Reason Studios Propellerhead Reason 9 Upgrade DAW Software Upgrade

New in Reason 9

Player devices

Add players to your favorite Reason instruments and unleash a torrent of musical ideas! The players adds a musical twist to what you are playing and the results are nothing short of magic.

Scales & Chords

The scale aware Scales & Chords Player will filter and remap your playing to always be in key. With chord mode, you’ll be playing scale-perfect one-finger chords. You never knew you were this good!

Note Echo

The name says it all. Note echo can create a trailing echo of your playing in any tempo or intensity you wish. Enable transpose create a layer of falling or rising notes.

Dual Arp

Two powerful polyphonic arpeggiators in one device. They both have traditional arpeggio settings, but also a pattern mode where you can create intricate rhythmic, polyphonic patterns from what you are playing.

Players combined

Best of all, each Player can be combined with the other, allowing for endless experimentation. Feed Note Echo through Scales & Chords, create an arpeggio of chords in exotic scales. What will you do?

Pitch Edit

Polish your vocal recordings to perfection with the new Pitch Edit mode. Fine tune pitch and timing with the same transparency and quality as Reason’s famous time stretch.

1000 synth sounds

Inspire your music making in sound with 1000 new high quality synth patches from leading sound designers.

More additions

Bounce in place

Speed up your workflow with Bounce in place - bounce a synth track to and audio clip with a single click.

Themes

Default, blue or dark - select a visual theme that suits your mood.

Reverse MIDI & automation

Select MIDI or automation data and reverse it.

Features

Included instruments

• 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
• Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers

Included Player devices

          •        Scales & Chords

          •        Dual Arpeggio

          •        Note Echo

Included effects

• Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Alligator triple channel pattern based gate
• Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
• The Echo high quality stereo echo
• Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
• Audiomatic Retro Transformer
• 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
• RV7000 MkII advanced convolution reverb
• Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
• BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
• UN16 unison
• 4-band mastering EQ
• Dual band stereo imager
• Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
• Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip

Modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel

• Gain
• 4-band EQ
• 8 Send effects slots
• Insert effect slot
• Dynamics section with compressor and gate
• Lo-pass and hi-passfilter
• Spectrum analyzer
• Master compressor with sidechain input
• Group channels
• Parallel channels

Other features

• Supports the Allihoopa music making and collaboration service, with access to an endless supply of inspiring user-created music, backing tracks and performances.
• Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
• Rack Extensions lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Propellerhead and 3rd party developers
• Huge factory sound bank, with patches for all Reason's devices, samples, and loops
• 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
• 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
• Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
• ReWire support
• 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.

System Requirements

Mac OS X

• Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration required!
• Intel Mac with dual core processor
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
• 4 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
• Mac OS X 10.7 or later (64-bit)
• Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
• CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware
• MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended

Windows

• Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration required!
• Intel or AMD processor with dual cores
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
• 4 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
• Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
• Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
• Audio Interface with ASIO driver