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Propellerhead Reason

Score9 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Propellerhead Reason?

Propellerhead Software headquartered in Stockholm offers Reason, the company's flagship digital audio workstation and audio editing application.

Categories & Use Cases

With Propel we have the product life cycle under control

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

What we like about this software is that it helps us with every part of the life cycle of the company's products, quality control, and specifications, so that the end result is a quality product. Its integration with Salesforce makes it much more useful because we have been working with this software forever and with the data we have there, we can use it without problems in Propel.

Pros

  • It has important tools for optimal quality control, based on company policies and iso standards, which ensure that all products have the quality seal of our brand, giving the customer a first-class article.
  • Its complaint management allows us to collect all complaints, failures, errors, and setbacks that the product may present during the manufacturing process, in order to detect and correct them in time.
  • We can also track product costs, to monitor that all are within the established calculations and budgets so that there are no losses.

Cons

  • The software is very complete, but it can become saturated with the many tools it has. If you have experience with Salesforce, it will be much easier for you to learn the program.
  • I would find it very useful if the system allowed to integrate other software, apart from Salesforce, so that we could have all the information from the same platform.
  • If the platform would allow local hosting or offline access to its control panel, it would make our work much easier, because sometimes the connection fails, and entering the system is impossible.

Most Important Features

  • Cost tracking, which allows close monitoring of all product manufacturing prices, avoiding losses in sales.
  • Quality control, which ensures that each product produced goes through the highest standards and processes that give it the seal of approval.
  • Complaint management allows collecting faults and errors that may occur in the life cycle of the product, to identify and correct them in time.

Return on Investment

  • This software has allowed us to be much more efficient in the quality control and production department, as we were able to create quality products for our customers, with easy-to-use tools and automating tasks, so that the entire process is executed more quickly and efficiently.

There's No Reason Not to Go With Propellerhead

Pros

  • Huge variety of sounds
  • Easy to jump in
  • Works on it's own, so you don't need another DAW

Cons

  • While I get that it's not it's forté, I wish the orchestral sounds were a bit better
  • Wish new versions were released faster
  • Shortcuts could be a bit easier to figure out

Return on Investment

  • Instrumental at helping me score films & television, which is the core of my business
  • Cost effective, so I save on equipment
  • Doesn't necessarily depreciate over time, you're not forced to upgrade

Alternatives Considered

Ableton Live

Other Software Used

Cubase, Avid Pro Tools, Ableton Live