Reason Studios Reason 13 Software

What's new in Reason 13?

Sweetwater knows that nailing the right sound quickly is vital to your creative process. A massive, multi-gigabyte sound bank library forms the heart of Reason, which has been pumped up with all-new patches, samples, REX loops, demo songs, and song-starter templates. Sorting through this content is easier than ever, thanks to the upgraded Browser's new tagging and filtering capabilities. Even seasoned Reason devotees will be impressed with Reason 13's overhauled Sequencer, which includes a new split interface and a bevy of workflow enhancements. The new Polytone dual-layer synthesizer weaves warm analog-style textures that are guaranteed to spark new creative ideas. You also get a new Ripley Space Delay effect, enabling you to add vintage-flavored delays and reverbs to your sounds. You also get three new tools designed to simplify common tasks for a smoother music-making experience. Finally, a number of eye-grabbing user interface refinements give you more reasons than ever to love Reason 13.

Everything at your fingertips

Finding the right sound in Reason 13 is easier than ever. For starters, all of its content — sound banks, Reason Studios devices, and Sound Packs alike — is now categorized and tagged. What's more, anything that's not already tagged right from the factory can be tagged by you. Moreover, Reason 13's upgraded Browser enables you to filter your search results using name, kind, category, tag, and more. Just type what you're searching for, and the Browser will offer suggestions, or you can use the Category and Tag buttons to filter your way to a new sound. With Reason 13, finding sounds is a seamless operation that doesn't interrupt your creative flow.

Significant Sequencer enhancements

Reason's powerful Sequencer has always been at the core of its inspiring creative environment. With Reason 13, the Sequencer has been split in two, sporting a new Edit Area that allows you to get downright tweaky with your details without losing sight of your arrangement. The Sequencer also brandishes several workflow enhancements, such as improved zooming, layout changes, and easy access to editing features.

Ripley Space Delay

The new Ripley Space Delay is a vintage-style effect that combines delay and reverb with tantalizing filtering, noise, and distortion. With the Ripley, you can cook up a wide range of delay flavors — whether you're aiming for clean taps, warm analog repeats, lo-fi chirps, or washed-out ambience, this effect will add just the right depth and character to your music.

Reason is a plug-in

Nothing captures the playful spirit of music making and sound sculpting more than the Reason Rack. And you can use it as a plug-in with your favorite DAW or produce music directly in Reason standalone. With the Reason Rack Plug-in, you can make music with all of Reason's cherished instruments, effects, and sounds in whatever DAW you choose. Used like this, Reason is a gargantuan expansion to your studio setup with its synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, MIDI effects, sampled instruments, and creative effects. With the Reason Rack Plug-in, you deploy the instruments and effects just like you do in Reason. You can combine or stack them and add Reason's Player MIDI FX devices. Want more options? You can also expand the Reason Rack Plug-in with exclusive Rack Extension plug-ins to create the ultimate studio rack of your dreams!

Push the envelope

With Reason, you're free to push the musical envelope, unencumbered by the constraints of conventional production methodologies. For instance, Reason has a unique way of handling tempo, key, and pitch. Record first and find the right tempo later with Reason's always-on, real-time, project-wide time stretch. Want to audition how your song sounds in a different a key? Keep the tempo and transpose the audio. Tweak your vocal performances to perfection with Pitch Edit. With Reason, it's easy to rework, re-sample, or reshape your recordings into something completely new.

Drag and drop, or patch from scratch

In Reason, you don't have to patch anything if you don't want to. Simply drag and drop instruments onto tracks, and effects devices onto instruments, and Reason automatically makes the connections — just like any other DAW. But when you're ready to roll up your sleeves and throw some patches, hit the Tab key to flip Reason's rack around, and you're in modular heaven with unlimited sonic possibilities at your disposal. Exhaustive patch points on the back of every instrument and effect rack unit give you cart blanche to explore the world of open-ended signal routing, where you create your own signal path by cabling devices together using audio jacks and modular control-voltage cables to modulate signals from device to device. What you can create is only limited by your imagination!

Reason: there's nothing else like it

Experiment and have fun as you patch audio and control voltages freely between devices in the rack to build truly monstrous sounds. Use samples in Europa's Spectral Filter to generate sample-based filter curves — or draw your own. Process a guitar through Thor's LFOs, envelopes, and step sequencer. Drop a sample into Grain and marvel at the endless sonic mutations you can create with its available playback algorithms, modulation, routing, and effects. Patch a vocal through Radical Piano's audio input to enhance it with shimmering grand piano string and body resonance. Try that with any other DAW! You get the idea. Simply put, there is no other DAW like Reason.