Propellerhead Record Is Enabled

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propellerhead recordToday’s hot news is Propellerhead‘s announcement of the much discussed question, ‘what’s happening with ‘Reason’?’. Answer.. ‘Record‘.. This new DAW (or DAS) has taken the current ethos of ‘in the box’ sequencers, hard disc recorders/mixers, funked it up a bit, added some SSL magic (woah!) and pointed it firmly at musicians and those who wanna get ideas down fast to translate into final tracks. First indications point to a decent feature set, which includes:

  • SSL 9000K modeled mixing desk with ‘that‘ compression on the master bus
  • Line 6 guitar and bass amp models
  • Excellent multi-track realtime time-stretching (surely created from ReCycle alogrithms?)
  • A ‘bread and butter’ tone generator instrument
  • Track comping similar to Logic and Pro Tools
  • Totally compatible with your Reason/ReWire rackage (maintaining the rack convention)

The only real negative I can see so far is that it keeps the Propellerhead philosophy of no 3rd party plug ins, but seeing as this DAW is aimed at fast, easy recording and ‘non-engineer geeky’ style mixing, maybe that’s not such an issue considering the target audience. More news soon no doubt..

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Paul Dakeyne is a DJ/Producer who has dedicated the past two decades of his life to dance music production and DJ'ing. For six years, he toured globally for the world famous Ministry of Sound and has played DJ sets for the likes of U2 and for the legendary, Kraftwerk, Although remixing around 250 records in his career, as an artist in his own right, Paul landed one of dance music's seminal crossover moments with his "18 Strings' monster hit by Tinman - scoring a UK top ten in 1994. He also co-wrote and produced the music for BBC's Watchdog and Crimewatch when they were both revamped in 2001 and '06 respectively. His other career highlights have included an A&R stint for Mercury Records, lecturing in 'DJ culture and music technology' and creating mash-up mixes for Radio 1's, Chris Moyles. Paul joined the DV group in 2003 leading to his role as blog and feature author here at the DV Mag.

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