dawman wrote:So Scope would see Reason as ASIO, and Reason sees Kontakt/Omni-Keyscape/PianoTeq and Zebra?
It's also a sequencer?
It´s all, tone-generator (synths, sample player, drumsampler) and it does sampling on the fly as well.
Sequencer, yes, but not that "complex" like in other DAWs,- and since v7 it has MIDI-Out too,- before, it didn´t.
It uses ASIO on PC, CoreAudio on Mac.
So, on a PC (desktop or laptop) you can run into any ASIO issues caused by chipsets and Windows like before.
dawman wrote:
I'd be interested if that's the case.
Bidule is perfect for me, but no more MIDI Audio recording since Z87.
Lost the portaudio x64 recording features with Z97.
there we are,- see "chipsets/Windows" above.
Most pros using Reason for live gigs, use it on an Apple laptop.
Reason works excellent on a laptop, it´s made to do.
I´m still on Reason 6.5 (32Bit) on a Windows XP machine and it runs flawlessly together w/ XITE-1/SCOPE ASIO as well as Presonus Studio One Pro 2 and Reaper, using Rewire in that cases,- or standalone w/ XITE-1.
I concider Reason to be the most stable audio application and I hope it won´t change w/ the introduction of VST support.
I didn´t upgrade because I find SCOPE 5.1 best in 32Bit mode and on a WinXP machine too.
Now w/ VST support, I might pull the trigger for a Reason 10 upgrade next future.
I don´t want 9.5 and being a beta tester.
In fact, w/ Reason, I always waited for the 1st maintenance update when a new version was released, so I´ll wait for v10.1 and then make the change to 64Bits completely.
I expect they´ll do it right since stability and relatively low CPU consumption was their target always.
I guess that VST device will be kind of sandboxed and a VST runs in a dedicated process so plugin´s crashes won´t crash the Reason application.
But the whole thing makes sense only if some latest chipsets and/or Windows version won´t show any ASIO issues with SCOPE drivers.
Propellerhead likes you using the latest greatest stuff,- OSX or Windows,- and they don´t look back.
When something isn´t as you expected and you are outdated w/ your machine(s), they offer downloading a older version and install on your own risk.
Reason already became a great recording application w/ version 6,- and it has the best time-stretch algo out there.
The mixer is good also.
Latest version will do CV modulation thru busses across internal devices, REs and VST,- maybe external too w/ the right hardware connected (and using ExpertSleepers MIDI/CV) !
I think it´s a winner !
I didn´t buy any RE, I don´t need since I own enough hardware gear, SCOPE/XITE, and can choose from NI, Sonic Projects and other´s incl. lots of freeware in VST department.
I don´t use VST too much anyway, but it would be really welcome running Reason devices, some SCOPE devices and a handful assorted VSTis all together on a relatively powerful Windows laptop and together w/ XITE-1.
The hardest might be finding a powerful enough laptop w/ a PCIexpress card slot because also Reason today needs much more CPU cycles than Reason 4 did in the past.
dawman wrote:
Its always fucking something.
YES !!!
dawman wrote:
Reaper however works fine.
Same here.
Bud