REASON WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS..
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Awesome series, very entertaining and informative thanks for doing these weekly, DyReck.
Thanks bro!
for real man, he the boss, it's my sunday treet. this guy should have more followers, but i'm shure with time passing, concept will evoluate at a point where followers will come. so much fun watching this show...
"You had bloods, crips, and Reason users" 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
For real, I love Reason. The first real DAW I ever used was Reason 3. I put down music for a lot of years, but I just grabbed a year of Reason+ on their Black Friday special!
I like going bananas with the synths and arpeggiators and all these new advanced sequencers, and then taking the stems over to my MPC One to resample.
Oh ok dope!
im very much the same! started on reason 3 and went all in since reason 7. also a long time mpc user and current mpc live user. love using the both together.
@@andyhsong nice.
Great episode man! I was definitely Team Reason from 2003-2012. And you are right, I jumped ship because I couldn't use third party plugins. By the time they implemented the plugins I was too deep into Maschine and haven't looked back. Keep up the good work homie
Thanks bro..Yeah alot of folks was complaining about the plugin stuff.
Facts too late.
💯🎯
Reason is the best system over all. Every known function, infinite sounds & all types of virtual boxes. If your doing serious music production it's impossible to top.
Reason is a beast for what it is. It’s not a one stop shop. The sound is pretty warm for a Daw. They just messed up on the plug-ins.
Yeah the sound is pretty dope.
Great video. 💯
This was a blast from the past😁🙌🏿
I remember first encountering Reason in 2001 and I was blown away by the GUI. I remembering pressing ctrl/tab on the keyboard and seeing that virtual studio rack patch bay with cables everywhere. I fell in love with Reason instantly.
The subtractor synth and the Redrum machine were my favourite tools to use.
The only downside at the time was not been able to use 3rd party plugins and recording real time Audio😬😤. I worked around that using cubase or in Rewire mode.
I had a lot of fun using Reason from around 2001 to 2009.
I migrated over to logic pro full time and have never looked back.
Reason is epic!! Rewire was such a HUGE game changer!
I love reason. Actually just started using Pro Tools as my main DAW only because of Reason as a rack inside of Pro Tools. Hey DyReck can you do Cakewalk, that's the DAW I started on back in like 1996.
No doubt thats a good one.
What had happened WUUUUUUZZZZ!!!
This my I$ht right here. I still got a Re-Birth cassette I did that sounds sick! Been on Reason since V1…will prob be stuck on 11 until the wheels fall off. Shoutout to the OG Propellerheads!!!
What a great episode. Still have my original Reason.
Nice!
Funny, I just pulled my old iMac out of the closet, reinstalled Snow Leopard (from 2009) and installed Reason 5 this afternoon. And yes, I paid for it back in the day.
Lol..I got a copy of 5 also..Its on my old pc..Might check it out.
@@DyReckProductions yeah dude you might want to do that! Like you said in the video, Reason sounds *amazing*. Thor is so badass. That’s why I went through so much trouble to get it back online! Peace man.
I just now set my white macbook with Reason 5 to the side with Reason 5. I still use it to sketch out my ideas if I want to do it super fast. My B system in my studio. Its still set up as my "MPC style midi rig. I am from that era in the 90s whenyou had to have a mpc or workstation keyboard, a rack of modules and adat or DA-88/38 machines with a mackie 24/8 console
Yay! Another episode. Hit like before even started to watch.
Lmao! Thanks fam.
If Reason was updated to include much improved audio editing to that of Protools for example, I would be very happy to use it exclusively as my DAW of choice.
Reason version 10,11, and 12 have all been cracked.
Propellerhead really gonna struggle cause damn, they finally got hit again.
Rack Extensions from reason and third party also getting cracked and released on the daily too
Dang!
Man, this was a dope and funny insight to Reason.
I'used Reason since it dropped, from version 1 to 5 (Try before you buy copies...*Cough cough*) then finally bought Reason 11 after haven't making beats for a few years. I know it has limitations compared to other DAWs, but I stick with it cos I actually get a buzz when I use it. I look forward to using it like waiting for a delicious Thai meal. Other Daws I tried like Fruityloops (FL Studio),Cubase and Logic I just used cos that was what I was using, but with Reason I actually have fun messing about with sounds.
I think the new owners are happy with it being a secondary product and are more focused as it being a plugin to other DAWs.
Great work bro. Keep it up.
Thanks bro..Nothing wrong with trying out a daw before you buy it lol.
I still have version 4. My favorite is the NNXT sampler.
No doubt.
Reason 4 was the best version. After that it all went to shit.
So much history with Reason didn’t know, thx 🙏🏾.
No doubt bro.
Reason is my main since 2001 . Until this day, I preferred the perpetual license over the Reason+ subscription.
I feel you.
I just love ur channel bro lmao. Your personality is so relatable and hilarious lmao. I watch these videos every drop ! Can you make a video on the roland jupiter 8 & 6 & 106
Wow those are good ones.. The Jupiter 8 is legendary..What do you like most about it?
@@DyReckProductions the warmth & sound. The new jupiters x that roland released recently sucks compared to the pure analog ones. Tha sound is definitely legendary. Im waiting for you on that video 😭✨✨✨🙇🏾♂️🙏🔥🚀🎵
@@ApolloJetsonKND No doubt bro!
I still love Reason...I hope I'll never have to switch to anything else
I got on at RSN 4. Prior to that I used physical hardware. And obviously the program mimicked that environment. Still a Reason user.... Its slacked a bit regarding technology and features the last few years, but I feel so comfortable with it, that I can't see abandoning it. Native Instruments us awesome, but asude from that, I can't wrap my head around ither DAWS for production (not recording).
I feel you..I still use Acid pro for recording..Been messing a bit with Ableton lately though.
Reason was the perfect daw for the time. When it was closed to 3rd party plugins, it was so stable. You could just create and never worry about crashes. It was as immediate as hardware. Nothing quite like it. Of course times have changed. Reason never sounded the best to me. When a base MacBook Air can run a daw and all the plugins you want without breaking a sweat, it becomes hard to justify paying increasingly more to continue using a dated piece of software (that still lacks AU, VST3 and Apple silicon support). As a result, Reason Studios, like Netflix, seems to think punishing their loyal customers is the best way to increase revenue. Just hasn’t been the same, pro-musician company since that private equity firm got involved. And what company ever is? Makes me sad.
I feel you..They were really about there brand of customer experience back in the day..Im not sure about now..Maybe they should hire new young fresh people to give things a spark.
Tantacrul has a really good video on how Propellerhead reinvented Reason. Do check it out.
I paid for version 8 in 2014. I still use it from time to time.
Oh ok no doubt.
my love for reason is unparalleled but im mosty on mpc and ableton and reason is pretty expensive.
Yeah the workflow of hardware is dope.
What about doing a video on MOTU Mach 5 Sampler
No doubt. Gonna put that on the list.
i remember that tone knob in redrum..... was the sauce
No Doubt fam..Redrum was dope.
Been on Reason since 2.5... Nothing has ever been able to get me off it since! I couldn't care less about the rest... I'm part of the cult baby!!!
Lol I feel you.
I am still a reason user but they need to just put more feature of other daws and its got every
thing
Yup.
I really loved Reason back in the days until Ableton Live 5 came out and since then I never looked back. Easier (auto warp) and better sound stretching, clip-based arranging, VST support, audio recording, better arrangement and piano roll control, no hassle with instrument wiring, better UI, etc. Compared to Reason back then Ableton Live 5 was a revelation. Reason at that point was falling behind and since then it has never really recovered. To a point that nowadays, people rather prefer Reason to be used as a VST instrument in their own DAW because its DAW functionality has never caught up.
Good point.
what would you say is the best daw these days? (in 2022)
Im not sure..I guess it depends on what workflow works for you..Alot of folks are on FL..I use Acid Pro..I never got into Ableton but people love it..Thats a tough question.. They all do the same things basically.. just in different ways.
Yo DyReck! Super random question. By any chance, you Haitian?
Sac Pas Se Lol!..Let me find out you know me
@@DyReckProductions sak passé! Map boule! Real talk, I can spot a Haitian accent. Even though you don’t really have one per se, I can still tell. I kind of sounds like a queens/Long Island accent mixed with Haitian accent. Love the channel brother.
@@yoitsgiook Thanks fam!..I appreciate it!
Excellent. Do a series on 12 tones Cakewalk
No doubt bro.
Don't get me started. Reason was great and Boom wtf.
Lol.
Reason was the ish for real.
Yup!
You gonna do one on reaper?
Oh wow! Thats a good one..Gonna put that on the list.
First daw I actually got serious with! Second I had lol it was Reason 3 in 2006 for me!
Oh ok cool.
i aint gonna front the dongle killed their momentum. the why fl kept blowing up.
I bought Reason 4.0 back in high school for 475 in 2007 and It could not accept plug ins so I ran back to Fl studio 6, talk about I waste of money. I later combined Fl studio and sample tank 2 and it was magic back in the day.
Oh ok nice.
Damn, when i got my reason 3 and my 8 ouput emagic card (i think the first one ever to be released), that's when i i started to feel like i was really in the game, this software and thaat card made the sound out of the computer sound HEAVY and PUNCHY. Oh, and the first evolution controlers started to get released 5that uc 33 was pretty cool, and i still have one of theyre keyboard here at home (evolutions first controler, that's a good subject for you, i remember when i was thinkig they should create some kinds opf remote controlms for daws lol.... fl didnt sound that good back then. but what Reason was missing was the ability to add pluggins and it had no good midi implementation. but when they started to add those things, i had grown a bit and could afford something else, then the mpc2500 was released, and i who was advocating for software and multi output cards started to be a big hardware lover, never to change my mind backwards again.... I still have my reason 3 and 4 cd's somewhere in a closet...
No doubt..Ima check out those controllers..And the 2500 is a beast!
@@DyReckProductions wish i had the money for the X, but i gotta take care of my fx bizness, and with all that i dont have that much time to produce no more, all the time goes for designing new stuff. but still, i wish i could afford the damn X, now i'm starting to think that the day i will and get one, theyur gonna release a new one three months after lol. that AKAi keyboard you was talkin about man....
foo yeeh!
@@baddriddimworkshop Lol..Yeah if they release that keyboard its over.
@@DyReckProductions you bet. and to be honest i'm pretty shure they will.
Reason (rack) + Renoise is a match made in heaven
Oh ok.
Hogan was in WCW in 94 LOL my first time smoking weed was hogan at bash at the beach, oh shit we the same age. Old head (pause) energy
I started on fruity loops in 2002 than went to reason and cubase within a year. Cubase back then was best daw. Now i use ableton and hardware. Reason was only daw you needed to actully plug things like hardwear and it was different
Yeah..Reason had its own style.
Reason is my best worst purchase from the many tweets and comments that I saw the Reason Gang throwing up a few years ago lol
There are a few rack extensions that are very good at keeping hope alive but since it moved to a subscription model and the rack extensions are still available for sale individually, there are very little reasons if any to ever subscribe after Reason 11.
The metronome is unmistakable though lol 😂😂😂😂😂
Lol..I feel you.
Still my main beatmaking app
Nice.
if reason was 1time purchase.i would totaly hit now its a plug...
I feel you.
It was laborious in comparison to fl studio ie. fruityloops at the time. 20 . . whoa, 25 years laters fl studio still looks about the same. Funny.
I feel you.
Reason didn't allow plugins because of the very reason a lot of plugins and plugin hosts sucked: 3rd party programmers weren't held to quality standards and a lot of that shit would crash the system. Reason was rock solid for software as complicated as it was on shit systems at the time and it was directly the result of keeping 3rd party add ons out of the equation. Other DAWs using VSTs (well, *some* of them) started realizing they needed to program in contengency plans for sloppy shit plugins and added things like crash protection, black lists, even stuff that would 'fix' a lot of common things that would crash the DAW by intercepting the shit that would cause a crash and fix it on the fly.
IT's why even after they added plugins to Reason, they did it like an app store...you had to go through their approval process and it's a format that only works on Reason. They didn't want random folks making their software look like shit or even having the headache of dealing with folks who aren't computer nerds asking them daily why some shit Propellerheads has never heard of won't run properly in their software.
Lol..Good point.
DAW or DAWgshite? I tried the freeware demo version and I didn't like the workflow at all. Maybe I am a newb at it but for me, the sequencer interface and VST plugins come first. I know you can use VST now in Reason, but it still wasn't enough. To the point I don't consider Reason a modern DAW anymore. And it's doubly sad because even Liam Howlett from The Prodigy vouched for it, back in the day.
Now even Renoise feels more a modern thing than Reason ever felt. And I am talking about a tracker.
The VST thing did hurt them.
Renoise is a premium level tracker, it's held it's shit solid for all this time. Folks who use it once never go back.
Things like Phrase editor/trigger, multirouting a single instrument, parallel FX chains, subroutine branching in patterns (eg go-to this segment in the sequence), granular level FX and per note level parameter and fx, and so on....it's actually another world of music production as a paradigm. Best thing that happened to me (and my jazz guitar), I am long time user of Logic, Ableton, Reason, Sonar, FlStudio..
@@berlinblast5736 Oh ok cool..That's dope.
@@berlinblast5736 Renoise is the boss. I love using it. It's a pure blessing in software-form
@@2free2snakes Fully agree 👍
😂😂😂😂"finding dinosaurs"
Lmao!
Listen to Reason 😆
Word!
The Nintendo controllers are going in the safe until the weekend!!!
Lmao! Yup!
Korg Gadget, that happened.
Thats a good one.
Great instruments and effects but horrible to sequence and record with. Gave up after v4.
Oh ok.
I don't want to have to be online to make beats I think that's a HORRIBLE ADDITION
Lol.
It sounded good but it never sounded like hardware. Not even close.
Lol.
Reason's summing engine always sounded like shit. pretty farty for sure - even after they introduced their all so glorious new audio engine and mixer. They couldn't get analogue saturation right, I guess. Or they did it for under-powered computers and sacrificed too many CPU cycles in the end. The concept was great, the sound was all fart.
Dang!..Right now I think they need some new energy in the company..Maybe they should hire some young folks to spark things up a bit.
lol
Reason gang gang! Been on reason since around 2007... Although it does have it's short comings, it's still one of the most creative DAW's around..
No doubt.
I'm still one of does Reason users!!
And you're right, My love for Reason is that toggle feature where I can connect all my gears the old school way. What can a 50 year old man can say which grew up with since Reason 1.
Im 42, and I love reason for this also. The additions of audio recording and VST support has made Reason my forever DAW. I've been using since Reason 4 myself.
Funny, same age as you and still learning Reason, since version 3. Reason is like the band Yello, always a bit late to the game but when they do, it's really really good!
I feel you..If it aint broke, dont try and fix it lol.
Reason was the first software that I took serious and got me off hardware production then Maschine came out and it was over. But the NNXT sampler in Reason was incredible.
I feel you.
That I must agree. Time stretch was crazy
I'm on reason right now, reason 12 is crazy and I love it. tried Ableton, long time FL user but reason changed my whole recording situation
Oh ok nice.
I have friends who still use Reason today...and swear by it. I've tried it. Could get into the flow. So I used it for Rewire to send sounds to FL Studio. That's what you missed in this video. The ReWire feature.
Definitely. These guys were pioneers in more ways than one. This video is too short.
Your right I use to use it with Acid Pro.
@@DyReckProductions you're *
Reason is fucking dope yo but I only use MPC X and FL but yeah reason is dope
No doubt.
Everytime DyReck yells out "what had happened was" I join in along with him. It's my ritual!
Lmoa! Thanks fam!
Been a reason user since 2.0, and currently on 11, and i swear by it, im def what u wud call “reason gang” lol, i initially loved it “because” i came from learning in the analog world in 90’s, and it always has just made sense to me, ive tried logic, cubase, n couple others over the years, and imo reason (especially now with audio n vsts) is the best, i will admit like u said in vid, us reason users def went thru a tuff period in middle there, like between version 4 and up till “record” got merged into reason, it was def a frustrating period lol, i wud dump my beats to cool edit or pro tools to record back then, but ever since reason added audio and the absolutely INCREDIBLE SSL mixer, its been my main n pretty much only daw, its by far most stable too, all the way from version 2 to now, ive never had crashs or latency issues or anything like that, it pretty much runs like it IS analog gear, and ill tell you what since vst’s got added few years back, its been great to be able to use ozone, neutron, n nectar on my mixes, but honestly on the synth and creation side of it, i rarely even need vst’s, cause it honestly feels like since they allowed vst’s, they doubled down on stepping the rack extension game up even more, there are really some incredible ones now in the shop, and they have subscrition model where i get like 400$ worth of third party rack extensions for 9$ a month, its pretty awsome, but for me the greatest part of reason IS the ssl mixer, ever since they added it, its a joy to mix on, its literally like having a real console almost, n it auto routs ur mix channel in rack that parallels the channel in mixer with ur inserts n all, its just incredible, and currently its best, cause they not only caught up to more modern daws, but they did while retaining their analog style n funtionality, and literally no other daw does it like them....reason gang 4life✊🏼🤣
Lol no doubt. I do have to admit out of all the daw's while using Reason it never crashed on me.
Great post🙌🏿😁
@@electrocyde you’re correct on a lot of this but I know for sure you can edit velocities be it manually or automatically. I’m on Mac so by hitting F8 there’s a menu with a plethora of things you can do with the midi. Hope that helps.
@@electrocyde When you open the Tool Window, look under the Note Velocity tab. You can use the options to add, fixed, scale or random on your notes. So yes you can change 200 notes at once or a selection in one or two clicks. Try it out and lemme know how it goes!
Love Reason and its Racks, used Vers 12 but the Piano Roll is cancer. I use it now as a vst in FL, best Combo imo 🎉
Nice.
My close friend uses reason exclusively, and still continues to push this software to me to this day!. Very informative analysis, as usual!.💯😁👍🏿
Thanks bro.
My all time favorite beat making daw next to FL. And it never really crashes ever. You can learn how to build and mix with a hardware set up. Audio tracks and automatic timestretch to tempo that's smooth
Shiiiddd now v12 is buggy asf!
Your right about that. I don't think it ever crashed on me.
programs like Reason and Bitwig excel in sound design. Song editing is great on Reason. Now I use Bitwig and I am in love with it, but I could get shit done in Reason. If you just want to track a basic track without doing any real sound design then there are DAWS that are perfectly fine for that. I know for my uses Bitwig is really useful and I could do the same things in Reason. Some of the players are useful. Yeah I know Ableton is cool too. I also use the MPC software. However I am from the old school and grew up in the 70s and 80s and I still have some of those ideas. So I think Reason bashing is dumb
Bitwig is interesting. There was alot of hype when it first came out. Folks were comparing it to Ableton Live.
I recently switched to bitwig from reason. But bitwig modulators with reason is money.
@@brownboy0004 Oh ok cool.
Should ve known that reason uses this hardware emulation before getting married to ableton :P Interesting workflow
Word.
Reason is the whole reason i know how a hardware racks works !! Loved it
Lol..No doubt bro
I remember downloading it and cracking it from MiRC in the early 2000s, but i could never get into it. Maybe one day. I like simple and straight forward and reason has like 763 things on the screen at all times
Lol.
They not called Propellerheads they are called ReasonStudios and none of the original team exists in the company's. The longest member in Reason now is Ryan who's been with Reason about 8 years and used to be behind the camera but over the last few years took James Brunards place as the public relations leader.
Oh ok.
Loved it - reason ran well on low spec setups -door sounds
Lol yup.
I downloaded Reason 3 back in 2007 and could never figure out how to use it 😅
Lol!
I didn’t grow up with hardware and I think I found Reason about the same time that I found Ableton. For me, even though Ableton is powerful and has features that Reason don’t have I still prefer Reason (and I just love the rack and it’s cables, it thought me how to wire up a studio and now I have more HW-gear and rack units that I could dream of back then).
I just find it inspiring and that is something that I don’t feel with Ableton, kind of feels like Ableton is a tool and Reason an instrument.
I then tried Rebirth and I still keep an old computer for Rebirth, ReCycle and Aksys but Reason is the only DAW that I really like with Renoise on second place.
It is easy to compare features but things has to feel right and spark creativity and that’s more important than the feature set.
I feel just like you. Got reason in 2004 and didn't ever use hardware but loved the hardware look and wiring. I've had pro tools and Ableton and got rid of them when reason added audio. Can't see myself using another Daw now.
I feel you on the product having to spark creativity.
I woulda stuck with em if I coulda recorded audio back then.
nice..
Thanks fam.
Awesome content! You never disappoint. Now you know you gotta do Emagic Logic Audio and the switch from PC to MAC only. Can’t wait to hear your take on that.
Ahh man Mac only?..Ima see whats up.
@@DyReckProductions Cool. Also please do a part 2 to this video. Talk about Rewire technology, the transition from Reason to Record, and then back to Reason. Changed their name from Propellerhead to Reason Studios. Then how they dropped Rewire to offer Reason as a VST. And…. Finally scalability for high res graphics (that still has issues with scrolling) but long overdue. You captured the essence of its history but it’s far more an interesting topic. You get into this, Logic Pro, and the DAW wars and your comments and shares will be off the charts…. especially with the way you deliver.
@@DyReckProductions Also you talked about how they wouldn’t allow 3rd Party plugins. Don’t forget that…. that was because they were trying to sell Rack Extensions. I NEVER bought their Rack Extensions. I primarily use Logic but had to update Reason when they offered it as a VST. Now they have the Reason+ were you pay $20 monthly.
@@hankstephens5543 Oh ok good point..They were going hard on the Rack Extensions.
@@hankstephens5543 No doubt..Ima see whats up.
I can't stand Reason. It's like they looked at a physical old-school studio and tried to emulate the looks and workflow. If I wanted that workflow I'd use an actual studio. I prefer DAWs that play to the strengths of a computer + keyboard + mouse interface like Renoise, Ableton, Bitwig...
Excellent video bro 🙌🏾 like damm I’m glad I forgot about this software for everything you mentioned 🤣. Bro thanks for explaining Fans only ....... I could not understand what that app was about. I got a few invites on Facebook 😆😆
Lol..No doubt bro.
I bought a Dummies guide to Reason before I actually bought. But then I seen Cubase in action and switched up lol
Oh ok cool.
I been using reason for 4 years still on reason intro 10 doe making dope music
I wonder wat reason can do now
I did use in 2007
I still use recycle with my old akai s3000xl and s5000 , best samplers ever
In 2022 I have no daw , got my own work flow no daw does wat I want it to , after starting wiv cubase vst way back
I have to use 3 or 4 at the same time
Oh ok dope!
You gotta call it "Reasons"
Word.
i chose reason because dj khalil and dj toomp was using it, and i still use reason today
Oh ok no doubt.
I’m still using Reason 6 and Recycle. I really can’t get enough of those two programs they’re so good. And to be honest, I like the fact that you can’t load third party vst’s, allowing you to be more creative with what you have.
I’m also a Live user. Been using Live since version 1. Live is totally awesome too, they both have their own use and appeal but when it comes to the sound of the effects, those in Reason sound way better imho. At least this old version I use. Live is catching up with their drum buss & roar plugins but Reason has been delivering forever. I read somewhere that the guy in charge of the overall sound in Reason is the guy who came up with the Nord Lead keyboards, and we all know how sweet those sounded!
BTW bro your channel is so entertaining keep it up!
I've been making music with reason from 2001.. back then I had some hardware gear too, since PC's back in time wasn't feeling like powerful enough. After that I had to let my hardware go due to problems in life, but I still got reason and lots of plug ins with it and I still make music with it.
Omg 🤣🤣🤣😂😂 how! That’s exactly what me and my brother did when mom hid the Game 😂
I started out on reason in 2018 and I want to never use it again but I know too much about it. When I open the computer I want to open the fruit image but reason calls. I hate it
Yo back in 2009 I was a wanna be beat maker using a demo version of FL studio it was straightforward and pretty easy to use but a friend had Reason on his computer I tried to make a beat but I was completely lost I didn’t even know what I was looking at I didn’t even know what a rack was or looked like
Lmao same here!
Dope work DyReck!!! Omg I remember Rebirth in ‘97. It got me in the game understanding sound synthesis basics. How the times have changed. Many thanks!
Thanks fam.
Reason's been out since '94? Really? I had no idea it had existed that long.
However, I did find out about Rebirth around '99--2000. I downloaded a copy of it and enjoyed me some 808,909, and 303. When I got my first hardware sampler in late 2000 (E-MU ESI2000), I sampled the Rebirth 808 sounds into it. For the first time, I could use any sound I wanted in my music, thanks to the sampler and decent 808 sounds, thanks to Rebirth.
But yeah, I've messed with a lot of DAWs but still 'til this day haven't had the chance to really check out Reason, although I know it is an extremely powerful production tool.
Yeah Reason was transcending when it first appeared..Alot of hardware guys transitioned to software through Reason.
Early 2010s moving to DAWs Reason was solid as a rack inside your favorite DAW with ReWire. I even used to use Reason with my MPC 2500. The thing with Reason at the time, even tho you keep mentioning a sampler, you couldnt sample audio into reason. You had to find a sample and make a loop in another audio editing software like cool edit or sound forge. Then take that to ReCycle to slice it up. Then you saved REX files you could load into Dr.Rex. But whatever you sliced was permanent so if you wanted to edit a slice you had to close everything and open it back up in recycle. Then they changed drRex to octoREX and I hated that shit. But for that time period those sounds they had on NNXT, Thor, maelstrom etc were great. Then they added the ability to use multiple racks inside a single mixer channel to create new sounds, and they started selling sounds like reason keys, abbey road keys, drum packs, it was dope.
Reason was not nice to beginners at all. I think Fruity Loops killed it’s popularity because FL was like the “beat making for dummies” for new beatmakers. You dl a cracked version of FL and start clicking buttons on the step sequencer and started pumping out shitty beats like Cassidy. But it was so easy to use people were willing to learn it.
Dang!..Beat making for dummies lol..Reason was confusing to alot of folks though..But if you stuck in there and figured it out you were good..Really good..I remember how popular Thor was back then lol.
I almost had a placement with Shorty Lo (rip) he liked it and it was made in Reason 5, and he asked me “did you use fruity Loops” and I said no, but he never used the beat, but I did make a few bucks.
Nice!
Reason was the first DAW I ever used and with no experience with any audio gear and no youtube to learn from, the backside was too confusing for me.
So later went on to mess with Fruity Loops. But it was not for a long time.
Now I find Abelton confusing and like workflow of Reaper a lot more. As Im used to work on Adobe Premiere for videos, so it feels closer to home.
Lol I feel you.
Reason. This software is amazing. Complicated but like all software it has its ups and downs. I have a friend who mastered it. Thanks brother. Love your work for the culture of musicians.
Thanks bro.
Great video Native Shades. Reason was my beat making DAW of choice between 2004 and 2015 before I moved on to Maschine. I made quite a few albums with it that I still get paid for to this day. I still have the old PC that I used Reason on so I can access my old files but ironically I now use the MPC which I didn't learn before back in the days because I was fast on Reason rewired with Cakewalk Sonar. Reason had stock sounds that was more than usable where as the MPC didn't have sounds, you had to sample your sounds in. I've now grown to appreciate taking time to sample and create my sounds and use hardware. I'll always look back fondly on those Reason/Sonar days but not going back
Word..Reason did have alot of great stock sounds back in the day..In the early 2000's it was pretty much the best daw behind Protools in alot of folks opinion..
@@DyReckProductions Remember they had ReCycle first which could time stretch samples, then ReBirth which was a software drum machine and then there was Reason a full blown software sequencer with built in instruments and racks to work with and then export your audio. They also were compatible with the Rewire function so it could be wired into another DAW for vocals and other audio to be added to the final mix. Logic and Cubase were really fighting for the number two spot for DAW here on this side of the Atlantic. On your side I hear that Sonar was popular but again Logic and Cubase were the two giants. Ableton, Fruity Loops (FL Studio) and Reason were the new kids on the block back then.
@@RoomAtTheTopStudio Yeah..It was the DAW wars back then Lol..Time flies..But Reason was always dope..It had its own style.
Always hated the workflow of reason
Everything came out of Reason, sounding like Reason
Lol.