patekswiss wrote:Blocks -- isn't this kind of just session/arrange? I always record "sections" in session view then lay them out in arrange. (Or rather, I promise myself I'm going to, then I wander off and go for a bike ride, or a swim, or I text my girlfriend). Am I missing something?
As far as a Reason "pieces" concept goes, can't you basically do that already using rewire + Live's "external instrument" functionality? You just plug the Reason instruments (or combis) you want directly into Reason's hardware interface and you're good to go. Granted its a bit messy sometimes when you have complex combis, but its workable. Prior to Trillian, I'd been doing a lot of my electric bass lines using Reason Basses via this very approach, which was pretty nifty sounding.
this is true, but I use digital performer with live via rewire, and yes I can rewire live and reason to DP at the same time and its very stable believe it or not, but...
1. you have no ability to "freeze" Reasons channels, you have to record them manually, not that big a deal, but when you have 5-6 channels it takes a few minutes as oppose to a single keystroke.
2.Digital performer has a thing called pre-rendering, you can bounce to disc a final mix including fx, eq's, mastering etc. all direct from midi, no freezing to audio first, its dope for quick reference mixes and sounds perfect, saves a ton of HD space from wasted track freezes and is just an awesome feature that will probably work its way into live and other daw's sooner or later, but it only works with plugins, not rewire devices.
3.I would pay directly for a rewire update that allows plugins under rewire slave mode, but not this cheesy blocks bullshit, Digital Performer has had "Chunks", a much more advanced version of blocks for years.
