Ableton Producer tries Reason, and the reason is you...

A Schmorgle once said he would try every DAW ever made and when he definitely said that he definitely meant it. Today, we cross Reason off that list. I take a dive into the unknowns of this program completely blind, and I do my best to make anything listenable. Did it mainly make me think of The Reason by Hoobastank? Yes. Did I still have blast trying it out? Also yes.
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Finding a Reason: (1:07)
Final Thoughts: (10:52)
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[@kjwworldwide]

I thought the wires in the back were the coolest thing in 2004. They also help me to understand complex audio routing which is a big help and I love them

[@zeejemusic8843]

for someone like me who is a kenistetic learner, i honestly find the wires to be really useful because it makes complete sense where everything is going. they are not just good, they are useful.

[@UltimateMoralizer]

It’s crazy how much cool stuff you can do in Reason. It’s a very flexible DAW.

[@ElegantBass]

the DAW part of the suite is actually very mediocre.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Reason is My DAW for 17 years, started on Reason 2.0 in 2006 that Subtractor synthesizer you used is the first Reason Sythersizor. Reason is capable of allowing you to create anything Hiphop, Trap, Drill, Techno, Future Bass, Drum n Bass, Classical, Ambient and on and on. The Reason device's are often very well designed, but 3rd party devices are available such as Synapse audio Obsession a Obrahim OBXA emulation and sounds excellent. I like Ableton but I'd dont run on My laptop at all but Reason runs perfect, which is My last point, Reliability it works on the widest range of computer, even if your computer is garbage, Reason will run.

[@mrwolfebeatbox]

that's a damn good point boy

[@illyph9963]

Yea i forgot to make that point in my rant above lol EXTREMELY stable and reliable, vst’s were little shaky at first, but even that is pretty ironclad now, but if your only using RE’s, you can run on any cpu basically, and if you have an even semi decent one, you can prob still run like 50 synths at once lol

[@Kaitain]

One of the oddest things about Reason is that the feature that seems at first glance to be the most gimmicky, the cables on the back of the rack, is where the Pandora’s Box of mega complexity hides.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Its exactly the same as hardware sythersizors of the past and today, My Novation Peak has CV, Gate, send via jack sockets which I can hook up to other synthesizers. Euro Rack both physical and software version like VCV rack is all about Cables. Reasons back of Rack is classed as Semi Modular where VCV Rack is fully modular.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@alexglimmer Reason is as basic or as complex as you want, even if you literally a total noob you will end up making good music, the presets, loops and samples that come stock and the players its impossible not to make dope music.

[@EBMZEQUENZER]

Nothing in reason is a gimmick : everything serves a purpose except the rotating cooling fan in the back of the redrum 😁

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@EBMZEQUENZER I like the Rotating Redrum Fan it's kinda cool, I'd like Reason Studios to add some more things like that. You know one of the Subtractor screws can be unscrewed lol.

[@DJBuglip]

@@EBMZEQUENZER Lol

[@eyefisher]

Messing with the wires is the best part of Reason. What's funny is that I started using Reason in 2000 and got the whole wire thing right away. When I was introduced to node-based visual editing in programs like Houdini and Davinci Fusion later, I couldn't wrap my head around it until I realized that it's pretty much the same thing as wires and modules in Reason. Then it clicked for me.

[@mrmaison4924]

You just helped me understand node based programs. I never thought of using my understanding of the wires in Reason when in Fusion etc. Thanks.

[@MegaJessejames91]

Back when Reason 3 came out their demo allowed you to work on a song for 20 minutes without a save function with the full program.. And that's how I started down the rabbit hole of music production at 13 There was also a free midi program I used that was for writing sheet music that had all the OG midi sounds that I used before that but Reason was my first experience with the big boy toys I wish I could go back and listen to some of those 20 minute songs I made.. some of them were straight fire

[@johnsexton8082]

If you still have the old reason files from version 3, it will still work in version 12! One of Reason's strengths is backwards support right back to version 1.

[@audiozona]

i have been using Reason since version 4 (now using version 12). its a real studio packed in a computer program. i think it's a very underrated and overlooked software. you are right when you say "it's ready to make some sound". that's very true but if you will dig into features you could discover features that really mindblowing. tha backpanels allow very complex and sophisticated rerouting and n top of all this Reaon is RELIABLE. i have used it for some live sets and, trust me, Reason is not just a DAW but even a perfect companion on stage. pity that Reason is so underrated because it's worth of every single penny it costs.

[@realKRRZ]

For me, the cables on the back are the unique selling point of reason. I would miss them, if I would transition to another DAW, because you can really dig deep with them and it’s great fun!

[@arthuriggo7910]

I been a reasons user since the 90s…I love it

[@ruslanr.6171]

it was released in 2000

[@blackcloudstofollow]

@@ruslanr.6171 does Rebirth count? that was late 90s

[@ElVicioMan]

Man, i've discovered a great channel. I love your personality, your commentary, singing, jokes and editing are amazing. You have earned another subscriber 💜

[@adammassacre1981]

Its insane to think Reason just turned 30! ive been playing around with it since Reason 1 its always great fun still use it now with the latest version :)

[@robinminkster]

I love Reason….as a VST plug-in in Ableton.

[@J77199]

I use it in Reaper but this ☝️100% lol

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

​@@J77199Me too, a match made in heaven Reaper + the RRP!

[@ruslanr.6171]

ahah) Reason DAW users crying somewhere in the abandoned corner

[@DJBuglip]

@@ruslanr.6171 Lol, think again. More like shaking our heads. There's literally nothing you can't do in Reason now (except use VST3 plugins... come on guys!), you just have to spend the time to learn the ins and outs of the program.

[@ScruffyMisguidedAndBlue]

@@DJBuglip Reason 12.5 (maybe released just after you made that comment) has added VST3 support.

[@harrycrevecoeur3716]

I use Logic Pro, Cubase and Reason... I always gravitate to Reason because Reason is Fun to use. The only limitation in Reason is printing the score whereas Cubase has the best scoring modules but Cubase is far more complicated than Reason. Reason is Intuitive and Fun at the professional level.

[@avace917]

I tried version 1 in 2001. Thought the idea was great but the sound was pretty 2D for lack of a better term. Then a friend raved about version 3. Once I got that installed, I ditched my MPC hardware setup and never looked back. Had an MPC 2000, Roland JV1080, Korg X3, Kawaii K4 and E-mu Proteus 2000. It replaced all of that

[@dare2win215]

I've been using Reason for 17 years & this video just made me fall in love with it again!

[@MrBendixxx]

Reason was my first DAW. I love it. I used Ableton to dj, and switched to it fully around 2015. I think the sequencer needs a lot of work though, and this was why I left it.

[@burtcocain1986]

I'm glad you've done this. I started on Reason.. that's a lie. I started on Cubase but moved to Reason because my uni friends used Reason. Then I tried Ableton shortly after and aside from a foray into Maschine, I've been Live ever since. Anyway, I got curious and did the Reason 30 day trial and... nah. I'll stick with the thing I'm best at. So it's nice to see someone else fumble around with Reason so I don't have to. I want to see you have a breakdown trying to make EDM in Pro-Tools.

[@kevinstoneham1245]

I would love to see a plug-in that is just a sequencer, with all the best elements from modern day DAWs and the sequencers of old.

[@illyph9963]

I would think just cause of how reason is able to have the sequencer be completely seperate entity from mixer n rack, means that code wise, its definitly a “possible” invention that hasnt been done yet🤔

[@ElegantBass]

this pretty much sums up why reason is not a great DAW, why the hell would you buy a DAW and then buy another plug-in merely because of the reason's shortcomings.

[@DaveSmithHayes]

I love Reason but I grew in Renoise so I would love to see you give that a shot.

[@trevor_mounts_music]

The real power move is using the Reason rack in Renoise. Boom!

[@maravreloaded]

_You should check _*_Studio One_*

[@illyph9963]

Reason is made for analog people, everything from mixer to every individual device, is its own analog entity, even the sequencer and mixer are independent of each other, so you can do as many parallel mixing channels as you want and busses ect without cluttering sequencer, and same with adding midi lanes without effecting mixer, like mixing and sequencer are treated like 2 seperate units, i frigin love it as someone who came from analog, SSL makes mixing so easy once u get it too, KONG alone, is basically an mpc within the daw, it has synth, sample, drum modules and fx modules “in” it, that when you open bottom, you can build completely different patch on each pad with different fx on each, you can do parallel processing right in it and link the 2 pads, then send to mixer n sequencer as 1 finished signal, it really is powerhouse of a machine, way beyond a “drum designer” lol, you can make whole profuctions with just KONG, if you just think of sequencer as your mpc screen, you can really just use it like an mpc “within” the daw, and thats just 1 device in rack lol, all of its designed like real analog machines, and most all the synths further open up, and all have there own built in fx modules, so you can perfect the sound “within” the synth, before going out to sequencer/mixer, it just really feels like your using individual pieces of gear rather than “a program” n thats why im reason 4 life 💪🏼

[@illyph9963]

However i will say my 1 gripe with the “analog” signal flow and cables, is when your mixing vocals, or drums, and you start using insert fx, it will turn the mono signal stereo, and you manually have to flip rack and unhook right wire to keep signal mono, or hold shift when you drag effect in so it dosent route, and just route left wire yourself, but this is def an annoying thing I sometimes forget and overlook till 8 steps later🤦‍♂️😡🤣, def a tiny fix they need to make, i havnt updated to 12 yet so they may have fixed it, but if not they need to in 13 lol, like if you start with a mono channel, whatever you drag on to channel shud auto route “mono” also.....and also as someone who does foley n score work too, we need a dam vid player device for timing to vid, im sick of using vidplayvst lol, give us a native player🙏....but other than those 2 gripes i love it lol

[@musicandvideoentertainment7651]

Reasons is the closest thing to working in a studio environment. Reasons is a engineers software, and rack gear enthusiast. Works perfect with any outboard MIDI gear and hard disk recorders. If you trying to work like your in a studio environment this is the software to use.

[@mecd4167]

Reason is the GOAT.

[@nofood1]

I was terrified of Reason the first time I tried it 2009 😂 deff stuck with Ableton , it’s crazy it pretty much looks exactly the same like wtf

[@smoothsavage2870]

I have both Ableton and now Reason. Reason was the first DAW i tried, but back on Reason 5 it was only MIDI and you had to have another app for audio and i wasnt too fond of that. I ended up settling on Ableton Live 9. Now i have Ableton 11 and Reason 12 (just got reason on a half off sale 😁) and i intend to use it as a slave to Ableton. It's always been amazing to me.

[@zayhansdah]

I came here after the Reaper vid (I'll be using that with LMMS and Ardour), my first DAW was LMMS, I would like to see more of those open source DAWs!

[@sternenherz]

@4:55 You're wrong! This is a GOOD song! haha :D

[@TheStonerman123]

New sub, found you with this and Reaper. I think you should absolutely do one of these on Waveform (tracktion). I feel like it has a somewhat ableton-esque interface, and was personally way easier to start creating with as a beginner than any other daw. Doesn't have many in-built plugins, but its free version is completely full featured compared to lite versions of daws like ableton.

[@Schmorgle]

Ah awesome! Thanks for the rec!

[@KarimLeMec]

after 23 years of Reason usage I m still astonished like the first day

[@Siri_Duffa]

Using Reason with Ableton is a double win.

[@entdsnr]

Great video man!! The editing gets me every time, I love your energy :) this is a really fun series, even as someone who doesn't know how to make music. Keep it up Schmorg!

[@roy4286]

Thanks for this first look video . I kind of slept on Abelton because it was free with most instruments that l puchased . My favorate part of Reason is Scales and Chords Player. I would like to get your Review of Serato Studio. Native instruments l like Playbox in that Daw.

[@illmattic024]

So I’ve been using Ableton for the past year or so. It was just the most common name I had heard for making electronic music so that’s what I chose. And since Ableton is so widely used, there are tons and tons of resources and tutorials supporting it. I’ve been looking into other DAWs mostly just out of curiosity, and the first thing that stands out to me about Reason is how many great sounding instrument racks, synths, and audio effects are available to immediately jump into. While Ableton’s stock instruments didn’t jump out to me as much. Not sure I’m looking to switch over since I’m so used to Ableton at this point, but Reason does look super fun to play around in.

[@ElegantBass]

i would keep ableton as a daw, maybe try reason+ for a few months and use it as a plugin to ableton.

[@user-ch7yu6ig5o]

OnLY ReAsOn, Da

[@bob-motown]

please do one of these with Renoise! 🙏

[@pulguitadavid1608]

Yooo Im really digging this series man, I was wondering if u could try Serato Studio next

[@Schmorgle]

Great idea!! I’ll add it to the list.

[@KnuckleThruster]

I don't make electronic music and I rarely use any of the stock instruments or effects, but Reason is still my DAW of choice.

[@thomasdietz579]

Hi nice video! I use both Reason and Live :-) May I ask what Screen you are using ? Lg but what model :-)

[@Schmorgle]

Thanks! And sure thing: LG HDR 4K (3840x2160@60Hz)

[@qpasas]

Reason is my favorite program. but is hard to use to a noob like me, good video

[@user-vb2di3ku3f]

Reason12 workflow 🔥🔥

[@Pedestrian13]

I hope you will try Renoise someday

[@visheshl]

Man there's nothing else like reason out there...tried a lot of stuff,im an Ableton + reason guy since quite long, but now im doing live stuff, and man reason standalone just kills it....try using it with a nice big touch monitor.... you'll probably never use anything else again 😂 Of course for making a track, Ableton sequencer+rrp is my go to. But I've found that using reason standalone is much quicker for live sets which are not clip based, but device based, the last time i used Ableton for a live gig, i got feedback that, oh ure just triggering midi clips, whats the big deal in that...so i moved away from clip based stuff...now i try using reason devices rather than midi clips. Although rack navigation is where reason is lacking a little, because reason rack tends to really get very big very quickly, so there is a need to navigate to certain devices quickly, which could be done using rack markers i think(if they implement it)... would be very useful for live sets, rather than fumbling around with the scroll bars etc...

[@DJBuglip]

Ok. I've worked in Reason since the early 2000s. So I'm gonna go along and clarify some shit, since you've already gotten to play with it blind. Firstly, its immense. Just out of the box, no subscription, no humongous 20 year library of "refills" (all our add-ins, pretty much), its still massive and would take you a good while to master the way you're going about it. Secondly, yes the UI emulates the physical recording studio. That was the draw for me, coming from the analog world. I recognized what stuff was and knew how to patch it up, etc. You can also do stuff on the back of the rack more easily, sometimes, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. Its like modular synths, you can configure every parameter manually. Things are way better now, we didn't use to be able to use live instrumentation, you had to "rewire" into another daw like Cubase to play a live instrument or record a vocal track. The second big development for us was getting external plugin support. The original idea was to make a rock stable daw, because long long ago, they all used to crash like crazy unless you were running a 10k system in a pro studio. Computers just hadn't come far enough to support them yet. Reason got around all that by keeping everything self-contained, your system didn't have to try to handle running multiple programs when you were composing. However, that hobbled us, so if you had that great Abbey Road plugin or a drum program you loved, you either had to do some advanced level hacking to backdoor things or you were just s.o.l. In reason 9 they finally solved the problem and now we can incorporate whatever. I LOVE Reason, it has a gargantuan library of add-ons you can purchase, made both by them and other developers, the newest stuff they're incorporating is really cutting edge, there's not much you can't do. The biggest drawback I can think of is that I believe we're still waiting for VST3 support, so if you've got a big library of VST3 plugins be forewarned. Your channel has a great concept and your delivery is really enjoyable, am subbing now. Thanks!

[@maccvc]

Studio one V6

[@CinoPORakaDjCino]

Have you had try LMMS?... The "Windows" DAW.

[@bmatt2626]

ReWire is damn clutch at times. Why choose one DAW when you can use two at twice the price?

[@trackmasters65]

It's not rewire you can actually use reason as a vst now in other daws

[@ricardojmestre]

Which is great. Reason+Ableton=❤

[@vawnjour]

MuTools MuLab 9?

[@Tobi-oi3uf]

Bitwig

[@likenokevin]

IMMS

[@EndonTruth]

Schwabaam!

[@andreakristinorigenes9942]

Go to 9:09

[@Schmorgle]

Why did I keep this in?

[@entdsnr]

Hahahahaha

[@jakehaysofficial]

oh my god this killed me. it's TOO GOOD

[@nkosiengwenya]

Lol the immediate sneeze 🤧

[@ommadiyar7071]

bro is funny ngl

[@dudearlo]

dood youre eyes are so motherfuckin beautiful :O not in like a gay way or anything, but damn........so vibrant

[@Tobi-oi3uf]

Dude btw the Delay you choose is pretty bad there's another device called Echo which is much better and advanced

[@ElegantBass]

i like the hardware feel reason has, but they haven't given love to the DAW. first we had to wait years for VST support and now we need to buy another DAW to get the features that every daw in 2024 should have. I am sick and tired of the clucky sequencer, i am migrating to another DAW i am tired of waiting years for reason to get what the other DAWS can.

[@jamieallan6450]

the clips are the exact same look as ableton do u not think!!?? now i know that all daws have all colours But its the exact same look!!! and the exact same shade of that kaki green !!!.

[@BLINDIAN1995]

That green color has been around for years for us. Probably a coincidence lol

[@jamieallan6450]

@@BLINDIAN1995 Yeah but its not just the green bro!!! lol its how the clips look altogether!! there the exact same a ableton!!! dont you think!!??.

[@djdonbentley2141]

I would like to see you disparage ableton live and give it a bad recommendation. I hate ableton live .

[@meinwegalsproducer]

i came to see more reason stuff, hope u used it a little more, have u tried to use reason as a vst in Ableton live ? it works great to have the rack ready for the DAW of choice