Koshdukai's Music(al) Reason(ing)

While watching last friday's Propellerhead video stream with Ryan and Mattias , a very small detail jumped at anyone paying attention to what Mattias was showing on his screen with Reason 10: One tiny small but in practice huge NEW feature: Favorite lists finally supporting Devices! ...besides just patches and folders. This is huge ! I've been waiting for this for some years now, since Rack Extensions "exploded" in numbers and diversity and even more after VST support. Given the fact that Reason doesn't support a TAG system for multi-type tagging devices, patches, ReFills, etc and its browser searching and filtering aren't anything to write about enthusiastically, those with a good amount of REs and VSTs will have a hard time reaching out for the right device at the right time unless some time was spent preparing a custom rack and sometimes even "forget" about some devices that could be used simply because those are "buri...

Reason 10.0 was announced this past Friday, Sept 22nd . Final release happening on October 25 2017. What's NEW ? 2x NEW Rack Extension instruments : Europa : a shapeshifting synthesizer, so more than just a plain wavetable synth Grain : a sample manipulator with various play algorithms, so not just grain based ones 3x NEW IDT based ROMpler instruments with sounds provided by  SoundIron : Klang : with a selection of tuned percussion based acoustic instruments Pangea : with a selection of odd/unusual/ethnic/world instruments Humana : a Vocal Ensemble/Choir oriented instrument 2x already existing and well known Rack Extensions : Radical Piano  instrument Synchronous Timed Effects Modulator  effect ...and " multi-gigabyte infusion of cutting-edge drum loops and samples " by  Sample Magic So, ok... cool, new stuff is always cool, right? ...though, some isn't "new NEW", since many already interested in... ...p...

Welcome to a brand "new" (old!) world :) ...soon, and I think for the 1st time ever in this blog (AFAIR) I'll be posting a review'ish on what's good and less good about Reason 9.5

...finally ;) « Coming on May 29th, Reason 9.5 is a free update to Reason 9. »

It's Christmas time and all the gift buying'n'giving (and some other random conversations with like-minded people) reminded me of a bunch of hardware I almost got as a kid but... due to unfortunate (financial) circumstances, it was never meant to happen :P Let me begin then, not with the "I wished I could access them" but the main "I almost got them" as a kid: 1)  Casio Keyboard CZ-101 (1984) Because that was the most affordable (4 voice) polyphonic MIDI enabled synth (I thought) I could get my hands on! Also, besides polyphonic, it was multitimbral! =D ...which, in my mind, would kinda solve the issue of only having 1 synth ;) ...and... that never happened :] 2)  Amstrad Studio 100 (1985) I clearly remember passing by a local shop and seeing a mixer-like panel and instantly stopping to investigate it further. It was a 6 Channel mixer with a built in simple BBD echo and a 4 track tape recorder plus a stereo/2 track ta...

Hey :) When connecting an hardware instrument to Reason, where it can work both as a MIDI Controller (sending notes, controls, etc to Reason) and also as a MIDI Instrument (receiving notes, CCs, etc from Reason) it's always good practice to turn off its Local Control. (unless you prefer to set the outgoing vs incoming to different MIDI Channels). Local Control?  What is that ?! Well, usually, MIDI enabled instruments are able to disconnect their physical user-interface (keyboard/pads, knob/fader/buttons controls) from their sound "engine" or section(s). Why is  Local Control needed ? To avoid MIDI feedback loops or double triggering of notes, etc. Imagine the following scenario in Reason (or any other DAW): You have the External MIDI Instrument (EMI) rack device point to Arturia DrumBrute's (in) MIDI port, so you can send MIDI notes from Reason and trigger DrumBrute's pads (sounds). But you also want to receive notes from the D...

Reason9_remotables.txt.zip Now, the only thing better than this would be for Propellerhead Software to keep this list updated, each time a change or new RE is published to the Shop :) ...that or allow the users to extract themselves this information through Reason, at least from the installed REs. Source:  List of remotables added to Downloads page