Same happened to me with Recycle, Reason Studio’s stopped online activation. I still have the official, useless CD-Rom. So I have the 2.1 version that I did not pay for.

Didn’t have any issues with that either (from memory.) Lightweight and solid. Until version 8 Reason was pretty good.

I only use Reason sometimes as a plugin now into Studio One. It does have some unique features I still like to use, but as a main sequencer I would not recommend any version later than 8, which you can’t buy.

My advice for beginners to start with Reaper and it comes very cheap and full featured compared to most major DAW’s.

I am from the Steinberg era back in the 80s with a C64/Amiga, 90s with Cubase on Atari and PC…that is why I switched to Studio One. Suits me best, and the Artist 5 version came free with the Presonus controller (that I did not need) for an extra 20€ on the normal software price.

As a day one user since release in 2000 (and before that Rebirth and Recycle)…

It can be pirated, lately eats resources, crashes a lot, overpriced plugins, audio crackling no matter what buffer settings after updates and to this day doesn’t have any ootb support for MIDI routing. After 20 years, and 400+ projects later I ditched that software. It became unreliable, used to be rock solid.

Propellerhead got aquired by an investment company, and Ernst left…became Reason Studios and then went downhill slowly. Last version I bought was Reason 12 upgrade and got more and more disappointed, stopped using it almost 2 years ago after another crash losing ideas.

Now on Studio One, also paid.

Well yeah, watching Kolchak The Night Stalker lately, aired around 1975 and looking up some of the actors…they’ve mostly passed away.

Recently learned about this Swedish artist/band. Sounds good to me.

Boko Yout - Demolition Man

Gen X here…MDMA late 80s, early 90s when the quality was good, and the party’s still underground.

One can extend battery life with Home Assistant and any phone that can run the HA companion app.

I have a Samsung S9+ stuck on my fridge as a home assistant remote with a script controlling a 5V/1A charger + power switch. It will turn on when the S9+ battery is at 20% and off when at 80%. Charges slow but that is on purpose. HA monitors it’s battery health as well and will notify me when the state changes.

My stamppot zuurkool met rookworst as well, on Delfts blauw.

My AKAI S-1100 sampler. I never could afford any sampler but I bought one second hand for cheap, had to repair the display and it is still running solid 35 years after production date.

We Dutch really miss the barbeques after a “gezellige” execution.

No roasted liver?

In German: Zwei Lippen.

Verkakt/verkakken is in the Flemish dictionary.

I am happy to say….What government?

The Netherlands…we’ll be voting soon again.

Something regional, “Kaaskop”.

This guy still stinking rich and only getting richer. Over the last year he made 330M a month. He lost half his fortune then at 48B dollars.

Forbes

Pihole, file server, Home Assistant/Music Assistant + Jellyfin.

Steam machine for cleaning, airfilters always open, climate/humidity control, no smoking.

I don’t use scented stuff, it is bad for your health breathing in all these chemicals. With scented candles and incense, burned chemicals. My wife was into the diffuser stuff and all, but stopped after a few days because I had increased asthma attacks.

Yes I agree it is great. I am using it on a Raspberry Pi 400 for pihole. It’s lean and conveniant.

My wife and me are always chuckling when in Germany taking the Ausfahrt.