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Overview

Includes 70 instruments and effects.

Subscribe to Reason+ and get the tools to sound like nobody else. With the Reason+ subscription, you get the Reason Rack plug-in and standalone software along with every single synth, drum machine, Player, effect device, guitar amp model and sample that Reason Studios has ever released—and will ever release. That’s over 70 plug-in devices right off the bat, plus weekly new Sound Packs.

What Is Included?

The Reason Rack plug-in and standalone DAW: a powerhouse for electronic music makers. Use it as a plug-in with your favorite DAW or as a DAW in itself, with all the audio and MIDI recording and editing capabilities you can dream of. As a Reason+ subscriber, you always have access to the latest version with all available updates.

Legendary instruments and effects: The included 70+ instruments and effects have been used to make countless hits—and countless unique sounds. You get them all, as well as any future devices from Reason Studios. By combining them any way you want in the Reason Rack, you can really control your creative expression.

Inspiring sound packs: Get inspired by Reason Studios weekly Sound Packs with musical building blocks that go well together. All sounds are created by world-class sound designers in the Reason rack—so you can change them any way you want.

Virtual Studio Rack

At the heart of Reason is a virtual rack where you craft the sounds your music needs, from scratch or from Reason’s huge library of sounds. Synthesizers, instruments and effects—as many as you need. Reason covers every need from the synthetic and electronic to acoustic and organic.

As you build your rack, everything is automatically connected and routed for you. If you want to dive deeper, turn Reason’s rack around, and you’ll find yourself in modular heaven. Experiment and play around until you find the sound you are after by routing audio and control voltage freely between devices in the rack. Your imagination is the only limitation to what you can build.

With a multi-gigabyte supply of synth sounds, sampled instruments, drum kits, loops and effects, Reason's built-in sound bank comes packed with everything you need to make any style of music. The integrated browser helps you quickly find and try thousands of sounds across a huge sound library.

Reason for Music Production

When used standalone, Reason is a powerful virtual studio for fast and creative music production.

Recording

Capture your musical ideas in Reason’s powerful sequencer. Record and edit audio, MIDI or automation with powerful recording and editing tools. Always in sync with your flow, forever adapting to you and your working methods, Reason's sequencer simply gets you there faster.

Reason has a unique take on tempo, key and pitch. Record first and decide on tempo later with Reason’s always-on, real-time and project-wide time stretch. Want to try a new key? Transpose your audio and retain the tempo. Fine-tune your vocal performances to perfection with Pitch Edit. Or rework, resample or reshape your recordings into something completely new.

Mixing

When finalizing your song, Reason's mixer gives your tracks that big studio sound right out of your computer. The Mixer is faithfully modeled after the legendary SSL 9000k* analog mixing desk, with flexible routing, full dynamics, EQ, full automation, groups and parallel channels, and its famous master-bus compression.

Extending Your Rack

When you're looking for even more creative options, Reason Rack Extensions come to the rescue. You can expand your virtual rack with new, inspiring instruments and effects created by developers around the world—from modern effects to vintage instruments. Rack Extension plugins are full rack citizens, giving you a fully integrated experience.

Features

  • Fully fledged virtual instrument rack plug-in and music production software
  • Instant access to over 70 world-class instruments, audio and MIDI effects, and utilities—every single Rack Extension device that Reason Studios has ever created
  • All future Rack Extensions from Reason Studios and product updates to Reason are included
  • New Sound Packs added weekly
  • 28 premium instruments—synths, drum machines, samplers and more
  • 31 audio effects—modulation, reverbs, guitar amp models, mix and mastering tools
  • 17 MIDI effects and utilities—Reason’s unique Players and much more
  • Sound Bank with more than 32,000 device patches, loops and samples
  • Bigger than the sum of its parts—Reason’s modular ecosystem allows all devices to control one another, giving endless creative options
  • Use Reason as an instrument and effect plugin in any DAW. Or, use it as a DAW in itself with full audio and MIDI capabilities
  • Ever expandable rack of instruments and effects—thousands of Rack Extensions can be added
  • Easy to learn, yet as deep as you want to go
  • $199.00/1-year subscription
  • Instruments
    • Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
    • Grain Sample Manipulator
    • Klang Tuned Percussion
    • Pangea World Instruments
    • Humana Vocal Ensemble
    • Radical Piano Advanced Acoustic Piano
    • Monotone Bass Synthesizer
    • Rytmik Drum Machine
    • Kong Drum Designer
    • Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
    • NN19 Sampler
    • NN-XT Advanced Sampler
    • Malström Graintable Synthesizer
    • Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
    • Redrum Drum Computer
    • Subtractor Polyphonic Synthesizer
    • ID-8 Songwriter's Toolbox
    Effects
    • Quartet Chorus Ensemble
    • Sweeper Modulation Effect
    • Master Bus Compressor
    • Channel Dynamics
    • Channel EQ
    • RV7000 MkII advanced convolution reverb
    • The Echo high-quality delay & tape echo
    • Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
    • Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
    • Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
    • Alligator triple channel pattern-based gate
    • Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
    • Synchronous Effects Modulator
    • Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
    • Audiomatic Retro Transformer
    • MClass 4-band mastering EQ
    • MClass Dual band stereo imager
    • MClass Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
    • MClass Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip
    • RV-7 digital reverb
    • DDL-1 digital delay line
    • D-11 foldback distortion
    • ECF-42 envelope-controlled filter
    • DF-101 chorus/flanger
    • PH-90 phaser
    • COMP-01 compressor
    • PEQ2 2-band EQ
    • BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
    • UN16 unison
    • Player MIDI effects and utility devices
    • Beat Map Algorhythmic Drummer
    • Scales & Chords
    • Dual Arpeggio
    • Note Echo
    • RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
    • ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console
    • Matrix pattern-based sequencer
    • Pulsar Dual LFO
    • 14:2 mixer w/ EQ and effects send/return
    • 6:2 channel stereo line mixer
    • Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
    • Spider Control Voltage Merger & Splitter
    • Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects and pattern
    sequencersSounds and patches
      Huge factory sound bank with more than 32,000 device patches, loops and samplesReason music production software features
      • VST plugin support: add any instrument or effect plugin to Reason’s rack
      • Delay compensation makes all signal paths play in perfect, phase-locked sync
      • Opens songs and synth patches made in Reason Compact—the free pocket music
      • studio for iOS
      • Rack Extensions let you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Reason Studios and 3rd-party developers
      • Support for Ableton Link: effortlessly sync Reason and other link enabled apps over Wi-Fi
      • Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
      • Fully featured high-precision multitrack sequencer with Blocks mode and audio comping tools
      • High-quality real-time time-stretch and audio transpose
      • Pitch Edit mode for polishing your vocal recordings
      • Audio slicing and audio quantize—correct the timing of your audio recordings
      • Convert recorded or imported audio in the sequencer into REX loops for further sound manipulation
      • MIDI instrument output—control synths, samplers and keyboards from Reason's sequencer
      • MIDI clock output—sync hardware to Reason
      • Advanced exporting—export your separate mixer channels as individual audio stems, including effects and tempo track
      • Live sampling on all Sampler devices
      • Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
      • Supports all major file formats—from wave and AIFF to mp3 and more
      • Realtime sample rate and bit depth conversion allows for importing any audio into Reason without issues
      • Multicore support and 64-bit compatibility makes Reason fast and powerful on any computer
      • Self-contained song files make moving projects between computers and collaborators as easy as moving a single file
      • Advanced modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel

      Subscribe to Reason+ and get the DAW to create your sound. Order today.

      Specs

      Reason + Digital Audio Workstation (Software Download) Specifications:

      System Requirements
        macOS
        • Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration
        • Intel Mac with multi-core processor
        • 4GB RAM (8GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
        • 4GB free system disk space required, plus 8GB for optional content. Additionally, program may use up to 20GB scratch disk space
        • Mac OS X 10.11 or later (64-bit)
        • Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
        • CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware
        • MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
        • For using Reason as a VST plug-in, a host with VST3 support is required
        • For using Reason as an AU plug-in, a host with AUv2 support is required
        Windows
        • Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration
        • Intel or AMD multi-core processor
        • 4GB RAM (8GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
        • 4GB free system disk space required, plus 8GB for optional content. Additionally, program may use up to 20GB scratch disk space
        • Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
        • Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
        • Audio Interface with ASIO driver
        • MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
        Note
        • For using Reason as a VST plug-in, a host with VST3 support is required.
        • *All product names used are trademarks of their respective owners, and in no way constitutes an association or affiliation with Reason Studios. The SSL and/or Solid State Logic trademarks are solely used to identify the products whose sound was studied during Reason Studios sound modeling development. The trademarks SSL and Solid State Logic are owned by Red Lion 49 Limited. VST is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
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