anyone else do the RPM Challenge this year? it was my first time in probably 15 years. difficult for someone who typically gets one song done every 2 or 3 months, but so rewarding. really cool how it forces you to develop ideas you’d normally scrap. I ended up with some of the coolest music I’ve wri...

I don’t know what that last part means, but the reason $ seems like your main concern is…everything you said. there’s nothing wrong with making money, but if you want to be happy, thinking you need to get paid for it in order for it to be worth your time isn’t going to help. you’ve got two options (...

if your primary goal in making art is to get paid, you’re doing it wrong. if you want to enjoy it again, you might start by trying to let go of the weird cultural preconceptions that success has to be defined by a paycheck.

for some people, punching in and out is a better workflow, period. why argue against something so subjective? I already said I respect that some people want to work that way. I'm not arguing against (auto) punching, it is a working system in its own right. I'm arguing there are alternatives availab...

for some people, punching in and out is a better workflow, period. why argue against something so subjective?

thanks for the very kind words, Last Alternative! that sounds like a beautiful way to remember your dad.

thanks Fotu—glad you enjoyed it!

wow, thanks so much Phillip and Overtherainbow—that is such encouraging feedback. very much appreciated.

thanks Tritone, for the kind words and condolences. glad you enjoyed it!

some new music came out Friday, but I've been busy...slow.robot living up to its name and all... anyway, this one's personal for me, musically. I lost my dad last month--we knew it was coming, and I guess it'd be weird if that hadn't seeped into the music I was working on. I don't really know what t...

didn’t Softube do the amp sims in Reason too? those are kinda terrible—and I think they also did the ones in Ableton, which are also underwhelming. I’d be distrustful of Softube with amp sims at this point. too many other fantastic options out there these days.

Yeah I get the same reaction most of the time, and also people have never heard of it. Well I guess that’s progress, since folks used to dismiss it as a “toy” and not powerful/complex enough… ;) funny, I used to think the idea that Reason is a toy was absurd, but the more I work in other DAWs—as Re...

I can't speak for the quality of either when it comes to pushing them to extremes, but Reason's pitch editing is not great. Melodyne's is better, but not by a ton. Reason is awful for just ending up with random spots where it's doubling the audio for some reason, resulting in very brief chorusing. M...

the one thing AI can’t do, at least not in until the physical technology catches up—is play live music. humans will continue to excel at that until robotics catches up to the AI that would drive it. that seems much further off than the music part.

integer gets it. it's not about where AI is now--it's about where it's going. kinda funny how so many creatives seem to have such a lack of imagination on this topic. just recognize how far things have come already, understand that people will continue to develop and improve on these technologies--a...

probably don’t really need another good drum plugin but I’ve been feeling the Addictive Drums UI has gotten a bit long in the tooth lately and the more flexible effects routing here seem appealing. $50 is a steal for a good drum library, so I’ll almost certainly pick this up in the next couple of we...

how does a video equate to new life for a piece of software? only improvements to the software can do that. I guess it can be seen as an indication they haven’t abandoned standalone, but…are there people actually still worried about that? they’ve stated, and their current focus (VST3) makes it prett...

thanks everyone—I suspected I might be SOL, and it sounds likely that I am. oh well. maybe one day I’ll dig in and try to ballpark it, but in the meantime I’ll have to stick with Reason.

just wondering if it's possible to access the stock wavetables included in Europa, and if so, where those files are located...trying to transition some songs fully to Ableton for live performance and would like to be able to recreate one of my Europa patches with the stock Ableton plugins so I don't...

rorystorm pretty much nailed it. ignore thoughts of genre/style—worrying about those things will hinder you more than help if you just want to get some stuff written (and there are lots of other benefits to keeping yourself out of the genre box). pick a sound/instrument that speaks to you and start ...

well I hope others are seeing some performance improvements, because I'm sure as hell not. 😔 getting used to disappointment. Have you tried other settings? From the notes: If you are experiencing performance problems in Reason 12.2.9, try selecting another Max Audio Thread number, starting from the...

well I hope others are seeing some performance improvements, because I'm sure as hell not. getting used to disappointment.

well that’s some good news…finally might be time to open Reason again. really hope the performance improvements put it back on solid ground.

there’s nothing about Live that’s generic. unless you consider having basic DAW functionality to be generic. uninspiring? an argument could be made there—its looks are an acquired taste (I don’t think people realize there are color themes that make it much more appealing), but at the end of the day...

there’s nothing about Live that’s generic. unless you consider having basic DAW functionality to be generic. uninspiring? an argument could be made there—its looks are an acquired taste (I don’t think people realize there are color themes that make it much more appealing), but at the end of the day,...