Upgrade to Reason 9
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Reason is easy to get started with, yet as deep as you want it to be.
Create, compose, mix and finish your music–Reason will help you along the journey,
from inspiration to mixdown. See for yourself how it’s done in six short steps:
Nailing your first idea is easy in Reason. Click and drag the sounds and instruments you want to the rack and just play. Everything is set up for you automatically.
Adding more instruments is just as easy. Find the sounds you want in Reason’s browser, drag them in and hit record.
Record vocals, instrument or whatever you like with Reason’s easy-to-use recording tools.
Get just the sound you’re looking for with Reason’s rich palette of professional effects and studio grade mixing console.
Reason comes with everything your music needs–from inspiring sounds and instruments to tease out your initial idea, to professional mixing and mastering tools to finish your next masterpiece.
Reason’s many instruments, effects and included sounds will let you create any kind of music. What does it sound like? Take a listen!
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 Reason |
 Reason Essentials |
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| Instruments | ||
| Subtractor Synthesizer | ||
| ID-8 Songwriter's Toolbox | ||
| Malström Graintable Synthesizer | ||
| Thor Polysonic Synthesizer | ||
| Neptune Pitch/Voice Synth | ||
| Samplers | ||
| NN-XT Advanced Sampler | ||
| Live Sampling Editor | ||
| NN19 Sampler | ||
| Drums & loops | ||
| Redrum Drum Computer | ||
| Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player | ||
| Kong Drum Designer | ||
| Device control | ||
| Spider Mergers/Splitters | ||
| Matrix Pattern Sequencer | ||
| Combinator | ||
| RPG-8 Arpeggiator | ||
| Player MIDI Devices | ||
| Dynamics/EQ | ||
| MClass Mastering Suite | ||
| Master Bus Compressor | ||
| BV512 Vocoder | ||
| Modeled Channel EQ/Dynamics | ||
| Effects | ||
| RV7000 Advanced Reverb | ||
| Scream 4 Distortion | ||
| Softube Guitar/Bass Amps | ||
| CF-101 Chorus/Flanger | ||
| DDL-1 Digital Delay | ||
| Audiomatic Retro Transformer | ||
| Pulveriser Demolition Unit | ||
| Alligator Triple Filtered Gate | ||
| The Echo | ||
| RV-7 Digital Reverb | ||
| D-11 Foldback Distortion | ||
| ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter | ||
| PH-90 Phaser | ||
| UN-16 Unison | ||
| COMP-01 Compressor/Limiter | ||
| PEQ-2 Two Band Parametric EQ | ||
| Mixer | ||
| Gain | ||
| Equalizer | 4-band | 2-band |
| Send Effects | 8 | 4 |
| Insert Effects | ||
| Master Compressor | ||
| Master Compressor w/ Sidechain Input | ||
| Compressor | ||
| Gate | ||
| Lo-pass/Hi-pass filter | ||
| Spectrum analyzer | ||
| Group and parallel channels | ||
| Production | ||
| ReGroove Mixer | ||
| Audio Tracks | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Instrument Tracks | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Time stretch | ||
| Creates REX files | ||
| Audio Clip Transpose | ||
| Pitch Edit | ||
| Audio to MIDI | ||
| Blocks Song Arrangement | ||
| Factory Sound Bank | 1.7 GB | 1 GB |
| Orkester Sound Bank | ||
| Expandability | ||
| Rack Extensions | ||
| ReFills | Full support | Limited support |
| ReWire | ||
| MIDI out/MIDI clock out | ||
| File compatibility | ||
| Reason | ||
| Reason Essentials | ||
| Reason Adapted | ||
| Reason Limited | ||
| Record |
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Buy this upgrade if you already own Reason 1 - 8, Record or Balance with Reason Essentials.
Buy this upgrade if you own Reason Adapted, Reason Limited, or Reason Essentials (without Balance).
Reason is also available from your local music dealer through our worldwide network of distributors.
Find a dealerEducational versions of Reason come in single and multi user packs, for use on a single computer or on any computer on the school’s network. Multi license packs can be combined for the number of simultaneous students you need to provide for. Read more about Reason for Schools.
If you already have educational versions of Reason and/or Record you are eligible for our upgrade license packs.
Simply use the table below to determine what you have, what you want, and what you need.
| What you have | What you want | What you need |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing | Single license for a teacher | Reason Student/Teacher |
| Reason on multiple computers | A Reason Education 5 or 10 pack, for use with network authorization. Packages can be combined for additional seats. | |
| One or more Reason five or ten user packs | Reason 9* | The equivalent number of Reason Education Upgrade five or ten packs. Please note that this require the computers to be networked. |
* The new Rack Extension technology, introduced in version 6.5 of Reason, is not compatible with multi licenses, and can only be purchased and used if you have one single-user license registered to a Propellerhead user account. Students and Teachers who have a Student/Teacher version of Reason can upgrade to the latest version of Reason with the regular Reason Upgrade to purchase and use Rack Extensions.
Educational licenses of Reason and ReCycle are available through many of the same places our retail versions are sold around the world. To help ensure you get the correct combination of licenses for your school and the right version of new or upgrade packages, our local distributor in your area will best be able to help you.
