Reason 11 Suite Upgrade

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.

Reason Suite comes loaded with a huge selection of instruments and effect plugins from Reason Studios. Together with Reason’s built-in tools that adds up to over 70 instruments and effects for your music-making. Your imagination truly is the limit to what you can create with Reason Suite.

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 (VST3/AU/AAX) 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

Included Instruments

• Scenic Hybrid Instrument – Reason Suite only
• Complex-1 Modular Synth – Reason Suite only
• Umpf Club Drums – Reason Suite only
• Umpf Retro Beats – Reason Suite only
• Reason Electric Bass – Reason Suite only
• Reason Drum Kits – Reason Suite only
• Processed Pianos – Reason Suite only
• Layers Wave Edition – Reason Suite only
• Layers – Reason Suite only
• Parsec Spectral Synthesizer – Reason Suite only
• Radical Keys – Reason Suite only
• Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
• Grain Sample Manipulator
• Klang Tuned Percussion Instrument
• Pangea World Instruments
• Humana Vocal Ensemble Instrument
• Radical Piano – advanced acoustic 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 pattern-based drum machine
• Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer
• ID-8 songwriter’s toolbox
• MIDI Out Device

Effects

• Polar Dual Pitch Shifter – Reason Suite Only
• Rotor Rotary Speaker – Reason Suite Only
• Quartet Chorus Ensemble – new in Reason 11
• Sweeper Modulation Effect – new in Reason 11
• Master Bus Compressor – new in Reason 11
• Channel Dynamics – new in Reason 11
• Channel EQ – new in Reason 11
• RV7000 MkII advanced convolution reverb
• The Echo high quality delay & tape echo
• Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
• Alligator triple channel pattern based gate
• Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
• Synchronous Effects Modulator
• Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
• Audiomatic Retro Transformer
• MClass 4-band mastering EQ
• MClass Dual band stereo imager
• MClass Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
• MClass Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip
• 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
• BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
• UN16 unison

Player MIDI effects and utility devices

• PolyStep Sequencer – Reason Suite Only
• Quad Note Generator – Reason Suite Only
• Drum Sequencer – Reason Suite Only
• Beat Map
• Scales & Chords
• Dual Arpeggio
• Note Echo
• 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
• Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers

Sounds and patches

• Huge factory sound bank 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 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