reason verses - ableton, logic, cubase

[SlavikSvensk]

sh*t 4.0 is out already...guess i know what i'm doing this weekend...

[Elvio Neto]

i allways use reason sinze first version

i rewired in ableton or project5 and it sounds great

for hithats or percutions redrum machine is amazing

reason is fast simple intuitive and stable (i never saw reason crash in my life)

and the low cpu usage is amazing

another thing , for experts you can create really great machines on reason , i folow some tutorials in reason foruns and the possibelities and endless

i saw guys making tutorial tracks where you dont need to press play to start the music , you just load the music and the reason start generating perfect random textures and ambient sounds on the machines... crazy stuff

well explored reason is very very powerfull

[robin m]

Personally I regret spending a year or so trying to get Reason (3) nailed... I perservered but could never get the sound I wanted and when I switched to Ableton I was amazed how much easier I could get decent results. It's probably just that Ableton's more suited to the techniques I like using though, I know a lot of people who somehow get amazing stuff out of Reason. I'd say shop around, use whatever seems to work best with your approach and then learn it inside out.

[SamL]

i do like reason - its what i learned to sequence and make music on primarily. I found loads of workarounds to problems (for good separation on the mixer wire the left channel and right channel from each instrument to a channel each and pan each hard left/right - negates the awful reason panning law, which give reason that "sound")

if anyone can host, i have two very good combinator instant "go to" tools i have set up. the first is an nn-xt as a drum machine, just load your kicks in, route them to output 1-2, all mid sounds to 3-4 and high sounds to 5-6. i have routed these outs to their own compressor/e.q. stage and set the combi up to control the balance of each effected sound - i.e. multiband compressor.

also a general combi to put AFTER the main mixer and before the outputs, as a mastering combi, with the vocoder backwired to act as a crude spectral analyser.

if anyone can host these i'll mail the combi's to whoever wants

got to the point for me with reason that if i had to work THAT hard to do stuff other platforms could offer witha simple Click > Insert... that i had to migrate. still an amazing program, the speed of working on which i adore!