#Video tools 8th wonder Patch#

And intuitive dragging and dropping to the sequencer or rack is also fully supported.Finally, three crucial changes have been made in the sequencer. The redesigned browser handles your devices as well as patches, samples and songs.

#Video tools 8th wonder Patch#

Then, if you later delete your manually entered name the patch name takes over again. The Mix Channel, mixer channel strip and sequencer track for an instrument all get named by default after the currently loaded patch, although you can easily override this - just double-click a name and enter your own. The new Create menu groups your device collection by manufacturer, and offers the ones you use most often in a list at the top.It’s good to see Reason’s handling of device and track naming improved too. Even better, Reason 8 maintains a list of the devices you use most, and displays it at the top of Instrument, Effect and Utilities submenus. Choosing from amongst your burgeoning Rack Extension collection is made easier too, with submenu grouping by developer. Reason now no longer makes a distinction between Studio and Creative FX and there are just three device categories: Instruments, Effects and Utilities. But an improved transport, a brand-new browser, and countless other little tweaks promise a much smoother overall experience.It’s all change in the Create menu too, whether you access it via the main menu or a right-click in empty parts of the rack, mixer or the sequencer track list. Reason 8’s look has gone notably ‘flat’, in homage to modern OSs like Apple’s Yosemite. However, the named heading divider strips have little clickable circular buttons to allow them to be toggled with mouse clicks. Your F5, F6 and F7 keys (respectively) toggle them open and closed, and dragging their horizontal boundaries resizes them. Propellerheads’ basic approach to handling the Mixer, Rack and Sequencer views remains pretty much the same, you’ll be pleased to note. And you can hide the transport completely with a command in the Window menu. The transport itself no longer has a Blocks button (that functionality is now accessible from the Options menu), and instead gets a super-useful quantise section showing the current value along with a text button to apply quantise to anything in the sequencer that’s selected. The song navigator just above the transport section is a lot smaller. The sequencer and mixer have each lost a not-very-useful navigation panel. The overall look is brighter, neater and more contemporary. Well, one thing’s for sure, Reason 8 looks different. Let’s take a closer look at what those changes are. And a new browser, while not particularly sexy in itself, promises to make a big impact on the way we work, speeding up and improving our interactions with the sequencer, the rack, and individual devices. It changes the way you work with some fundamental aspects of the application, all very much for the better. That redesign is more than just cosmetic, though. Now available from and dealers worldwide, Reason 8 offers a redesigned user interface, two new guitar-oriented effect devices and, um, that’s about it.

In this context, there’s a risk that the newly released Reason 8 could look a little disappointing.

Within two ‘whole-point’ releases Reason went from being a niche, insular, MIDI-only platform to a versatile full-blown DAW attracting extensive third-party support. We’ve got used to major releases of Reason being quite revolutionary: Reason 6 gave us audio tracks and the big modular mixer, 6.5 ushered in Rack Extensions and then version 7 added MIDI tracks and audio quantise. There’s lots to get to grips with in the new version of Reason.