Reason 13

New in Reason 13

Your Sound, Faster

Browse Your Way
All patches, samples, and loops are now in one place—the new Browser. Find the perfect sound by filtering on anything from name and kind to categories and tags. Just type what you’re looking for and the browser will give you suggestions or use the Category and Tag buttons to filter your way to a new sound.

Tag, You're It!
All content in Reason is now categorized and tagged to let you explore sounds in a whole new way. That includes all soundbanks, all Reason Studios devices, and all Sound Packs. Over 20 years of sound design for you to use and abuse. Anything that isn’t already tagged by us can of course be tagged by you.

Sequencer Upgrade
The sequencer has been split into two. With the new Edit Area it’s easy to get down and dirty with the details in your music without losing your way in the arrangement. Together with several new workflow improvements, improved zooming, layout changes, and easy access to editing features—the upgraded sequencer makes it effortless to make your music sound like you.

It's Got The Look
Reason 13 doesn’t just sound good, it also looks good. Together with the sequencer the entire Reason interface has been updated. It might not necessarily improve your music, but it will make it easier to find your way around.

New Sounds For Your Sounds
Fall in love with your favorite devices again. In Reason 13 we’ve updated our sound bank library with all new patches, samples, REX loops, demo songs and song starter templates. Sometimes your own sound starts with one of our sounds.

Polytone Dual-Layer Synthesizer
Polytone is a synth-lovers’ synth. Inspired by our favorite vintage hardware, we designed it to recreate the warm analog sounds you know and love. But it wouldn’t be us if we didn’t tweak the formula for more possibilities. Even better, Polytone has two layers that can be stacked or morphed between for super fat or evolving sounds.

Polytone is more than just a replica of the past. It’s a loving tribute.

Ripley Space Delay
Ripley combines delay and reverb with unique flavors of filtering, noise, and distortion. Coupled with extensive modulation you can create the delay you want—anything from clean taps or warm analog sounds to crazy lo-fi chirps or washed out ambiences. Everything that adds character and depth to your music.

Reason Tools
Three new devices that simplify common tasks for a smoother workflow, so that you spend less time on the boring stuff and more time making music
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• Sidechain Tool is all about ducking signals. Use Auto Pump for that classic four-on-the-floor pumping, Trigger to play the rhythm via MIDI, or the traditional Sidechain mode for classic sidechain compression.

• Gain Tool puts you in control over signal levels, stereo panning, and routing in one sleek package. Perfect for automation, auditioning, or using in a Combinator.

• Stereo Tool is a stereo widener specifically designed to make a simple signal sound bigger and wider. Perfect for giving that old mono synth or vocal track new life.

What Is Reason?
Reason is the Rack and the devices. Reason is a plugin and a DAW. Reason is the wires and the workflow. Reason is your musical ideas and your final result.

THE RACK - THE HEART OF REASON
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.

What Is The Rack?
The Rack is the core of Reason. Filled to the brim with unique devices, it’s where you set up your dream studio. Just like a real hardware rack, everything is right there ready to be tweaked. Whether you just want to play a great-sounding piano or design a complex generative sound system, the Reason Rack is where the music happens.

Reason Everywhere
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.

Sound Like You
Start with an instrument or load up a patch from the thousands included in Reason. Drag in effects to mold your sound. Add a Player MIDI effect to transform your playing or to start new ideas. Experimentation in the Rack is fun and fast—just drop in new stuff and hear what happens.

Flip The Rack
Scary to some and strangely irresistible to others, the back of Reason’s Rack is where you can go full modular with free routing of audio and control voltage. Control synth filters from envelope followers, pan with LFOs, or split up an audio signal for parallel processing.

Everything is automatically connected for you in a logical top-to-bottom flow, but you’re free to break the rules. Don’t worry if this feels confusing—you can make music in Reason without ever flipping to the back of the Rack. (But we really think you should try it.)

Devices
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.

Players
Players are MIDI effects that can both transform your playing and play for you. Sequencers, chord generators, drummers, arpeggiators—it’s the fastest way to new ideas. Use them with devices in the Rack or send MIDI out to your DAW of choice.

Effects
From studio staples to creative sound mangling, Reason’s effects can shape your sound the way you want.

Utilities
Not the flashiest but very useful, utilities are here to help you route and modulate your way around the Reason Rack.

The Combinator
The most popular device in Reason is one you might not even realize that you’re using. The Combinator combines multiple devices into self-contained patches that are found all throughout Reason’s sound bank and Sound Packs.

Design your own front panel—adding knobs, faders, and buttons to build your own Rack device powered by Reason’s synths and effects. Assign the controls to whatever parameters you want and save your new Combinator for use whenever, wherever.

Rack Extensions
Rack Extensions expand Reason with whatever your music needs today. And tomorrow. They’re fully integrated with audio and CV cables, native undo, one browser, and one way to download and update. If a new OS version or architecture rolls around, your Rack Extensions will continue to work. With hundreds of devices available in the Shop, from indie developers to well-known brands, you can always expand your Reason Rack with new gear.

THE STUDIO - A COMPLETE 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.

Sequencer
Record, arrange, edit. Capture your playing or draw in notes and automation curves with the mouse. Then get into the details with quick access to all the editing features you need to make it the perfect (or imperfect) performance.

Sequence pattern changes, edit multiple MIDI clips, curve automation, get the perfect groove with ReGroove, and transform your music with smart editing features and detailed control. Reason's sequencer is fast, flexible, and fun.

Recording
From a simple vocal take to a full band session, the recording workflow is easy and fast. No dialog boxes to break your flow. Need to nail a tricky performance? Comp Edit helps you stitch multiple takes together into a perfect one. You can even record first and pick a tempo later. Reason's famous project-wide time stretch will change the tempo of your entire song while still sounding great.

Audio Editing
With your audio recorded, it’s time to polish your tracks to perfection. Correct timing problems with Slice Edit—or mess things up further. Fix up your vocal recordings with Vocal Edit for detailed control over pitch, time, and articulation. And best of all: it sounds good. Really, really good!

Mixer
Accurately modeled after the famous SSL 9000k* analog mixing desk, Reason's mixer works just like the real thing. Complete with flexible routing, full dynamics, EQ, advanced effects handling, automation, group and parallel channels, and the famous master-bus compressor. If the best studios in the world have it, why shouldn't you?

*All product names used are trademarks of their respective owners, and in no way constitute an association or affiliation with Reason Studios or companies interviewed. Any products or trademarks mentioned are solely used to identify the products whose sound was studied during development and/or for comparison purposes only.

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.

Sampling
All samplers in Reason are actually samplers. Hit the sample button and start recording straight into the selected instrument, bringing the lost art of on-the-fly sampling back again. So it’s time to dig out your toy keyboards, weird percussion, and vinyl collection to give them new life inside Reason.

Blocks
Intro, verse, chorus, bridge—if that’s how you think about your music then Blocks will help you build your song. Create your parts as Blocks and arrange them into a musical structure. With the basic arrangement laid out you can easily create variations, mute individual parts, or add further musical elements on top.

Plugin
Bring your favorite plugins to the Rack. Rack Extensions are fully integrated plugins specifically for Reason that sit perfectly among your devices, available in the Shop. Reason also hosts VST3 and VST2 plugins so you always have access to any tools you want to sound like you.

Sync
Reason plays well with others, live or in the studio. Use Ableton Link to wirelessly sync your software or send MIDI clock from Reason to keep your hardware perfectly in time.

Control
Play and control Reason with any MIDI controller. Just plug in your keyboard and start playing or get hands-on with Remote for tight integration between Reason and your MIDI hardware.

Control your hardware with MIDI out from Reason’s sequencer and Player MIDI effects. Hooking up a Player to sequence your gear is something you really need to try.

THE SOUNDS - PATCHES, PACKS, PATTERNS
No music without sounds. Reason comes with a huge sound bank of more than 30000 patches, loops, and samples that are categorized and tagged for fast exploration. From in style, to out of style, to back in style—Reason’s library consists of over 20 years of world-class sounds.

Patches
Reason comes with a staggering number of instantly usable instrument, effect, and Player patches in a wide variety of categories. To use as-is or tweak to sound like you.

Combinators
Combinators are advanced patches made up of several devices with custom controls. From complete mastering chains to layered instruments, whatever your music needs.

Samples
Multi-sampled instruments, raw building blocks, and more drum sounds than you can shake a drumstick at. Reason comes with gigabytes of samples—categorized and tagged for quick browsing.

Rex Loops
Loops and grooves, sliced up and ready to go. Simple as that.

Sound Packs
Sound Packs are musical building blocks that inspire new music. Every week we release new Sound Packs by world-class sound designers, exclusively for Reason+. Filled with ready-to-use patches in a specific theme or genre, it’s easy to find the right sound. Want to mangle it further? Add a few effects. Need another vibe for that synth sound? Get in there and tweak. Each patch can be modified to sound like you.

Musical Machines
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.

Join The Reason Gang!
Whether you’re a producer, music maker or music lover, we have the tools to bring your ideas to life, the freedom to explore, and the flexibility to sound like you.

It’s that philosophy that has led to the loyal #reasongang — musicians all around the world who are pioneers of their sound. Their songs top the charts, flood the dancefloors, and define new genres.

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