Reason vs. Acid

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For PC-1 I use the MOTU 2408 for my audio I/O; PC-2 just has a built in Esoniq sound card. I think Win 98 just does a bad job at managing memory.

I'll check MOTU site for driver information.

I mainly record other people, so the music styles vary. I am wanting to get into loops, sampling, etc. Reason seems to have most of the tools all in one package. I already use Sonar and Sound Forge 5, I feel that Reason will round off my software needs.
 
What's wrong with Win98?

Reqs, have you compared Reason and Fruity?
 
I was talking about the improvement in SONAR under W2K vs. W98. I've played around with both, but as music tools Reason and Fruity don't really fit the style of music that I'm into, but both are very cool to use. Reason is a too cool with those patch cords in back! SONAR is my main tool, and you need W2k (or XP (?)) to run the WDM drivers with it.

-Niels
 
Atwork said:
so if you just use the mouse you're not using midi. I thought it might be important to clarify this point as describing Reason or Fruity Loops as a midi sequencer might put some people off using them.
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you are still using midi, it's just that your mouse isn't velocity sensitive......ever tried clicking in notes while your sequence is playing? ;) the step sequencer in fruity works like a piano role..it's just a simplified interface...the info is all midi type data just without all the parameters. the nice thing about having a fast pc and a good midi keyboard and soundcard is that you can play sequences in real time...so the midi part of it all isn't so obvious....or the pain it is when you try to do a lot of manual sequencing.

i wouldn't be too interested in using reason with sonar unless you could do the rewire thing with it...i'd want to be able to mix reason from within sonar...of course, this isn't likely to be possible soon, maybe never...since sonar is direct X and reason is ASIO.....

i prefer sonar's dxi platform because of the open architecture. there are plenty of drum machines and synths out there to use in sonar, and you can mix everything from within the program. plus in sonar you can record digital audio with plug ins in real time...this does take wdm drivers, though......i've been using win ME and a delta 66 and can get 2ms latency, which is sufficient for recording digital audio with plug ins in real time....however, i do get a lot of drop outs , and i think it's ME that is the problem...

i'm a big fan of fruity. i was hoping that they might work fruity into sonar, since cakewalk is distributing fruity now. something like the rewire thing with reason and cubase.....or maybe sonar could have a fruity style step sequencer? that would be cool.
 
If you still want to do what you are talking about you can use Hubi's loopback midi port s/w to do it without the need for a second PC. Do a Google search for that s/w, it's free, I think.
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Just in case somebody wants to know... you can find it at

http://www.hisquad.com/smm

;)

peace...

spin
 
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