About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Csound, Software synthesizer, Reason, Korg Wavestation, Max, Pure Data, Reaktor, Comparison of audio synthesis environments, SuperCollider, Kontakt, Digital Performer, Bristol, AudioMulch, List of MIDI editors and sequencers, ChucK, Usine, KORG DS-10, LinuxSampler, SynthMaster, ReBirth RB-338, MUSIC-N, Microsoft Songsmith, Kyma, ZynAddSubFX, TiMidity++, Native Instruments, FluidSynth, Cakewalk, Jamstix, Nyquist, Kompakt, MicroTonic, CreamwareAudio Modular III, Absynth, Open-Architecture-System, SynthEdit, Assampler, Bidule, Music4, Sytrus, Logic Studio, HALion Symphonic Orchestra, Common Lisp Music, Discovery, SynFactory, PySynth, FM8, Amsynth, Philips NMS-1205, Vanguard. Excerpt: Reason is a music software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It emulates a rack of hardware synthesizers, samplers, signal processors, sequencers and mixers, all of which can be freely interconnected in an arbitrary manner. Reason can be used either as a complete virtual music studio, or as a collection of virtual instruments to be played live or used with other sequencing software. Reason 1.0 was released in November 2000 and is currently the second most popular music making software in the industry (Pro Tools being the first). The program's design mimics a studio rack into which users can insert virtual devices such as instruments, effects processors and mixers. These modules can be controlled from Reason's built-in MIDI sequencer or from other sequencing applications such as Pro Tools, Logic, FL Studio, Digital Performer, Cubase, Sonar and GarageBand via Propellerhead's ReWire protocol in the 32-bit versions of these software. There's currently no support for ReWire with 64-bit hosts until Reason 6 comes out in September 2011. As of version 5.0, modules available include: Sounds from these devices ...
