The Sound Board

Here's a day I never thought would come...the upcoming 9.5 update (free for current 9 licensees) will bring native VST support to Reason:


https://www.propellerheads.se/reason-95

Beta testing starts now for registered users. I didn't upgrade from 8 to 9, but if ever there was a compelling motivation to do so this would be it!

(I've never understood why Reason exists.... could some kind soul sum it up in 200 words or less?)

Reason is an entirely self-contained musical environment that's almost impossibly stable, very lean, and scales well from "I want to play a piano patch" to "I want to use custom routing to sequence a crazy combo instrument".

It's the most reliable DAW on the market, but it's also not a DAW in the traditional sense because of how many doors "flipping the rack" opens. The only DAW that comes close to that kind of thing is probably Ableton/Bitwig. In that sense it does both less and more than traditional DAWs, which makes it unique if nothing else.

Good effort, thanks Marius! I'll leave y'all to it...

My ReWire days are over and I don't miss them.