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Down memory lane: Reason Factory Sound Bank patch designing

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I just stumbled on some file archives where I kept the last version of my patches for Reason 6 (if I'm not mistaken) Factory Sound Bank. Then thought it would be fun to check if any were still listed in the first group of patches, when we create a device. To my surprise, some familiar names still show up in Reason 12, eh! Smooth Wobbler! Epic Chip Lead! Artwist Bass and Chip Arpeggio! and some of my favorite Combinator (v1) ones are still included too, nice! :) Needless to say that we kinda had a theme going for that FSB,  that's why there were so many "wobble", "dirty" and "chip-tune'ish" patches ;) Some of the more odd Combinator ones don't make any sense nowadays because of all the new Rack Extensions that keep coming out, especially from Reason Studios. Ok, now... I'm trying to think what else might be in there... hmmm... I remember doing some for Parsec (Phrap One Bass and Phrap Two Bass comes to mind) ...and Complex-1 (Panflute, C

Reason 12.5 supports VST3! :)

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*cof*

Reason doesn't support MPE ...right?

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 Yeah, right, although... ...through 16 instances of my  Generic MIDI Channel aware Remote Codec+Map  (1 per MIDI Channel) Locking each of those instances to each of the 16 rack devices will allow at least playing with "poly-aftertouch" through MPE's multi-Channel Aftertouch ;) Hugely cumbersome, I know but that's usually how we do things in Reason when Reason doesn't (or until? it) properly supports these things :/ Remember my cumbersome MIDI OUT solution before we finally got a proper rack device for MIDI Output ? :) Well... 'till then, we'll have to wait for this and/or at least Poly-Aftertouch... but then we would also need a more complete support on VST hosting, allowing MIDI CC's and MIDI Channels to reach the VST (which they don't). Keeping my fingers crossed, as usual (for more than a decade now) ! :)

Reason 12 is here!

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  ...and the new Combinator is too :)

Down memory lane: Old Reason Trailers

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Just stumbled on these 3 old trailers for Reason 2.5, Reason 3.0 and Reason 4.0 that only existed in Flash format. For historic REASONs (eh) I decided to convert them into video so we can still enjoy them now, in the non-Flash era :) DISCLAMER: All rights belong to Propellerhead aka Reason Studios, as far as I know.

20 years of Reason !

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