Reason 12

VST, AU, AAX Plugin
Standalone DAW
30 day return policy

$499.00

Sound like you

The Reason Rack is one of the most powerful and flexible sound design and beatmaking tools for your music. It’s a virtual studio rack packed full of instruments, synthesizers, drum machines, sound-shaping effects, Player MIDI effects, and mixing tools which come together to make your sound possible.

New in Reason 12

Mimic Creative Sampler

Mimic is a fun new sampler for the modern beatmaker and producer. Designed for quick and immediate triggering, chopping, and manipulation of whatever audio you throw at it.

Updated Combinator

Combine your favorite devices, choose a panel size, change the background color, add a custom background, and the perfect set of controls to build your dream machine.

High Resolution Graphics

Geek out on crystal clear hyper-realistic devices in the Rack and adapt Reason to your workflow with the new new zoomable interface.

Faster browser

With a new faster browsing experience you can easily find all your devices, samples and patches, and stay in the creative flow.

Offline Mode

Easier than ever to use Reason without internet connection for all Reason 12 users.

Native Apple Silicon Support (M1/M2)

Reason now runs with up to 50% better performance on Apple Silicon computers (M1/M2).

New look, new sounds

A new look, a new sampler and a whole new way of dialing in your sound, Reason 12 is all about leveling up the creative potential at the heart of your music-making experience.

Meet the Rack

Get to know Reason and, more importantly, the devices that make up Reason's Rack – from the synths, samplers, effects, and MIDI Player effects.

Audio examples

Virtual Studio Rack

At the heart of Reason is a virtual rack where you craft your own sound using Reason’s synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, and other organic instruments – along with a large collection of audio and MIDI effects to shape both your sound and even the notes you play on your keyboard.

Instruments

Inviting, easy to use and with a sound to die for: Reason’s instrument is the true stars of the Reason experience.

Mimic Creative Sampler NEW
Grain Sample Manipulator
Radical Piano
Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
Rytmik Drum Machine
Klang Tuned Percussion
Pangea World Instrument
Humana Vocal Ensemble
Monotone Bass Synthesizer
Kong Drum Designer
NN19 Sampler
NN-XT Advanced Sampler
Malström Graintable Synthesizer
Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
Redrum Drum Computer
Subtractor Analog Synthesizer
MIDI Out Device
ID-8 Instrument Device

Player MIDI FX

Beat Map Algorhythmic Drummer
Scales & Chords
Dual Arpeggio
Note Echo

Utilities

Combinator Major update
RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
Matrix Pattern Sequencer
Pulsar Dual LFO
Mixer 14:2
Line Mixer 6:2
Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
Spider CV Merger & Splitter

Effects

From the easy and straightforward to the esoteric and downright complex, Reason comes with all the effects you need.

Quartet Chorus Ensemble
Sweeper Modulation Effect
Master Bus Compressor
Channel Dynamics
Channel EQ
The Echo
Pulveriser Demolition
RV7000 MkII Reverb
Softube Amp
Softube Bass Amp
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
Synchronous Effects Modulator
Neptune Pitch Adjuster
BV512 Vocoder
Audiomatic Retro Transformer
MClass Equalizer
MClass Stereo Imager
MClass Compressor
MClass Maximizer
RV-7 Digital Reverb
DDL-1 Digital Delay Line
D-11 Foldback Distortion
ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter
CF-101 Chorus/Flanger
PH-90 Phaser
COMP-01 Compressor/Limiter
PEQ-2 Two Band Parametric EQ
UN-16 Unison

Sounds & Patches

Huge sound banks with more than 29000 device patches, loops and samples

Reason Rack Plugin Formats

VST3 (Ableton Live, StudioOne, Cubase, etc)
Audio Units (Logic Pro)
AAX (Pro Tools)

Reason Standalone Features

VST3 and VST2 plugin support: add any instrument or effect plugin to Reason’s Rack
Delay compensation makes all signal paths play in perfect, phase-locked sync
Opens songs and synth patches made in Reason Compact - the free pocket music studio for iOS
Rack Extensions lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Reason Studios and 3rd party developers
Support for Ableton Link: effortlessly sync Reason and other link enabled apps over WiFi
Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
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
Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
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.
Advanced modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel

System Requirements

macOS

- Fast, stable internet connection
- Intel or M1/M2 Mac with multi-core processor
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 5.5 GB free system disk space required, plus 20 GB for optional content. Additionally, program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space and additional space for cached graphical assets
- macOS 10.13 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
- For using Reason as a VST Plugin, a host with VST3 support is required
- For using Reason as an AU plugin, a host with AUv2 support is required
- For using Reason as an AAX plugin, Pro Tools 12 or later is required

Windows

- Fast, stable internet connection
- Intel or AMD multi-core processor
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
- 5.5 GB free system disk space required, plus 20 GB for optional content. Additionally, program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space and additional space for cached graphical assets
- Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
- Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
- Audio Interface with ASIO driver
- MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
- For using Reason as a VST Plugin, a host with VST3 support is required
- For using Reason as an AAX plugin, Pro Tools 12 or later is required

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