Reason is a powerful collection of virtual instruments, effects and production tools where musical ideas and amazing sounds comes to life.

A new look, a new size and new Rack devices for creative sample manipulation, Reason 12 is all about levelling up the creative potential at the heart of your music-making experience. The brand new Mimic Creative Sampler approaches sample manipulation as a musical reimagining of audio samples that can be both inventive and even fun! Bringing together the best audio technologies from Reason Studios’ history of groundbreaking DSP and sample-slicing, Mimic includes automatic transient slice detection which easily chops up a sample into individual notes or drum beats. Time-stretching samples can be done using Reason’s legendary stretch algorithm, along with new granular and tape modes to explore.

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.

The Rack is a musical playground. Drag an instrument device into the Rack and start playing immediately. Add devices underneath your instrument like audio effects and everything is automatically connected and routed together. If you like building custom instrument and effect chains, you’ll love diving deeper into Reason’s Combinator where your custom device creations can be saved, programmed for your own macro controls, and even configured to have your own custom front panel with knobs, faders, and buttons of your own choosing and your own positioning.

If you love experimenting with modular synthesis and open-ended signal routing, then Reason’s Rack has another advanced dimension for you as well – the back of the Rack where devices can be cabled together using audio jacks and modular control voltage cables to modulate signals from device to device. The back of the Rack is a true “if you can dream it, you can build it” canvas to explore. But if you’re a front-of-the-rack type of music maker, you’ll appreciate that Reason devices auto-route while you focus on what truly matters: the music.

With a multi-gigabyte supply of synth sounds, sampled instruments, drum kits, loops and effects, Reason's built-in sound bank comes packed with everything you need to make any style of music. The integrated browser helps you quickly find and try thousands of sounds across a huge sound library.

While Reason comes with a sizeable collection of instruments and effects devices already, some of us are always looking for even more creative options and the inspiration that comes from exploring something new. When you’re ready, Reason’s Rack is expandable with Rack Extensions. Rack Extensions additional Rack device plugins built by some of the top instrument and effects developers around the world – from modern effects to vintage instruments and everything in between.

Features

• Updated Combinator: Custom panel size, background colours, backgrounds, and controls
• Mimic Creative Sampler: Quick and immediate triggering, chopping, and manipulation of audio
• High Resolution Graphics: Hyper realistic devices and zoomable windows for improved workflow
• Faster Browser: With a new faster browsing experience you can easily find all your devices, samples and patches, and stay in the creative flow
• Powerful virtual instrument rack plugin and music production software
• Runs in any DAW as a VST, AU, and AAX Plugin
• 18 premium instruments
• 29 audio effects
• 12 MIDI effects and utilities
• Sound Bank with tens of thousands of device presets, loops and samples
• Expandable Rack of instrument and effects with 3rd party Rack Extension devices
• Easy to get started, yet as deep as you want to go. Reason quickly gets the sound you need but lets you go deep in building your own multi-instrument and effect dream creations
• With Reason’s custom cabling on the back of the Rack and its advanced Combinator device you are free to explore, tweak, and sound like you

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