is Reason good for ambient?

like the synths it has and that? Are they like the real shit people say to make some good stuff?

certainly not

perhaps the new version could be now with the ability to record, you could vocode some synth patches with some field recordings... Also just with some good use of reverbs with the existing synths, yes.

No you need Pro Tools HD bro

You can make good ambient music with Reason, yes.

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  On 9/29/2011 at 10:25 AM, ZoeB said:

You can make good ambient music with Reason, yes.

says who

Her. Now grow up young man....

BTW logakght (ugh, that's awkward to type), you seem oddly absent from the 40ish replies to your last topic - http://forum.watmm.com/topic/68835-how-to-learn-to-create-a-sound/

The three most popular methods of making ambient music

METHOD A (APHEX TWIN METHOD):

1. Look up how to make Trance Music in Reason

2. Watch guide videos on Youtube

3. Follow their steps

4. Mute the drums

5. Export

METHOD B (SIGUR ROS METHOD):

1. Paulstretch soundtracks to movies with dinosaurs in them

2. Export

ALTERNATE C (THROBBING GRISTLE METHOD)

1. Leave tape recorder on in parking garage over night.

haha, a fine guide. For me, Reason is way too rigid, but I have no doubt you can make decent ambient in it. People have been making ambient with analog sequencers and synths for ages. It's probably one of the DAWs thats least suited to ambient out there, imho.

if you're not a nurb you will figure out how to wire sequencers up together (not the main timeline) and make procedural music machines.

Between Interval uses it, so.. yep.

  On 9/29/2011 at 6:03 AM, logakght said:

like the synths it has and that? Are they like the real shit people say to make some good stuff?

  On 9/29/2011 at 4:40 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

if you're not a nurb you will figure out how to wire sequencers up together (not the main timeline) and make procedural music machines.

Oh, right. I only fucked around with it when it was first released. I should update my brain before replying.

http://soundcloud.com/mafted/ssoluss

kind of a silly argument.. but you could call that ambience w Reason, though it has a pronounced rhythm and all. what kind of ambient? all you'd need is a synth and some reverb iwouldthink.

anything really can do ambient. it's pretty easy to make...well, short time to learn long time to master i suppose

yeah, it's about subtlety.

unless Reason has been approved by Brian "£250" Eno, then it hasn't been certified as being good for ambient.

reason has two strikes against it which are

i) shitty mixing algorithm (distinct "reason" sound).. all of the DSP is optimized to be low CPU so things sound dull and aliased

ii) reverb unit isn't anything special

it's all somewhat work-around-able but a pain in the ass

i quite like reason's eqs

this thread is crapwagon.

Reason is a tool limited only by your ingenuity.

Pretty sure reverb is not a necessity unless you have an extremely narrow view on ambient music.

A synth is a synth as long as you are not a nurb, and are willing to spend time understanding it and learning it's personality.

Any kind of music can be made with any tool.

Saying "ambient" isn't really the right way to address the question.

If you want to fiddle around with the same bunch of units and see what you can do with them, reason is good. If you wanna use reverb vsts, reason isn't good.

I use reason for ambient (check the sig yo). I record a lot of audio in, and the new audio channels work great. I also record stuff I've written and resample. I figured out a bunch of cool and original tricks to get cool reverb sounds.

But I can't compare reason to anything else, as I've never used anything else.

  On 9/29/2011 at 8:26 PM, gron said:

... all of the DSP is optimized to be low CPU so things sound dull ....

Congratulations, that's probably one of the oddest things I've ever read on this here internet !

They sounds dull because they've been efficiently programmed ?

I think that's known as the Native Instruments school of thought .....

thanks for the replies, and sorry if i ask dumb questions.

wtf kind of thread is this?

shit I made ambient music on ableton using a simple synth, some reverb, and BOOM, ambient music

easy peasy