Product Description

Reason Premium Edition gives you the award-winning Reason version 4 together with the four Hypersampled ReFills. All at a great price.

The box contains Reason version 4 and the four Propellerhead Hypersampled ReFill sound libraries:

- Reason Drum Kits 2
- Reason Pianos
- Abbey Road Keyboards
- Reason Electric Bass

Reason Premium Edition includes seven DVDs. All four ReFills come in both 16 and 24 bit versions.

Reason has reached the next level. Stronger, swifter and smoother to work with, Reason 4 will alter the way you create your music. Reason's new devices and features will not only inspire you to produce great tracks, they will provide you with new ways of doing so.

Highlights in Reason 4:

Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
Thor is a semi modular synth with interchangeable oscillators and filters. With its six oscillator types, four filter types and endless modulation possibilities, this synth comes with a sound like nothing else on the planet.

RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
A powerful arpeggiator with multiple play modes, pattern function and much more.

ReGroove Mixer
ReGroove mixing is a way to work creatively with grooves, timing and feel in real time. Hands-on access to 32 channels of groove parameters will make this an essential tool for any musician who is serious about their beats programming.
The New Reason Sequencer
With a whole new look, a ton of fresh features and a completely new way of handling sequencer data, the Reason sequencer still offers the streamlined workflow Reason is famous for, but with a new level of sophistication.

About Reason
Reason comes in the shape of a classic studio rack, packed with all the gear you could possibly need: Samplers, Analog synths, Graintable synth, Vocoder, Mixer, Step time drum machine, Arpeggiator, Compressors, EQ and Effects - as many of each as your computer can handle.
A realtime multi-track sequencer provides full control over every detail, letting you create and edit your music quickly and intuitively. Reason is an all-in-one music production environment, complete with a massive soundbank containing sounds, loops and patches for all possible styles of music.

Sounding good has never been this easy
Whether you're a big time producer or a bedroom DJ, a pro musician or an absolute beginner, this application provides all the necessary tools for you to create, edit and mix the music of your choice, all within the comfort of your own computer.

Sound Modules in Reason:
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer

NN19 basic sampler

NN-XT advanced sampler

Malstrom granular synthesizer

Dr. Rex loop player

Redrum pattern-based drum machine

Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer

Combinator unit for building chains of instruments, effects and pattern sequencers.

Effects units
RV-7 digital reverb

DDL-1 digital delay line

D-11 foldback distortion

ECF-42 envelope-controlled filter

DF-101 chorus/flanger

PH-90 phaser

COMP-01 compressor

PEQ2 2-band EQ

RV7000 advanced reverb

Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit

BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization

UN16 unison

Sequencer, Mixer and Utility modules
RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator

ReGroove Mixer realtime groove console

Matrix pattern-based sequencer

Fully featured high precision multitrack sequencer

14 x 2 mixer w/ EQ and effects send/return

6:2 channel stereo line mixer.

Spider Audio Merger & Splitter

Spider Control Voltage Merger & Splitter

Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces

Enhanced browser for searching, previewing and loading sounds and patches

Mastering Tools
4-band, professional level mastering EQ

Stereo imager control with independent high and low band control

Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out

Loudness maximizer with switchable look-ahead and soft clip controls.

Hypersampled Drum Kits for Reason
The Reason Drum Kits 2 ReFill is an extensive DVD-ROM library of life-like, multisampled drum kits for Reason's extraordinary Combinator device. Drum Kits 2 is more than just a set of professionally recorded drum kits mapped out across your MIDI keyboard - it's a live drum recording session in a Refill. Reason Drum Kits 2 captures every aspect of the included kits: the drums themselves, the room surrounding them, the drummer, the unique sound of the mics and outboard used in the recording, the works. Reason Drum Kits features 58 unique Combinator kits styled for Vintage Soul, Indie-type Pop and Hard Rock, plus 96 additional ReDrum sets and an insane amount of inspirational MIDI files, effect patches and style templates.

Hypersampled Production Pianos for Reason
Reason Pianos is the perfect piano package: 3 stunning sounding, highly realistic pianos for Reason's Combinator. Reason Pianos were recorded from multiple angles, using 6 different sets of microphones. Why Because there's no one way to record a piano.

The Reason Pianos ReFill gives you three amazing-sounding Hypersampled acoustic pianos with the kind of presence and playability you normally wouldn't associate with sampled pianos. Until now. Where other piano libraries leave you with a fixed piano sound that may or may not suit your project, Reason Pianos does just the opposite: these pianos were recorded using multiple microphones, leaving the mixing and shaping of your piano sound to you. You create piano sounds that suit your mix, not the other way around. A large selection of Combinator presets ranging from basic microphone setups to wide multi-mic patches guarantees you absolute sonic control. There's no one way to record a piano. And, there's no one way to mix one.

Hypersampled Electric Bass for Reason
The Propellerhead Reason Electric Bass ReFill puts eight fully playable electric bass guitars into your Reason rack. Featuring selectable basses and bass rigs plus a wide selection of music style patches, this ReFill lets you add dynamic, natural sounding bass lines to your productions. All instruments in the Reason Electric Basses ReFill were recorded using multiple microphones and dedicated bass amp setups, giving you full control of your overall bass sound. Based on note for note Hypersampling, these basses come complete with bends, glissandos and fret noises, making them very responsive, and very much alive.

Hypersampled Abbey Road Keyboards for Reason
The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill brings the sound of legendary Abbey Road Studios into your Reason rack. Recorded on location using Abbey Road's recording rooms and vintage equpiment, this ReFill gives you access to seven time-honored Abbey Road instruments - these are the keyboards heard on all those immortal Abbey Road recordings.

The Abbey Road Keyboards were recorded using the original mics, outboard and vintage mixing desk from Abbey Road's Studio Two, recreating not only the sound of the instruments themselves, but the very signal paths, technology and recording techniques that is the Abbey Road sound. Each instrument was captured using multiple microphones placed at different locations in Studio Two's beautiful sounding recording space, allowing for full ambience control in Reason. zZounds is an authorized dealer of Propellerhead products.

System Requirements

Windows
Windows XP SP2, Vista or Windows 7

Processor: Intel P4 / AMD Athlon XP or better

Memory: 512 MB RAM minimum, 1 GB recommended

Screen resolution: 1024x768

2 GB free hard disk space

DVD reader

16-bit windows compatible audio card, preferably with DirectX or ASIO drivers

Recommended: MIDI keyboard with built-in MIDI interface, or MIDI keyboard and MIDI interface

Mac OS
Mac OS X 10.4

Processor: G4 1GHz and up or Intel Mac

Memory: 512 MB RAM minimum, 1 GB recommended

Screen resolution: 1024x768

2 GB free hard disk space

DVD reader

Recommended: MIDI keyboard with built-in MIDI interface, or MIDI keyboard and MIDI interface

Hypersample Refills
Require more than 2GB of hard drive space if all installed.