reason softsampler limitations

[clarence]

i've been thinking about getting reason, as it has a softsampler module included, but now i hear that this module cannot export:

'The only unfortunate thing is you can't export these sample key maps you build [in the module] to any other sampler like the EXS 24. The Prop-heads are keeping their file format a secret. You can only save and load into Reason. '

what does this mean? that what i played on the midi controller thru this module can only be recorded in the reason sequencer, not in some other sequencer? or does it mean something more or less than that?
i also heard that the reason softsampler cannot record, but some other softsamplers can. shouldnt i be able to record audio thru my pc's regular wave recorder and put that into the reason softsampler? or would some other softsampler that was record-capable be able to do it better/more efficiently?

[dees]

If you want to capture the output of Reason instruments such as the the NNXT soft sampler, the best way would be to use a "Rewire" enabled DAW application such as the latest versions of Cubase, Nuendo, or Protools LE. Rewire will handle the transfer of Midi, Song Position, and Audio data between the two applications in real-time.

You cannot use Reason to record audio samples. You can however record samples with any other piece of software such as Sound Forge, Cubase, or anything else you may use to create .WAV files. Once the audio files are recorded you can create a sample patch with the Reason softsamplers, meaning you can Key Map them or add filters or envelope information and save your patch for future use. There should be no problem using Reason as a tool for creating sampled instruments of your own.

The limitation the person who wrote the post was speaking about was the lack of ability of directly exporting the new sample patches you created, or the factory patches to another sample format such as AKAI, GIGA, or Halion. Meaning if you bought Gigastudio sampling software a couple of years down the road and you had already created and otherwise acccumalated a huge sample/patch library using a Reason sampler such as the NN-19, you'd have to remap the samples to their respective keys within the gigastudio software and set of the the other parameters such as volume, and midi controller info within the Gigastudio software. The samples are still there you'd just have to do the "patch" work again.

All that being said, I don't think I'd get Reason if all I wanted was a softsampler. I'd get something like Native instruments' Kontakt.

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[clarence]

thank you much, dees. that's extremely helpful.