buckman
06-22-2002, 07:46 PM
Hi there,
I recently downloaded a beta of Reason 2.0, the PropellerHead software. I am blown away at how cool it is, and how easy it is to make most genres of music with it. In Reason, you can "turn around" the various gear and move any cable to any spot, so for example, you can add a reverb unit, and patch the drum machine to the reverb, then back to the mixer. Not enough reverb? Add another reverb unit, maybe choose a gated sound, then patch reverb one to reverb two, then back to the mixer. So, what I am wondering is, is this how it is done in studios with pro gear? If so, does someone have to redo all these patches on a per song usage? Or is there some way to plug in all gear into some master controlling device, then use software or something to send audio to any of the devices in any way you want? I am thinking you have to manually move the cords around from outputs to inputs and so on. I'd imagine, just like how home theatre is eventually supposed to be all integrated so that you can route a vcr output to your second vcr, or your tv, or both, and route the dvd output to the tv, or the vcr for recording, or perhaps to the tv screen on the refrig in the kitchen, that there might be, or will be some way to have all this great external gear, but control where the audio goes via one central station.
For those of you who read this and haven't seen Reason, check it out. It is an amazing piece of software! Its $400 MSRP, but you get like 20 different pieces of gear. What is even cooler is that you can add as many of them as many times as you want to any given song, so that you can add 4 analog synths, 3 granular synths, 5 drum machines, 32 reverb machines, and so on, all to a single mix! It also has the ability to work with up to 64 hardware outputs at I think either 32-bit, or 24-bit audio resolution. I know it does 32-bit internal, but I think the output resolution is dependent on the actual hardware it sends the audio to. The only thing Reason 2 is really missing is the ability to add new plugins that can be patched in like the rest of this gear. It does support ReWire to hook up to other programs like CuBase though.
Anyway, thanks for any replies.
I recently downloaded a beta of Reason 2.0, the PropellerHead software. I am blown away at how cool it is, and how easy it is to make most genres of music with it. In Reason, you can "turn around" the various gear and move any cable to any spot, so for example, you can add a reverb unit, and patch the drum machine to the reverb, then back to the mixer. Not enough reverb? Add another reverb unit, maybe choose a gated sound, then patch reverb one to reverb two, then back to the mixer. So, what I am wondering is, is this how it is done in studios with pro gear? If so, does someone have to redo all these patches on a per song usage? Or is there some way to plug in all gear into some master controlling device, then use software or something to send audio to any of the devices in any way you want? I am thinking you have to manually move the cords around from outputs to inputs and so on. I'd imagine, just like how home theatre is eventually supposed to be all integrated so that you can route a vcr output to your second vcr, or your tv, or both, and route the dvd output to the tv, or the vcr for recording, or perhaps to the tv screen on the refrig in the kitchen, that there might be, or will be some way to have all this great external gear, but control where the audio goes via one central station.
For those of you who read this and haven't seen Reason, check it out. It is an amazing piece of software! Its $400 MSRP, but you get like 20 different pieces of gear. What is even cooler is that you can add as many of them as many times as you want to any given song, so that you can add 4 analog synths, 3 granular synths, 5 drum machines, 32 reverb machines, and so on, all to a single mix! It also has the ability to work with up to 64 hardware outputs at I think either 32-bit, or 24-bit audio resolution. I know it does 32-bit internal, but I think the output resolution is dependent on the actual hardware it sends the audio to. The only thing Reason 2 is really missing is the ability to add new plugins that can be patched in like the rest of this gear. It does support ReWire to hook up to other programs like CuBase though.
Anyway, thanks for any replies.