reason verses - ableton, logic, cubase

[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!