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.

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

Buy this upgrade is you own any of the following products:

Reason Intro
Reason Lite
Reason Essentials
Reason Adapted

Note: Owners of Reason 1-10 full version should get the Reason 11 Upgrade.

Features

Included Instruments

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

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

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 saurfaces
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