As a plugin rack in your DAW or as a fast and flexible music production tool, Reason is ready for your music-making.

Just starting out on your musical journey or well on your way to your next album? Wherever you are, Reason’s legendary rack of synths, instruments and effects is ready to turn good ideas into great music. On its own or in your favorite DAW as a plugin.

Reason Suite sets you on course with a formidable collection of instruments, effects and other music making tools–more than 70 devices in total! You will find everything from bread-and-butter effect units to out-of-this-world synthesizers. Reason Suite is an unbelievable package at an unbeatable price.

New in Reason 11

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 11 includes both the plugin version and the standalone Reason music production software.

New effect and Player devices

Quartet Chorus Ensemble: four flavors of chorus and ensemble effects. From classical vintage chorus to the unique sound of granular ensemble.
Sweeper Modulation Effect: multi-talented phaser, flanger and filter unit with dynamic modulation options.
Beat Map Algorhythmic Drummer: generate rhythms in a fast, fun, intuitive way. Add this Player MIDI effect to any drum plugin and unlock fresh ideas.

Mixing console modules are now available as rack devices

Master Bus Compressor: Reason’s ready-for-radio compressor can now be applied anywhere in the rack.
Channel Dynamics: put the compression, expander and gate from Reason’s console anywhere in your signal chain.
Channel EQ: the legendary EQ unit featured in countless platinum recordings is now its own rack device.

Also new: a number of improvements to Reason’s creative flow will will let you work faster and smoother than ever

Product details

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