I watched a few minutes of the Ask Video Reason 4 tutorial DVD that I recently purchased & I managed to lay down an idea for a song.
It's obviously a very rough draft,& I used Redrum to create a step pattern drum track,but I have not yet figured out how to create start & stopping points for the drums,so it just plays all the way through this piece.
The first 1:15 of this piece has music,but the rest is just fluff.I have not even come into the remote vicinity of scratching the surface yet,but I can already see that this software will keep me happy for a lifetime! That being said,I cannot begin to digest how anyone could possibly need or want any other synth/instrument program other than Reason 4,because the digger you deep,the larger the Reason world becomes!
I have no basis for comparison with alot of the other software & hardware sounds that are out there,but I can say this definitively....I no longer have any desire to buy a Clavia Nord,Access Virus,Korg Oasys,or anything else I've considered in the past for that matter and once I get the Pro Tools M-Powered 8,I will most definitely be set for life-as I see it.
-Thom