Reason 12 vs Ableton Live 11 - Which is Better?

After FL Studio, which DAW should I try next?

Having used reason for years and years. It is the only DAW out there. My tracks are made only with reason.

Good overview, I use both, which is the best of both worlds. Once Reason is upgraded to support VST3, there will be even more flexibility. The real lesson here is that all DAWS have their own flavours and can provide different inspirations.

I GENUINELY like this girl. I'm 20 years your senior and i learn from you all the time. I started in a cracked versions of Cakewalk, Cubase and Fruity Loops. I bought versions of all these eventually as they crashed my PC.Currently usng FL 21, Ableton Suite 10, Reason 11 and Maschine. Thx for your vids All my best wishes for your bright future.

I came across your channel as I'm upgrading from Live 10 to 11 today to take advantage of this year's 20% and free update to version 12. I'm hitting the subscribe button as you are knowledgeable and articulate about two of my favorite DAWs. I look forward to checking out some of your more recent work. Thanks for the time, effort, and resources that go into creating each episode

Thank you, for this video! Reason is the best DAW ever! Yes, I'm a Fanboy :) I learned to use Pro Tools and Ableton Live during I studied Audio Engineering at the SAE Institute. But Reason is still the most beautiful and inspiring DAW for me :) 🧡 Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

Terrific breakdown. Thanks for this!

So much work went into this video. Thank you for your hard work.

Really great deep dive analysis. Thanks!

I used to use Ableton to produce and mix everything down in ProTools. My cousin turned me on to Reason four years ago and haven’t turned back since. A one stop shop.

A really great breakdown! Thank you.

Excellent! As always. Thank you for your magnificence.

Incredible comparison video. I have both and I learned quite a bit from your video. I use the Reason Rack in Ableton this days.

As a Reason 10 user, the one thing that makes me keep looking at other DAWs and particularly Ableton, is the lack of proper midi controller support for Reason. Even the newly announced Arturia Minilab 3, which supposedly has support for Reason, comes with a number of major compromises: 1) there's no "main knob" to alter whichever software UI knob/fader/button that is currently focused - in fact, you technically can't even focus on an element of the UI in Reason, you can only focus the entire instrument/effect. Imagine the ability to click on any item on the screen and twist a knob to tweak that value. That would 10X the tactility of Reason! 2) the automapped are hardcoded to certain things in a clumsy way. For example, in Europa, the knobs only map to the first of three synth engines. If you shift focus to engine 2, you'd expect the knobs on the Minilab 3 to control that engine, but no, Reason has this set up so that every knob has a unique identifier (e.g. Engine2Shape, Engine3Shape, rather than "CurrentEngineShape"). This limits the use of the hardware controls. 3) Although the rotaries are endless on Minilab 3, in Reason, they still remember their most recent state so if you flick back and forth difference instruments, the encoders on screen will still jump. Apparently there is no setting for "catch/scale" modes for knobs in Reason, it's only "jump". 4) The faders act the same way, they cause a mix channel to jump to the physical position of the fader. Minilab 3 was just an example to illustrate the point: in Reason, you're basically stuck with using the mouse and keyboard for the most part, any midi controller integration will be clumsy and less tactile. In Ableton Live, it seems that these things are much more thought-through, and midi controller manufacturers take the time to integrate their hardware really well with Live. I wish Reason would collaborate more closely with hardware manufacturers.

Fantastic comparison, thanks!

this is a cleean breakdown! incorporating the gist and vibe of the daws into the technical breakdown is an angle i think other videos on this topic could benefit from

I liked that twist at the end: “I wouldn’t “😏😉 Everyone raves about Abelton and I was expecting to hear something here that would wow me....but it’s still RS for me. The most important thing is mastering what you choose!

Crazy great explanation!

Thank you !!! So precise

I’ve been a Reason user since version and one a perpetual license of R12. I also own an older license of Ableton (7 I think). The one thing I really like about Ableton is the clip launcher and being able to build song up as a performance by launching midi and audio snippets and recording the results. I sincerely wish that was a feature reason had available, especially with Blocks so you could play experimentally and then sequence the results in chunks. One feature in Reason that doesn’t get enough attention is the ability to chop and juggle parts of Blocks and player sequencer lanes. You can remix existing content and shuffle parts around super easily, with barely an inconvenience, to break those static loops into something more exciting.