2021 has been an eventful, exciting, and different year for us at Reason Studios and those of you in the community. Given the time of year, grab a glass of your favourite beverage, lean back in your chair in front of the fireplace and let’s look at what happened with Reason in 2021. 

The talk of the town: Reason+ 

Let’s get the …

Today we're happy to introduce our latest Player, Bassline Generator! Mattias asked me to write something about how this came to be and how we did it, so here we go! Warning, long text ahead.

First of all, we like doing Players. While an instrument can be inspiring with new sounds and an effect can be very useful, Players …

First off, let me introduce myself. I’m David Eriksson, the new Chief Product Officer at Reason Studios. I joined Reason Studios because I have had a life-long passion for music production and playing all kinds of instruments, as well as building user focused technology products. And my responsibility is managing Reason Studios’ product development overall. And of course, together with the fantastic …

While the vast majority of our developers are putting all their effort into the next update of Reason 12, other initiatives are happening as well here at Reason Studios HQ. We wanted to give you a sneak peek of some of the underlying technology work happening here, and why.  

Enabling Tech 

With the release of Reason 12 we are adding a new development track into the game – Enabling Tech. Wikipedia describes enabling technology as an invention or innovation that can be applied to drive radical change in the …

Whew, what a month! Reason 12 is out in the world and we're seeing more cool Combinator designs and new music than we can count. But we're also seeing some reports on bugs and issues in Reason 12, so I wanted to take a moment to address that.

Right now, the Reason team is fully focused on tracking down and …