Reason 2.5 for Educators

Propellerhead brings you 4 new sound processing tools and 2 science projects to make your music weirder, wilder, better, and more beautiful. If you enjoy luxurious reverberation, flexible vocoding, creative distortion, instant fatness, and advanced signal routing, this is your kind of update. It includes the RV7000 reverb, the BV512 digital vocoder, the Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit, the UN-16 Unison, the Spider Audio Merger & Splitter, and the Spider CV Merger & Splitter.

The RV7000 is a stereo effect unit dedicated to embedding your sounds in rich, transparent-sounding reverb. And despite its pro studio sound and million-dollar features, it's very easy to use. The basic controls on the main panel provide instant access and control, while the rest--8 knobs for algorithms and parameters--can be accessed from a fold-out remote at the touch of a button.

The BV-512 is the simple to use digital vocoder with superior sound quality and advanced abilities you need in your studio. Besides being a 4 to 512-band vocoder capable of modulating sound in both old-school analog style and digital FFT fashion, this unit also doubles as a fully automated equalizer with a twist. The BV-512 can be used for everything from classic robot vocals to weird harmonic effects.

Scream 4 is like having all your favorite distortion and overdrive stompboxes transformed into one shiny, rackmounted Reason unit. Add a touch of speaker modeling and a rough-sounding EQ section and you have the ultimate sound destruction unit. Use it for digital bit crushing or regular crushing, or just for adding a little analog warmth and body to your sounds. Scream 4 features 10 different signal damage and distortion effects, each with its own evil character: Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz, Tube, Tape, Feedback, Modulate, Warp, Digital and Scream.

UN-16 Unison is a software reincarnation of that mysterious Unison button on early '80s synths. It fattens up incoming sound by emulating the effect of 4, 8, or 16 detuned versions of the incoming sound playing the same note in ultra-stereo. The result is rich and wide and slightly similar to a chorus effect, only fatter.

Spider Audio may not be much to look at, but for the seasoned Reason producer, it might be what you've been searching for. The Spider Audio utlity has 2 purposes in life: to merge and to split audio, therefore bringing more of the hardware studio's patching capabilities into the software realm.