I also recently bought the Silent Way rack extension and a couple ES-8s so I am hoping I can get some of that sequencing power to come through in the modular space too.ĭJMaytag wrote:The latest update has gotten me very intrigued about dropping Cubase after 15 years of using it. It's already great as a rewire slave if you just want to capture audio from something that doesn't really have a VST equivalent like JPS Harmonic Synth. Now that they are adding VST in 9.5 I am certain I will use it more just because of the sequencing flexiblity. Then if you get tired of what I consider kind of tinny canned tones you can export all mid and drop in something else like Ableton to refine the composition and get more versatile professional fx. It's trivially easy now to take a sequencer that is virtually modular and make a sequence then bounce that out to the MIDI area, tweak it then use the regroove mixer to help naturalize it. The features added in Reason 9 like the Beat Repeat and I can work some virtual knobs via my Nektar Panorama P4 and using PusheR2 with an Ableton Push 2. I use reason kinda like a musical sketchbook.

If the VST module matches my dreams, I'll be routing CV from Reaktor Blocks into Thor, but I'll wait for the upgrade to report on that. That's my number one use of CV in Reason (if you don't count gate and note CV). The CV outputs don't normally have level pots, but the inputs usually do, so the effect can be full on or subtle. The Pulsar doesn't have this waveform, btw, so I still use the Malström for LFO sometimes. I'd guess half of my song files will have one of those hooked up somewhere, many of them to the pan CV input to the line mixer, moving a pad or wind noise or something organically in the stereo field. The one before that is stepped random, which is great for a S&H type deal, but the smooth random wave glides along in a very organic sort of way.

I like the one that looks like a mountain range (number eight if you start counting from the sine), which is a smooth random shape. The Malström LFOs have a ton of waveforms including all the usual suspects (sine, saw, square etc) but also pretty complex ones. Those are the LFO outs, and they can be routed to pretty much any CV input on pretty much any device.

If you flip it, you'll find two outputs called MOD A and MOD B. I use Reason's CV mostly for LFO signals, and up until they came with the Pulsar dual LFO module, I used the Malström for that. I didn't really answer your question, Robojam, so I'll try again.

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