Reason is a digital audio workstation and audio plug-in[1] developed by the Swedish company Reason Studios (formerly known as Propellerhead Software) for macOS and Windows. The first version was released in 2000.
Propellerhead Software was founded in 1994 by Ernst Nathorst-Bs, Pelle Jubel and Marcus Zetterquist and launched with ReCycle. They became popular in 1996 after releasing the ReBirth RB-338, described by MusicRadar in February 2011 as "one of the most important virtual instruments in the history of electronic music". By the late 1990s, advancements in technology meant that it became feasible for home users to build their own virtual studios from software, and so in 1999, Propellerhead ended development on ReBirth to work on Reason.[2]
Reason was first released in November 2000. MusicRadar described it in 2011 as "broadly similar to the likes of Logic and Cubase, but" with its "user interface mimick[ing] a rack full of equipment, allowing instruments, effects and mixers to be linked together in order to create a complete production setup".[2] Subsequent versions came out in September 2002, 2005, September 2007,[2] August 2010,[3] November 2011,[4] April 2013,[5] September 2014,[6] June 2016,[7] October 2017,[8] September 2019,[9] September 2021,[10] and June 2024.[11] Early versions of the program lacked the ability to record audio, and in September 2009, Propellerhead released Record to work alongside Reason;[12] Record was later merged into Reason 6.[4] The success of the program prompted Propellerhead to rebrand itself as Reason Studios in August 2019.[13]
Reviewing Reason 12, MusicRadar questioned how useful Reason 11 users would find it, but noted that it looked "the best it has in years",[14] while Musictech.com described it as a "brilliant buy" for producers looking for a new digital audio workstation.[15] Pcmag.com noted that "existing fans [...] should take a close look", though criticised its user interface, saying that it had "aged considerably" compared to its competition.[16]
Much of The Prodigy's Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned was made using the program.[52] MGMT has said "pretty much everything" on their debut album Oracular Spectacular was made using built-in Reason synths.[53]
Fixed a bug where the level of the Dist effect in Europa was louder. Opening an old song with an instance of Europa (where Dist was used) in Reason 12.7.3 would result in a louder output from Europa compared to the output in 12.7.1 (and earlier versions)
Reason now resets the audio output of a device when you change the patch. This is to make sure the loaded patch sounds as expected right away and to avoid feedback, loud noises, or other unwanted sounds when changing patches
Fixed an issue where remotables "Rotary 1" to "Rotary 32" does not correctly map to the first 1-32 Controls according to the order in the panel element list. The same goes for remotables "Button 1-32"
Fixed a bug in Remote where controls scales incorrectly between control surfaces and Reason. Stepped controls mapped to knobs/faders and stepped outputs mapped to smooth displays were incorrectly scaled
The main new feature in this release is the support for Rack Extensions - this is described in the Operation Manual included with the applications. In addition, the following changes and additions have been made:
Recently have been testing a few different ways to do remote/rapid deployment and/or management (including using WatchGuard Cloud for management) and when testing Rapid Deploy using the website, I notice it only works correctly if the XML configuration file is saved as whatever version the Firebox is manufactured with (ie. the version on the Product Details page).
I am asking since I am testing with an appliance that is manufactured with a somewhat older version and the XML configuration file I was hoping to use is as close to what I would want the initial configuration to be, in cases where we have to get a remote user to step through the factory reset steps (since Rapid Deploy will in most cases pull the config down).
If I upload the 12.5.11 configuration to the Product Details page, it uploads and recognises the configuration but the Firebox doesn't appear to download it.
If I remove the "warn" action in WebBlocker then save with version 12.3.1 this file works perfectly.
If you are running into issues with features that are not supported, I'd suggest getting a baseline config via rapiddeploy, and applying anything else you might need via management server or cloud management once the device is confirmed upgraded to the version you'd like to move.
The resulting Firebox still boots with the upgraded firmware (12.5.11 in this case) so seems it's more about having to re-apply changes specific to the newer firmware, which shouldn't be that much as the production units would be newer devices (eg. T85 or M290).
Might also have to investigate the option of restoring a backup from the USB drive as another strategy for how to get a Firebox up and running remotely when it's on the other side of the country (obviously need to set this up before it fails!).
Welcome back to another tutorial about Reason. While this topic might not be applicable to anyone who uses Reason. It is more a topic that addresses users that have the same issues as I would have. On a daily basis I handle collaborations using a closed network where the Reason versions vary from one version to another version. It are issues like these when I can't send back a Reason 7 file back to a person who for instance runs Reason 5.
The issue here is that the file formats in most conditions are not backwards compatible. There for, my work flow is different then others. Hence most users will most likely stick with the latest version. Yet, from my personal perspective this is far from the truth.
There are 2 major reasons why the approach is different before reason 6.
- Reason 6 and higher is a download only, and doesn't require a disc, while lower versions require a disc.
- Reason 6 and higher are also coming with a 64-bit version
The installation of the series, is the most important part. It starts with the lowest version you still want to support. And then you'll go upwards. I know that after Reason 6 that it doesn't make much difference in which order you'll do it. But with older versions of reason it may give conflicts in the registry (windows).
The trick here is that every installation requires its own unique folder to store the installation. By default, windows will prompt you with something like "C:\program files (x86)\propellerhead\reason\"
While every version will need its own unique installation directory, just to avoid certain reason core files to be overwritten with something new.
While Reason 6 and above are 64-bit installations (they come with 32 bit versions too). I have chosen to install them in the 64-bit realm. For windows the default directory will be "C:\program files\propellerhead\reason".
The only downside with this method is that you will need to run the configuration wizard every time you will switch from version to version. This means:
- selecting the soundcard
- selecting the input device
- selecting the midi devices
and so on. While it doesn't bother me this much, I have gotten used to swap versions back and forth for instance before setting up a session, or altering someone else their files. It is a process that only takes up to 2 minutes.
The other downside for Reason 5 and before, is that it requires a disc before you can swap the version. Since the installation wizard checks if the disc is there (when swapping from R4 to R5 this happens to me). You will need to have the discs ready, or burn them on your hard disc using a program that copies DVDs to ISO files. I will not go too much in depth about this part, since the guys who know how to pirate a piece of software will most like know how this works ;)
On my Laptop I have a series of short cuts ready to pick the reason version I need. On my desktop it even gets worse, since I have a lot of different versions located there. Since there are versions I not always need (for instance Reason 6, most people I know use reason 6.5 instead).
I understand that close to 1.0 release, an LTS version would be important because the language was changing very fast. However, given that release process is so stable, is there really a reason to keep supporting very old versions?
My point is that having an LTS version leads to a huge time interval for packages to support new language features. For example, in PrettyTables.jl, I must support 1.6. Hence, any new feature added between 1.6 up to 1.9 (2 years of development), I cannot use unless I take care of the LTS version by using @static if etc. If the new feature would simplify a lot the workflow, but requires a lot of rewriting, I just skip it.
For packages with very few people developing (or even one), the only realistic scenario IMHO is either keep using only the features in LTS or do not even support bug fixing in the latest version supported in LTS. The latter would make Julia experience w.r.t it ecosystem bad for users using the LTS.
Yes! And that is precisely the problem. Notice that some people want stability and others want immutability. For those who want immutability, the Manifest.toml should work all the times. For those who want stability, are the new versions really problematic?
I think it is still good in principle to have an LTS version of Julia which will get bugfixes. Otherwise the only way to get those is to get the newest release, which may change additional things that affect maintenance workload.
There are people that are going to pick a Julia version and stick with it a very long time. I think it makes sense to give those people a specific target version to prioritize, rather than haphazardly landing on whatever version is currently released when they get started. Imagine if a bunch of your users were stuck on 1.5, others on 1.6, and a handful on 1.7. That seems way worse to me.
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