Reason 4.0 Better Than All Hardware?

[Xabiton]

Reason is totally capable of making hot sounds and its easy to understand if you understand how to use hardware. what was it that was confusing you? I know what throws a lot of people who are new to reason off is that you have to setup everything manually. meaning when u open a file u have to add a mixer then add each instrument and make ur own layers and ur own fx. nothing in reason is really preset. unlike fl or hardware romplers where u could use it strictly for its presets and not have to learn the other stuff.

[BoneThug999]

first time i downloaded reason demo i was like °°°° dat **** but i played around with it and now is very easy to handle and the sound are good too it took me like 1 day to understand some basic stuff and to make a beat and there are lots of tutorials on youtube and other sides that really can help you out

[LevLover]

Reason is totally capable of making hot sounds and its easy to understand if you understand how to use hardware.

that was the main thing that drew me to Reason, was that i looked familiar and the flow as the same to me, output to input. simple. i think alot of people don't have an understanding of the real world basics of audio in general, all they know is the software that they've come across and thats it, when faced with a problem, they don't even begin to know how to solve it. because all they know is what they downloaded. FL was the first software i ever used to make beats, it was easy to pick up on, but i was hardly able to apply any of the old world knowledge i had coming from the dj/live sound world. when i saw Reason and it atlest resemebled somethin that looked remotely familiar, i was off and running. took me a seq to get the sequencer down, but bsically you pick a patch, hit record, and play some notes, how hard is that?
LevLove

[Sirflex10]

Reason = Sexy

[Griffin Avid]

but i have alredy used tha Demo of reason and i dont like it. in my own opinion tha work flow is terrible, its not at all an easy program to understand becus of how everything is organized and tha sounds form tha demo that i heard are just as horrible as tha ones from FL whin i first got it. so i dont kno, i mean i told tha guy at guitar center that i wanted better sounds, not a better program. so whut shood i do if i want synths horns/strings like tha ones i hear from real songs? should i go with Reason or should i just go with a synthesizer and/or workstation?

I would have sworn Array already dealt with all of this. You don't need a salesman to figure this out. You don't like Reason. Don't use Reason.

I don't know what your Real Songs meter is. You might be listening to a real song with a real musician playing a real instrument.

I would say the best approach to capturing the sound(s) of a traditional/acoustic instrument is sample based. Sample libraries vary in quality- as Array already stated earlier. To find out if the Motif is close enough to the quality bar you hear in your head, play with it and see for yourself. If you're happy or unhappy with it, why would you care about what a bunch of dudes on a forum think?

[PURPLE GRASS]

Reason is the way to go if your not wanting to record audio. If you are then rewire Reason into your DAW and you're set. I originally came from a hard ware background, but now I'm all about software and won't be going back. (except maybe a mpc 1000 down the road) The work flow on Reason is just crazy easy and let's the creativity flow with ease. The effects that come with Reason are great as well. Bottom line, you can't go wrong with Reason. Can't wait for Reason 5 to come out.

[we88]

regardless of choice... As mentioned earlier in the post, when you hear 'real' tracks on the radio or wherever, they have been mixed and mastered professionally. That means experienced ears pulling forward or pushing frequencies here and there. Usually through expensive compressors, EQ's, reverbs and the like. This is the difference you can hear. It can be done all in the computer but it requires some extra ( and not so cheap) tools on top of an all in one package like Reason.

[Sycopath7]

regardless of choice... As mentioned earlier in the post, when you hear 'real' tracks on the radio or wherever, they have been mixed and mastered professionally. That means experienced ears pulling forward or pushing frequencies here and there. Usually through expensive compressors, EQ's, reverbs and the like. This is the difference you can hear. It can be done all in the computer but it requires some extra ( and not so cheap) tools on top of an all in one package like Reason.

well right, i git that, but thats tha quality of tha song in general, whut i mean is tha professional/realistic sound in each actual sound used in tha song, like sum of tha synths i posted above.

listen to tha beats on my myspace, ull see whut i mean. i have sum good sounds just i want to have tha best sounds possible.

[starbeezy]

Reason is cool, but I think just about any daw sequencer could sound at its best once an good audio engineer do his/her thang to it. Bring out frenquencies, etc. As long as you can track out the synths and sample into tracks, your production can be at its best

[Incompatible Muzik]

Reason will not be better than all hardware until computer hardware is just insanely awesome. Maybe 5 or 10 years. That being said, professional producers make hit songs you hear on the radio with Reason.

So no it's not better than all hardware, but for a few hundred dollars it's worth it.

All hardware = millions of dollars.
Reason = under 500 dollars.
All hardware = hit songs.
Reason = hit songs.

Get reason. It's not like you can afford millions in hardware anyway mayne. Reason's awesome.