Reason For Me?, MIDI editing capabilities? Options

[korektphool]

I have Cubase SE and five virtual instruments, i bought Steinberg's Studio Case. I want to know if I buy Reason, will it have some sort of Key Editor that is present in Cubase? Is it worthwhile to buy Reason when i already have Cubase? Does Reason use virtual instruments?
Korektphool
PS i am making hiphop music.

[macyu]

Yeah I've seen it done. It's a really nice environment to have both a DAW like Cubase and Reason linked via rewire. As KevO said, reason is like bunch of good virtual instruments. Think of it like any other expensive virtual instrument like Kontakt. But the thing with Reason is that you could run it stand alone, and even record but only midi. The good thing is that you can link it up with a DAW that supports Rewire, and with that, you basically have two programs open, like cubase and reason, and reason will play along with cubase. Tempo changes and the like are also sync-ed. You can either opt to use the midi editor in cubase and play it via reason, and route the audio back to cubase, or you can just record/edit in reason and just route the audio back to cubase. Both ways work, but I heard the timing is better if you just do the midi in reason.

one final note. make sure you have plenty of ram! running both programs at once makes it pretty ram intensive.. esp on OS X... and the reason sampler doesn't stream from disk, so your ram requirements will grow as you load more and larger instrument samples.