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Got Reason 3.0 yesterday and decided to give it a spin. I’m quite disappointed with the new version… none of the new features really seem to strike me as at all useful, and they still don’t have VST support like I thought they would… and it looks like they never will.
Didn’t really have a genre in mind this time around. I always liked symphonic stuff mixed with electronica, so that’s what I did. It’s the longest piece I’ve done, almost 5 minutes long. Tell me what you think!
Good stuff, man. Have you taken Music 80C, 81, 124, 125, or 167?
I took 80C. Basserman’s a great professor. Not minoring in electronic music or anything, though.
Very nice 🙂
I like the bass/rhythm/synth tracks. 🙂
For the orchestral track, there’s a noticeable hard-cut feeling between adjacent chords. Here are a couple of ways I usually employ when I notice the same problem in my own music:
Alternative bass notes. Hint: Chord inversions; this can also introduce an own melody to the bass line and make it feel less skippy.
A hall-type reverb on the orch track only, but neither too much nor with too long a tail. It softens out and the orchestral track a bit as a side effect, so you may want to adjust the balance between it and other tracks to maintain the proper presence of it.
that was savage, you’ve inspired me to start using Reason 3.0 instead of cakewalk.
lol.
Cakewalk is for MIDI or WAV editing, not for making new music. 😛
I can prove otherwise…
Depends. 🙂
Most of the new Reason features are mix/master oriented, and I think they’re pretty fucking awesome. It’s now possible to make Reason actually sound *good* instead of just OK, what with the real compressor/limiter/EQ/reverb. I’m a Logic convert now though. It’s just so much cleaner and more rockin’. I’ll probably just use Reason for doing really fast mockups and stuff when serious versatility/quality isn’t necessary.
Song is phat, by the way. Props on the booty.
Omg it’s the noise