to bounce it down and then adjust it. But not being able to do that in the mixing board is extremely frustrating. The mixer is a great feature and it's an afterthought.
Hold Shift and fine tune lol it's not hard a certainly faster then typing. You move to around the same location as you want then hold shift to select the exact number.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I hear ya. Two seconds is fast. Pressing one key is faster. True, tho. Could have shown them minimized. It’s also about clearing things out to have better focus on what you are doing. You don’t think it would be a good addition/ option to be able to hide things?
@@itsdjQuasar I like the automation lanes and the clips in Reason easy to move them about copy paste on so on. There is a Command key to collapse or open all sequencer tracks however I think they should have an additional one to collapse or open automation lanes or audio and Midi lanes only.
I like Ableton but ditched it because somehow hit a wall all the time, maybe it's because it look like one lol, anyway it just wasn't for me, couldn't get it in my fingers. Tried a relatively new DAW recently and things started to unfold rapidly so it's all a matter of how it suits the user. But Reason will for ever be my DAW I think. It's not perfect but it rides so nice. I have an idea btw, will write you tomorrow somewhere.
@@itsdjQuasar I tried bitwig and will eventually purchase it. Nice workflow, good interface that invites you to create things and experiment, unlike Reaper lol.
Ableton and Reason are literally poler opposites in terms of design and device look, Reason device's look cool, they function like physical gear and sound like it to. This however is the included Rack and not the DAW. Reason devices take way more time and money to make and maintain then Abeltons with have no design at all.
Yeah. I definitely address those differences in the beginning. However they could still implement some of these features without changing the core design.
Lately I am using Reason 11 as a plugin rack inside Ableton Live 11, both DAWS working great together, but Ableton is snappier for arrange an idea and the audio engine is great (IMO).
Reason does not aspire to be a top tier DAW. They aspire to be Komplete. Embrace the rack and ONLY the rack or you will forever be frustrated with Reason. They COULD radically change to prove me wrong but from day one, (when they didn't even have AUDIO), it's been about the sounds. They've been grudgingly pulled into being a DAW but I'm not buying it. (Actually I did buy it but...) Not having a keyboard shortcut for Solo says it all. They don't care to be a premier DAW. I love the SOUND of Reason. My one wish is that they create a channel strip to go with their rack so I could replicate the sound I get from their signal flow. The Reason UI is actually better for mixing by ear because it gives you less to look at. Give me a channel strip and I'd be a happy dude.
Well said. I agree. Also, I really like mixing in reason too. Mixing more by ear is the right way IMO. I also like the "limitations" of the SSL. I get a different/ more natural (for lack of a better word) sound. Thanks for watching!
Why can't Reason automatically beat match a standard audio loop that I drag into the Sequencer? I mean, come on guys? You've got a time compression/expansion tool right in the program, just make it automatic (or a preference) when dragging in a standard WAV or AIFF loop. If I purchase a sample pack from, say, Splice, when I drag in a loop it should come in at my session's tempo. I've been saying this for years. It's beyond mission critical for today's production workflow. I know how to get around it using the TC/E tool in the Sequencer, but not having this type of drag-and-drop convenience is one of the big things that helps Ableton Live hook new producers.
Yeah it’s a big missing feature. Search my channel for my time stretching video. There’s more than one way to get things in time. Still not as good as Ableton though. Thanks for watching!
As a longtime Reason user coming into Ableton this was nice to see and help me transfer my abilities to streamline my producing workflow in Ableton
Glad to have helped!
I also like the „freeze“ function in Ableton. It is so easy to use and really helps with cpu usage. In reason I bounce heavy cpu vst sounds to a track. When you want to do changes you have to rebounce in a new track. It is working but requires more clicking and track mgmt. than just pressing freeze or unfreeze.
Super Video, still watching but, decided to comment halfway through, because everything is on point! We need these things like yesterday! :) ...Love your channel by the way! Very good content man! :)
Much appreciated! Thanks for watching!
Thx good Sir. I also want a slope (bezier) function for Fade-In/Outs and a function to chop a long clip every 1/n 's
Those are good, too. Also Ableton does automatic fades. Saves a lot of time when you are, say, cutting up vocals.
Retrospective record would be amazing. The solo thing took me a while to get in my muscle memory. You can key-assign solo and mute, but you need to select a mixer channel to use them, which makes sense if you come from a studio background. You would never mute a keyboard, you would mute the channel that the keyboard was patched to. If anything, Reason needs to remove solo and mute from the sequencer, just leave lane mutes. I'd like to see a few more built-in master bus processors, like a K14 meter, perhaps a master tone and leveller/limiter like on Harrison Mixbus.
That’s how I see it too. Who mutes the synth? Still don’t get why it’s a thing. I must be missing something. They could do with a total mastering suite overhaul. To be fair, though, all the DAWs I have used don’t have the best mastering plugins out of the box. Thanks for watching!
I agree with most of your points. But, nr1 (solo on track vs solo in mixer): I think it is usefull to be able to mute/solo the input as well as the output.
nr6. Have you tried "sort selected device groups" in the sequencer? (select tracks, right click, It sorts your mixer in the same way as your sequncer is sorted)
Reason 3 was my first version love the cv stuff as hobbyist. Keep up the positive flow of you videos!
I hear ya it's just most of the time I want the output. Sort selected tracks has a bug (since 11 I think) and it's been disabled (pretty sure they haven't fixed it yet). It's handy when it works, tho. Thanks for watching!
they really need to listen to this
It’d be nice!
Thanks for watching!
I disagree with the "one too many solos"; Reason doesn't use a "one device one track" metaphor like Ableton so you can have several mixer channels all driven from a single midi channel. Muting/soloing the midi channel in the sequencer prevents notes from being played, while soloing just mutes the other audio channel. I get that it can make less sense when you have an audio track, but even if you only have one audio channel, you can have several parallel mixer channels. Finally, the solo and mute buttons in the mixer can be automated which is critical to many mixing situations where you want to isolate one lead before a drop, or prevent a channel's reverb tail from ringing out into a breakdown.
Hmm. You’re making sense. Although I never automate the solo or mutes in the mixer. I will use a utility for that so I don’t run into problems later when mixing. (Same with automation on volume and pan in mixer)
Those are definitely some use cases that make Reason’s solo and mutes make sense but I’m not sure that for me it’s worth all the other times I just want it to be straight forward. I’d rather save the clicks.
Thanks for watching!!
@@itsdjQuasar Rather than a utility, you can just group then channel and do your automations on the group.
I agree that the track soloing and muting could use some work, but even if there was hotkey, it would still require you have all tracks (like the filter automations) selected.
Regarding the filter, one solution might be for them to use whatever the default value is for the filter when it isn't automated whenever the filter is muted in the sequencer.
@@soviut303 ooh. Default value. I like that. That would work.
What I hate about automation in Reason is that if you change the location of your track in the sequencer (something I do all the time), then if you later decide to add automation to that track, the automation lane appears in the place where the track originally was, rather than the place where the track currently is since you moved it
Oh yeah. Annoying. Thanks for watching!
@@itsdjQuasar No problem - thanks for the video! I've dipped my toe in the water with Live a couple of times, but can't quite commit to the learning curve. This vid makes me want to try again
@@thedavidrutledge it’s not too bad. AL+Reason rack is really the best of both worlds. However, AL isn’t perfect either. Next video will highlight places where Reason is better than AL.
Yeah this is definitely something to hate, going into the track and extracting the automation to get it out 😂
Nice! Hahahaha, our dude..! Yeah, yeah, yeahhh! And oh, yeauhhh. I hope so, c'mon Reason Studios let's go!?
Hahaha. Thanks for watching!
Great Video.. We have been asking for sequencer and workflow improvements for years.. just like VST3..hopefully they focus on that sooner than later, finally. I use both, Reason more for sound design + sample free songs, Ableton for Sample based songs + get basic arrangements down in Clip mode (which is a beast).. Gotta say though, in Ableton there are some native mixing and mastering components that just decreases time drastically, just like those players in Reason sparks an insane amount of ideas.. I to me right now, using them together is just the ultimate way to go if your not doing original sound design..
If your in Ableton ( using Reason and a plugin), do the Combinators that have 3rd party plugins, that you created solely in Reason (that have 3rd party vsts in the devices area of the Combi) pull up in the plugin if your using them in Ableton? Or does it just not give you access to those?.. I noticed the plugin does not show many of the 3rd party Vsts as available when working with the Reason Rack Plugin..
The reason rack plugin won't pull up your vst's. That's a limitation I'd like to see changed as well. I agree, though that using both in combination mostly gets you the best of both worlds.
Thanks for watching!
While in block mode, it would be great to be able to swap clips from another block without leaving the current block. That would kind of make it similar to abletons session view. Session view makes it so easy to just start sketching out ideas.
One thing I love about Ableton is the ability to arm multiple MIDI tracks and record them all at once. It's a great way to layer instruments without having to group them inside an instrument rack.
In Ableton I also like being able to slide audio around inside the clip without having to go to comp mode.
I agree about block mode. It’s a little too fiddley. That would fix it. It’s a great feature otherwise. Once your blocks are filled.
Your other ideas are good too. Thanks for watching!
Block mode has such wasted potential. It's okay I guess, but I honestly just end up using blocks as markers most of the time. Which is another thing that Reason is missing!
Late to the party. but in Reason's slice editor (for warping audio) you can use pen tool ("W") to add them pseudo markers and then you can move those markers just like in Live. FYI in case someone didn't know that🙂.
kinda... They aren't like pseudo markers, though. They are more like the "hard" markers that happen in Live when you double click a pseudo marker. Pseudo markers add another layer of control. Thanks for watching!
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Thanks!! Thanks you for watching!
This was a great video highlighting things that are needed to improve workflow! +1 to pretty much everything - Collapsing groups, the zoom strip, using the numbers and up/down arrows, the oddities with the automation lanes and clips, DRUM BUS!! There wasn't anything in this video that I thought was a poor request. My additions would be:
1. Context sensitive tools from the F8 menu always visible somewhere on the screen (why not use the Tutorials pane that no one uses?)
2. Having all sources available as Record sources and not having to check that silly little button on the mix channel
3. The default behaviour of draging and rearranging to recable (or at least give us the option to flip the behaviour).
4. The ability to select time (and not just clips) because duplicating clips with spaces of silence between them is frustrating
5. Destructive clips on the timeline (audio and midi) - currently you can layer clips on top of eaech other but this really gets annoying when you are overwriting a lot and you move something.
6. Let me use the recording tuner on a device already in the rack please
7. Looping clips
8. A better use of screen space. There is way too much unused space everywhere and on a small screen it's pretty brutal to use. DAW's like Live or Bitwig really optimize the screen when it's smaller and with Reason splitting into a Mixer, Rack, Sequencer, Browser it gets cramped.
9. Don't even get me started on the browser.... tags anyone? 🙂
10. Way too many zoom buttons. Open a MIDI clip and count em. There's one set on the right top for the lane (which imo is pretty useless overall), one below in the clip view for the vertical view of notes, the slider at the bottom for horizontal view, and the one on the bottom left for the track height... Sheesh!
I'm sure there's many more but those are off the top of my head.
The big roadblock when it comes to RS is that they want implement things their way. I get it you want to be unique and stand out, which is fine, but sometimes a good feature is a good feature as is. That's why all cars have steering wheels and a gas and brake pedal.
I almost added #5 to the video. I really like the way AL handles clips. We almost always want to overwrite them.
#3... Hold shift to make the routing do the opposite of the default cabling behavior. This counts when moving the order of devices as well. They will re-cable themselves the way you think they should. GAME CHANGER. watch this video of mine: ua-cam.com/video/jpzIboRMOlM/v-deo.html
I agree with the ideas you added. Thanks for watching!
@@itsdjQuasar yeah I know about shift to recable but whenever I drag stuff around the intent IS to recable. I often forget about Shift and wish it was the default or an option to swap.
It’s refreshing to see someone else experience the same gripes I have and confirms I’m not crazy or being picky!
Plus I don’t want to have to buy TWO DAWs to accomplish one thing.
@@MrMarcLaflamme Ah. I see what you mean. Yeah they could “shift” the default behavior on that one. (Hehe)
Yeah similar gripes, for sure. But we still love Reason. It’s just… home in a lot of ways.
@@itsdjQuasar oh I almost forgot, MIDI plugins support! (Processors, sequencers, etc). We’re unfortunately locked into the Players ecosystem which really blocks out a bunch of cool vsts.
@@MrMarcLaflamme Oh yeah. That one is pretty huge, actually. Good call!
Nice overview! The thing I miss the most (next to the capture midi!) is simply the Session View, which I think is not replica table in Reason. I use it to sketch out a song to start. Second thing I miss is better midi support and most of all MPE support (or I'm missing something). I'd think a modern dawn should be able to work with MPE at this time. If Reason would get MPE support, and more than that, they find a way to MPE-enable their synths and perhaps REs), man, it would be a sound design monster, even more than it is today :-) And I would miss Max when switching to Reason too. So I guess I'm stuck with both of them, which is fine BTW.
Nothing wrong with using both! And yeah you are not wrong about MPE.
The session view in Ableton is amazing and somehow even a bit underrated in the Ableton community as well.
I was originally not too happy when they released the rack plug-in but it was the best way forward if they new they wouldn’t keep up sequencer-wise. I still think the rack is amazing for sound design so being able to use it in another DAW is great. I still make songs in Reason proper, though. Still something about it. I get a different result than I would otherwise.
Thanks for watching!!
Talking about Reason's sequencer, I miss clips with loopable content and virtual clip copies. I think every other DAW has those.
Yeah, like clone clips. Not every DAW, but yeah that's a good one. BLOCKS is pretty close to this concept, though, yeah?
Blocks work well for sections, as they include every track in your arrangement. Clone clips, or clip instancing, would be ideal for identical musical phrases or motifs you want to repeat anywhere in the arrangement.
@@jordimoraguesmassanet1179 yeah I hear that. It would be a super useful feature. Thanks for watching!
2:45 Sorry, but that's not "a mess" or "confusing". If you mute something in sequencer, it mutes the signal sent from sequencer i.e. midi notes, automation, etc. so the instruments don't receive them. If you mute a channel in rack or mixer, you're muting the output of that track, so the instrument plays but you can't hear it.
I think it's very obvious and consistent.
Although I agree we should have contextual S and M shortcuts for soloing & muting.
From the perspective of muting it makes more sense. Although I tend to mute the regions themselves. You almost never intend to solo in that same way, though. At least I don’t. When I solo I intend the “mix track solo” functionality. Usually because I want to hear the sound with all processing instead of just the region.
Thanks for watching!
one thing i really want is midi channel support for VSTs. cant use more than one channel with my virus ti..
That's a good one. Thanks for watching!
Great video. I agree with everything in this video, but I still prefer to use Reason over Ableton, weird aye.
I feel that. I still love Reason and still make music in it!
Thanks for watching!
Bezier curves is high on my list, but when you started talking about sidechaining I had to laugh because it’s something I rarely do in Reason because I really have to put a lot of thought into how to get there. So I just don’t or if I really want to do it usually involves a visit to UA-cam😂. I wish there was some drop down and then when you turn around the rack the connections are made.
Yeah. It’s becomes pretty straight forward in Reason when you get used to it. Just time consuming at best and confusing at worst (if you have lots going on and it starts to look like a jungle of cords back there.)
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A Reason tip is to assign the keys 1-9 to solo mix channels. I have 1 set to solo my frun bus, 2 for the bass bus, 3 for the pads, etc. It's not a 1:1 solo of tracks, but the good thing is that it's customizable per project. I then have 0 set to un-solo all tracks again. Similarly, I have shift+[1-9] to mute those same buses/tracks, and shift+0 to unmute.
Skeuomorphic! Thanks for teaching me a new word. 😊 I agree, this list would make me upgrade from Reason 10 to 13. Let's hope they are listening. 🙏
Side-note: great minds think alike! My automation lanes are also graphite!! 🖤
Great tip!
Your welcome for the new word!
Graphite is the way! Mostly in an effort to somewhat hide them. Haha
@@itsdjQuasar Same here, graphite signifies insignificance. 😊
@@sinewaymusic Haha! Yup!
I use bitwig and the rrp daily. I have ableton 11 suite but I only use it when I need to collab now. I can't escape bitwig's workflow and the way it can modulate parameters on reason devices that normally requires me to throw it in a combinator and flip the rack and route with two clicks is 🤌🏾🔥 plus more.
Nice! Always wanted to try Bitwig!
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Thanks! This is really handy. I've been using reason since 2.5 and I'm now thinking to switch to ALive just because of the sequencer and workflow. How long does it take to pick up ableton live?
Similar to you I've been on reason since 1.0, I tried getting into Ableton a few times over the years but always end up going back to Reason, Ableton has some fancy features but also looks like a spreadsheet in excel or something 😅 in my workflow I just feel at home and comfortable in Reason.
@@EkssperimentalSoundsStudio I probably wouldn't mind the "less verbose" UI, but I do understand.
@@EkssperimentalSoundsStudio in the wild! Still loving your plugins! If you all haven’t checked out the Ekssperimental Sounds RE’s your missing out! Really good stuff. All of them!
I agree with you that Ableton is nothing to look at. My next video will be a comparison between Reason and Ableton highlighting what Reason does better this time. UI is definitely on that list.
Looking forward to your next rack extensions!
@@San7hos Ableton is not hard to pick up. Just a little different. I took to it quickly.
The typing the number in thing kills me. I wish Reason had this. I don't like having to select "close enough" when gain staging for example. A more fine tuned selection is available in the sequencer but only for wave forms rather than recorded rack instruments. So I have to bounce it down and then adjust it. But not being able to do that in the mixing board is extremely frustrating. The mixer is a great feature and it's an afterthought.
DEE! I definitely agree.
Hold Shift and fine tune lol it's not hard a certainly faster then typing. You move to around the same location as you want then hold shift to select the exact number.
Also, I anwered your question on Patreon!
7:01 Your sequencer automation tracks are all open, close them.
Yeah. That’s true. Still can’t completely hide them, tho.
@@itsdjQuasar Your point was you scrolling and scrolling past the automation because you didn't minimize the tracks with the tabs, takes 2 seconds.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I hear ya. Two seconds is fast. Pressing one key is faster. True, tho. Could have shown them minimized. It’s also about clearing things out to have better focus on what you are doing. You don’t think it would be a good addition/ option to be able to hide things?
@@itsdjQuasar I like the automation lanes and the clips in Reason easy to move them about copy paste on so on. There is a Command key to collapse or open all sequencer tracks however I think they should have an additional one to collapse or open automation lanes or audio and Midi lanes only.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I like that. That would work for me. Thanks again for watching and for commenting!
Need a MImic Video Bro
Yeah you're right!
I like Ableton but ditched it because somehow hit a wall all the time, maybe it's because it look like one lol, anyway it just wasn't for me, couldn't get it in my fingers. Tried a relatively new DAW recently and things started to unfold rapidly so it's all a matter of how it suits the user. But Reason will for ever be my DAW I think. It's not perfect but it rides so nice. I have an idea btw, will write you tomorrow somewhere.
What relatively new DAW did you try?
@@itsdjQuasar I tried bitwig and will eventually purchase it. Nice workflow, good interface that invites you to create things and experiment, unlike Reaper lol.
Ableton and Reason are literally poler opposites in terms of design and device look, Reason device's look cool, they function like physical gear and sound like it to. This however is the included Rack and not the DAW. Reason devices take way more time and money to make and maintain then Abeltons with have no design at all.
Yeah. I definitely address those differences in the beginning. However they could still implement some of these features without changing the core design.
@@itsdjQuasar Any change in the Reason DAW could effect there Rack and it's about 1000 harder to code for Reason device's then Ableton.
Facts facts facts 😮
Hahah. Thanks!
Reason has session recovery
Really? In the same way as Ableton?
@@itsdjQuasar Yeah it does, I was surprised 🤣.
Lately I am using Reason 11 as a plugin rack inside Ableton Live 11, both DAWS working great together, but Ableton is snappier for arrange an idea and the audio engine is great (IMO).
Yeah. Me too. Thanks for watching!
Me too
Reason does not aspire to be a top tier DAW. They aspire to be Komplete. Embrace the rack and ONLY the rack or you will forever be frustrated with Reason. They COULD radically change to prove me wrong but from day one, (when they didn't even have AUDIO), it's been about the sounds. They've been grudgingly pulled into being a DAW but I'm not buying it. (Actually I did buy it but...)
Not having a keyboard shortcut for Solo says it all. They don't care to be a premier DAW.
I love the SOUND of Reason. My one wish is that they create a channel strip to go with their rack so I could replicate the sound I get from their signal flow. The Reason UI is actually better for mixing by ear because it gives you less to look at. Give me a channel strip and I'd be a happy dude.
Well said. I agree. Also, I really like mixing in reason too. Mixing more by ear is the right way IMO. I also like the "limitations" of the SSL. I get a different/ more natural (for lack of a better word) sound. Thanks for watching!
@@itsdjQuasar Now that I think of it, Native Instruments has their own frustrating suboptimal DAW with Maschine. I guess DAWs are hard.
@@Mr_Kirk_ hahaha. Right?!?
Why can't Reason automatically beat match a standard audio loop that I drag into the Sequencer? I mean, come on guys? You've got a time compression/expansion tool right in the program, just make it automatic (or a preference) when dragging in a standard WAV or AIFF loop. If I purchase a sample pack from, say, Splice, when I drag in a loop it should come in at my session's tempo. I've been saying this for years. It's beyond mission critical for today's production workflow. I know how to get around it using the TC/E tool in the Sequencer, but not having this type of drag-and-drop convenience is one of the big things that helps Ableton Live hook new producers.
Yeah it’s a big missing feature. Search my channel for my time stretching video. There’s more than one way to get things in time. Still not as good as Ableton though. Thanks for watching!