I doubt it, considering I'm very talented with the workflow of FL Studio also. And I know which allows easier seq, which IS the workflow of a beat making software. I've been using FL Studio for the better part of a decade. I doubt the developers of the software could speed up the workflow of FL to come close to the workflow of Reason.
I by no means even want to say that Reason is better, but I've had a lot of experience demoing gear and selling it and I know what makes people buy gear. Banging out hot tracks and making it look easy. Period. Only people that already know software would pick it based on anything else. If you already know FL Studio then of course your workflow for it will be better than a software you don't use and know. But that was my whole point. Give me a FL user and an hour and I'll have them hooked on Reason!
If you are looking for a complete production d.a.w. then you could pick Cubase or ProTools just as easily as FL Studio. If you want a beat making workstation where getting the ideas out quickly is the most important thing then Reason is your answer.
Using Reason is no different than using a Motif with Cubase. Are you trying to say that FL Studio is better than Motif with Cubase? It's not.
Reason is a different type of product. If you wanna bring up audio editing and all the other features that dude is bringing up why don't you just compare apples to oranges.
If you wanna talk about beat making alone, you guys really have NOTHING TO SAY bad about Reason.
you're sounding a bit arrogant there.
you say you're not saying reason is better but you keep going on and on about how the reason sequencer kills the fl studio sequencer. at the end of the day which is the better sequencer is entirely down to preference, but you seem to think there is an definite answer and that you have found it.
for other forms of electronic music, remember hip-hop is a type of electronic music, flstudio is usually viewed as being "better" for making music. this is for genres that don't rely or require the recording of instruments of vocals.
for one thing reason, by itself, cannot record audio at all. that means if you want to sample something you need another program and then you need up the sample it the nnxt or another reason device. reason doesn't even have a wav editor.
also the exclusion of plugin support is a major drawback for creating beats. there are lots of great plugins out there you are unable to use with reason.
while i agree, to an extent, with the comparison of reason to a workstation i think that comparison is becoming less and less relevant. in reality that very comparison holds very little weight because a hardware workstation and reason also two totally completely beasts. people just like to use the analogy of reason as a self-enclosed workstation. i think now as software has become more popular there are now lots of producers coming up who have never worked with hardware, sans midi controllers, before. their entire experience of music making is software based so although the analogy of reason a keyboard workstation may be good when attempting to compare products it actually doesn't stand for much.
in these comparisons to hardware the only thing that defines reason as a self enclosed workstation keyboard is the fact that it doesn't support plugins (a lot of people have referred to refills as like getting new sound modules) and i guess you could throw in the fact that it has quite a nice library of sounds.
but that is hardly a definition and all the things that make reason like a hardware workstation other programs can do as well.
and with the release of record there is no denying that reason/record (when used in conjunction) is a DAW. it fits the definition of a digital audio workstation.
but i digress. this is just arguing semantics.
some people create their basic beat in flstudio or reason, and then track it out and mix it in another program. some people mix within reason or flstudio. different people have different ways of working.
some people like doing all their production in cubase or pro tools.
in terms of what reason can do and what fl studio can do then fl studio is technically superior as it allows you to host plugins (i won't mention recording audio because Record added with Reason allows that). but what software is technically the best has little to no relevance to the
individual, that's you and me and everybody else.
for example i love using renoise but some people i know can't stand using trackers for anything and hate the sight of them. in fact i'm fairly certain a pretty good case could be made for renoise being superior to both reason and flstudio strictly in terms of beatmaking!!
but that's another argument...
other people swear by ableton live. some people use cubase.
everybody should use what is best for them, but that doesn't mean that every program is the same. yes some programs have better capabilities than others. unfortunately wheter or not preference for one sequencer over another makes that program better for beat-making is still up in the air.
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