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Ok so I finally have the money to support my projects and one of the first things I bought was this midi music program called Reason. I heard about it from some members over at OC Remix.

It's definitely a step up from my shitty Cakewalk program. Reason is so amazingly powerful. I can't believe the quality of the songs that I've heard come out of this program.

But with power, comes complexity...

When I first got it and installed it I tried doing some simple stuff with it like taking some of my piano midis and putting a nicer piano sample on it but I was having trouble doing something as simple as that. I found out about a Reason beginner's workshop in San Fransisco and I signed up. The workshop was 6 hours long and was only $165 bucks. And it was worth every penny!

If any of you are thinking of trying out this workshop, I highly recommend it. It's very reasonably priced and you will learn a ton.

The sequencer part of Reason was pretty easy to figure out because my other MIDI programs, Cakewalk and MIDI Orchestrator Plus have sequencers that look and function almost exactly the same as the one in Reason. But the part that was tripping me up was all the hardware racks and wiring. I have absolutely no experience with audio engineering. A lot of the terms are based on the actual physical hardware that is used when audio engineers create music. All these terms I really didn't know.  The workshop really gave me enough information to really get started working with the program.

As a result I have a new piano piece available in the Music section! It's a piano rendition of the main theme from Surviving Together. It is an original composition. The midi was recorded with Cakewalk a few months ago but the piano sound is from a Reason piano patch.

Reason just came out with a Piano's Refill pack. I've tried multiple times to order it from their online store but for some reason it isn't going through

But when I finally do get it, I will use it on some of my existing piano songs in the music section and submit them to OC Remix. I'll also record some new songs.

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