Reason is
absolute beast with sampling. Its always a matter of opinion, and personal skill level whats working 4 U!. The reason i stand by Reason is because its what i started with, now i "master" it and therefor i KNOW its absolutely
beast, with sampling! Im doing complex sampling, using recycle. Slicing a couple of songs there, while im in Reason. then load the rexfile straight after. Easy, done in a minute. And dr.rex player works like a mpc. Turn the release all up, polyphony set to 1 and you good to go. You can tune and pitch, experiment as you want. Its always possible to find ways to do what you want. Workflow allows the feeling of being creative to be at its peak all the time. Never gets boring, if you like what your doing. I advise to check it out, borrow it from someone or somthin a couple of months and, give it a real go, and then buy or try something else.
The only thing it cannot do well. Is SIMPLE timestretching. I guess they will fix it someday soon, at least i hope. Thats the only thing you cant do easely, unless you (like someone said) load the audio file then in edit mode you can timestretch the part you want. Then solo and export the audio again, and re-slice it in recycle before bringing it back in to the dr.octo rex 4 that mpc feel, ready to bang on them pads. So it works. I just never take the time + i have to find out what parts i want to slice beforehand which can be a drag, if you want to change something afterwords, its a looong prosess of redoing, and deleting. And that can happen again to..
What we all Should do, is write Propellorheads a mail, that we all want Recycle as a new Rack-extension .. as a creative fx to compliment dr.octo rex. And this time, with REAL timestretch.
Another thing that should be possible was to route the audio of each singular slice to a mixer. That way we would have more possibilities. I Mean to route out just the parts you want, ex if you want to add effects to a single slice, you can do that. but still when your doing the mixing the sample all slices will be affected like it is now. Just a thought.
Reason ftw btw. It can do almost everything. And it just grows bigger every minute. These rack-extentions make this the best daw EVER! follow the trend yall. its good