![]() Turns out MuLab uses OGG files and Reason doesn’t read them – fair enough really as it is a slightly unusual format and lossy formats are hardly the best way to start out. ![]() I created a Kong and dragged in the Kick. I decided that to be fair I should use the same exact drum samples as I did in MuLab. Ruins the vibe but knowing a thing or 30 about MIDI and DAWS I know that there is no way to translate a session in one DAW to another different DAW. Reason creates three ID8 instruments so I have all the notes playing but with a piano. I also export the MIDI file so I can use it in Reason. Then it goes to overdriven loud and I am tempted to leave it that way as I feel like a master of the universe. Seems like no matter what I do with this thing it goes from loud to louder. My understanding is that I am supposed to Master my beat so I dive for a Limiter to pump the beat even more. Drag my few bars out to make 34 seconds of choon and I am done and feeling pretty impressed. Finally, I complete my masterpiece with the Basic Synth that just screams club anthem. So I preset dive till I find the MuSonic synth and tweak a sound till I get something I want. I could dig for it but remember I am supposed to be a newbie. The defaulted “Moog” sound didn’t do it for me and the device seemed to have no proper synth interface. It sounds big and I feel good about myself. I deliberately used the default massively processed drum set that opens with MuLab. On the MuLab slab I laid out my funky tune. Obvious but one piece of music is comparable to another so the rendered results are valid enough to represent what one may hear from a similar session in each style of DAW just as people do when trying to find the right tool for their opus. MuLab and Reason are different so they don’t compare. Whether you (or I) like this piece is irrelevant as it is only an example on which to compare a simple session in two software studios. It is merely representative of what someone might create in a first session. I don’t pretend this piecelet is of any artistic value. Reason doesn’t sound like that on first launch so I get why kids feel that it is an inferior platform. Fat, engaging, in-yer-face, fruity… modern! (whatever the hell that means). I don’t love EDM but I do have to admit that in many DAWs the first few sounds you lay down sound great. Not to please anyone but me I set about with a “typical” DAW that sounds pretty exciting from the first launch to make a little example piece to port to Reason and see if and how I could get the same result. Ummm… (wonders why hangs out in forums not for the first time) Cloudbursting your example is crap because I don’t like it and it uses DAW Y.if only we had a muti-schlonged sprongulator like in DAW X.Sadly the thread devolved straight into opinions and the usual unhelpful posts with sentiments as noble as: I must say that I am generally of the school that a tool is only as good as the person using it but I also have to say that straight our of the box many VST based DAWs sound big and fruity whereas Reason tends to be far less immediately exciting. Can YOU deliver a comparable sound in a similarly simple Reason session? What I would hope from this thread is not for more of that endless opinion (and sniping) but actual results. After yet another of the never-ending Reason doesn’t sound as good or “modern” as other DAWs or VST X, I threw down a challenge: ![]()
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