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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Propellerhead software has announced a version of Reason with native support for Intel based Mac computers, and they are looking for some people with a talent for breaking things.

This version of Reason, called 3.0.5, offers full compatibility with Apple's new Intel based computers but does not add any other new features to the program. Preliminary performance tests provide astonishing results.

"We are looking for good men and women to help us test Reason for Intel based Macs," notes the Propellerheads site.  "This round of testing is open to both non-registered users and to registered Reason 3.0 users with a keen eye and a habit of breaking things."

Propellerhead notes that their plans for the Intel Mac release deviate from Apple's recommendations:

Reason 3.0.5 is only available in Intel format, which means that this version does not run on PowerPC (PPC) based Mac computers. This is contrary to Apple's recommendation to developers, which is to ship a combined PPC and Intel based Mac application in a package called a Universal Binary. Based on our commitment to always provide the highest possible performance on all computer platforms that we support, Propellerhead Software made the decision to deviate from Apple's recommendation. Here are the details:

A Universal Binary actually contains two compiled applications, one for PPC and one for Intel. To create a Universal Binary, Propellerhead would need to use Apple's XCode compiler for both the PPC and Intel versions of the program. By contrast, the shipping version of Reason for PPC computers (version 3.0.4) is compiled with Motorola's CodeWarrior compiler. Unfortunately, our internal performance testing shows that compiling Reason for PPC using Apple's XCode compiler creates a significantly slower program than the shipping 3.0.4 version that we have today. For this reason we have decided to keep the two versions separate for the time being.

While this creates a small inconvenience in that user's have to manually determine which version is the right one to install, this is by far outshined by the advantages of having maximum performance.

We are currently working together with Apple to increase the performance of the PPC version of Reason compiled with XCode.

More information is available at the Propellerhead site.

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