Reason to upgrade

Marc Nostromo [M-.-n] marc.nostromo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 14 07:50:38 CET 2013


damn, they beat me to it before I could try in live :D

2013/3/14 Tony Hardie-Bick <tony at entity.net>:
> from http://is.gd/dither [createdigitalmusic]
>
> "Summing is a hot-button topic, for sure. On some level, there will be a
> simple addition, just like there is an addition of voltages/current on
> the summing bus of an analog console. But nobody would say that 2 analog
> consoles sound the same. Similarly, there are design decisions to be
> made on digital mixers. For example, our EQs are implemented in 64-bit,
> and there is a dither stage in each channel. When multiple channels are
> summed together, you can handle this dither in different ways. The
> difference isn’t in the actual summing, but qualitative differences come
> from these signals when they are summed."
>
> Tony (HB)
>
>
> On 13/03/13 21:34, Andrew Tarpinian wrote:
>>
>> I'm guessing it's that mixer they have now, with the SSL master bus
>> compression, prob makes things sound "better" (louder) by default.
>>
>> "In fact, the mixer in Reason has become so popular that pro mix
>> engineers have made it their weapon of choice to tap into the
>> clarity, punch, and analog characteristics provided by the modeled EQ
>> or compressors on every channel... and that's not to mention the
>> master bus compressor."
>>
>> I did not realize pro mixing engineers use Reason as their weapon of
>>  choice... :L
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com
>>  <mailto:noisetheorem at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I still think Reason sounds like Reason, but I havnt used it since
>> V4
>>
>> I might upgrade because of the MIDI out.  That looks really
>> interesting.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Andrew Tarpinian
>> <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com <mailto:andrewtarpinian at gmail.com>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The new reason midi out seems like a good enough excuse for me to
>>> finally upgrade my 3.0 (or something) version.
>>>
>>> https://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/new/
>>>
>>> Plus this blocks (not new to the new version) thing seems pretty
>>> interesting:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&article=devices_blocks
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> You can do the same kinda idea in ableton but not quite like this,
>>> it's kinda like creating nested comps in After Effects or most
>>> video applications. Forgetting the standard song structure, might
>>> be interesting to use to approach more non traditional arrangement
>>> experiments.
>>>
>>> Also I have seen a few people reference how punchy and great reason
>>> sounds vs. other applications. Is this a new thing? cuz my issue
>>> with it back in the day is that it always sounded weak, or "sounded
>>> like Reason."
>>>
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