A new look, a new sampler and a whole new way of dialing in your sound, Reason 12 is all about leveling up the creative potential at the heart of your music-making experience.

Make music your way - plugged in or standalone

Reason’s Rack of legendary synths, instruments, and effects can now be used in your favorite DAW with the Reason Rack Plugin (VST3/AU/AAX). Reason 12 includes both the plugin version and the standalone Reason music production software so you can make music the way you like.

New in Reason 12

Updated Combinator: Custom panel size, background colors, backgrounds, and controls.

Mimic Creative Sampler: Quick and immediate triggering, chopping, and manipulation of audio.

High Resolution Graphics: Hyper realistic devices and zoomable windows for improved workflow.

Faster Browser: With a new faster browsing experience you can easily find all your devices, samples and patches, and stay in the creative flow.

Please note: Reason 12 requires Windows 10 (64-bit) / macOS 10.13 or later (64-bit).

Buy this upgrade if you own any of the following products:

Reason (version 1-11)

Reason 11 Suite

Reason Student/Teacher

Balance with Reason Essentials

Note: Reason 11 Intro, Reason 11 Lite, Essentials, Reason Limited, and Reason Adapted owners should get the Reason 12 Upgrade for Intro/Lite.

Features

Instruments

Mimic Creative Sampler - New

Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer

Grain Sample Manipulator

Klang Tuned Percussion

Pangea World Instruments

Humana Vocal Ensemble

Radical Piano

Monotone Bass Synthesizer

Rytmik Drum Machine

Kong Drum Designer

Thor Polysonic Synthesizer

NN19 Sampler

NN-XT Advanced Aampler

Malstr√∂m Graintable Synthesizer

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player

Redrum Drum Computer

Subtractor Analog Synthesizer

ID-8 Instrument Device

MIDI Out Device

Effects

Quartet Chorus Ensemble

Sweeper Modulation Effect

Master Bus Compressor

Channel Dynamics

Channel EQ

RV7000 MkII Reverb

The Echo

Softube Amplifier

Softube Bass Amp

Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit

Alligator Triple Filtered Gate

Pulveriser Demolition

Synchronous Effects Modulator

Neptune Pitch Adjuster

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

PEQ2 Two Band Parametric EQ

UN-16 Unison

Utility devices

Combinator - Major Update

RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator

Matrix Pattern Sequencer

Pulsar Dual LFO

Mixer14:2

Line Mixer 6:2

Spider Audio Merger & Splitter

Spider CV Merger & Splitter

Player MIDI FX

Beat Map Algorhythmic Drummer

Scales & Chords

Dual Arpeggio

Note Echo

Sounds and patches

Huge factory sound bank with more than 29000 device patches, loops and samples - Major Update

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 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 collaborator as easy as moving a single file

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

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