Reason 5 and Record 1.5 Video

fasttrackpimp wrote:

dcook79 wrote:sampling on the FLY........!!!

http://www.propellerheads.se/reason5/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&article=sampling

That feature alone makes me what to try reason 5 out now. Been wanting that for awhile and being able to chop/trim in reason like recycle. You can chop with nnxt, but it's not as fine as it could be and that kind of kills it.

not all that true.......you can edit start and stop poonits and % on any all samples loaded into nnxt......
hold shift while knob tweakin for fine tuning control

if i didnt own an mpc that KONG joint would be something i really want..

^wurdd

And there's more, of course...

Apart from the big feature additions, there are of course tons of smaller additions and changes to Reason 5 and Record 1.5. Here are a few of them.

Automatic Self-Contain of Samples (incl from ReFills)
Make your songs self-contained by embedding samples and even ReFill sounds in your file. Reason 5's self-contained song format makes collaborating with your friends a breeze. Even breezier than before actually.

Record Notes on Multiple Tracks
Reason 5 and Record 1.5 lets you use multiple MIDI keyboards, pads, and controllers for playing and recording your instruments. Lock a 16-pad controller to a Kong, and use a keyboard to play your synths. Or use two keyboards on stage for controlling different Reason instruments.

Scale Clips by Resizing
By pressing the alt or option key, Record 1.5 lets you timestretch individual clips. Now you can stretch loops to match your song's tempo, or expand samples to eight times the length for completely new sounds.

Mute Tool
The new Mute tool lets you click to mute and unmute clips. Use it to mute sections, or create variations in your Blocks.

Set and move loop functions
Select a clip and press L to immediately set the loop points to the selection. Use the new Remote parameters for real-time control of the loop points from your MIDI controller.

Tap Tempo
New in the transport panel is the Tap Tempo button.

Improved key commands for laptop use
Reason 5 and Record 1.5 works even better on your laptop – or any keyboard missing a numeric pad. The new key commands lets you control play, loop, record and more from your keyboard.

Hierarchical menus in Combinator programmer
A sound designer favorite, the Combinator's programmer window is now even easier to use with hierarchical menus for fast patching.

Additional CV inputs on Combinator
The Combinator in Reason 5 is expanded with new CV inputs on the back. The four new CV inputs can be used to control any parameter on the contained devices, providing even more options and possibilities for sound designers.

Updated Help system (incl Help on Mac)
Reason 5 and Record 1.5 comes with a new and better built-in help system, on both Mac and Windows.

Normalize and reverse audio clips
In Record 1.5 you can normalize and reverse your recorded audio clips.

Bounce clip to sample
When using Reason & Record, you can now bounce audio recordings to samples, so you can use them in Reason devices such as Kong, Redrum, NN-XT and NN-19.

Reason 5 updates
In Reason 5 there are tons of changes to bring Reason up to speed with Record. These changes include advanced multi core support, improved cable management in the rack, faster sample loading, on-screen piano keyboard, sequencer usability improvements and much much more.

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self contained tracks is a genius idea... if you redesign the data management method on your computer you can relocate your files without screwing project files.

looks to be a very promising update/ upgrade.....

I've been following this. Reason 5 looks really cool to me. I've used Reason occasionally on other people's computers but never was driven to buy it myself. Even if this version still doesn't convince me to adopt Reason I think this is an important release simply because this will probably be the push that will provoke other companies into making software samplers -- that actually "sample" -- the standard. It's long overdue and though there has been a proliferation of true sampling software lately (Maschine, BPM, etc) and software like Live is a dream for such things, many companies have been slow to bring real "sampling" software to the fold. Reason is in wide enough use by users of all skill levels and isn't as niche based or esoteric as some of the other products and so it will probably move most other companies to follow suite, which is good for everyone. Kong looks cool and is a lot of disparate tools coming together but probably won't pull me in. The other features looks good too but are available elsewhere, easily. To be fair though, this is one hell of an all-in-one solution for many people and I've never heard of Reason even crashing (at least I've never heard of it). I felt a similar way about Maschine (for it's hybrid nature and it's impact on the industry) and though cool I couldn't see how it would make things easier, funner nor more complete for my needs -- I did try it and still use a friend's but I will not be buying one.

I wonder why so many companies leave out time compression/expansion, though.

Sorry to close this out MG but now that Reason 5 has actually been released, lets keep it together in the release thread.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=134612

If anyone cops the program early post reviews and comments there, we don't want a zillion Reason 5 threads.