<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM, James Stone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamesmstone@gmail.com">jamesmstone@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't know Reason at all, but as far as I was aware, it was just a<br>
sequencer with a synth and drums included in a monolithic piece of<br>
software. With the exception of a lightweight sampler plugin, qtractor<br>
can do all that using dssi or lv2 plugins and piano roll, with the<br>
extra advantage of being able to record audio. As far as I am aware,<br>
Lmms, Neil, Renoise and energyXT2 all have the same or better<br>
functionality as Reason. The only difference I can see is the GFX and<br>
the method of entering notes. Or am I missing something?<br>
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</div></blockquote></div><br><br>Well, you should go ahead and read up about Reason in wikipedia. Wired is basically<br>a Reason clone. It is different to Qtractor. Qtractor is a more general purpose sequencer,<br>I would say. However, built-in synth would allow you to do some things which Qtractor<br>
currently can't, like render all song to a file.<br><br>Also, I do not know of any LV2 synth that is a good drum machine. Someone here said that the<br>GUI is disfunctional. But this is not true. You can by a single click assign a different volume to a<br>
drum machine note and in fact this drum machine is very nice.<br><br>If there were many high quality working LV2 synths, Wired would, perhaps, be a matter of taste.<br>But there is no such thing today - the number of LV2 synths is small and those that are there barely<br>
work. MDA plugins, for instance, do not give any sound in Qtractor. LV2 zyn also does not seem to work<br>within any sequencer but the lv2 rack.<br><br>So Wired is an integrated music environment where you can save projects and reopen them without hassle.<br>
I would say it is a great project. It's just a pity it is in such a half-baked state.<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Louigi Verona<br><a href="http://www.louigiverona.ru/">http://www.louigiverona.ru/</a><br>