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lyons
February 15th, 2007, 11:19 AM
I am currently working on an album that primarily used Reason for the electronic drums and most of the synth sounds.

If anyone here has some experience working with Reason, my question is this:

Will there be a noticable difference in quality between bouncing each track to disk inside Reason, then importing the individual WAV files into Cubase VS. Installing Reason on my main computer and using ReWire to go from Reason into Cubase?

Logically, there shouldn't be a big difference in quality, but the reason (no pun intended) I ask, is that I have heard the Reason mix engine pretty much sucks.

In the past I've noticed that Reason sounded alot better when I ReWired it through Digital Performer, which would reinforce this opinion. However, I think that might be mostly due to the fact that I was using quality plug-ins on each individual track, rather than importing a stereo mix of all the Reason tracks.

Basically I know that Reason sounds kind of shitty when you bounce all of the tracks to one stereo file and import it. I'm wondering if it will retain that sound quality if I bounce each track individually.

If it means buying a new copy of Reason and installing it on my main PC, I wouldn't really mind doing it, but if I could get the same quality from bouncing everything to separate tracks inside Reason, I don't want to bother.

lyons
February 17th, 2007, 11:11 AM
So I bounced every track individually within Reason, but no one else here has any opinion on this?

Statick
February 18th, 2007, 05:13 AM
yes, the reason mix engine sucks balls and the only way to make that program sound anything other than terrible is to rewire it to a decent mixer.

actually, "sucks balls" is a bit of an understatement. it's so bad it's almost a work of art in itself.

glitchfactor
February 23rd, 2007, 05:30 AM
Reason definitely has it's own "sound"......just like CrappyLoops, I mean FruityLoops.

Unfortunately, that "sound" is not a good one. Definitely ReWire.

Kenny Gioia
February 23rd, 2007, 06:29 AM
I agree. The mix buss really blows for some reason. (another pun)

Whenever I get a rough mix in Reason, and then I stem out and rebalance in Pro Tools, it is indeed jaw dropping.

:Thumbdown: :Thumbdown: :Thumbdown:

halfguard
February 23rd, 2007, 09:25 PM
yea, i pretty much dont use reason much at all anymore. its to bad because it can do some cool stuff....

Kenny Gioia
February 23rd, 2007, 09:59 PM
That's no reason not to use it.

Just get it out of there quick.