Essential instruments (6)
Essential effects (7)
Essential mixing tools
Unlimited audio tracks
Supports Rack Extensions
The essence of Reason at a fraction of the price
Reason Essentials packs all the recording, editing, effects, instruments, mixing and mastering tools you need to sound great in a streamlined package, with room to grow and expand.
• Great selection of instruments and effects: drum machine, loop player, sampler, synths, reverb, delay, distortion and more.
• For guitar players, the guitar and bass amp devices from Softube bring a wide range of top quality guitar amps & cabinets.
• The intuitive audio and MIDI sequencer makes recording and arranging your music a breeze.
• When you need even more creative options, Rack Extensions plug-ins lets you add even more instruments and effect
Collaborate with others by sharing your musical ideas between Reason Essentials, Figure and Take
About Reason Essentials
Reason Essentials is an integrated software music production studio with audio recording, all the editing tools you need, built-in collaboration tools and a massive collection of instruments, sounds and effects. It’s the perfect choice for writing recording, remixing and producing great-sounding tracks.
Virtual studio rack
At the heart of Reason Essentials is a virtual rack that builds itself as you create your song. Fill your rack with as many devices as you need to get your sound. Reason Essentials’ legendary instruments and effects cover every need from acoustic and organic to electronic and synthetic.
As you build your rack, everything is automatically connected and routed for you. If you want to dive deeper, turn the rack around and you’ll find yourself in cable heaven! Craft 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.
Recording
Capture your musical ideas in Reason Essentials’ 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 Essentials’ sequencer simply gets you there faster.
Record first and pick your tempo later with Reason Essentials’ renowned time stretch. Non-destructively correct the timing of your audio recording with Slice Edit. Or rework, resample or reshape your recordings into something completely new.
Extending your rack
When you're looking for even more creative options, Rack Extensions come to the rescue. Expand your virtual rack with new, inspiring instruments and effects created by developers around the world—from modern effects to vintage instruments. Rack Extensions are full rack citizens, giving you the same fully integrated experience as when using any of the included synths, effects and utilities.
Sounds
Reason Essentials’ built-in sound bank comes with everything you need to get started with your music making: synth sounds, sampled instruments, drum kits, loops and effects and more.
Features
Included instruments
• NN-XT advanced sampler
• Dr. Octo Rex loop player
• Redrum pattern-based drum machine
• Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer
• ID-8 songwriter's toolbox
• Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers.
Included effects
• Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• DDL-1 digital delay line
• DF-101 chorus/flanger
• RV7000 advanced reverb
• Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
• 4-band mastering EQ
• Dual band stereo imager
• Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
• Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip
Modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel
• Gain
• 2-band EQ
• 4 Send effects slots
• Insert effect slot
• Master compressor
Other features
• Supports the Allihoopa music making and collaboration service, with access to an endless supply of inspiring user-created music, backing tracks and performances.
• Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
• Rack Extensions lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Propellerhead and 3rd party developers
• Six instruments included: NN-XT sampler, Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player, Redrum drum machine, Subtractor synth, ID-8 and Combinator
• Ten effects included: delay, reverb, virtual amps, distortion, chorus and mastering effects
• Modeled mixing console with channel strip for every instrument and audio channel
• Rack Extension technology lets users expand their collection of instruments and effects with the devices they want
• Fully featured high-precision multitrack sequencer with audio comping tools, slicing and audio quantize
• High quality realtime time stretch—adjust the tempo of your whole song, or alter the timing of a recorded performance
• Bounce audio recordings to REX loop format, for use in Reason Essentials' sampler or loop player
• Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
• Comes with a great factory sound bank, with patches for Reason Essentials devices, samples, and loops
• ReWire support
• Multicore support and 64-bit compatibility makes Reason Essentials fast and powerful on any computer
• Advanced exporting—export your separate mixer channels as individual audio stems, including effects and tempo track
• ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console
• Matrix pattern-based sequencer
• 14 x 2 mixer w/ EQ and effects send/return
• 6:2 channel stereo line mixer
• Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
• Spider Control Voltage Merger & Splitter
• Self-contained song files make moving projects between computers and collaborator as easy as moving a single file.
System Requirements
Mac OS X
- Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration required!
- Intel Mac with dual core processor
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 4 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Mac OS X 10.7 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
Windows
- Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration required!
- Intel or AMD processor with dual cores
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 4 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
- Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
- Audio Interface with ASIO driver
All instruments (9)
All effects (25)
Player MIDI devices
Studio-grade mixer
Unlimited audio tracks
Professional audio editin
Supports Rack Extensions
The recording software with everything you need to create amazing music.
Always inspired
Effortlessly create your dream studio with Reason’s modular rack. Music making in Reason means joyful exploration and endless possibilities.
Never short on great sounds
Get creative with Reason's legendary instruments, synthesizers, drum machines, samplers and more. With its huge collection of sounds, you’ll be making music in no time. It's everything you need, and then some.
Sound amazing
Record and edit your music in Reason’s sequencer. Find your tone with guitar amps from Softube. Sculpt and polish your tracks to perfection with Reason’s million dollar mixing console and massive rack of effects.
About Reason
Reason is an integrated software music production studio with audio recording, million-dollar mixing, built-in collaboration tools and a massive collection of instruments, sounds and effects. It’s the perfect choice for writing recording, remixing and producing great-sounding tracks.
Virtual studio rack
At the heart of Reason is a virtual rack that builds itself as you create your song. Fill your rack with as many devices as you need to get your sound. Reason’s legendary instruments and effects cover every need from acoustic and organic to electronic and synthetic.
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 cable heaven! Craft 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.
Recording
Capture your musical ideas in Reason’s powerful sequencer. Record and edit audio, MIDI or automation with powerful recording and editing tools. Quantize MIDI or audio to fix timing problems, or use ReGroove’s swing magic to breathe life into your sequences. Always in sync with your flow, forever adapting to you and your working methods, Reason's sequencer simply gets you there faster.
Record first and pick your tempo later with Reason’s renowned time stretch. And thanks to audio transpose you can even record first and change the key later. Fine tune your vocal performances to perfection with Pitch Edit. Non-destructively change the pitch, correct the timing of your audio recording with Slice 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, Rack Extensions come to the rescue. Expand your virtual rack with new, inspiring instruments and effects created by developers around the world—from modern effects to vintage instruments. Rack Extensions are full Reason rack citizens, giving you the same fully integrated experience as when using any of the included synths, effects and utilities.
Sounds
With a huge supply of synth sounds, sampled instruments, drum kits, loops and effects, Reason's built-in sound bank is packed with everything you'll need. Reason’s integrated, always open browser makes finding the right sound across a huge sample library a breeze. Want more? Expand your palette with a world of ReFill libraries—sound libraries custom-made for Reason.
Features
Included instruments
• Kong Drum Designer
• Thor polysonic synthesizer
• NN19 sampler
• NN-XT advanced sampler
• Malström graintable synthesizer
• Dr. Octo Rex loop player
• Redrum pattern-based drum machine
• Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer
• ID-8 songwriter's toolbox
• Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers
Included Player devices
• Scales & Chords
• Dual Arpeggio
• Note Echo
Included effects
• Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Alligator triple channel pattern based gate
• Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
• The Echo high quality stereo echo
• Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
• Audiomatic Retro Transformer
• 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
• RV7000 MkII advanced convolution reverb
• Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
• BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
• UN16 unison
• 4-band mastering EQ
• Dual band stereo imager
• Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
• Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip
Modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel
• Gain
• 4-band EQ
• 8 Send effects slots
• Insert effect slot
• Dynamics section with compressor and gate
• Lo-pass and hi-passfilter
• Spectrum analyzer
• Master compressor with sidechain input
• Group channels
• Parallel channels
Other features
• Supports the Allihoopa music making and collaboration service, with access to an endless supply of inspiring user-created music, backing tracks and performances.
• Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
• Rack Extensions lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Propellerhead and 3rd party developers
• Huge factory sound bank, with patches for all Reason's devices, samples, and loops
• 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
• 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
• Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
• ReWire support
• 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.
System Requirements
Mac OS X
- Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration required!
- Intel Mac with dual core processor
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 4 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Mac OS X 10.7 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
Windows
- Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration required!
- Intel or AMD processor with dual cores
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 4 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
- Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
- Audio Interface with ASIO driver
*All product names used are trademarks of their respective owners, and in no way constitutes an association or affiliation with Propellerhead Software. The SSL and/or Solid State Logic trademarks are solely used to identify the products whose sound was studied during Propellerhead Software’s sound modeling development. The trademarks SSL and Solid State Logic are owned by Red Lion 49 Limited.
All instruments (9)
All effects (25)
Player MIDI devices
Studio-grade mixer
Unlimited audio tracks
Professional audio editin
Supports Rack Extensions
The recording software with everything you need to create amazing music.
Always inspired
Effortlessly create your dream studio with Reason’s modular rack. Music making in Reason means joyful exploration and endless possibilities.
Never short on great sounds
Get creative with Reason's legendary instruments, synthesizers, drum machines, samplers and more. With its huge collection of sounds, you’ll be making music in no time. It's everything you need, and then some.
Sound amazing
Record and edit your music in Reason’s sequencer. Find your tone with guitar amps from Softube. Sculpt and polish your tracks to perfection with Reason’s million dollar mixing console and massive rack of effects.
About Reason
Reason is an integrated software music production studio with audio recording, million-dollar mixing, built-in collaboration tools and a massive collection of instruments, sounds and effects. It’s the perfect choice for writing recording, remixing and producing great-sounding tracks.
Virtual studio rack
At the heart of Reason is a virtual rack that builds itself as you create your song. Fill your rack with as many devices as you need to get your sound. Reason’s legendary instruments and effects cover every need from acoustic and organic to electronic and synthetic.
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 cable heaven! Craft 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.
Recording
Capture your musical ideas in Reason’s powerful sequencer. Record and edit audio, MIDI or automation with powerful recording and editing tools. Quantize MIDI or audio to fix timing problems, or use ReGroove’s swing magic to breathe life into your sequences. Always in sync with your flow, forever adapting to you and your working methods, Reason's sequencer simply gets you there faster.
Record first and pick your tempo later with Reason’s renowned time stretch. And thanks to audio transpose you can even record first and change the key later. Fine tune your vocal performances to perfection with Pitch Edit. Non-destructively change the pitch, correct the timing of your audio recording with Slice 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, Rack Extensions come to the rescue. Expand your virtual rack with new, inspiring instruments and effects created by developers around the world—from modern effects to vintage instruments. Rack Extensions are full Reason rack citizens, giving you the same fully integrated experience as when using any of the included synths, effects and utilities.
Sounds
With a huge supply of synth sounds, sampled instruments, drum kits, loops and effects, Reason's built-in sound bank is packed with everything you'll need. Reason’s integrated, always open browser makes finding the right sound across a huge sample library a breeze. Want more? Expand your palette with a world of ReFill libraries—sound libraries custom-made for Reason.
Features
Included instruments
• Kong Drum Designer
• Thor polysonic synthesizer
• NN19 sampler
• NN-XT advanced sampler
• Malström graintable synthesizer
• Dr. Octo Rex loop player
• Redrum pattern-based drum machine
• Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer
• ID-8 songwriter's toolbox
• Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers
Included Player devices
• Scales & Chords
• Dual Arpeggio
• Note Echo
Included effects
• Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Alligator triple channel pattern based gate
• Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
• The Echo high quality stereo echo
• Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
• Audiomatic Retro Transformer
• 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
• RV7000 MkII advanced convolution reverb
• Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
• BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
• UN16 unison
• 4-band mastering EQ
• Dual band stereo imager
• Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
• Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip
Modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel
• Gain
• 4-band EQ
• 8 Send effects slots
• Insert effect slot
• Dynamics section with compressor and gate
• Lo-pass and hi-passfilter
• Spectrum analyzer
• Master compressor with sidechain input
• Group channels
• Parallel channels
Other features
• Supports the Allihoopa music making and collaboration service, with access to an endless supply of inspiring user-created music, backing tracks and performances.
• Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
• Rack Extensions lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Propellerhead and 3rd party developers
• Huge factory sound bank, with patches for all Reason's devices, samples, and loops
• 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
• 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
• Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
• ReWire support
• 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.
System Requirements
Mac OS X
- Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration required!
- Intel Mac with dual core processor
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 4 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Mac OS X 10.7 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
Windows
- Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration required!
- Intel or AMD processor with dual cores
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 4 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
- Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
- Audio Interface with ASIO driver
*All product names used are trademarks of their respective owners, and in no way constitutes an association or affiliation with Propellerhead Software. The SSL and/or Solid State Logic trademarks are solely used to identify the products whose sound was studied during Propellerhead Software’s sound modeling development. The trademarks SSL and Solid State Logic are owned by Red Lion 49 Limited.
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Video scoring track
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1 GB RAM
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Free Sony Sound Series loop library title
Windows® 8.1 compatible
Floating & docking windows
Enhanced Show Me How tutorials
Includes 3,000 Sound Series music loops
New! Updated Sound Series loop sampler pack
Multicore processor support
Intuitive pick, paint, and play interface
Unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI
Video scoring track
Automatic pitch and tempo matching
Alternate time signature support
Real-time loop preview
Support for multiple file formats in the same project/track
Requirements
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1 GHz processor
200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
1 GB RAM
Windows-compatible sound card
DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only)
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