"You had bloods, crips, and Reason users" 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 For real, I love Reason. The first real DAW I ever used was Reason 3. I put down music for a lot of years, but I just grabbed a year of Reason+ on their Black Friday special! I like going bananas with the synths and arpeggiators and all these new advanced sequencers, and then taking the stems over to my MPC One to resample.

Reason gang gang! Been on reason since around 2007... Although it does have it's short comings, it's still one of the most creative DAW's around..

Everytime DyReck yells out "what had happened was" I join in along with him. It's my ritual!

I'm still one of does Reason users!! And you're right, My love for Reason is that toggle feature where I can connect all my gears the old school way. What can a 50 year old man can say which grew up with since Reason 1.

My close friend uses reason exclusively, and still continues to push this software to me to this day!. Very informative analysis, as usual!.💯😁👍🏿

I'm on reason right now, reason 12 is crazy and I love it. tried Ableton, long time FL user but reason changed my whole recording situation

Awesome series, very entertaining and informative thanks for doing these weekly, DyReck.

Reason was the first software that I took serious and got me off hardware production then Maschine came out and it was over. But the NNXT sampler in Reason was incredible.

Reason is the whole reason i know how a hardware racks works !! Loved it

Reason is the best system over all. Every known function, infinite sounds & all types of virtual boxes. If your doing serious music production it's impossible to top.

Great episode man! I was definitely Team Reason from 2003-2012. And you are right, I jumped ship because I couldn't use third party plugins. By the time they implemented the plugins I was too deep into Maschine and haven't looked back. Keep up the good work homie

I woulda stuck with em if I coulda recorded audio back then.

Reason is a beast for what it is. It’s not a one stop shop. The sound is pretty warm for a Daw. They just messed up on the plug-ins.

Dope work DyReck!!! Omg I remember Rebirth in ‘97. It got me in the game understanding sound synthesis basics. How the times have changed. Many thanks!

Great video. 💯 This was a blast from the past😁🙌🏿 I remember first encountering Reason in 2001 and I was blown away by the GUI. I remembering pressing ctrl/tab on the keyboard and seeing that virtual studio rack patch bay with cables everywhere. I fell in love with Reason instantly. The subtractor synth and the Redrum machine were my favourite tools to use. The only downside at the time was not been able to use 3rd party plugins and recording real time Audio😬😤. I worked around that using cubase or in Rewire mode. I had a lot of fun using Reason from around 2001 to 2009. I migrated over to logic pro full time and have never looked back.

Love working on Reason! What a blast from the past, never thought someone would bring that up! No one I know ever heard of Reason. Good work!

I have friends who still use Reason today...and swear by it. I've tried it. Could get into the flow. So I used it for Rewire to send sounds to FL Studio. That's what you missed in this video. The ReWire feature.

Loved it - reason ran well on low spec setups -door sounds

Been a reason user since 2.0, and currently on 11, and i swear by it, im def what u wud call “reason gang” lol, i initially loved it “because” i came from learning in the analog world in 90’s, and it always has just made sense to me, ive tried logic, cubase, n couple others over the years, and imo reason (especially now with audio n vsts) is the best, i will admit like u said in vid, us reason users def went thru a tuff period in middle there, like between version 4 and up till “record” got merged into reason, it was def a frustrating period lol, i wud dump my beats to cool edit or pro tools to record back then, but ever since reason added audio and the absolutely INCREDIBLE SSL mixer, its been my main n pretty much only daw, its by far most stable too, all the way from version 2 to now, ive never had crashs or latency issues or anything like that, it pretty much runs like it IS analog gear, and ill tell you what since vst’s got added few years back, its been great to be able to use ozone, neutron, n nectar on my mixes, but honestly on the synth and creation side of it, i rarely even need vst’s, cause it honestly feels like since they allowed vst’s, they doubled down on stepping the rack extension game up even more, there are really some incredible ones now in the shop, and they have subscrition model where i get like 400$ worth of third party rack extensions for 9$ a month, its pretty awsome, but for me the greatest part of reason IS the ssl mixer, ever since they added it, its a joy to mix on, its literally like having a real console almost, n it auto routs ur mix channel in rack that parallels the channel in mixer with ur inserts n all, its just incredible, and currently its best, cause they not only caught up to more modern daws, but they did while retaining their analog style n funtionality, and literally no other daw does it like them....reason gang 4life✊🏼🤣

HAHA! This was so much better than I expected. And on point, as a long-time reason user.

Reason. This software is amazing. Complicated but like all software it has its ups and downs. I have a friend who mastered it. Thanks brother. Love your work for the culture of musicians.

Yay! Another episode. Hit like before even started to watch.

Love Reason and its Racks, used Vers 12 but the Piano Roll is cancer. I use it now as a vst in FL, best Combo imo 🎉

you really kow your stuff & put that time into the research of these. Keep it up, love the vids!

Great video Native Shades. Reason was my beat making DAW of choice between 2004 and 2015 before I moved on to Maschine. I made quite a few albums with it that I still get paid for to this day. I still have the old PC that I used Reason on so I can access my old files but ironically I now use the MPC which I didn't learn before back in the days because I was fast on Reason rewired with Cakewalk Sonar. Reason had stock sounds that was more than usable where as the MPC didn't have sounds, you had to sample your sounds in. I've now grown to appreciate taking time to sample and create my sounds and use hardware. I'll always look back fondly on those Reason/Sonar days but not going back

Man, this was a dope and funny insight to Reason. I'used Reason since it dropped, from version 1 to 5 (Try before you buy copies...*Cough cough*) then finally bought Reason 11 after haven't making beats for a few years. I know it has limitations compared to other DAWs, but I stick with it cos I actually get a buzz when I use it. I look forward to using it like waiting for a delicious Thai meal. Other Daws I tried like Fruityloops (FL Studio),Cubase and Logic I just used cos that was what I was using, but with Reason I actually have fun messing about with sounds. I think the new owners are happy with it being a secondary product and are more focused as it being a plugin to other DAWs. Great work bro. Keep it up.

Always a pleasure going down the sound tech rabbit hole with you..

Man! I love your enthusiasm, the topics and your videos!

Great review!!! You really captured the history of this, still great, software. But DAMN I feel old!! I remember Rebirth and Reason 3.0! Thanks for this video

Reason is fucking dope yo but I only use MPC X and FL but yeah reason is dope

I loved Reason! Caned it making Jungle years ago. MPC user now! Respect. 👊

I really like your work man🤘🏻 I respect you for doing these…

Reason is epic!! Rewire was such a HUGE game changer!

So much history with Reason didn’t know, thx 🙏🏾.

I just love ur channel bro lmao. Your personality is so relatable and hilarious lmao. I watch these videos every drop ! Can you make a video on the roland jupiter 8 & 6 & 106

Excellent video bro 🙌🏾 like damm I’m glad I forgot about this software for everything you mentioned 🤣. Bro thanks for explaining Fans only ....... I could not understand what that app was about. I got a few invites on Facebook 😆😆

I loved reason back in the day. Unlimited sounds

Funny, I just pulled my old iMac out of the closet, reinstalled Snow Leopard (from 2009) and installed Reason 5 this afternoon. And yes, I paid for it back in the day.

What a great episode. Still have my original Reason.

I love reason. Actually just started using Pro Tools as my main DAW only because of Reason as a rack inside of Pro Tools. Hey DyReck can you do Cakewalk, that's the DAW I started on back in like 1996.

I remember downloading it and cracking it from MiRC in the early 2000s, but i could never get into it. Maybe one day. I like simple and straight forward and reason has like 763 things on the screen at all times

My all time favorite beat making daw next to FL. And it never really crashes ever. You can learn how to build and mix with a hardware set up. Audio tracks and automatic timestretch to tempo that's smooth

nice..

I’m still using Reason 6 and Recycle. I really can’t get enough of those two programs they’re so good. And to be honest, I like the fact that you can’t load third party vst’s, allowing you to be more creative with what you have. I’m also a Live user. Been using Live since version 1. Live is totally awesome too, they both have their own use and appeal but when it comes to the sound of the effects, those in Reason sound way better imho. At least this old version I use. Live is catching up with their drum buss & roar plugins but Reason has been delivering forever. I read somewhere that the guy in charge of the overall sound in Reason is the guy who came up with the Nord Lead keyboards, and we all know how sweet those sounded! BTW bro your channel is so entertaining keep it up!

Reason introduced me to making music ITB. I will always have love for it for that.

Yeah they were very stubborn with the third party support ..mainly because plugins crash your software sometimes... and having their own apps made their software stable....but the demand was far too strong to turn down. Great video ..very creative...you can easily talk about FL Studio aswell and how they offered lifetime updates mainly because they were hit the hardest with pirating .

Awesome content! You never disappoint. Now you know you gotta do Emagic Logic Audio and the switch from PC to MAC only. Can’t wait to hear your take on that.

I've been making music with reason from 2001.. back then I had some hardware gear too, since PC's back in time wasn't feeling like powerful enough. After that I had to let my hardware go due to problems in life, but I still got reason and lots of plug ins with it and I still make music with it.

Great video! It is crazy to me that they didn't have VST integration, being VST technology introduced by Steinberg. Their relationship was there judging by the ReCycle splash screen. I did went into Ableton back in the day because of that missing integration. As much as I loved Reason, at the time It didn't make any sense for them to make me use their synths having so much to explore out there.

What had happened WUUUUUUZZZZ!!! This my I$ht right here. I still got a Re-Birth cassette I did that sounds sick! Been on Reason since V1…will prob be stuck on 11 until the wheels fall off. Shoutout to the OG Propellerheads!!!

I been using reason for 4 years still on reason intro 10 doe making dope music

I didn’t grow up with hardware and I think I found Reason about the same time that I found Ableton. For me, even though Ableton is powerful and has features that Reason don’t have I still prefer Reason (and I just love the rack and it’s cables, it thought me how to wire up a studio and now I have more HW-gear and rack units that I could dream of back then). I just find it inspiring and that is something that I don’t feel with Ableton, kind of feels like Ableton is a tool and Reason an instrument. I then tried Rebirth and I still keep an old computer for Rebirth, ReCycle and Aksys but Reason is the only DAW that I really like with Renoise on second place. It is easy to compare features but things has to feel right and spark creativity and that’s more important than the feature set.

I use reason as a plug. It's great for that.

I've been using Propellerhead's stuff since Recycle, Rebirth(and it's mods) was a great tool. but Reason has made a real revolution, still using it since R 1.0. It's a DAW of a chose for many artists. Dj Pierre, the inventor of acid-house and A Guy Called Gerald(the author of such anthems as "Voodoo Ray" and 808 State's track "Pacific State") are among them.

I paid for version 8 in 2014. I still use it from time to time.

Thanks Propellerhead for giving us Rewire.

I’ve used reason since 2007 as a slave to pro tools. Now, I do all my creative production on Reason. Been on Reason 10 for a minute. I have no need to upgrade to 11, since most of my sounds come from Arturia V8

Yo dope video been watching almost all of them if you can do a Boss DR-5 and Roland S-10 sampling Keyboard a lot of people don't know but I use my DR-5 till this day with Reason 5

programs like Reason and Bitwig excel in sound design. Song editing is great on Reason. Now I use Bitwig and I am in love with it, but I could get shit done in Reason. If you just want to track a basic track without doing any real sound design then there are DAWS that are perfectly fine for that. I know for my uses Bitwig is really useful and I could do the same things in Reason. Some of the players are useful. Yeah I know Ableton is cool too. I also use the MPC software. However I am from the old school and grew up in the 70s and 80s and I still have some of those ideas. So I think Reason bashing is dumb

i liked reason especially redrum with step drum sequencer - redrum was dope i use to wish they would release redrum as vst plugin to use with other daws, man it would have been my go to drum machine all the time in cubase

I still have version 4. My favorite is the NNXT sampler.

It did/ does have a warmth too it, tho it’s digital, a major user of Reason, DJ Khalil

I love hearing your stories taking us through the vintage days of instruments we even get some of the fine history on how somethings got the way they were

Right outta college my boy showed me fruity loops in 5 min...and I went n bought the basic version....this was 2003......was cool with it till another friend put me on reason.....and I beem killing on that that all the way up to Xmas 2012..... I was always curious about native instruments n maschine......I spent so much money on reason sound packs....when xmas came around and I saw they were offering no sales on their stuff....and NI offered crazy discounts....I jumped ship and never looked back...... I tried a yr ago but my work flow got crazy in maschine n studio one 4...what kept me on reason so long was the sequencer

Peaking over someones shoulder seeing the reason layout for the first time really bugged people out. I had a cracked version of Reason 2 for years but only dug it up after a health issue. Creating is such a good escape and Reason is a great versatile platform to learn a little about it all. Or you could just keep things real simple and stick to a routine. These days too, bounce a sample to rexfile and stepsequence some drums takes 30 seconds. These days, the way you can design presets using combinators AND use plugins makes it great for creating formulas that keeps the workflow going. Right now i mostly just use Grain and the sequencer to do everything. Kinda like an asr10 with autodetect pitch. Even works for tuning kicks. I want to get the new mimic sampler but they're kinda weak with their consumer capitalistic approach.

Reason is my main since 2001 . Until this day, I preferred the perpetual license over the Reason+ subscription.

great video! reason 3 was my first full version daw

I made SO MANY songs on Reason from like 2004 to 2018

Reason version 10,11, and 12 have all been cracked. Propellerhead really gonna struggle cause damn, they finally got hit again. Rack Extensions from reason and third party also getting cracked and released on the daily too

Reason 1.0 was successful because it implemented ways of working that people already knew so it was very easy to get started. Dr. Rex was always my favorite device because the filters were so ratty sounding.

I got on at RSN 4. Prior to that I used physical hardware. And obviously the program mimicked that environment. Still a Reason user.... Its slacked a bit regarding technology and features the last few years, but I feel so comfortable with it, that I can't see abandoning it. Native Instruments us awesome, but asude from that, I can't wrap my head around ither DAWS for production (not recording).

I've used Reason since 1.0. Still my main DAW today.

Excellent. Do a series on 12 tones Cakewalk

If Reason was updated to include much improved audio editing to that of Protools for example, I would be very happy to use it exclusively as my DAW of choice.

You got to reason!!!!

Reason was the first DAW I ever used and with no experience with any audio gear and no youtube to learn from, the backside was too confusing for me. So later went on to mess with Fruity Loops. But it was not for a long time. Now I find Abelton confusing and like workflow of Reaper a lot more. As Im used to work on Adobe Premiere for videos, so it feels closer to home.

Thousands of Grime tracks was made on reason in the 00’s. Game changer back then 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Oooh can you do a video about the Yamaha RM1-X?

I still love the hardware feature in reason

They not called Propellerheads they are called ReasonStudios and none of the original team exists in the company's. The longest member in Reason now is Ryan who's been with Reason about 8 years and used to be behind the camera but over the last few years took James Brunards place as the public relations leader.

I still love Reason...I hope I'll never have to switch to anything else

Reason is GOAT!!!

Reason was the perfect daw for the time. When it was closed to 3rd party plugins, it was so stable. You could just create and never worry about crashes. It was as immediate as hardware. Nothing quite like it. Of course times have changed. Reason never sounded the best to me. When a base MacBook Air can run a daw and all the plugins you want without breaking a sweat, it becomes hard to justify paying increasingly more to continue using a dated piece of software (that still lacks AU, VST3 and Apple silicon support). As a result, Reason Studios, like Netflix, seems to think punishing their loyal customers is the best way to increase revenue. Just hasn’t been the same, pro-musician company since that private equity firm got involved. And what company ever is? Makes me sad.

Omg 🤣🤣🤣😂😂 how! That’s exactly what me and my brother did when mom hid the Game 😂

Made some cool tracks with Rebirth after starting out using Midi Orchestrator Plus and Saw.

I haven't heard about reason in a while.

I bought Reason 4.0 back in high school for 475 in 2007 and It could not accept plug ins so I ran back to Fl studio 6, talk about I waste of money. I later combined Fl studio and sample tank 2 and it was magic back in the day.

First daw I actually got serious with! Second I had lol it was Reason 3 in 2006 for me!

Should ve known that reason uses this hardware emulation before getting married to ableton :P Interesting workflow

this video on display in our national museum in Sweden. now

Reason (rack) + Renoise is a match made in heaven

I bought a Dummies guide to Reason before I actually bought. But then I seen Cubase in action and switched up lol

i chose reason because dj khalil and dj toomp was using it, and i still use reason today

I almost had a placement with Shorty Lo (rip) he liked it and it was made in Reason 5, and he asked me “did you use fruity Loops” and I said no, but he never used the beat, but I did make a few bucks.

Early 2010s moving to DAWs Reason was solid as a rack inside your favorite DAW with ReWire. I even used to use Reason with my MPC 2500. The thing with Reason at the time, even tho you keep mentioning a sampler, you couldnt sample audio into reason. You had to find a sample and make a loop in another audio editing software like cool edit or sound forge. Then take that to ReCycle to slice it up. Then you saved REX files you could load into Dr.Rex. But whatever you sliced was permanent so if you wanted to edit a slice you had to close everything and open it back up in recycle. Then they changed drRex to octoREX and I hated that shit. But for that time period those sounds they had on NNXT, Thor, maelstrom etc were great. Then they added the ability to use multiple racks inside a single mixer channel to create new sounds, and they started selling sounds like reason keys, abbey road keys, drum packs, it was dope. Reason was not nice to beginners at all. I think Fruity Loops killed it’s popularity because FL was like the “beat making for dummies” for new beatmakers. You dl a cracked version of FL and start clicking buttons on the step sequencer and started pumping out shitty beats like Cassidy. But it was so easy to use people were willing to learn it.

Yo back in 2009 I was a wanna be beat maker using a demo version of FL studio it was straightforward and pretty easy to use but a friend had Reason on his computer I tried to make a beat but I was completely lost I didn’t even know what I was looking at I didn’t even know what a rack was or looked like

i remember that tone knob in redrum..... was the sauce

Never really could get into Reason. I tried it back in 03 but I was always a FL Studio man

Tantacrul has a really good video on how Propellerhead reinvented Reason. Do check it out.

I am still a reason user but they need to just put more feature of other daws and its got every thing