Use your ears!
These instruments and effects are all included in Reason+. You can combine them any way you want in the Rack to create the perfect sound for what you want to express. Some of these may look complicated at first – but don’t worry. Nothing can break. Just use your ears and try stuff out!
Instruments
The art of sampling is constantly evolving. Mimic Creative Sampler brings modern sampling techniques to the Reason Rack for the modern beatmaker and producer.
Many iconic sounds of the 80s were created using FM synthesis, but why stop there? With Algoritm we have ramped up that technology, so you can create the iconic sounds of the 20s.
Create string parts that are far closer to real-life bowed instrument performances than you could ever get with any sample library.
Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
From stacks of buzzing sawtooths to shimmering sonic explorations, Reason’s monster synth has you covered.
Semi-modular instrument with God-like synthesis power. Build your sounds from 50 years of collected synth history.
Tailor-made for deep basslines, this is exactly what you need to add that rumble and punch to your low end.
Subtractor Polyphonic Synthesizer
Warm, straightforward and easy to use. Subtractor is most Reason users go-to synthesizer.
16 pads of complete inspiration. Use samples, synthesis, physical modeling and effects to build the drum machine of your dreams.
Modern and sleek drum sounds in no time — Rytmik is where beatmaking starts.
Reason’s drum machine. If you like the classic pattern based machines from the 80s, then this one is for you.
Versatile and flexible loop player that turns static loops into playable musical instruments.
Play gigabytes of rich and complex, multi-layered instruments from the Reason sound bank. Or sample and build your own!
Quick and easy sampler with an intuitive workflow and plenty of real-time modulation capabilities.
A songwriter’s best friend. When all you need is quick access to your most used instruments, ID8 is there for you.
Play and control any instruments and devices from the Reason Rack.
Grain uses every sound you’ve already got to make every sound you’d ever want. There’s dust in the wind, sands in the hourglass… and now grains in your samples.
Malström Graintable Synthesizer
Fusing the best parts of granular and wavetable synthesis, it has a sound like nothing else.
Radical Piano Advanced Acoustic Piano
The premise is simple. The results are stunning. We’ll give you three basic pianos paired with the technology to make an infinite number of your own.
Glockenspiel, music box, wineglasses and a whole lot more. Great for adding an organic touch to your productions.
Plucked, pumped, blown or strummed, these instruments from around the world will add a new dimension to any style of music.
Give your music a human touch with the sound of Humana’s selection of choirs and solo voices.
A cinematic dream machine of atmospheric sounds, textures and powerful performance controls.
Complex-1 is a modular synthesizer from Reason Studios, bringing the quirks, freedom and sonic depth of modular synthesis to to your Reason Rack.
Parsec Spectral Synthesizer brings the futuristic sound of additive synthesis to the Reason Rack.
A next-level dance music beat creation device that delivers everything you need to make banging electronic beats in Reason.
An innovative drum machine packed with old-school sounds and grooves from the 80s and 90s.
A powerful Rack Extension that delivers everything you need to easily create dynamic, responsive, believable bass lines in Reason.
A collection of expressive and playable acoustic drum kits, recorded in legendary studio spaces, using a mix of vintage and state-of-the-art recording equipment.
Processed Pianos is the perfect piano package for all Reason users who want to explore and play around with new sounds.
Radical Keys brings you three classic keyboard instruments in a great-sounding package: the Rhodes Mk1, the Wurlitzer and the Pianet-T.
Layers Quadrasonic Sample Player
Layers is a virtual collection of sought-after synthesizers from the 80s and 90s, re-imagined in a modern, creative instrument.
Layers Wave Edition brings you the sound of the mighty Waldorf Wave synthesizer in a modern, easy to use and abuse package.
Effects
New
BV-X Multimode Vocoder is a modern take on the classic vocoder effect. It just got easier than ever to take your vocals in a new direction, even if you can’t sing.
Apply your desired flavor of yesterday to your music. VHS, Vinyl, Tape and many more — take your pick!
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
A multimode sound mangling effect that will do anything from gentle tape compression to full-on sonic mayhem.
Very easy and straightforward to use, yet sophisticated with multiple reverb models, including an advanced Impulse Response reverb.
Clean solid lows? Nasal presence? Wildly distorted? Whatever sound you're after, Bass Amp can deliver.
Oozing with attitude and featuring a fistful of amp and cabinet models, this is one amp that will never let your down.
Designed to add punch and definition to your Reason tracks, this single-band compressor sounds simply amazing.
A 4-band, professional level mastering EQ with a transparent sound and precise sound sculpting features.
No mastering suite is complete without a tool for controlling the stereo image to allow individual treatment of high and low bands.
An advanced mastering tool designed to maximize the volume of your Reason tracks, without crushing them or introducing other unwanted artifacts.
DDL-1 Digital Delay Line
Straightforward delay line with easy-to-automate parameters makes this a favorite for special fx processing.
CF-101 Chorus/Flanger
Widen your sound with this combined Chorus and Flanger.
Add more color with this high quality, multi-talented phaser, flanger and filter unit with expansive dynamic modulation options.
Spice up your sound with four flavors of chorus and ensemble effects. From classic vintage chorus to the unique sound of granular ensemble.
The ready-for-radio bus compressor from Reason’s mixing console is also available as a rack device.
Use the subtle compressor, expander and gate from Reason’s studio-grade mixer anywhere in your signal chain.
The legendary modeled EQ unit featured in countless platinum recordings is now its own rack device.
A multi-talented echo effect mixing the perfection of digital delay with the warmth and character of vintage tape echo units.
Combining compression, distortion, filter and modulation, the Pulveriser is a beast of a processor that makes just about anything sound… better.
Applying pattern control to gating, filtering and envelope shaping, the Alligator will happily chew any audio passing through its jaws into a completely new sound.
Create quick sidechain effects or draw your own LFO curves to control filter, delay, reverb, distortion and level. Make your sound evolve, change and loop over time.
Capable of far more than just robotic voices, a vocoder is a great tool when you want to modulate one sound with another.
Neptune Pitch Adjuster & Voice Synth
Gently nudge your vocalist's into key, or go all T-Pain on your vocals. Neptune is also a powerful real-time vocal synth.
PH-90 Phaser
Put motion in your sounds with the PH-90, Reason’s original phaser.
RV-7 Digital Reverb
Simple but effective reverb unit capable of room simulation and weird effects.
ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter
A gate triggered filter for dynamic filtering effects. Or simply a standalone filter unit.
D-11 Foldback Distortion
Reason’s original distortion unit may look small next to Scream 4 and Pulveriser, but can still mangle a sound.
UN-16 Unison
Fatten any sound with this unique effect that mimics the Unison effect found in analog synths.
PEQ-2 Two Band Parametric EQ
Cut and boost your signals at just the right frequencies with this dual band EQ.
COMP-01 Compressor/Limiter
A straightforward dynamics processor from Reason’s original set of effects.
Polar is an old school harmonizing and pitch-shifter effect with a host of modern tricks up its sleeves.
Meticulously modeled on the Leslie 122, Rotor brings the sound of the classic rotary speaker design from the 1940's to the Reason rack.
Player MIDI FX
New
Bassline Generator does exactly what it says: generate basslines. However, the power of this Player lies in just how well it actually does that.
Quickly create sequenced patterns and then mutate them—warping their pitch, timing, note order, and velocity into unlimited variations.
Use it to stay always in key, or use its one-finger chords to explore rich harmonic options that you might not have thought about.
Create flowing arpeggio lines with these two powerful polyphonic, pattern based arpeggiators.
This unit can create interesting effects with pitch and time: Strumming, glissandos, chord stabs and much more.
Beat Map is a new Reason Rack Extension that generates notes in a fast, fun, intuitive way. Designed primarily for drums, Beat Map takes away some of the complexity of writing great beats by using algorithmically-generated patterns to come up with unexpected and interesting results.
Pattern based with visual programming, repeats, probability, individual slide and time resolution per channel and much more; this Player will take your drum machines in Reason to a whole new level.
Unexpected, unpredictable, unanticipated, unforeseen, from out of left field or out of the blue. Quad Note Generator is the Player device that creates an endless stream of musical ideas.
Create, jam and perform music in ways you’ve never tried before with PolyStep Sequencer-an evolved polyphonic step sequencer for your Reason Rack.
Utilities
The most popular device in Reason is one you sometimes might not even realize you’re using. Reason’s Combinator is the workhorse of the Reason Rack, empowering the most powerful, complex and tweak-able sounds in your music.
A CV modulation effect that uses its two LFOs to control parameters in Reason’s other instruments and effects.
Matrix Pattern Sequencer
If you are into 70s style modular synths or if you simply like to play around with an analog style sequencer that can control virtually anything in the rack, try Matrix.
A classic, monophonic arpeggiator with some creative twists to create arpeggiated melody lines from the chords you are playing.
Mixer 14:2
Create sub mixes inside the Reason Rack with this handy 14 channel mixer. With effect sends and EQ, it’s great to mix down several instruments inside a combinator.
Line Mixer 6:2
Perfect when building Combinator patches, this little mixer simply does what its name implies: mixes audio signals.
Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
For advanced signal routing, huge combinator stacks or deep dives into the depths of modular synthesis, this little audio signal splitter and merger will be indispensable.
Spider CV Merger & Splitter
Split and merge CV and gate signals with Spider CV.
Mix Channel
Each instrument you add to the rack is hooked up to a Mix Channel device. Here’s also where you can add insert effects, load channel presets and more.
Audio Track
Each audio tracks in the sequencer has its own audio track device where you can add insert effects, load channel presets and more.