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Reason 5 + Record 1.5

Well, the “5 Days of Reason 5″ is over. I think one of the more exciting announcements is one that they have not highlighted:

Record Notes on Multiple Tracks
Reason 5 and Record 1.5 lets you use multiple MIDI keyboards, pads, and controllers for playing and recording your instruments. Lock a 16-pad controller to a Kong, and use a keyboard to play your synths. Or use two keyboards on stage for controlling different Reason instruments.

Record Notes on Multiple Tracks - Reason 5 and Record 1.5 lets you use multiple MIDI keyboards, pads, and controllers for playing and recording your instruments. Lock a 16-pad controller to a Kong, and use a keyboard to play your synths. Or use two keyboards on stage for controlling different Reason instruments.

A friend of mine has been jonesin’ for this for years.

Below are the movies they posted for each highlighted feature.?(I’ll list the other “less celebrated” changes after the movies.)?’Course the truly interesting deal with all of these is this: Given all of the connections possible betwixt and between the Reason modules, what really weird and wonderful stuff can you do patching this stuff together in unexpected ways?

Dr. OctoRex – This is one of the cooler additions in my book.

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Blocks – This is extremely cool. On the surface, it seems a bit “Ableton-esque”, but it is probably closer in concept to Cubase’s Arranger mode or DP’s Song mode (or going further back, sequences and subsequences from Opcode’s venerable StudioVision). This however, looks to be a lot easier to deal with.

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5 Days of Record 5 and Reason 1.5

The Props look to do it again! (Extract cash from my wallet.)

The Props look to do it again! (Extract cash from my wallet.)

Every morning at 9:00 a.m. EST (US) Propellerhead is announcing one new feature from their upcoming versions of REASON and RECORD. Yesterday they announced “Dr. Octo Rex” (and it looks quite cool). Video is below.

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Release date is “end of summer 2010.” Upgrade pricing is TBD as far as I can tell.

They are accepting applications for beta testers…..

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RECORD is here, but at a higher price than advertised…

Here at last...

Here at last...

Propellerheads released RECORD today. They are going to make a metric ton of money with this I think. Maybe a ton plus: It’s listed as a $149 upgrade NOT the $129 price quoted everywhere. Factor in $20 shipping to the US, and that’s $169 out of the door. On the plus side: The box set includes an upgrade to REASON4 for owners of REASON versions 1 – 3 and that’s a helluva deal for those folks. But if you have REASON4 already, it’s just an extra $20 for naught.

I’ve really got to give it to the Props: They know how to make a helluva product trailer.

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More info on RECORD from Propellerheads…

Here are some videos from Keyboard Magazine. Head over to their site for more great info.

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First “Micro-Tutorial” for RECORD Available

The Props have posted a 2 minute video on the RECORD interface and making a track.

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REASON RECORD Announced

Record Logo

Well the PropHeads announced it…. http://www.propellerheads.se/products/record/

There’s a lot of information there. Watching the video is probably the quickest way to get an overview of what it is.

The blog Waveformless (http://waveformless.blogspot.com/) had an initial take:

…my initial thoughts are, this is going to be a tough sell. It looks like it will mainly appeal to people using Reason. But with how long Propellerheads left Reason crippled without audio recording capabilieis, most people using it seriously already use it with Rewire connected to another DAW such as Logic or Live. I’m not seeing anything here that would make most people want to abandon those and learn a new DAW. The Line-6 and SSL-modeled mixing channels are nice, but probably not enough for most people to switch. There’s not much info yet, though, so I freely admit I could be totally wrong. I just think to compete in a DAW market with multiple, well-established programs, they really needed to offer something revolutionary, and at first glance, this doesn’t appear to be it. That interface looks like a cluttered mess, too, in my opinion. So what do you think? …

I think he has a couple of points, but is too harsh. He’s got a point that most people who use REASON and want to record audio already use ReWire and a DAW. (And RECORD IS a full fledged DAW no matter what the Propheads claim.) But there are alot of folks who don’t (and there are all the new customers too). I think the integration with REASON and familiar workflow for REASON users PLUS the price ($149 for REASON owners) makes this look damn attractive to them. And there are ALOT of them.

Still it is a DAW and there is stuff to learn. (More to learn than GarageBand, but less than LOGIC or DP I guess?) But there is a learning curve with everything. And if the Propheads really have made this scaleable (“As complex or as simple as you like…”), then I think they have a winner.  More photos from their site (http://www.propellerheads.se/products/record/) below.

Oh and they are looking for Beta testers too.

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