It’s only fair to say that Link has very quickly established a strong foothold in the iOS world, and has of course had a desktop presence from day one with Live. But the big question was always whether or not other desktop DAWs would take it on.
Now that’s happened with Reason. Here’s what Propellerheads say about it:
“Reason is the first third party DAW to add support for Ableton’s Link technology. Users of Reason 9.1 can effortlessly sync their music making apps across WiFi, and Link will keep all apps in tempo and time. Drop in or out of the Link at any time. Change tempo on one device and all the Linked apps follow suit.
Use the Link enabled Reason for Jam sessions with friends using Ableton Live or other Link enabled apps on desktop or mobile. Or use Link to record the sound of your favorite iOS apps to your Reason tracks in perfect sync. How to use Link
Using Link is a breeze. Reason 9.1 adds Ableton Link as a new sync mode that you enable from the transport panel. You’ll see how many other Links are available and a graph will show timing information. When you hit play in Reason, it will start playing in sync on the next downbeat. When you stop, all other apps will keep playing. There is no sync master.
Reason 9.1 is a free update for owners of Reason 9. To update Reason 9, simply download it from Reason’s auto updater that will detect the update on launch.”
Make now mistake that this is massive, truly massive, and I hope that it isn’t the last. Quite frankly I think that we should see all DAWs take on Link, and I’d like to see some Android love for Link too.
What’s more, it’s great to see Jakob in there doing his thing!
If you haven’t tried out Ableton’s Link technology as yet, then watch this and see just what you can do with it. Here it’s being used in Blocs, a thing I think is amazing in itself, and having worked with Blocs last week I know just how amazing it is going to get.
Video description:
“Performance with iPad Air 2 and iPad 2 with Blocs Wave by Novation trying new Ableton Link support!
It would seem like the lovely people at Blocs must be working round the clock to get new features out. It’s only been a week since their last release with Ableton Link integration and here we are again with even more goodness. In version 3.0 they’ve added a new export mix feature so you can now export your project with their offline export mode. If that wasn’t enough you can also now do a batch export of the individual pads to easily get them into another app or onto your laptop. How amazing is that!
Now I happen to know that this isn’t the end of what the Blocs chaps are up to. If you check the post below (about my most recent SoundLab event) you’ll see that we had Blocs along to show their app, and there are very very cool things coming to Blocs Wave. But I can’t say what. What I can say is that you’ll love it!
If that wasn’t enough here’s a nice tutorial from the Blocs team on the new features:
For now, check out the app if you haven’t already. It really is great way to make music.
