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Reason has reached the next level. Stronger, swifter and smoother to work with, Reason 4 will alter the way you create your music. Reason's devices and features will not only inspire you to produce great tracks, they will provide you with new ways of doing so.
If you're already a Reason user, trying out Reason 4 will most likely stun you like you haven't been stunned since your first Reason encounter. If you've never used Reason, there has never been a better time to start.
Making music should be as easy as powering up a computer, loading up a powerful piece of music software, and getting down to business. And it is. Reason version 4 is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. And it's more than just a set of excellent synths and effects. It's a complete music system. Step into the age of Reason.
Synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, REX file loop player, professional mastering tools, mixer, vocoder, world class effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable all-in-one music production environment, complete with its own realtime sequencer.
Less fuss, more inspiration
For a Reason user, the journey from musical idea to full production is a short one. With an intuitive, self-explaining user interface and quick access to instruments and effects, Reason's learning curve is anything but steep. Reason is so direct you'll learn it in minutes. With Reason, picking up where you left off - be it last night or last month - is as simple as turning the power on. When you save your music, your whole studio setup is stored along with it. You can even include your samples, loops and drum kits in the Reason file, for easy web publishing or email collaboration with other Reason users. Total recall, total freedom.
And then there's the sound. The audio quality is everything you would expect from Propellerhead Software. But pristine sound quality is only half the story; the instruments and effects in Reason are loaded with character and attitude. Although easy to learn and a breeze to use, Reason is an extremely flexible music system - a system that can be just as complex and advanced as you make it. With sophisticated tools such as the MClass mastering suite, the mighty Combinator device, or the all-powerful Thor synth, Reason will not just impress, but inspire you.
Control your controls
Each unit in Reason's virtual rack is edited from its own on-screen front panel. All the sliders, knobs, buttons and functions are right in front of you, ready to be tweaked, turned and twisted in absolute real-time. And all your front panel actions - filter adjustments, pitch bending, gain riding or panning - can be recorded and automated in the Reason sequencer.
Radical routing
A single keypress will turn Reason's rack around, and there you are, in patch cord heaven. Most audio connections are made automatically. When a new device is created, it appears immediately below the currently selected device, and Reason patches it into the system in the most logical way. Repatch by dragging the patch cord plug to the desired connector, or just make a pop-up menu choice. Most devices have one or more parameters controlled by Gate and/or CV. And all instrument devices have several Gate or CV output options. Combine this with easy, transparent patching, and you have connection power approaching that of a fully modular synth.
Need more gear?
No problem. Choose a synth, a drum machine, a loop player or any device from the Create menu, and it will instantly appear in your rack, logically patched into the signal chain. And because Reason is designed to go easy on your computer, you can repeat the process until you're more than happy. If you ever wished you had eleven samplers and ten compressors, Reason is definitely for you. And if you have created more machines than you have mixer channels, just create another mixer. The studio of your dreams is just a few mouse clicks away.
Use Reason the way you want to:
-As a self-contained synth studio system.
Everything you need is there, including a fast and flexible sequencer with powerful, dedicated event editors for each type of device.
-As a sub-system synchronized to your audio sequencer.
Process Reason's audio output with plug-in effects and mix it with your hard disk tracks. With Reason in ReWire mode, its instruments are automatically patched into the mixer in any other ReWire compatible application. Seamless integration.
-As a Workstation synth.
Easily load up complex performance patches - instruments pre-routed through effects - in one single click. Perfect for live gigs and performances.
Curious about the details?
Devices n' Stuff
Reason sequencer
The Reason sequencer has matured. Fully grown and fully featured, Reason's music production environment now comes with vector and tempo automation, count-in, multiple lane tracks. The Reason sequencer has matured. Dedicated to turning your ideas into great music, the sequencer is swifter, stronger and more intuitive than ever. The key word here is workflow. A sequencer device or instrument now gets its own dedicated track, with separate lanes for note, performance and automation data, opting for a better overview and less clutter. All sequencer data - notes, automation, the works - is now housed in clips - musical building blocks that can be opened, sliced or moved. When a clip is moved to a new location, all its internal data follows right along with it, always ending up exactly where you intended it to. For safe, speedy sequencing.
ReGroove mixer
It's all about timing for Reason's groove management console. Meet ReGroove mixer, the unquantizer. Want your music to sound less rigid, less programmed? Need your drums to move and groove as if played live by actual musicians? If you want your tracks to flow with that loose, yet tight feel, a regular shuffle control just doesn't cut it. That's why the ReGroove mixer was created, Reason's own realtime groove management device.
The ReGroove mixer in Reason 4 gives you more than just a set of sequencer swing parameters - this is a unique device dedicated to one thing: the groove.
RPG-8
Turn boring chords into fluttering melody lines with the RPG-8, Reason's tool for creative arpeggiation. Reason version 4 ships with RPG-8, a unit dedicated to the art of arpeggiation. Some arpeggiators are quite content with simply transforming chords into wandering rhythmic melody lines. The RPG-8 monophonic arpeggiator is not. With a wide range of on-panel controls and mode selectors, a pattern section for muting selected notes in an arpeggio and a large display showing values and positions, this device gives you full creative control over your arpeggios.
The Combinator
Build your dream instruments and load up fat, layered sounds in seconds with the Combinator, Reason's unique tool for combining and controlling devices. It's not an effect unit. It's not a synth. It sure isn't a sampler. It's... all of it. And more. The Combinator is a sophisticated device that allows you to build elaborate chains of Reason units - instruments, effects, pattern sequencers, you name it - and save as Combi patches. When a Combi patch is opened, all units in the created setup are instantly loaded, complete with sounds, settings and routings. With its ability to load up complex instruments routed through effect units and dynamic processors in one go, the Combinator is an extremely playable, extremely performance-friendly device, perfect for both stage and studio use.
The MClass Mastering Suite
MClass brings you four separate pro level mastering units designed to add power, presence and an overall professional feel to your Reason mixes. MClass brings you four separate pro level mastering units designed to add power, presence and an overall professional feel to your Reason mixes. Load up the MClass tools as a complete mastering suite in the Combinator for finalizing whole mixes, or use the units separately. Apart from being logical and user-friendly, the MClass tools sound good. Audiophile good. These units can compete with the finest mastering tools out there, software or hardware.
Redrum
Redrum is the drum machine in the Reason rack. It has ten channels that can play one aiff or wav sample each. Whole drum kits can be saved as Redrum patches. Redrum is a drum machine with a built in pattern sequencer. It has ten channels that plays samples loaded by the user or sounds from a preset drum kit. In addition to the pattern sequencer, Redrum can also be played from Reason's main sequencer or via MIDI. By combining the pattern sequencer and the main sequencer you can easily create fills and variations to the patterns without having to create new patterns for every variation.
Dr.Rex
The Dr-Rex Loop Player is a truly unique machine and will probably be one of the favorites in the Reason rack. It plays loops treated by Propellerhead Software's ReCycle and its design enables some truly innovative ways to use ReCycled loops.
Matrix
The Matrix is the analog type sequencer in Reason. If you are into 70's style modular synths or if you simply like to play around with a analog style sequencer that can control virtually anything in the rack, take a close look at the Matrix. The Matrix is an analog style sequencer with a maximum of 32 steps per pattern and is really the part of Reason to use for ReBirth style sequences. Just like ReDrum, Matrix has 32 patterns and each can be freely sized regardless of what time signature has been chosen in the sequencer. So for instance a simple 5 step pattern played back as 16th notes in a 4/4 song would only repeat itself at the original starting position every 5th bar.
The Rack
The rack is Reason's framework. If you ever feel the need to merge or split some Audio or CV signals, these two eight-legged utilities are perfect for the job. The rack is the framework in which you create the studio setup you choose to work with, creating your tracks. The rack provides many of the basic concepts behind Reason.
Spider Audio &: CV Mergers & Splitters
If you ever feel the need to merge or split some Audio or CV signals, these two eight-legged utilities are perfect for the job. Spider Audio may not be much to look at, but if you're a seasoned Reason producer, it might be just the thing you've been searching for. The Spider Audio utlity has two purposes in life: to merge and to split audio. All this splitting and merging brings more of the hardware studio's patching capabilities into the software realm. Try merging multiple audio signals and process them with the same insert effect, as in sending three of Redrum's toms to the same compressor. Or try splitting an instrument's output into four, and send them to four different effect processors.
Synths
Thor
Four different filter types. Six forms of synthesis. Godlike modulation capabilities. Thunderous sound. Thor sounds like no synthesizer you've ever heard before - and every single one of them. Where other synths use one specific form of synthesis and one single filter, the Thor polysonic synthesizer features six different oscillator types and four unique filters. What does this give you? Simply the most powerful synth ever created; an unstoppable monster of a sound generator that utilises synthesizer technology from the last 40 years.
Malström
Malström is not your everyday synthesizer. It doesn't act like one and it sure doesn't sound like one. Here is the missing link between rocket science and music technology. Malström creates its otherworldly sounds using Graintable technology. Never heard of it? It didn’t exist before this. This technology is a cross between granular synthesis and good old wavetable synthesis. And the result? You'll just have to hear it to believe it.
Subtractor
Subtractor is an analog type polyphonic synthesizer based on subtractive synthesis, the method used in analog synthesizers. The Subtractor has lots of knobs, buttons and sliders. Each of them are fully automated and any filter sweep or knob twisting will be recorded in the Reason sequencer just like you can record mixes in ReBirth. Unlike the ReBirth sequencer, you can edit every controller movement after you are done recording to get that final touch.
Samplers
NN-XT
Ever wanted a sampler with a PhD in flexibility? A sampler that's as advanced as any pro machine, but user-friendly and inspiring. The NN-XT is that sampler. The NN-XT is a highly advanced sampler with an impressive list of features and functions to it. Where the NN-19 is a "fast-track" sampler, this machine is for your more demanding sampling tasks. The NN-XT is bursting with detailed programming options, but comes with an intuitive user interface, making it the perfect tool for both sound design and life-like instrument emulation.
NN-19
In reality the NN19 is a sampler, capable of loading and playing any wav or aiff audio file, so NN19 can be used for any of the processes described above. But because of NN19's integration in to Reason, it’s possible to do stuff with this sampler, never done with any other sampler. Simply a few of these things: two ways of getting sound out of NN19: Load a single wav/aiff sample or load a sampler patch.
Loading a single wav/aiff file will instantly transpose the audio across the keyboard by speeding up or slowing down the playback of the sample. The NN19 can import and play mono or stereo files.
This is of course a simple and quick way of creating interesting and artificial sounds. To create a more realistic emulation of, say, a piano, Propellerheads need to multi sample the instrument with enough samples to ensure that each note is not transposed more than a few semi tones.
Effects
RV7000
Do you crave sophistication in reverberation? Look no further than the RV7000, the most expensive sounding reverb unit ever to hit the software world. This device is set on embedding your sounds in the kind of rich, transparent sounding reverb that only the most sophisticated reverb machines are capable of. In short, it sounds amazing. And despite its pro studio sound and million-dollar features, this machine is very easy to use. Your basic reverb controls are located on the main panel - for instant access and control - and the rest, eight separate knobs for algorithms and their parameters, can be accessed from a fold-out remote at the touch of a button.
BV512 Digital Vocoder
Roll out the virtual red carpet. The king of versatile vocoding is coming to Reason city. No studio setup is complete without a proper vocoder, so here it is: the BV-512, superior sound quality, multitalented and advanced - yet simple to use. Besides being a 4 to 512-band vocoder capable of modulating sound in both old-school analog style and digital FFT fashion, this unit also doubles as a fully automated equalizer with a twist. The BV-512 can be used for everything from classic robot vocals to weird harmonic effects.
Scream 4
Built for breakage and designed to destroy, Scream 4 turns distortion into an artform. Add a touch of speaker modeling and a rough sounding EQ section and you have Scream 4, the ultimate sound destruction unit. With a wide variety of built-in damage methods, Scream 4 is capable of mangling audio in more ways than one. Use it for digital bit crushing, or regular crushing, or just for adding analog warmth and body to your sounds.
UN-16 Unison
An eighties button transformed into a handy rack device. This is UN-16 Unison, the fattifier. Unison is exactly what the name suggests; a software reincarnation of that mysterious "Unison" button on those early eighties synths. Transformed into a Reason rack unit. UN-16 Unison fattens up incoming sound by emulating the effect of 4, 8 or 16 detuned versions of the incoming sound playing the same note. In ultra-stereo. The result is rich and wide and slightly similar to a chorus effect, only much fancier.
Infinite integration
If you are already making music on a computer, you would probably like to integrate Reason with your hardware and software. Luckily, Reason will help you make music instead of struggling to make configurations work.
Integration with audio hardware
Reason's rock solid audio implementation will support any audio card with Core Audio drivers on Mac OS X or Direct X, MME or ASIO drivers on Windows. For best results, use hardware with proper Core Audio or ASIO
drivers.
ReWire - Integration with Software
Propellerhead Software's ReWire technology has become a de facto standard supported in the vast majority of music software products. ReWire is a virtual multicable that handles up to 64 channels of streaming audio, MIDI, sync and transport controls between applications. This means that you can use Reason as your virtual studio's infinite synth rack, while still doing the mixing and sequencing in your recording application.
Remote - integration with MIDI controllers
The Remote technology in Reason takes the pain out of setting up hardware controllers with your music software. There are many advanced control surfaces available on the market, and Reason features support for most of them.
With Remote, Reason can auto detect what control surface is connected up and assign it as the master keyboard. With Remote, Reason comes with a control mapping for every supported controller that makes tweaking sounds in Reason a very pleasant hands-on experience.
If you have a controller with motorized faders or parameter displays, those features will be fully supported by Reason. Support for multiple control surfaces lets you dedicate one control surface and its faders to Reason's mixer, while using your master keyboard for playing and controlling other Reason devices.
Making music should be as easy as powering up a computer, loading up a powerful piece of music software, and getting down to business. And it is. Reason version 4 is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. And it's more than just a set of excellent synths and effects. It's a complete music system. Step into the age of Reason.
Synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, REX file loop player, professional mastering tools, mixer, vocoder, world class effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable all-in-one music production environment, complete with its own realtime sequencer.
Less fuss, more inspiration
For a Reason user, the journey from musical idea to full production is a short one. With an intuitive, self-explaining user interface and quick access to instruments and effects, Reason's learning curve is anything but steep. Reason is so direct you'll learn it in minutes. With Reason, picking up where you left off - be it last night or last month - is as simple as turning the power on. When you save your music, your whole studio setup is stored along with it. You can even include your samples, loops and drum kits in the Reason file, for easy web publishing or email collaboration with other Reason users. Total recall, total freedom.
And then there's the sound. The audio quality is everything you would expect from Propellerhead Software. But pristine sound quality is only half the story; the instruments and effects in Reason are loaded with character and attitude. Although easy to learn and a breeze to use, Reason is an extremely flexible music system - a system that can be just as complex and advanced as you make it. With sophisticated tools such as the MClass mastering suite, the mighty Combinator device, or the all-powerful Thor synth, Reason will not just impress, but inspire you.
Control your controls
Each unit in Reason's virtual rack is edited from its own on-screen front panel. All the sliders, knobs, buttons and functions are right in front of you, ready to be tweaked, turned and twisted in absolute real-time. And all your front panel actions - filter adjustments, pitch bending, gain riding or panning - can be recorded and automated in the Reason sequencer.
Radical routing
A single keypress will turn Reason's rack around, and there you are, in patch cord heaven. Most audio connections are made automatically. When a new device is created, it appears immediately below the currently selected device, and Reason patches it into the system in the most logical way. Repatch by dragging the patch cord plug to the desired connector, or just make a pop-up menu choice. Most devices have one or more parameters controlled by Gate and/or CV. And all instrument devices have several Gate or CV output options. Combine this with easy, transparent patching, and you have connection power approaching that of a fully modular synth.
Need more gear?
No problem. Choose a synth, a drum machine, a loop player or any device from the Create menu, and it will instantly appear in your rack, logically patched into the signal chain. And because Reason is designed to go easy on your computer, you can repeat the process until you're more than happy. If you ever wished you had eleven samplers and ten compressors, Reason is definitely for you. And if you have created more machines than you have mixer channels, just create another mixer. The studio of your dreams is just a few mouse clicks away.
Use Reason the way you want to:
-As a self-contained synth studio system.
Everything you need is there, including a fast and flexible sequencer with powerful, dedicated event editors for each type of device.
-As a sub-system synchronized to your audio sequencer.
Process Reason's audio output with plug-in effects and mix it with your hard disk tracks. With Reason in ReWire mode, its instruments are automatically patched into the mixer in any other ReWire compatible application. Seamless integration.
-As a Workstation synth.
Easily load up complex performance patches - instruments pre-routed through effects - in one single click. Perfect for live gigs and performances.
Curious about the details?
Devices n' Stuff
Reason sequencer
The Reason sequencer has matured. Fully grown and fully featured, Reason's music production environment now comes with vector and tempo automation, count-in, multiple lane tracks. The Reason sequencer has matured. Dedicated to turning your ideas into great music, the sequencer is swifter, stronger and more intuitive than ever. The key word here is workflow. A sequencer device or instrument now gets its own dedicated track, with separate lanes for note, performance and automation data, opting for a better overview and less clutter. All sequencer data - notes, automation, the works - is now housed in clips - musical building blocks that can be opened, sliced or moved. When a clip is moved to a new location, all its internal data follows right along with it, always ending up exactly where you intended it to. For safe, speedy sequencing.
ReGroove mixer
It's all about timing for Reason's groove management console. Meet ReGroove mixer, the unquantizer. Want your music to sound less rigid, less programmed? Need your drums to move and groove as if played live by actual musicians? If you want your tracks to flow with that loose, yet tight feel, a regular shuffle control just doesn't cut it. That's why the ReGroove mixer was created, Reason's own realtime groove management device.
The ReGroove mixer in Reason 4 gives you more than just a set of sequencer swing parameters - this is a unique device dedicated to one thing: the groove.
RPG-8
Turn boring chords into fluttering melody lines with the RPG-8, Reason's tool for creative arpeggiation. Reason version 4 ships with RPG-8, a unit dedicated to the art of arpeggiation. Some arpeggiators are quite content with simply transforming chords into wandering rhythmic melody lines. The RPG-8 monophonic arpeggiator is not. With a wide range of on-panel controls and mode selectors, a pattern section for muting selected notes in an arpeggio and a large display showing values and positions, this device gives you full creative control over your arpeggios.
The Combinator
Build your dream instruments and load up fat, layered sounds in seconds with the Combinator, Reason's unique tool for combining and controlling devices. It's not an effect unit. It's not a synth. It sure isn't a sampler. It's... all of it. And more. The Combinator is a sophisticated device that allows you to build elaborate chains of Reason units - instruments, effects, pattern sequencers, you name it - and save as Combi patches. When a Combi patch is opened, all units in the created setup are instantly loaded, complete with sounds, settings and routings. With its ability to load up complex instruments routed through effect units and dynamic processors in one go, the Combinator is an extremely playable, extremely performance-friendly device, perfect for both stage and studio use.
The MClass Mastering Suite
MClass brings you four separate pro level mastering units designed to add power, presence and an overall professional feel to your Reason mixes. MClass brings you four separate pro level mastering units designed to add power, presence and an overall professional feel to your Reason mixes. Load up the MClass tools as a complete mastering suite in the Combinator for finalizing whole mixes, or use the units separately. Apart from being logical and user-friendly, the MClass tools sound good. Audiophile good. These units can compete with the finest mastering tools out there, software or hardware.
Redrum
Redrum is the drum machine in the Reason rack. It has ten channels that can play one aiff or wav sample each. Whole drum kits can be saved as Redrum patches. Redrum is a drum machine with a built in pattern sequencer. It has ten channels that plays samples loaded by the user or sounds from a preset drum kit. In addition to the pattern sequencer, Redrum can also be played from Reason's main sequencer or via MIDI. By combining the pattern sequencer and the main sequencer you can easily create fills and variations to the patterns without having to create new patterns for every variation.
Dr.Rex
The Dr-Rex Loop Player is a truly unique machine and will probably be one of the favorites in the Reason rack. It plays loops treated by Propellerhead Software's ReCycle and its design enables some truly innovative ways to use ReCycled loops.
Matrix
The Matrix is the analog type sequencer in Reason. If you are into 70's style modular synths or if you simply like to play around with an analog style sequencer that can control virtually anything in the rack, take a close look at the Matrix. The Matrix is an analog style sequencer with a maximum of 32 steps per pattern and is really the part of Reason to use for ReBirth style sequences. Just like ReDrum, Matrix has 32 patterns and each can be freely sized regardless of what time signature has been chosen in the sequencer. So for instance a simple 5 step pattern played back as 16th notes in a 4/4 song would only repeat itself at the original starting position every 5th bar.
The Rack
The rack is Reason's framework. If you ever feel the need to merge or split some Audio or CV signals, these two eight-legged utilities are perfect for the job. The rack is the framework in which you create the studio setup you choose to work with, creating your tracks. The rack provides many of the basic concepts behind Reason.
Spider Audio &: CV Mergers & Splitters
If you ever feel the need to merge or split some Audio or CV signals, these two eight-legged utilities are perfect for the job. Spider Audio may not be much to look at, but if you're a seasoned Reason producer, it might be just the thing you've been searching for. The Spider Audio utility has two purposes in life: to merge and to split audio. All this splitting and merging brings more of the hardware studio's patching capabilities into the software realm. Try merging multiple audio signals and process them with the same insert effect, as in sending three of Redrum's toms to the same compressor. Or try splitting an instrument's output into four, and send them to four different effect processors.
Synths
Thor
Four different filter types. Six forms of synthesis. Godlike modulation capabilities. Thunderous sound. Thor sounds like no synthesizer you've ever heard before - and every single one of them. Where other synths use one specific form of synthesis and one single filter, the Thor polysonic synthesizer features six different oscillator types and four unique filters. What does this give you? Simply the most powerful synth ever created; an unstoppable monster of a sound generator that utilizes synthesizer technology from the last 40 years.
Malström
Malström is not your everyday synthesizer. It doesn't act like one and it sure doesn't sound like one. Here is the missing link between rocket science and music technology. Malström creates its otherworldly sounds using Graintable technology. Never heard of it? It didn’t exist before this. This technology is a cross between granular synthesis and good old wavetable synthesis. And the result? You'll just have to hear it to believe it.
Subtractor
Subtractor is an analog type polyphonic synthesizer based on subtractive synthesis, the method used in analog synthesizers. The Subtractor has lots of knobs, buttons and sliders. Each of them are fully automated and any filter sweep or knob twisting will be recorded in the Reason sequencer just like you can record mixes in ReBirth. Unlike the ReBirth sequencer, you can edit every controller movement after you are done recording to get that final touch.
Samplers
NN-XT
Ever wanted a sampler with a PhD in flexibility? A sampler that's as advanced as any pro machine, but user-friendly and inspiring. The NN-XT is that sampler. The NN-XT is a highly advanced sampler with an impressive list of features and functions to it. Where the NN-19 is a "fast-track" sampler, this machine is for your more demanding sampling tasks. The NN-XT is bursting with detailed programming options, but comes with an intuitive user interface, making it the perfect tool for both sound design and life-like instrument emulation.
NN-19
In reality the NN19 is a sampler, capable of loading and playing any wav or aiff audio file, so NN19 can be used for any of the processes described above. But because of NN19's integration in to Reason, it’s possible to do stuff with this sampler, never done with any other sampler. Simply a few of these things: two ways of getting sound out of NN19: Load a single wav/aiff sample or load a sampler patch.
Loading a single wav/aiff file will instantly transpose the audio across the keyboard by speeding up or slowing down the playback of the sample. The NN19 can import and play mono or stereo files.
This is of course a simple and quick way of creating interesting and artificial sounds. To create a more realistic emulation of, say, a piano, Propellerheads need to multi sample the instrument with enough samples to ensure that each note is not transposed more than a few semi tones.
Effects
RV7000
Do you crave sophistication in reverberation? Look no further than the RV7000, the most expensive sounding reverb unit ever to hit the software world. This device is set on embedding your sounds in the kind of rich, transparent sounding reverb that only the most sophisticated reverb machines are capable of. In short, it sounds amazing. And despite its pro studio sound and million-dollar features, this machine is very easy to use. Your basic reverb controls are located on the main panel - for instant access and control - and the rest, eight separate knobs for algorithms and their parameters, can be accessed from a fold-out remote at the touch of a button.
BV512 Digital Vocoder
Roll out the virtual red carpet. The king of versatile vocoding is coming to Reason city. No studio setup is complete without a proper vocoder, so here it is: the BV-512, superior sound quality, multitalented and advanced - yet simple to use. Besides being a 4 to 512-band vocoder capable of modulating sound in both old-school analog style and digital FFT fashion, this unit also doubles as a fully automated equalizer with a twist. The BV-512 can be used for everything from classic robot vocals to weird harmonic effects.
Scream 4
Built for breakage and designed to destroy, Scream 4 turns distortion into an artform. Add a touch of speaker modeling and a rough sounding EQ section and you have Scream 4, the ultimate sound destruction unit. With a wide variety of built-in damage methods, Scream 4 is capable of mangling audio in more ways than one. Use it for digital bit crushing, or regular crushing, or just for adding analog warmth and body to your sounds.
UN-16 Unison
An eighties button transformed into a handy rack device. This is UN-16 Unison, the fattifier. Unison is exactly what the name suggests; a software reincarnation of that mysterious "Unison" button on those early eighties synths. Transformed into a Reason rack unit. UN-16 Unison fattens up incoming sound by emulating the effect of 4, 8 or 16 detuned versions of the incoming sound playing the same note. In ultra-stereo. The result is rich and wide and slightly similar to a chorus effect, only much fancier.
Infinite integration
If you are already making music on a computer, you would probably like to integrate Reason with your hardware and software. Luckily, Reason will help you make music instead of struggling to make configurations work.
Integration with audio hardware
Reason's rock solid audio implementation will support any audio card with Core Audio drivers on Mac OS X or Direct X, MME or ASIO drivers on Windows. For best results, use hardware with proper Core Audio or ASIO
drivers.
ReWire - Integration with Software
Propellerhead Software's ReWire technology has become a de facto standard supported in the vast majority of music software products. ReWire is a virtual multicable that handles up to 64 channels of streaming audio, MIDI, sync and transport controls between applications. This means that you can use Reason as your virtual studio's infinite synth rack, while still doing the mixing and sequencing in your recording application.
Remote - integration with MIDI controllers
The Remote technology in Reason takes the pain out of setting up hardware controllers with your music software. There are many advanced control surfaces available on the market, and Reason features support for most of them.
With Remote, Reason can auto detect what control surface is connected up and assign it as the master keyboard. With Remote, Reason comes with a control mapping for every supported controller that makes tweaking sounds in Reason a very pleasant hands-on experience.
If you have a controller with motorized faders or parameter displays, those features will be fully supported by Reason. Support for multiple control surfaces lets you dedicate one control surface and its faders to Reason's mixer, while using your master keyboard for playing and controlling other Reason devices.
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