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Mimic Creative Sampler

Mimic is a fun new sampler for the modern beatmaker and producer. Designed for quick and immediate triggering, chopping, and manipulation of whatever audio you throw at it.

Updated Combinator

Combine your favorite devices, choose a panel size, change the background color, add a custom background, and the perfect set of controls to build your dream machine.

High Resolution Graphics

Geek out on crystal clear hyper-realistic devices in the Rack and adapt Reason to your workflow with the new new zoomable interface.

Faster browser

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

New look, new sounds

Meet the Rack

Reason 12 - the perfect expansion to your DAW

Plug a huge supply of premium synthesizers, sampled instruments and effects into your favorite DAW. Reason 12 adds the Reason Rack Plugin–a VST3/AU/AAX version of the legendary Reason Rack with all its devices, creative sound design, modular routing and a huge library of loops, sounds and samples.

Your dream rack is here

Create any sound you want by dragging instruments and effects to the Reason Rack. Everything is automatically connected for you in a logical top-to-bottom flow.

Start with an instrument. Add an effect by dropping it under the instrument. Add a MIDI Player effect by dragging and dropping to the top.

Sound supply

For quick access to amazing sounds, find what you need in among thousands of synth patches, sampled instruments, loops and sounds created by world-class sound designers.

You’ll find patches for specific devices or Combinator patches that combines any number of instrument and effects to deliver just the sound you need.

Patch cord paradise

Scary to some and strangely alluring to others, the backside of Reason’s rack is where you can go all-modular with the free routing of audio and control voltage signals. Control synth filters from envelope followers, control panning with LFOs or split up the audio signal to create huge sonic landscapes with parallel processing.

If this isn’t your cup of tea, don’t worry. You can make music in Reason without ever diving into cable-town.

Can I use the Rack?

Yes, you can. The Rack is available as a creative sound design plugin for VST/AU/AAX formats. That means you can use it inside any music production software. So you don’t have to break up with anyone to hang with us.

Instruments

Inviting, easy to use and with a sound to die for: Reason’s instrument is the true stars of the Reason experience.

• Mimic Creative Sampler NEW
• Grain Sample Manipulator
• Radical Piano
• Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
• Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
• Rytmik Drum Machine
• Klang Tuned Percussion
• Pangea World Instrument
• Humana Vocal Ensemble
• Monotone Bass Synthesizer
• Kong Drum Designer
• NN19 Sampler
• NN-XT Advanced Sampler
• Malström Graintable Synthesizer
• Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
• Redrum Drum Computer
• Subtractor Analog Synthesizer
• MIDI Out Device
• ID-8 Instrument Device

Player MIDI FX

• Beat Map Algorhythmic Drummer
• Scales & Chords
• Dual Arpeggio
• Note Echo

Utilities

• Combinator MAJOR UPDATE
• RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
• Matrix Pattern Sequencer
• Pulsar Dual LFO
• Mixer 14:2
• Line Mixer 6:2
• Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
• Spider CV Merger & Splitter

Effects

From the easy and straightforward to the esoteric and downright complex, Reason comes with all the effects you need.

• Quartet Chorus Ensemble
• Sweeper Modulation Effect
• Master Bus Compressor
• Channel Dynamics
• Channel EQ
• The Echo
• Pulveriser Demolition
• RV7000 MkII Reverb
• Softube Amp
• Softube Bass Amp
• Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
• Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
• Synchronous 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

Sounds & Patches

MAJOR UPDATE

Huge sound banks with more than 29000 device patches, loops and samples

Sequencing

Record, edit, arrange. Simply connect your MIDI controller and start making music—no setup required. Capture MIDI performances and automation, or draw in notes with the mouse. Whatever suits your workflow, Reason's sequencer is fast, flexible and fun. Keeping with Reason’s famous ease of use, Reason's sequencer still comes with all the editing features you need. If your playing is too tight—use the ReGroove Groove Mixer to add more human feel.

Recording

Record your audio with ease. From a simple vocal take to a full band recording session, the recording workflow is easy and fast. No dialog boxes to break your flow. Need to nail a tricky performance? The comp editor helps you stitch multiple takes together to a perfect take. You can even record first and pick a tempo later. Reason’s legendary project-wide time stretch will change the tempo of your entire song without any audible artifacts.

Mixing

Reason gives your tracks that big studio sound right out of your computer. Faithfully modeled after the famous SSL 9000k* analog mixing desk, Reason's mixer comes complete with flexible routing, full dynamics, EQ, advanced effects handling, full automation, groups and parallel channels, and the famous master-bus compression. The spectrum analyzer window and visual EQ makes it easy to fine-tune the sound of your tracks from anywhere in the program.

Audio Editing

With your audio safely recorded in your project, Reason can help you polish your tracks to perfection. Slice Edit helps you correct the timing problems in your recordings, from subtle tweaks to hard quantize. Reason’s Pitch Edit can quickly correct the pitch in a vocal recording and gives you detailed control over pitch, time and articulations in the performance. And the best of all: It sounds good. Really, really good!

Sampling

All sample players in Reason are also samplers. Hit the sample button on the instrument’s panel and start recording straight into the selected instrument, bringing the lost art of creative sampling back again. All samples can be trimmed, edited and normalized in Reason’s built-in sample editor.

Blocks

Intro, verse, chorus–if that’s how you think about your music, then Blocks might help you build your songs. Create your song’s discreet parts and use Blocks as a very fast way of creating a musical structure for your song. With the basic arrangement laid out, you can see the contents of the blocks and create variations and mute individual parts, or add further musical elements on top.

REX

With REX loops you turn concrete-rigid loops into musical modeling clay, letting you change tempo, pitch and timing independently, and remodel the groove to suit all your musical purposes. Playing them back in Reason’s Dr. Octo Rex even lets you deconstruct the loops and create fills and variations that recorded loops can’t provide. Reason can turn audio recordings into REX files on its own, but for expert level control you might want to try ReCycle.