Reason Studios Reason 12 - Reason Rack is one of the most powerful and flexible sound design and beatmaking tools for your music. It is a virtual studio filled with instruments, synthesizers, drums, sound-shaping effects, MIDI Player effects, and mixing tools that come together to make your sound possible.
New in Reason 12
Mimic Creative Sampler
Mimic is a new fun sampler for modern beatmakers and producers. Designed for triggering, cutting, and quickly and immediately manipulating any sound.
Updated Combinator
Combine your favourite devices, choose a panel size, change the background colour, add a custom background, and the perfect set of controls to build your dream machine.
High Resolution Graphics
Showcase super-realistic crystalline devices from the Rack and adapt Reason to your workflow with the new zoom interface.
Faster Browser
With a new faster browsing experience, you can easily find all your devices, samples, and patches and stay in your creative flow.
New Look, New Sounds
A new look, a new sampler, and an entirely new way to access your sound, Reason 12 is about raising the level of creative potential at the heart of your music-making experience.
Watch: What's New in Reason 12
Get to Know the Rack
Get to know Reason and, more importantly, the devices that make up Reason's Rack, from synthesizers, samplers, effects, and MIDI Player effects.
Watch: Introduction to Rack Devices
Virtual Studio Rack
At the heart of Reason is a virtual rack where you create your own sound using synthesizers, drums, samplers, and other organic Reason instruments, along with a large collection of audio and MIDI effects to shape both the sound and the notes you play on your keyboard.
Instruments
Attractive, easy to use, and with an irresistible sound: Reason's instruments are the real stars of the Reason experience.
Mimic Creative Sampler NEW
Grain Sample Manipulator
Radical Piano
Europa Synthesizer with Morphing
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
Rytmik Drum Machine
Klang Tuned Percussion
Pangea World Instrument
Humana Vocal Ensemble
Monophonic Bass Synthesizer
Kong Drum Designer
NN19 Sampler
NN-XT Advanced Sampler
Malström Graintable Synthesizer
Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
Redrum Drum Computer
Analog Subtractive Synthesizer
MIDI Output Device
ID-8 Instrument Device
Effects
From simple to complex esoteric, Reason comes with all the effects you need.
Quartet Chorus Ensemble
Modulator Effect
Master Bus Compressor
Channel Dynamics
Channel EQ
Delay
Demolisher Pulverizer
RV7000 MkII Reverb
Softube Amp
Softube Bass Amplifier
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
Sync 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
MIDI FX Player
Beat Map Algorhythmic Drummer
Scales & Chords
Dual Arpeggio
Note Echo
Utilities
Combinator MAJOR UPDATE
RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
Matrix Pattern Sequencer
Pulsar Dual LFO
14:2 Mixer
6:2 Line Mixer
Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
Spider CV Merger & Splitter
Sounds & Patches
MAJOR UPDATE
Huge sound pack with over 29,000 patches and sounds for devices, loops, and samples.
Reason Rack Plugin Formats
VST3 (Ableton Live, StudioOne, Cubase, etc.)
Audio Units (Logic Pro)
AAX (Pro Tools)
Standalone Reason Features
VST plugin compatibility: add any instrument or effect plugin to the Reason rack
Latency compensation ensures all signal paths are played back in perfect sync, locked in phase
Open songs and synth patches created in Reason Compact - the free pocket music studio for iOS
Rack Extensions allow you to expand your collection of instruments and effects from Reason Studios and third-party developers
Support for Ableton Link: effortlessly sync Reason and other link-enabled applications via WiFi
Unlimited audio recordings and instrument channels
High-precision multitrack sequencer complete with Blocks mode and audio comping tools
Real-time stretching and high-quality pitch shifting
Pitch Edit mode to enhance your vocal recordings
Audio slicing and audio quantization — correct the timing of your audio recordings
Convert recorded or imported sound in the sequencer into REX loops for further sound manipulation
MIDI instrument output — control synthesizers, samplers, and keyboards from the Reason sequencer
MIDI clock output — hardware sync with Reason
Advanced export — export 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
Real-time sampling rate and bit depth conversion allows importing any sound into Reason without issues
Multicore support and 64-bit compatibility make Reason fast and powerful on any computer
Standalone song files make moving projects between computers and collaborators as easy as moving a single file.
Advanced modeled mixing console with complete channel strips for every instrument and audio channel
4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large refills or rack extensions)
4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large refills or rack extensions)
5.5 GB free disk space required, plus 20 GB for optional content. Additionally, the program can use up to 20 GB of scratch disk space and additional space for cached graphic assets.
5.5 GB free disk space required, plus 20 GB for optional content. Additionally, the program can use up to 20 GB of scratch disk space and additional space for cached graphic assets.
macOS 10.13 or later (64-bit)
Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
Monitor with a resolution of at least 1280x768
Monitor with a resolution of at least 1280x768
Audio interface compatible with CoreAudio or built-in audio hardware
Audio interface with ASIO driver
MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
To use Reason as a VST plugin, a VST3 compatible host is required
To use Reason as a VST plugin, a VST3 compatible host is required
To use Reason as an AU plugin, an AUv2 compatible host is required
To use Reason as an AAX plugin, Pro Tools 12 or later is required
To use Reason as an AAX plugin, Pro Tools 12 or later is required
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