Make professional beats anytime, anywhere? U tell me.

[anppilot1]

I work on airplanes for my primary living. I run a project studio for hire. I'm used to using Cubase and tons of keys, samplers, modules, ect...

I have about 5 hours of ass time every day. So I figure I might as well make the best of it and make music.

I've heard of Reason, but dont know much about it.

I have a Compaq Presario laptop 600MHZ Celeron processor with 128 MB RAM.

Heres my questions:

1. Will Reason work with my laptop?

2. What all can Reason do?
3. Can a M-Audio Ozone keyboard controller/audio card work with Reason?

4. Would this be a nice portable setup to take every day to work?

5. Can any of the beats you make with Reason be commercially sounding or is Reason more of a "scratch pad" kind of program, you know...a program to fiddle around with until you get to a real studio to make the beats for real?


Thanks In Advance.


cheers

 

[subtractor]

Yes that setup would work.
Reason is an all in one studio program, virtual that is.
It's fucking kick ass!
It's very deep and will most likely take some time to master, but at the same time it's very easy just to have fun with.
goto http://www.propellerheads.se/ and check out the demo songs or the program demo for that matter.
For your needs as you've stated them I think you'd love it.

 

[hookiefree]

yeah that sounds like a hell of an idea. i'm jealous.

 

[anppilot1]

I'm also looking for someone to tell me if the beats/music you can make with Reason (quality wise and professional sound) could be goodenough for commercial release of a song? If I could make commercial beats while I'm at work, that would save alot of time for me doing stuff at the studio and concentrate of dropping vocals when the client is here instead of making beats.

Mike