Arpeggio Lab

Arpeggio Lab is the miracle pill for treating creative block at the source. Except it’s not a pill, and creative block isn’t a disease.
Either way, it’s highly playable and handles arpeggiation like a musician rather than a mathematician. Sort of like an imaginary bandmate.

We want you to think of Arpeggio Lab whenever you’re looking for new ideas or fresh melodic layers. Or whenever your motivation has run dry and you’ve tried everything to get it back. Well, everything except Arpeggio Lab.

Arpeggio Lab is included in Reason+. It is compatible with Reason 10.1 and later.

Arpeggio Lab is designed to get you out of your own head and into creative production. You start by picking an Anchor — a steady pattern that holds the groove — and then layer Movement on top: dynamic variations that fill in the gaps around the Anchor. Turn a few knobs and the whole pattern changes dramatically.

Use Hold or any of its variations to latch your chord and play away without having to keep pressing keys. The overall experience is sort of like jamming with an imaginary bandmate. To take that analogy full circle – pressing Humanize even mimics the handstrokes of a real musician. Sync to your song, twist some knobs, randomize patterns, and when you find something you love — one-click send it straight to your sequencer.

Arpeggio Lab is all about capturing what got most of us hooked on music production in the first place – getting into the elusive, beautiful flow-state of creativity.

Features

• Play a chord and hold it with 4 smart Hold modes
• Choose an Anchor Pattern to give your arpeggio a musical pulse
• Use Movement to fill the gaps with arpeggio shapes — dense, sparse, complex, or simple
• Add variations with the Modifiers — mute steps, add ratchets, or shift octaves
• When you need new ideas, browse the 80+ patches or try the Randomize function
• Use CV/Gate to split the arpeggio to different instruments