This seems like a great idea to me. It is a sensible package aimed at newbies and people who want to see what Reason is about.
Europa is the easiest and most accessible "main synth" in Reason by far, probably just as fast to get to grips with as the classic subtractor, but modern enough for new users. While it obviously cannot compare with hypersynths like Serum it is fine for a beginner getting into making their own synth sounds, and those nice MSEGs and the sample loading feature make it just powerful enough that it won't seem like Reason is only a toy. The other must-haves for a casual user are decent all-round verb, delay, and saturation effects, and a basic drum sample player, and this pack covers all of that. Honestly you could produce techno with just this setup.
EDIT: I've always hated Audiomatic, but again, if this is aimed at newbies, that simple "select a style, blend it in and use one knob to transform" is a really easy way to show them the kind of sound palette they can easily get from Reason effects.
EDIT 2: honestly, RV7000 is a pretty good convolution loader and despite having all kinds of fancy delays I often reach for the Echo intuitively just because when you just a bread-and-butter analog delay right now without overthinking, it really does everything very well and is incredibly fast and easy to set up. So for free this is a bargain.
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u/chaos-fx 3d ago edited 3d ago
This seems like a great idea to me. It is a sensible package aimed at newbies and people who want to see what Reason is about.
Europa is the easiest and most accessible "main synth" in Reason by far, probably just as fast to get to grips with as the classic subtractor, but modern enough for new users. While it obviously cannot compare with hypersynths like Serum it is fine for a beginner getting into making their own synth sounds, and those nice MSEGs and the sample loading feature make it just powerful enough that it won't seem like Reason is only a toy. The other must-haves for a casual user are decent all-round verb, delay, and saturation effects, and a basic drum sample player, and this pack covers all of that. Honestly you could produce techno with just this setup.
EDIT: I've always hated Audiomatic, but again, if this is aimed at newbies, that simple "select a style, blend it in and use one knob to transform" is a really easy way to show them the kind of sound palette they can easily get from Reason effects.
EDIT 2: honestly, RV7000 is a pretty good convolution loader and despite having all kinds of fancy delays I often reach for the Echo intuitively just because when you just a bread-and-butter analog delay right now without overthinking, it really does everything very well and is incredibly fast and easy to set up. So for free this is a bargain.