Solution to the music setup blues???

Regular readers (and those who are actually interested in the audio/music side of things - so Wayne then) will recall that I’ve been looking to change my music setup. I’ve been using ‘Acid’ for years and it serves me well. However, I’ve just about out grown it’s (somewhat copious) potential.

I’ve been looking at (read, downloading hooky copies of) a number of packages. I’ve looked at:

Orion (which I actually have a legit copy of – but not the plat version)
Live
Cubase SX
Fruity Loops
Magix music whatsit

Etc. etc. etc.

All I really want is something to turn to when I hit the limits of Acid. This is usually when I need to turn to a synth, drum machine, sampler etc. Acid has VERY BASIC MIDI capability – which is why I started looking elsewhere. I needed something more advanced.

Anyway – none of the above ‘did it’ for me. To give it 'props', Live seems like a really nice package, I just need a bit more control over the audio. It’s something I’d look at if I were ever to play ‘live’.

So have I found a solution? YES! And it was right underneath my nose.

I bought (yes bought – I have a legit Acid too FYI) Reason when it came out. I just never took to it. Probably because I had a lame sound card at the time and couldn’t get my head around the latency issues. Anyway – I installed it again the other day because I remembered it could act as a Rewire slave. That basically means I could run Acid and Reason at the same time and have them perfectly synced.

It worked, which is probably very unshocking to the millions of people who are already doing this. It also solves all my issues with Acid. I can turn to Reason when I need the synths etc, and back to Acid to mangle the loops etc.

Anyway, as a treat for reading this far – here’s something I put together in about 10 minutes with a Reason synth and drum machines.

Click HERE

Needless to say I’ve just ordered the update to get from V1 to V2.5.

A nice solution, and one I didn’t have to pay out too much for as well!!!

Nic.

posted by Nic @ 11:31 AM 0 comments