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I use Reason every day, and while I assure that its design was somewhat appealing at first, the sheer insanity of having to deal with virtual instruments and se
by icarus_drowning 16y ago
I use Reason every day, and while I assure that its design was somewhat appealing at first, the sheer insanity of having to deal with virtual instruments and sequencers as if they were the "real thing" grows tiring extremely quickly.
Even during my education, wherein I dealt with more than a few individuals in Reason's "target market" (see: aging film composers who have spent their fair share of time plugging real cables into real sequencers) found it appalling and difficult to use.
The only reason I still use the program at all is because it has a few excellent patches built into it. The fact that I have to wade through the swamp of illogic that is its user interface remains one of most frustrating parts of my job as a media composer.
- moe 16y agoAlso, one of the ironies in reason is that you quickly arrive at the point where you want to wire the relevant knobs and dials to one central virtual control surface, because scrolling up and down over 3 screens full of devices gets old rather fast. But there is no such thing that I know of (in Reason4), so without a physical MIDI control surface you're effectively lost. Disclaimer: I'm only a casual Reason user, perhaps I'm missing something. I also hear Reason5 has some improvements but haven't upgraded yet.