Koshdukai's Music(al) Reason(ing)

Reason 7 is finally here. I guess some of the new features are too obvious and simple to understand why they are so great. Channel bus/groups, parallel channels ad-infinitum, Spectral EQ controlling the good "old" channel EQ, audio auto/manual slicing and quantizing, the list goes on... there's even a bonus Instragram-like audio "toy" that... is no toy at all when in the proper hands ;) But the thing that many were also waiting for years was Reason ability to output MIDI from the sequencer in a proper, easy to configure, easy to use and easy to understand way. External MIDI Instrument Reason 7 finally brings us the "little" External MIDI Instrument rack device (EMI for short). Obvious use? Play your hardware synths :) ...old, new, vintage, digital, analog, mono, poly, big or small MIDI controlled audio generating gadgets, your OP-1's, your... iPad synth apps... even your 2nd laptop running any MIDI playable music app ;) Not...

Reason 7 MIDI OUT (to finally play/control hardware/software instruments/devices) Audio slicing (almost ReCycle style) Audio quantization (make those MIDI instrument recordings tight and more...) Convert sliced audio clips into REX loops Spectrum Analyzer (floating, resizable window) Visual EQ (over the Spectrum Analyzer) Group mixer channels (remember the "P-LAN" at the back?) Parallel channels (audio through to another Mix Channel) Imports " your music library and web formats " audio ( mp3 ,  wma ,  m4a , etc...) Enhanced Factory Sound Bank ( new loops and drum kits ) The new Audiomatic Retro Transformer effect ( ? ) Reason Essentials  2 FREE upgrade for existing ReE owners Audio slicing (almost ReCycle style) Audio quantization (to make those external instrument recordings tight) Convert sliced audio clips into REX loops Imports " your music library and web formats " audio ( mp3 ,  wma ,  m4a , etc...) ...

uh... well... users kept asking me if this'n'that was possible, so, while explaining how to do it I ended up adding stuff to the Codec, namely, it even sends MIDI Program Change now :] Here I'm showing the larger note range: 104 notes now, from C-1 to G7 through the use of 4 Codec instances, each controlling 32 note segments, like shown at the end of the video. These technical demos are always a bit boring, I know, especially non-voiced over ones (and with lame note/chord sequences ;), but I'm in a noisy room at the moment so... I preferred doing yet another "silent" video with just the synths output being recorded. Sorry :) oh, and I keep using VSTi's just because it's easier to capture everything on screen, but any external hardware device could be the target of the MIDI output. Then you can simply record its audio into a Reason audi track, et voila'!

Hi ! :) Made this little demo video today, showing something I tried a while back just to see if it was possible and... yeah, it is, but quite cumbersome and limited of course... Aaaanway, since I mentioned it on a Prop forum thread about MIDI out , I felt like I should at least show I wasn't crazy or lying ;) But... I won't waste any more time on this. I prefer to wait for a proper MIDI output solution from Propellerhead, like I did wait for a proper solution for Audio Input, Sampling and Recording.