You need Chrome 66 or later, or launch Chrome 64+ with command line option --enable-blink-features=AudioWorklet
otherwise you're probably getting a polyfill.
Tried that now... still lots of latency, if I pick sound with short attack so it should be punchy... then tap the keyboard fast, the sound is generated on the up after my finger has pressed the key. So it's pretty disorientating to actually perform on unless you are only interested in soft pads :P
To be fair this might just be linux on this machine, it's an old mac and I had only run software synths on it in OS X before (which were playable, but I know xnu has been tweaked with low latency audio in mind), maybe I need one of those special linux kernels to get low latency on this old thing.
There's a lot to like about Reason. The built-in instruments really hit a sweet spot between flexibility and ease of use. And the semi-modular design makes it easy to do things that are hard or downright impossible in more conventional DAWs. And there are some great rack extensions like Nostromo that don't really have any direct counterparts in the VST world.
I also like the way that the blocks method of arranging a song works.
Reason also has some serious shortcomings though like a very basic piano roll and, at least lately, very bad performance. I'm not sure what happened there because it used to be the most efficient DAW on my system by far but now it uses 2-3x the CPU that Logic or Live do, at least on my machine.
Well, one reason is that, unlike in Reason, you don't need a magnifying glass to use it on a higher-res display. Honestly. We are at Reason 10 and there is still no interface scaling or retina support.
A better question is: Why can't I have it in a VST? ReWire is a PITA.
Woah! I totally missed that. This is a first. And it's free for Reason 10 owners. The product key was already in my account when I logged in. And is has a scalable UI.
I wonder if this is a foretaste of things to come? Maybe Thor next? Please?
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I also like the way that the blocks method of arranging a song works.
Reason also has some serious shortcomings though like a very basic piano roll and, at least lately, very bad performance. I'm not sure what happened there because it used to be the most efficient DAW on my system by far but now it uses 2-3x the CPU that Logic or Live do, at least on my machine.
A better question is: Why can't I have it in a VST? ReWire is a PITA.
I wonder if this is a foretaste of things to come? Maybe Thor next? Please?