{"id":7989,"date":"2026-01-12T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:07:56","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerfull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/reasons-to-be-cheerfull\/","title":{"rendered":"REASON&#8217;s to be Cheerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>REASON TURNS 25!<\/h2>\n<p>Propellorheads reason was, and still is an astoundingly powerful and intuitive environment for music creation.<\/p>\n<p>After burning out from working professionally in creating music for moving image,(after several years)\u00a0the only tool I could face was Version 1 of a new program by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reasonstudios.com\/news\/post\/hooray-reason-turns-25\">Propeller Heads called REASON.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It replicated a load of the hardware tools I had been using before I retired, allowing the unique routing and manipulation the hardware had provided, but with the incredible convenience of software. It \u00a0was also extraordinary stable at a time where most music software was \u2026 significantly less so\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Reason2.webp\"><img data-dominant-color=\"686a6d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #686a6d;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7994 size-full aligncenter not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Reason2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Reason2.webp 721w, https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Reason2-296x300.webp 296w, https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Reason2-207x210.webp 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Blog-25-Years-copy.webp\">If you&#8217;re wondering about getting into music software\u2026 CHECK IT OUT!<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REASON TURNS 25! Propellorheads reason was, and still is an astoundingly powerful and intuitive environment for music creation. After burning out from working professionally in creating music for moving image,(after several years)\u00a0the only tool I could face was Version 1 of a new program by Propeller Heads called REASON. It replicated a load of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8011,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}