This is out of stubborn energy and a lack of focus or discipline. But I don't know how to properly use them, or control them.

and yet I still don't even know the meaning of 'KBD.' Or 'Pan.' 'Gain,' 'Decay,' 'Sustain,' 'Velocity,' 'Rate.' I know what they do - by sound. I've put hours of work into certain pieces. I've taught myself over the course of two years. but I do need to learn more about using Reason. Obscurerobot wrote:Can someone please point out the very low quality part? I can't find it. Just some thoughts from someone stuck on cooledit since 1996 and audiomulch since 2000, with absolutely no desire to learn a 'real' DAW. I say stick with reason for now, you have the chops, maybe think really hard about why you think your music is of poor quality, or spend the money you would have spent on new software, on a better interface? are you doing everything ITB? if so, you might not need a new interface at all. Software itself generally tends not to be genre specific. changing your main audio software can be a huge headache with a long learning curve, that could possibly stifle your creativity.

There's a hell of a lot to be said for sticking with what you know, what you are comfortable with, and what you have spent years investing time and effort into. I still want something relatively simple, and I hear Ableton isn't much more difficult to learn than Reason. What would be the best software to move onto? I've considered Ableton, but I know almost nothing about what's out there. The music is rather poor quality, especially with my computer's sound card, and I feel, after having learned reason, I want to go on to produce more complicated, higher quality dark ambient and experimental electro material. The Dirt wrote:I've been using Propellerhead's Reason for the past two years.

How to create dark ambient music