Reason 14 & the Rack Extension SDK 5.0.0
I've been progressively disenchanted with Reason because of the lack of full MIDI support and more importantly, lack of (MIDI recording of) expressive playing. All my Polyphonic Aftertouch or MPE controllers/synths are ignored by Reason- So... I end up having to use Ableton Live, unfortunately, which has been my long time fallback while waiting for Reason to support something, like when I've waited for Audio IN/Recording, VST Hosting and now still, for proper MIDI routing into/out of VSTs, PolyAT/MPE and... soon MIDI 2.0 and... Video (but that's stretching it). Anyway, in June of this year, the Rack Extension SDK 5.0.0 was released and I checked its possibilities and I was extremely excited with all the new very interesting and some long awaited features by RE devs! It wouldn't solve my ongoing gripes with Reason but at least it would allow amazing UX/UI things never possible before on a Rack Extension! Last week, I finally got some spare time to really put my hands on ...