Propellerhead record

Now there's a cool slice of marketing, if you are on board their ship anyway.

Makes a $80 for a couple of bug fixes and feature enhancements look pathetic, even if Reason 6 from the R5/Record duo is just that. (aside from a move to 64 bit)

It allows the fanbois to shower money on their beloved vendor and likewise the naysayers to screw them as much as they dare.

I was already in line for the grace period free-update anyway so even I'm freed up to give them money now if I wanted.

Perfect.

Fog


yes it's great.. wait for reason 6.5 or 7 to come out (for some reason I suspect it'll be sooner than later) ... and that'll have  a proper upgrade price, they aren't a charity and to me it's more a "migration" update to get people onboard.

reason 6 = a big bit of code recycling from record, and when they built record they had that in mind "modularity" so they could easily bolt that onto reason if Record wasn't as big hit as they wanted.

trying to 2nd guess a marketing department regardless of the company is only possible with a time machine.

True, but it does mean you only upgrade at the points where you are actually getting value.

Who didn't see a mile off that Record was an interim development to give Reason an audio engine?

It was the main prompt to me staying at Version 4 without Record until they announced the grace period update to version 6.

Nobody makes anybody buy anything although some see it as a habit to get out their wallet on every new release, some still only purchase on account of the value of what's offered.

Nobody can blame a vendor for how or what you choose to buy and when.

"Who didn't see a mile off that Record was an interim development to give Reason an audio engine? "


they didn't... or else they wouldn't have wasted time / money marketing on it.. If it had sold in bigger quantities I doubt it would have been dropped. Their market was more the song writer who used acoustic stuff etc. putting it into reason was a safety net / plan b.


it's easy for those who had the hindsight to buy it far late in to the lifespan of it.. I only bought it as it was heavily discounted £30 more than reason on it's own.. mainly for the dongle , as I thought I bet they bring that in as mainstay for EVERYTHING they make.


most will have had a DAW by now if they were interesting in doing what record would do with reason years earlier.


the only fixing they have done with their stuff in the main has been "compatibly fixes" nothing really more than that. e.g. for AMD cpu's (not optimising though) or for various apple OS's.

As I've stated their is a bug in 5 that wasn't fixed and slipped thru with regard to NN19 files. They did nothing really when I contacted them about it.


I bet there is an update at a more normal price less than a year. This specific update I class as a migration one.. nothing more / nothing less, hence why they can't ask top dollar for it esp. from record+reason owners.

The PH dongle can be used with SSL Duende Native- saving 30 Euro. Massive!!! 

just finished installing reason 6. ready to start playing around. can't wait till cake adopts the new 64bit rewire....pay what you want...love it