Subscribe to Reason+ and get the tools to sound like nobody else. With the new Reason+ subscription, you get the Reason Rack plugin 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 plugin devices right off the bat, plus weekly new Sound Packs.
What is included?
The Reason Rack plugin and standalone DAW: A powerhouse for electronic music makers. Use it as a plugin 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 our 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 musicproduction.
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.
Extendingyour 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
Instruments
- Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
- Grain Sample Manipulator
- Klang Tuned Percussion
- Pangea World Instruments
- Humana Vocal Ensemble
- Radical Piano AdvancedAcoustic Piano
- Monotone Bass Synthesizer
- Rytmik DrumMachine
- Kong Drum Designer
- Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
- NN19 Sampler
- NN-XT AdvancedSampler
- Malström Graintable Synthesizer
- Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
- Redrum Drum Computer
- SubtractorPolyphonic Synthesizer
- ID-8 Songwriter’sToolbox
Effects
- Quartet Chorus Ensemble
- Sweeper Modulation Effect
- Master Bus Compressor
- Channel Dynamics
- Channel EQ
- RV7000 MkIIadvancedconvolution 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 DestructionUnit
- Alligator triple channel pattern-based gate
- Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
- SynchronousEffects 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 foldbackdistortion
- 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 MapAlgorhythmicDrummer
- Scales&Chords
- Dual Arpeggio
- Note Echo
- RPG-8 MonophonicArpeggiator
- ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console
- Matrix pattern-basedsequencer
- Pulsar Dual LFO
- 14:2 mixer w/ EQ and effects send/return
- 6:2 channel stereo line mixer
- Spider Audio Merger& Splitter
- Spider Control VoltageMerger& Splitter
- Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern
- sequencers
Sounds and patches
Huge factory sound bank with more than 32,000 device patches, loops, and samples.
Reason musicproduction 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 WiFi
- Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
- Fully featured high-precision multitrack sequencer with Blocks mode and audio comping tools
- High-quality realtime 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
System Requirements
macOS
- Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration
- Intel Mac with multi-core processor
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 4 GB free system disk space required, plus 8 GB for optional content. Additionally,
- program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space
- Mac OS X 10.11 or later (64-bit)
- Monitor with at least 1280×768 resolution
- CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware
- MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
- For using Reason as a VST Plugin, a host with VST3 support is required
- For using Reason as an AU plugin, a host with AUv2 support is required
Windows
- Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration
- Intel or AMD multi-core processor
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 4 GB free system disk space required, plus 8 GB for optional content. Additionally,
- program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space
- Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
- Monitor with at least 1280×768 resolution
- Audio Interface with ASIO driver
- MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
For using Reason as a VST Plugin, 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
duringReason 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.