propellerheads are soon gonna announce something new/ The Reason 5 thread

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statixx said:
let the arrows be some sort of routing symbol for virtual sound technology please!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ah yes, it could be an update to how routing works, maybe adding some stuff or simplifying it maybe. I can see that being pretty big if they do it right.

Still waiting for an update to those samplers though, and this clue doesn't seem to indicate tomorrow is the day for that (if there even is one).
 
The arrows could be the tap tempo button. They're making a big deal about that over at the Props forums.
 
im sure the guys over at props are saving the best for last.

maybe theyll have us doing backflips here in a day or so.
 
Still on the switch to logic till now ... lets see if they could prevent me from doin that ;)

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Oh by the way...they had a small hint !!!
During the BLOCKS intro they said even when you RECORD in your tracks you can still use Blocks....so will Reason 5 be able to record ?
 
personally speaking this announcement has left me disheartened. i wasn't particularly exciting about the new dr. octorex either but that's because for me i don't think i will use it that much in my productions. but i can understand that for some people it will be a really valuable tool and a great update. therefore i was excited about what the rest of the week would bring.

but this blocks feature is sort of a let down. IMO this is the sort of thing that should be in "additional upgrades to reason 5". the fact that propellerheads is marketing this as one of the new big 5 features kind of worries me as to what the rest of the "big" updates will be.

i'm not saying this feature won't be useful or anything but i don't think it merits being one of the 5 big new features. hopefully props aren't going from unveiling best new feature to worst because in that case the rest of the updates will probably be pathetic.

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KlickBeatz said:
Still on the switch to logic till now ... lets see if they could prevent me from doin that ;)

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Oh by the way...they had a small hint !!!
During the BLOCKS intro they said even when you RECORD in your tracks you can still use Blocks....so will Reason 5 be able to record ?
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no i don't think so. i think the "blocks" feature is an update to the sequencer of reason/record and not a feature that is going to be exclusive to reason. hence the reference to recording in the vid.
 
kb420 said:
Actually, you were close.


It's Blocks, and I'm definitely not impressed with that. If they want a non linear way of working, this is a weak attempt compared to Live's Session View.
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i think they were looking for something similar and I think this will be a very useful feature especially for those who want to sequence with that Live/FL kind of way but not leave the one program. I am hoping for something big though either tomorrow or Thursday because if Friday shows the only big feature they have ill be very upset lol.
 
say it terror said:
personally speaking this announcement has left me disheartened. i wasn't particularly exciting about the new dr. octorex either but that's because for me i don't think i will use it that much in my productions. but i can understand that for some people it will be a really valuable tool and a great update. therefore i was excited about what the rest of the week would bring.

but this blocks feature is sort of a let down. IMO this is the sort of thing that should be in "additional upgrades to reason 5". the fact that propellerheads is marketing this as one of the new big 5 features kind of worries me as to what the rest of the "big" updates will be.

i'm not saying this feature won't be useful or anything but i don't think it merits being one of the 5 big new features. hopefully props aren't going from unveiling best new feature to worst because in that case the rest of the updates will probably be pathetic.

no i don't think so. i think the "blocks" feature is an update to the sequencer of reason/record and not a feature that is going to be exclusive to reason. hence the reference to recording in the vid.
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I've been saying the same thing all morning over at the Props forum, and you are right about Blocks. It's an update for Reason and Record's sequencers.
 
World Wide said:
After seeing the first 2 of these things, so far I am extremely disappointed in propellerheads.

Stop copying Ableton Live already. Stop making people pay ridiculous amounts of money for basic features (I have to buy Record just to record audio? Recycle just to chop a loop?).

EXTRA EXTRA: There are literally hundreds if not thousands of pieces of software out that allow you to do these things for FREE!!!

I love Reason, but come on man...
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from what i understand they take most of their feature requests right off of the Props forum so if you feel that way sign up and become more active with feature requests. Ive seen this blocks feature requested on the props forum more than once. And I think the Octorex will be very useful for my personal workflow. I love the Dr Rex its one of my favorite modules in Reason
 
_SG_ said:
So this is the next image (or clue) for tommorow:

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Someone said this could be a reference to the next feature possibly being midi out, arrows pointing toward a circular shape, seems to make enough sense.
 
well i've just had a minute to sit on my disappointment and actually blocks isn't that big of a letdown anymore!! i know when people saw the countdown everybody was looking forward to 5 new feature reveals everyday. obviously everybody wants to think of new modules and devices being added. but this blocks feature will be great for workflow.

i guess it just doesn't have the "wow" factor that announcing a new device has.

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kb420 said:
I've been saying the same thing all morning over at the Props forum, and you are right about Blocks. It's an update for Reason and Record's sequencers.
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yeah i seen you posting over there in the blocks thread. i don't bother chiming in over there though because it's impossible to have any sort of intelligent discussion with a bunch of rabid fanboys.

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_SG_ said:
Someone said this could be a reference to the next feature possibly being midi out, arrows pointing toward a circular shape, seems to make enough sense.
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again IF the next new update is MIDI out i will feel the same way about it as blocks. while it's a valuable tool NO DOUBT and will prove essential for some people no way should it be one of the 5 big updates.

stuff like blocks and MIDI out should be just in additional features.
 
I guess the props just reached the top of updates possible !
Till now hardcore dissappointed !
 
yo looking at blocks and thinking more about it i wonder if props are trying to take back customers who went to LIVE or flstudio...
 
deRaNged 4 Phuk'dup said:
lol @ how close I was to the announcement while just joking being a dyck. blocks? Just label each section of your song and highlight the entire group of tracks from the section you want to copy.

I'm studying this Reason 5 update, because i'm still a believer that Reason 3 was > Reason 4 and in all honesty, I'd still be happy using 3. If this update doesn't start shaping up, I'm gonna lose faith in Reason. Maybe day 5 will be Vst/Rtas support with a big "f**k u" message attached(Even if only available in Record, I'd be an instant fan). That would shut us all up.
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wouldnt shut me up. i could careless about vst/rtas support in Reason or Record. I just don't see the point. Reason refills really get the job done especially after using the right fx on the raw sounds
 
say it terror said:
yeah i seen you posting over there in the blocks thread. i don't bother chiming in over there though because it's impossible to have any sort of intelligent discussion with a bunch of rabid fanboys.
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I only use the modules in Reason. I don't use the sequencer. I sequence in Live. If I worked exclusively in Reason, then I would be excited about Blocks and Dr. OctoRex, but as it stands, neither of those brings anything at all to the table for me. I felt the same way about Record which is the reason that I never grabbed it.
 
_SG_ said:
So this is the next image (or clue) for tommorow:

revealed-feature-3-gray.png


I still can't quite figure out what it might mean, any guesses?
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probably some sort of burn to cd feature

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KlickBeatz said:
Still on the switch to logic till now ... lets see if they could prevent me from doin that ;)

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Oh by the way...they had a small hint !!!
During the BLOCKS intro they said even when you RECORD in your tracks you can still use Blocks....so will Reason 5 be able to record ?
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no it means that this feature is in both Record 1.5 and Reason 5. I think most people here are focusing on Reason but this is a Record update also
 
i think im the only one hyped about both features the blocks feature is pretty the software version of the song/pattern mode the most loved piece of equipment in hardware history the mpc. the feature is a great increase to workflow.
 
kb420 not to confuse this thread moreso but i think you raised a very good point over at the props forum. you said that workflow improvements are a bigger deal in an open system but with reason/record being a closed environment there should be more of an emphasis on new devices as users do not have access to third party ones.

i'm not a LIVE user but have used flstudio quite a bit in the past. i also currently use renoise for a lot of my production work which has recently added a pattern matrix for arranging songs.

i'm wondering how does this new blocks feature compare, if at all, to session view in live?
 
say it terror said:
well i've just had a minute to sit on my disappointment and actually blocks isn't that big of a letdown anymore!! i know when people saw the countdown everybody was looking forward to 5 new feature reveals everyday. obviously everybody wants to think of new modules and devices being added. but this blocks feature will be great for workflow.

i guess it just doesn't have the "wow" factor that announcing a new device has.
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thats where i am at with it. i saw it 2 hrs ago and literally sat there like wtf and pissed off now I am thinking like hell that feature is one of the big reasosn why i like sequencing on hardware in the first place. This feature alone could make me go exclusive to Reason again but midi out is still important
 
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