Logic Vi's Vs. Reason 2 Options

[wonx]

I logic's stuff that much better to justify the $$$ or do they just force you to buy their expensive VI's by not offering REWIRE!

What are the limitations of Reason?

[Levon River]

The NN-XT in Reason, alone, blows several hardware samplers into twinkling bit-dust. Its ability to set root note by pitch, and to auto-map zones, are both major time-savers. It also provides such advanced features as cross-fading samples by velocity, random samples, plus lots of filter, modulation, and envelope control features. Not to mention all the other great modules in Reason.

Unfortunately Reason's MIDI sequencer/editor leaves much to be desired, and it can't record and playback audio, which requires its interaction with dedicated MIDI sequencer/DAW software packages for a full arranging and recording solution.

So Propellarheads showed their actual dedication--not just lip service--to the needs and desires of users, and went the extra mile and created a way for other such programs to hook into and control Reason, all to be set up and controlled by the user, with the other hardware and software that the USER chooses.

So that's *their* approach and value. If other makers of music products shared their philosophy and commitment to the music-maker, making music would be a solid pleasure.

Then, for some reason, we have the ProTools and the Logics of the world. Maybe to provide expensive-and-elaborate or expensive-and-dinky dongles. Maybe to impress the impressionable. They've got to be there for something. It can't just be gougeware, snob appeal and elitism. But we find Logic willfully not supporting ReWire, and we try to find logic in it, and fail. (Isn't it amazing how the words "reason" and "logic" plague attempts at understanding?) But the fact remains that many companies, like Propellarheads, have proven conclusively that good music can be made without any of that proprietary and elitist baggage.

I think it a tragedy that there are musicians who can be seduced into the "bigger better toys" game, and actually wave their dinky dongles in public instead of soberly pursuing the enrichment of the culture through making more and better music.

The only question becomes who and what do you want to support with your hard-scratched scratch.