David Balogh

Reason 4.0

Hello again, ok I have slacked off since before the holidays, so I better get back on track. In the spirit of MacWorld starting tomorrow, I’ll talk about some geekery. Yesterday I picked up a copy of Reason 4.0! I’ve been looking forward to this move. Some of my favorite new features include:

• New Transport! The new sequencer is phenomenal! I will need some time to get completely used to it, but it is a major overhaul. Editing and drawing notes is easier, making multiple note lanes for one track is a great addition, and Flash-like grouping and editing is nice.
• Thor, the new polysynth, has so many features that I may never fully understand its capabilities, but if you start with a preset and play around with changing modules, etc, you can have a lot of fun creating a rich sounding synth that far surpasses Subtractor, despite my professed love for it.
• Regroove seems very cool, but again, I haven’t grasped it fully just yet. I’m hoping with this version I will really dive into new styles of music and knowledge. It’ll take some time, but I have all the time in the world

I will probably bring this topic up again in the future, but that’s a quick take on how much I’m diggin. I’m now running Leopard on my machine, and it runs great. Only issue I had was with my Ozone not showing up. Apparently M-Audio is working on new drivers, but I did find a third-party program that fixed my problem. I’ll post here when I get a chance. Check out Reason 4 now!

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Add comment January 14th, 2008

Randomly Shut Me Down

So the lovely Macbook I bought a month ago was beautiful! I say ‘WAS.’ After two short weeks of Reason Music-creating bliss, the damn thing decided it wanted to stay on when it felt like it, and that wasn’t very often. Alas, 3 visits to the Genius Bar and a load of forum research on the issue, new OS X installs, reseatings of RAM, resettings of PRAM & PMU, plus many other tests later…and they replaced it with a brand-spanking new Macbook. Cross your fingers the issues have subsided. So far so good, but I won’t hold my breath until two weeks in. Kudos for the help from the ‘Geniuses’ despite the cover-ups of the problem. I want to love it, I do, and I will continue the journey into the Intel Mac world. During all this however, I was able to get out a new song, better check it out on Myspace (hint: there’s a link on the right column called “Plastic Minds (my music)”).

I was born to rage against them.

Add comment July 27th, 2006