Has anyone used Propellerheads Reason 8 or 9 on a 2017 macbook pro? I've read online that there are performance issues with these new laptops. I've also heard that older versions of reason will no longer work on High Sierra. Does anyone have insight into any of this? Looking to buy the new macbook but don't want to ruin my music setup...
Posted Oct 25, 2017, 10:53 PM UTC
I'm assuming the High Sierra comment refers to this? https://www.propellerheads.se/support/news/propellerhead-products-and-macos-high-sierra/
If you own Reason 9, then Reason 9.5.x should be a free upgrade, so as long as you are up-to-date then you should have no problems running Reason itself on High Sierra. Offline activation seems to be still under testing, though.
As for performance issues, like with any DAW, it's pretty much always possible to make a project that hits the limit of your CPU power. I'm pretty much always hitting the limit with my projects, but I'm on a 13" 2013 MacBook Pro and I run at 96kHz sampling rate. For "reasonable" (no pun intended) projects, you shouldn't have too many problems (there's always bouncing-in-place if you need to save some juice)
Running reason 9.5 on a macbook purchased in July. Works perfect. Keeping it off the internet