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Reason 5 is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music.
With its generous sound bank and intuitive flow, Reason helps you along in creative process, and is the music software that never gets in your way.
Reason ships with a huge sound bank with samples, loops and patches for all of Reason's devices and instruments. Reason 5 adds the Kong Drum Designer and Dr.OctoRex to Reason's arsenal, and naturally these new weapons needed their ammunition too.
Sounds
We turned to some of our favorite producer and musicians to provide samples, loops and patches for the new instruments and what we got back was nothing short of stunning.
The signature patches can be found in the Kong and Dr.OctoRex folders in the Reason Sound Bank.
Bomb Squad (BSQ)
Hank Shocklee and Keith Shocklee of legendary Hip Hop production team The Bomb Squad are most known for their groundbreaking work with Public Enemy. Long time Reason users, they have provided Kong kits and Rex loops that should appeal to fans of gritty and raw sounds.
Adam Beyer & Cari Lekebusch (BL)
Leaning on 15 years of production and touring, Adam Beyer and Cari Lekebusch need no introduction within the techno community. Their Kong kits makes heavy use of Kong's analog and physical modeling generators for their trademark bass-heavy Swedish techno sound.
Printz Board (PB)
As the musical director for The Black Eyed Peas, Printz has a love for using unusual and weird sounds in his productions – something clearly stated with his collection of Rex instrument loop
Sharooz Raoofi (SHA)
Besides being an established tech house producer and DJ, Sharooz also runs the sound design company Sample Magic. His kits and loops should be useful within a wide range of electronic music styles.
The Salazar Brothers (TSB)
Swedish production team The Salazar Brothers are mainly known for their Hip Hop production but have also produces Swedish rockers Mando Diao. Their kits and loops have a clean urban sound.
Organic Sounds of the ReFills
Reason isn't just about synthesizers, drum machines and fancy effects. ReFills are expansion packs for your sound library that can add masterfully sampled, organic, acoustic instruments to your Reason rack. Propellerhead makes brilliant ReFills useful in all styles of music; organic pianos, electrifying organs, souloful drum kits and much more. These hypersampled ReFills don't just recreate the sound of the instruments, but the very signal paths and recording techniques used to capture them.
With the clever Combinator device you have easy access to parameters that will help you shape your sound the way you want it. Ribbon mic or ambient mics? Choose the one you want.
And it doesn't end there of course. If the sound you are after can not be found in any of the Propellerhead ReFills, there is a large and vibrant community of ReFill makers out there, ranging from the bedroom enthusiast to professional sound design companies. If you can hear it, there's a ReFill for it.
The Factory Sound Bank
Finding your sound is an important part of the musical process. With Gigabytes of synths, samples, drum kits, and effects, Reason's sound bank is packed with everything you'll need from the start.
The Factory Sound Bank is made up of thousands of synth patches and drum kits, REX loops and sampled instruments for all styles of music — as well as hundreds of ready-to-use effect patches and countless samples to build your own kits.
Features
The Benefits
What makes Reason unique? It's a combination of many different things, but the user interface plays a big part. Not only is it pretty, it also looks good! And makes playing, composing and producing in Reason fun, fast and efficient.
- Buttons, knobs, faders and flashing LEDs – Reason's interface looks and feels like an instrument.
- In Reason, the sequencer and instruments are designed by the same people. With its total integration, no configuration or connections are needed - they are part of the same package and all the parts work seamlessly with each other.
- You build your rack as you work on your song. Create instruments and effects and route them any way you want to. Add, delete, replace and tweak. Your rack is what you want it to be.
- Flip the rack over to access the backside with all the cables and connectors. Here you can manually route anything to anything, just like in a real studio. Or simply leave it to Reason to automatically connect all your instruments and effects, unlike a real studio.
- Each cable plugs into exactly two holes, just like most real cables do. Only in Reason, you don't even have to crawl around the back side, unless you want to of course.
- If it looks like a button, it is a button. If you see a handle, it's for dragging. All controls in Reason look and feel natural to work with and integrate with your favorite hardware controller.
- What you see is really what you get. Reason offers everything at face value. No hidden screens, sub-menus or windows to flip through. The sequencer collects all notes and automation for each track, clearly laid out and easy to work with.
- Easy to get started with and as deep as you want it to be. Many devices have macro controls for ease of use. If you want, open them up and explore and tweak all its components within.
Compatibility
Although Reason is a self-contained program, it's no lone wolf in the studio world. Three key technologies make Reason a well adjusted and quite sociable citizen in the software studio.
REMOTE
- Mouse and computer keyboard may do the job most of the time, but when you want hands-on tactile control of your music making, Remote is there to save the day. With the Remote technology, Reason comes with built-in support for all major controllers and keyboards available on the market. Knobs, faders, displays and buttons are already set up for each Reason device. You can use one controller as your master keyboard and use another for just the mixer for instance. Remote is there right out of the box. Nothing to configure, nothing to install. It just works
REWIRE
- If you want to use Reason with other software products, ReWire is there to help you. ReWire works like an invisible cable that handles audio, MIDI and sync between music applications. Reason can become a rack of instruments and play alongside another program, or sequenced entirely from the host application. ReWire has grown into an industry standard and is used in applications like ProTools, Logic, Cubase, Live, Sonar and many more.
RECORD
- Record is Reason's best friend. More than so in fact. When used on the same computer, they fuse into one powerful music workstation. Adding Record to Reason means you get unlimited audio tracks, effects for guitar players and vocalists, a wonderful studio grade mixing console and tons of interface enhancements
Reason 5 Main Features:
* Kong Drum Designer
- * Upgraded Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
- * Block Sequencing
- * Live Sampling
- * Automatic Self-Contain of Samples (incl from ReFills)
- * Record Notes on Multiple Tracks
- * Scale Clips by Resizing
- * Mute Tool
- * Set and move loop functions
- * Tap Tempo
- * Improved key commands for laptop use
- * Hierarchical menus in Combinator programmer
- * Additional CV inputs on Combinator
- * Updated Help system (incl Help on Mac)
- * Normalize and reverse audio clips
- * Bounce clip to sample
System Requirements:
MAC
Intel Mac (multiple cores highly recommended), 1 GB RAM or more, DVD drive, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, 2 GB free hard disk space, Monitor with 1024x768 resolution or larger, CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware, A MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
WINDOWS
Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon or better, 1GB RAM, DVD drive, Windows XP SP3, Vista or Windows 7, 2 GB free hard disk space, Monitor with 1024x768 resolution or larger, A 16 bit Windows compatible audio card, preferably with an ASIO driver, A MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
