In this Reason Studios masterclass we invited sound designer, artist and YouTuber Seán Murray to do a deep-dive into his "New Worlds" Sound Pack for our Rack Extension Friktion Modeled Strings. Find out how Seán approaches creating multi-layered Friktion patches and his thinking behind them. 

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“A one-man passion project for the love of experimental music and electronic sounds”—that’s the description on Ekssperimental Sounds’ Facebook page. We met up with that one man to chat about what drives and inspires a creator of Rack Extensions. Here’s Erik Söderberg of Ekssperimental Sounds.

— The thing that got me into creating Rack Extension instruments and devices was …

I’ve had the pleasure of using Reason Studios’ new Friktion Modeled Strings synthesizer for several weeks now and I’m blown away by the musicality of this rack device. Most of the physical modeling-based instruments that I have used in the past have sounded okay but have felt like science experiments to me. Those instruments have had cryptic parameters and the …

Scottish retrowave artist and producer Michael Oakley is back with his brand new single "Queen of Hearts". A track co-written with Ollie Wride that carries Oakley's trademark retro elements, but with an esprit that carries some elemenets of his sound at least three decades into the future. Oakley's music is described as "melancholic postcards from the heart wrapped up in …

"What up everybody, it's your girl Jelie from Kickback Couture."

If you're familiar with this phrase, then you're probably no stranger to the great amount of Reason tutorials that rapper, producer and engineer Jelie (pronounced "jell-eye") has published on her YouTube channel Kickback Couture for the past couple of years.

We had a chat with Jelie on how she began …