Hello Everybody, It was suggested I get REASON to help with my music production because of the many sound loops and because Iam a one man operation. Any suggestions where I could get say version 8 at a good price. Thank you..PS I was also told to be careful buying on line because of licencing issues.
Any suggestions where I could get say version 8 at a good price. Thank you..PS I was also told to be careful buying on line because of licencing issues.
If you're worried about licensing issues, then you shouldn't be hunting for a good price.
All authorized dealers will be selling it for basically the same amount.
FWIW, reason is great for all sorts of composition, not just loop-based. It definitely makes a GREAT adjunct to Reaper, though you'll likely end up needing to purchase a lot of third-party refill libraries.
You can get Reason Essentials 10 for $69.
Apparently the price will be subtracted from the price of the full Reason 10 should you decide to upgrade.
I'm just investigating it myself - so don't take anything I say for certain!
Have a look at Propellerheads specs page, and email them if necessary to make sure exactly what you're getting (and what you're not getting) before considering Essentials 10.
I don't have Reason and never tried it, but it looks a lot more interesting than it did a few years ago when I last looked at it.
Apparently you can use VSTs and VSTis in Essentials 10, and also create REX files.
Obviously a lot of the goodies are stripped out from the full Reason 10, but you do get a few things, one of them being a half decent sampler - NXXT. It's not Kontakt, but it looks capable enough if a bit dated.
the 'real' instrument sounds have come in handy many times - can totally ignore the synthetic stuff if you like. sure your kontakt and the like cover that a bit more these days -
but think acoustic loops, percussion to accompany some real guitar - odd keyboard sounds, it was my goto for strings for ages. there are more real life instruments added in v10 - plucked n stuff.
i went from 100% electronic creatively in 91-01' to now predominantly acoustic -
- albeit years behind the curve - with tech thrown in.
next bit of work am about to start will be one part just acoustic tunes, other part mixture. - one reason i got uh.. reason.
idea is will be a lure to new little studio - will see if they will come... if they don't i'll have a nice hobby again - inbetween arguing trump on the internet.
Reason+reaper for lyfe! mo funkerz.
For your bucks 1 gets a few bangs--cost of reaper studio license,over cost of reason license ---hmmm--- i think these 2 programmes <<combined>> make a more complete audio circuit.
Always quite liked nnxt (but not for it's lack of automating! >cough ph!<) and ability for combinator patches--a playground for sound design and audio manipulations of many kinds.Thor is a great tool in itself. =)
[QUOTE=Seymoursax;1949039]Hello Everybody, It was suggested I get REASON to help with my music production..
I really appreciate your replies..I would love to do the rewire with REAPER part Thanks again. God bless you.
$400.00 and it's just getting vst and audio recording support? :confused��
that was never really its USP to be fair - rewired to reaper gave us all that - but they incorporated it so folk can use it soley if they fancy - however i am so used to the non-audio versions, i have barely tried those features out - am too reaper
my view was as reaper gives you no instruments or musical/'creative' tools, reason fills that gap pretty well in a flexible way.
Hello Everybody, It was suggested I get REASON to help with my music production because of the many sound loops and because Iam a one man operation. Any suggestions where I could get say version 8 at a good price. Thank you..PS I was also told to be careful buying on line because of licencing issues.
I would also consider Ableton Live.
It is also great for loop based production. They are both geared for EDM/loop based genres and their approach is very different to Reaper yet very different from each other.
IMO, if you are getting Reason, I would just try to get the new version 10 over an old version 8. It has more sounds/synths/features/VST capability. I would be they might throw in a free RE as well or so.
At minimum at least get version 9 as versions under 9 don't support VSTs.
I think licensing issue would be true no matter where you bought it.
Reason 10 Essentials for $69 is worth it simply for the Bass Guitar patch in the Subtractor synth alone. I absolutely love that sound and never tire of it. It doesn't sound exactly like a bass guitar, when I want that I just record a real one, but it sits so well in so many of my mixes.
Look into Mulab by Mutools. Can be rewired into reaper as well.
There is 1 kinda drawback using rewire apps into reaper---user basically looses input fx--which is 1 of the reasons'' i like to patch thru reaper---so rearoute is a better option i find >>also there is certain other parameters that can be accessed when plugins run standalone modes-(not vst instances)-emux3 is 1 of them plugs for sure.
Reason is not just for loop based compositions--it can be used for scores or anything really... the cv thing is kinda fun and very flexible----but even this is stuck to 128 values of midi data.
Reason also does not do midi channels on a track level--it just uses 1 channel per track as it appears---- you can only access other channels via the advanced midi input section there..
GLHF-whatever the choices.
*edit* how can 1 forget reason's trump card-- plugin sync all !! does vst do that?! nope.
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It was suggested I get REASON
- with tech thrown in. 
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