Reason

[Andrew Tarpinian]

See it's funny, after not touching it for a few years and playing with it today I totally get what you are talking about. It's funny how my mind did not think of that potential  years ago. Also maybe computers were slower : )

Andrew Robinson <andrew at bml.co.uk> wrote:

>2009/11/19 Andrew Tarpinian <evildead at nyc.rr.com>:
>> I left reason because the sound was not what I wanted, it always seemed to
>> sound like, Reason...
>
>I think Reason's downfall is that it's too easy to make things that
>sound like Reason, making things that don't sound like Reason with it
>is entirely possible, but it involves throwing modules around like
>there's no tomorrow, avoiding some more obvious ways of doing things,
>and a bit of lateral thinking that takes you beyond the 'virtual rack'
>metaphor into a world where it's sensible to have 5 subtractors that
>exist purely for their lfos, and a chain of 3 Scream distorters at
>different subtle settings instead of one obvious one, and 3 redrums
>that only play 1 sound each.
>
>I'm messing with a little mellow acid doodle at the moment, it's got
>49 things in the rack at the mo, and will probably end up with over
>100 before I'm done... there's a learning curve involved in getting to
>the point where a 100 module rack seems sane, manageable and
>justifiable.
>
>I hate redrum too, it only gets used for spot samples where a
>NN19+sequencer would be overkill. The matrix sequencer I have a
>love/hate relationship with, I'm forever fighting the 32 note limit
>and have a lot of interesting results from that fight that I wouldn't
>have reached any other way, such as getting a pseudo 64 note loop by
>splitting the audio out of the synth it's driving, delaying 1 path by
>5 notes and merging, to give a 64 note loop where every even odd
>numbered note is the same as the previous n-5th note.
>
>- Andy_R
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