Create amazing sounds with Reason 12
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Reason is a powerful collection of fantastic instruments, synthesizers and effects for you to create endless amazing sounds and music. Use it as a plugin with your favorite DAW or produce music in Reason standalone.
Reason as a Plug-In: Reason is a super-sized expansion to your studio setup with synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, MIDI effects, sampled instruments and creative effects.
Reason as a Stand-Alone: Reason can be used standalone as a fully featured music studio for fast and creative music production, including recording and mixing.
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.
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NEW! Features of Reason 12 include:
Mimic Creative Sampler Mimic is a fun new sampler for the modern beatmaker and producer. Designed for quick and immediate triggering, chopping, and manipulation of whatever audio you throw at it.
Updated Combinator Combine your favorite devices, choose a panel size, change the background color, add a custom background, and the perfect set of controls to build your dream machine.
High-Resolution Graphics Geek out on crystal clear hyper-realistic devices in the Rack and adapt Reason to your workflow with the new new zoomable interface.
Faster Browser With a new faster browsing experience you can easily find all your devices, samples and patches, and stay in the creative flow.
At the heart of Reason is a virtual rack where you craft your own sound using Reason’s synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, and other organic instruments – along with a large collection of audio and MIDI effects to shape both your sound and even the notes you play on your keyboard.Instruments Inviting, easy to use and with a sound to die for: Reason’s instrument is the true stars of the Reason experience.
Mimic Creative Sampler - NEW!
Grain Sample Manipulator
Radical Piano
Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
Rytmik Drum Machine
Klang Tuned Percussion
Pangea World Instrument
Humana Vocal Ensemble
Monotone Bass Synthesizer
Kong Drum Designer
NN19 Sampler
NN-XT Advanced Sampler
Malström Graintable Synthesizer
Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
Redrum Drum Computer
Subtractor Analog Synthesizer
MIDI Out Device
ID-8 Instrument Device
Utilities
Combinator - Major Update!
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
Effects From the easy and straightforward to the esoteric and downright complex, Reason comes with all the effects you need.
Quartet Chorus Ensemble
Sweeper Modulation Effect
Master Bus Compressor
Channel Dynamics
Channel EQ
The Echo
Pulveriser Demolition
RV7000 MkII Reverb
Softube Amp
Softube Bass Amp
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
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 FX
Beat Map Algorhythmic Drummer
Scales & Chords
Dual Arpeggio
Note Echo
Sounds & Patches Huge sound banks with more than 29000 device patches, loops and samples.
Other features include:
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