Gateway to Reason
Reason Essentials 10 is the streamlined version of Reason 10, Propellerhead's creative powerhouse DAW software. Like its big sibling, you can record audio on unlimited tracks, create beats, play virtual instruments from a powerful, expandable rack, and mix down on a superb SSL-modeled console. And it features VST support, so you can use any plug-ins you want. Many of the musicians at Sweetwater use Reason Essentials by itself or slaved to another DAW via Rewire. Reason Essentials 10 rocks a sleek interface that's fast and inspiringly intuitive. Drag and drop anything, anywhere. Nail that perfect sound instantly in the always-open browser. Explore killer guitar amp and speaker models from Softube. Reason is a creative powerhouse. Reason Essentials 10 — it's the ideal way to begin making music on your computer!
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Instruments included with Reason Essentials 10:
- NN-XT advanced sampler
- Dr. Octo Rex loop player
- Redrum pattern-based drum machine
- Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer
- ID-8 songwriter's toolbox
- Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers
Included effects:
- Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
- Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
- DDL-1 digital delay line
- DF-101 chorus/flanger
- RV7000 advanced reverb
- Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
- 4-band mastering EQ
- Dual band stereo imager
- Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode, and CV out
- Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip

Propellerhead Reason Essentials 10 DAW Software Features:
- Delay compensation makes all signal paths play in perfect, phase-locked sync
- Supports the Allihoopa online music-making and collaboration service, with a cornucopia of inspiring user-created music, backing tracks and performances
- Unlimited audio and instrument channels
- VST plug-in support plus Rack Extensions let you expand your arsenal of instruments and FX
- Full-featured multitrack sequencer with audio comping tools, slicing, and audio quantize
- High-quality real-time time stretch
- Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
- Factory sound bank with patches for Reason Essentials devices, samples, and loops
- Supports ReWire protocol
- Bounce audio recordings to REX loop format, for use in Reason Essentials sampler
- Multicore support, 64-bit compatible
- Export mixer channels as individual audio stems, including FX and tempo track
- ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console
- Matrix pattern-based sequencer
- 14:2 mixer with EQ and effects send/return
- 6:2 channel stereo line mixer
- Spider Audio merger and splitter
- Spider Control voltage merger and splitter
- Self-contained song files make moving projects between computers a breeze