Reason 14

by Reason Studios

Standalone DAW
VST, AU, AAX plugin
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Sound like you

Reason has everything you need to sound like you. It's a virtual Rack where you wire up instruments and effects to create the sounds you're looking for. You can use it as a plugin or a full-blown DAW with recording, sequencing, mixing, and everything else you'd expect. Fast, fluid, and fun, Reason is all about making music—however you make music.

New in Reason 14

One track mind

For the first time, your signal chain, levels, and sends live directly inside the sequencer within the new Track Panel. Open the Rack directly from the panel to browse new patches, visualize signal splits, and tweak your devices exactly where you're working. It's a fundamentally new, track-centric workflow allowing you to manage your sound without ever switching views.

Your sound, on track

The Reason sequencer has received a major update to keep your music-making on track, literally. With Track Folders, smarter clips, and a more intuitive piano roll, the whole sequencer moves faster, while your arrangement looks as organized as it sounds.

Everything sounds better in black

Reason 14 now defaults to Dark Mode. Whether you're arranging in the sequencer or riding faders in the Mixer, the interface stays consistent with brand-new navigation buttons for the Track Panel, Edit Area, Groove Mixer, and more. No more eye strain, just a clean, focused environment that makes it easy to find your tools.

Put it in warp drive

Reason 14 brings the small improvements that make a big difference. Automatic tempo detection on import and MIDI note chase keep everything moving, so your ideas stay in focus. No friction. No distractions. Just pure momentum.

RV-9 Reverb Station

A powerful and inspiring new reverb Rack device featuring nine algorithms, ranging from realistic rooms to infinite soundscapes. Dive into fluttering granular textures, sculpt frequency and resonance with spectral reverb, or smear delays into lush atmospheres with Echoverb.

New sounds for your sound

A major upgrade deserves a major sonic expansion. We've added over 900 new drum samples, 50 fresh Europa patches, and 20 new impulse responses for the RV7000. Everything you need to kickstart your next idea the moment you open the Rack.

Your sound, faster.

With a completely redesigned Track Panel workflow, new Track Folders, automatic tempo detection, MIDI chase, the new RV-9 Reverb Station Rack device and more, Reason 14 is all about streamlining your process so you can find your sound fast.

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The Rack

If Reason was a song, the Rack would be the hook. Wire up instruments, effects, and Player MIDI effects to create the sound you're looking for. Or discover something completely new.

Reason comes jam-packed with a huge collection of unique synthesizers, instruments, samplers, drum machines, audio effects, and much more. Our devices have been lovingly hand-crafted in Sweden since we started in 1994. By music makers, for music makers.

Instruments

Drums, bass, piano, synths, strings, percussion, textures, keys, mallets, organ, woodwind. Reason comes with just about every instrument you can imagine.

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

Player MIDI FX

Note Tool
Random Tool
Beat Map Algorhythmic Drummer
Dual Arpeggio
Note Echo
Scales & Chords

Utilities

Gain Tool
Combinator
Matrix Pattern Sequencer
RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
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.

RV-9 Reverb Station ^NEW
Ripley Space Delay
Sidechain Tool
Stereo Tool
Quartet Chorus Ensemble
Sweeper Modulation Effect
Audiomatic Retro Transformer
Master Bus Compressor
Channel Dynamics
Channel EQ
Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
The Echo
Pulveriser Demolition
RV7000 MkII Reverb
Softube Amp
Softube Bass Amp
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
Synchronous Effects Modulator
Neptune Pitch Adjuster
BV512 Vocoder
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

Sound library with more than 30000 device patches, loops, and samples—including 900+ new drum samples, 50 new Europa patches, and 20 new RV7000 impulse responses. Find the perfect sound in the Browser by filtering on anything from name and kind to categories and tags.

Reason Rack Plugin

Bring the Rack to your favorite DAW as a VST3, AU, or AAX plugin, or use Reason as standalone music making software. Take the best patches from Reason into Ableton Live, add a rack of instruments to Pro Tools, or expand your channel strips in Logic. However you make music, the Rack's there for you.

Reason Standalone DAW

From your first beat to your next album, Reason is the music making software for capturing and exploring your ideas. Easy to get started yet deep as you want it to be, it's everything you need to sound like you.

Standalone features:

VST3 and VST2 plugin support: add any instrument or effect plugin to Reason's Rack
Rack Extensions lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Reason Studios and 3rd party developers
Delay compensation makes all signal paths play in perfect, phase-locked sync
Support for Ableton Link: effortlessly sync Reason and other link enabled apps over WiFi
Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
Fully featured high-precision multi-track sequencer with fast navigation and edit tools
Track Folders: organize groups of tracks in dedicated folders ^NEW
Rack per Track: when a new track is created a new Rack column is also created ^NEW
Track Panel: new area in the Sequencer that shows an overview of the selected Track in the Track List ^NEW
Looped clips: Audio, MIDI, and Automation Clips can now be looped ^NEW
Automatic tempo detection on audio import ^NEW
MIDI note chase ^NEW
Blocks mode for arranging and structuring your song
Audio Comp Edit for selecting the best parts from multiple recordings to craft the perfect take
High quality real-time time stretch & audio transpose
Vocal 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 over multiple ports—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 control Reason with external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
Supports all major file formats—from .wav and .aif to .mp3 and more
Real-time sample rate and bit depth conversion allows for importing any audio into Reason without issues
Multi-core support and 64-bit compatibility makes Reason fast and powerful on any computer
Self-contained song files make moving projects between computers and collaborators 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)
6.5 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 11 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)
6.5 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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