Can I just say as a musician who fully endorses modular synthesis (and is the process of building his own physical modular synth) that Reason's design is fantas

Can I just say as a musician who fully endorses modular synthesis (and is the process of building his own physical modular synth) that Reason's design is fantastic. That's the back side of the instruments, you don't really interact with that much - only connecting various things which you don't really tweak. On the other side, yes, the gear matches physical interfaces and each instrument has a different interface. To me, that's the beauty of it! It really keeps your creative juice flowing and you end up doing things wrong and making mistakes, which unlocks all sorts of cool sounds. Also, I don't really see the issue with Ultrabeat, for precisely the same reason. I don't tend to use that, but that's just because a drum machine isn't my workflow. I think the author would have got his point across better if he wasn't using creative software as his example.