Koshdukai's Music(al) Reason(ing)

Reason's BV512 Digital Vocoder rack device always had a very useful behavior regarding its use as a MIDI-to-CV utility device. Before the Kong Drum Designer rack device, which is typically the easiest and preferred device to convert a MIDI Note (i.e. Pad hit) into a CV Gate output (each pad has a CV out gate at the back) the BV512 Vocoder was the only rack device offering a similar behavior. How? (RTFM ;) The BV512 MIDI Implementation made it respond to a range of MIDI keyboard note input to control each of its 32 Vocoder Bands. This allows various cools tricks related with directly controlling specific and multiple bands while in Vocoder mode. The 1st 16 of those Vocoder bands, when activated (either by audio modulation or MIDI note input) will have their respective value output as CV at the back of the device. So, as you can see, prior to Kong , this was the perfect way to get at least 16 MIDI Note-to-CV Gate/Vel...

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...) ...