Reason 12

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As a plugin rack in your DAW or as a fast and flexible music production tool, Reason is ready for your music-making.

Just starting out on your musical journey or well on your way to your next album? Wherever you are, Reason's legendary rack of synths, instruments and effects is ready to turn good ideas into great music. On its own or in your favorite DAW as a plugin.

Product details.

Reason is a powerful collection of virtual instruments, effects and production tools where musical ideas and amazing sounds comes to life. Use it as a plugin with your favorite DAW or produce music in Reason standalone.

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 as a plugin.

Using the Reason Rack Plugin you can make music with all of Reason's beloved instruments, effects and sounds in your DAW. Used like this, Reason is a super-sized expansion to your studio setup with its synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, MIDI effects, sampled instruments and creative effects.

The instruments and effects can be used just like in Reason. Stack them, combine them, add Reason's Player MIDI FX units. When you want more options, Reason Rack Plugin can also be expanded with exclusive Rack Extension plugins. Create the studio rack of your dreams!

The Reason Rack Plugin is included with Reason.

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, plugins 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. Or use industry standard VST plugins right in your Reason rack.

Features.

Instruments

Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer

Grain Sample Manipulator

Klang Tuned Percussion

Pangea World Instrument

Humana Vocal Ensemble

Radical 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 Analog Synthesizer

ID-8 Instrument Device

Effects

Quartet Chorus Ensemble

Sweeper Modulation Effect

Master Bus Compressor

Channel Dynamics

Channel EQ

RV7000 MkII Reverb

The Echo

Softube Amp

Softube Bass Amp

Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit

Alligator Triple Filtered Gate

Pulveriser Demolition

Synchronous Effects Modulator

Neptune Pitch Adjuster

BV512 Vocoder

Audiomatic Retro Transformer

MClass Equalizer

MClass Stereo Imager

MClass Compressor

MClass Maximizer

RV-7 Digital Reverb

DDL-1 Digital Delay Line

D-11 Foldback Distortion

ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter

CF-101 Chorus/Flanger

PH-90 Phaser

COMP-01 Compressor/Limiter

PEQ-2 Two Band Parametric EQ

UN-16 Unison

Player MIDI effects and utility devices

Scales & Chords

Dual Arpeggio

Note Echo

RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator

Matrix Pattern Sequencer

Pulsar Dual LFO

Mixer 14:2

Line Mixer 6:2

Spider Audio Merger & Splitter

Spider CV Merger & Splitter

Combinator

Sounds and patches

Huge sound banks with more than 29000 device patches, loops and samples

Reason 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 lets 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 & 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 saurfaces

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 collaborator as easy as moving a single file

Advanced modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel

ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console