Why is it that every producer I talk to recently is so anti-Reason? I personally have been using this program for years now, and when combining budget with functionality believe it to be the best Bang-for-the-Buck in the Biz right now. I create almost all of my tracks mixing Reason with outside instrumentation and loops in Rewire Mode (a mode that allows Reason to be combined with your Pro-Tools Session via an invisible virtual snake) It adds far more functionality and room for creativity than 16 tracks on an MPC or Triton. Not to knock these amazing machines, which I use also, but why make your songs with one method? Every producer has there own personal opinion of what works best, most of it based on habit, and availability. This is just my opinion, based on conversations I have had with several producers in the last couple of months, and should only be considered factual information if you are a producer and musician of the same school as me.
How do producer’s opinions form? Gossip? I do know one thing for sure, nearly every producer I have spoken to about Propellerhead’s Reason has stated that the sounds are thin and the program is too complicated. Several of these producers later admitted to never using the program. Thin sounding and too complicated……….Makes sense if you run off of presets and don’t know much about signal flow……but then what kind of producer are you? I guess I’m sick and tired of producers who buy Bangin’ Dirty South, Timbaland and Dr. Dre kits for the MPC and walk and talk as if their drum kits are the best thing since sliced bread. Like they just got a call from Jay-Z for a beat they made yesterday (their second beat ever by the way). Like their beats knock so hard god opens the door to see who’s there. Come on…Try designing something unique and different sounding, some of my favorite dub records have very thin sounding drums which adds to their character. If you want thick, punchy, or trunk rattling drums, reason gives you the base and capability to design them, it just doesn’t pre package them for you.
People always misjudge what they do not understand. Reason’s creative platform is significantly different than the one used by any other software, and may be daunting at first. However, remember, just because Kanye West uses an MPC doesn’t mean you can’t make a Kanye beat using other hardware or software. Reason has samplers also, and synths, and drum machines, and matrix sequencers, and effects units, and a vocoder, and graintable synthesis, and the combinator, and Dr.Rex for loops, and a Mastering Suite, ReWire and much more. Learn what all of these do, and how to operate them properly, and Reason may not sound so thin anymore. Don’t forget you can also fatten up your tracks with Pro-Tools Plug-Ins in real time. Maybe Reason is just too much for some to handle. Maybe Not. I’ll sign out with this…………………..The practice of copying other producer’s style and creative process is slowly killing our music….believe your ears, not the Gossip! Peace and knowledge……….Bear the Astronot. If “The Source” and “XXL” jumped off of a cliff would you jump too?
How do producer’s opinions form? Gossip? I do know one thing for sure, nearly every producer I have spoken to about Propellerhead’s Reason has stated that the sounds are thin and the program is too complicated. Several of these producers later admitted to never using the program. Thin sounding and too complicated……….Makes sense if you run off of presets and don’t know much about signal flow……but then what kind of producer are you? I guess I’m sick and tired of producers who buy Bangin’ Dirty South, Timbaland and Dr. Dre kits for the MPC and walk and talk as if their drum kits are the best thing since sliced bread. Like they just got a call from Jay-Z for a beat they made yesterday (their second beat ever by the way). Like their beats knock so hard god opens the door to see who’s there. Come on…Try designing something unique and different sounding, some of my favorite dub records have very thin sounding drums which adds to their character. If you want thick, punchy, or trunk rattling drums, reason gives you the base and capability to design them, it just doesn’t pre package them for you.
People always misjudge what they do not understand. Reason’s creative platform is significantly different than the one used by any other software, and may be daunting at first. However, remember, just because Kanye West uses an MPC doesn’t mean you can’t make a Kanye beat using other hardware or software. Reason has samplers also, and synths, and drum machines, and matrix sequencers, and effects units, and a vocoder, and graintable synthesis, and the combinator, and Dr.Rex for loops, and a Mastering Suite, ReWire and much more. Learn what all of these do, and how to operate them properly, and Reason may not sound so thin anymore. Don’t forget you can also fatten up your tracks with Pro-Tools Plug-Ins in real time. Maybe Reason is just too much for some to handle. Maybe Not. I’ll sign out with this…………………..The practice of copying other producer’s style and creative process is slowly killing our music….believe your ears, not the Gossip! Peace and knowledge……….Bear the Astronot. If “The Source” and “XXL” jumped off of a cliff would you jump too?
1 comment:
Makes sense to me that people just knock what they don't understand. The trouble is that for most people, logic doesn't convince them of anything, actions do. No one is going to change their opinion until the proof is literally staring them in the face...or I guess screaming in their ears!
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