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.

[boze]

korek-
i appologize.

read my last page to find the arrange view in Reason only (my mistake) the buttons are at the left.

so to describe the whole reason window: the top area is a bit 'virtual rack' of synths and samplers that scrolls up and down. the lower area is devoted to arranging and has with buttons accross the top that separate the rack from the arrange view. the buttons on the left side change between the overall view of the track and a closeup view of a piano roll or other elements of the selected track (you select a track by clicking on it in the main arrange view. the right side is just tools like an arrow or an eraser and snap settings to get notes and groups of notes to snap into place.

the forum is a bad place to get tutorial information on an app. you're pretty much saying 'but how do i use it!' and there are better ways to learn that then us posting here.

Reason does the same sort of thing as Cubase only with it's own built in virtual instruments (it can't use plugins, vsti's or record audio) and you'd just hook it up as a 'rewire slave' (which i won't explain here in detail for the reason i just mentioned about tutorials) and use cubase to record it's output as part of your overall mix.

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