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Propellerhead Reason 8 Upgrade Software

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Upgrade your workflow with Reason 8! The Browser interface lets you drag and drop software instruments, effects and patches right into the sequencer or rack.

Reason is the music-making software that helps you create and collaborate with musicians worldwide. It's easy to get started with, yet as deep as you want it to be. Version 8 introduces the new Propellerhead music making service that lets you share and collaborate with a global community of artists. Make music faster and easier than ever before with a new, sleeker interface and an even smoother creative flow. Drag and drop everything, everywhere. Find inspiring sounds instantly in the new, always accessible browser window. Go faster from good idea to great music than ever before. This is your Reason. This is Reason 8.

Reason 9 -- FREE update with your Reason 8 purchase!

Register Reason 8 to get a FREE Reason 9 download when it's released! You'll also get an immediate download of Reason 8.3, which includes the RV7000 mkII convolution reverb, browser window access from the sequencer/rack, and more updates.

Check out this 2-minute intro to Reason 8:


What You Get with the Reason 8 Upgrade:

- All 10 Reason instruments
- All 25 Reason effects
- Studio-grade mixer
- Unlimited audio tracks
- Support for Rack Extensions

Buy the "Upgrade from Any Previous Full Version" if you own any of the following products:

- Reason (full version 1 to 7.x)
- Reason Student/Teacher
- Balance with Reason Essentials

Buy the "Upgrade from Limited/Adapted/Essentials" if you own only:

- Reason Essentials
- Reason Limited
- Reason Adapted

What's new in Reason version 8?

read more Reason users have always praised Reason for its inspiring flow. More like a musical instrument than a spreadsheet, Reason's immediacy means less thinking about software and more happy experimentation with music and technology. Version 8 further strengthens this aspect of Reason. The radical redesign of Reason's user interface means you can work even faster than before and with even fewer obstacles to break your flow. The new browser is conveniently accessible from the sequencer or rack, so your full library of songs, sounds, samples and instruments are always within reach.

See how Reason 8 turns your 'workflow' into 'flow that works':


Drag and drop is now available throughout the Reason rack.

Create instruments by dragging a synth patch to the sequencer, drag samples directly to pads in Kong or create effects by dragging effect patches to the rack.

Get great guitar or bass tones with new amp and speaker models from Softube.

The two devices come with first class modeling of classic amplifiers and cabinets combined with a selection of great-sounding presets that will help you find the tone you are after.

Get inspired with the new RV7000 mkII convolution engine.

Access and audition a bank of expertly recorded reverbs and room feels at the touch of a button with the new RV7000 mkII convolution engine. It's the same reverb that you've come to know and love, just with a new host of features to inspire and facilitate new song ideas.

Collaborate online.

Access the Propellerhead music service -- the newest way to create, share and collaborate with musicians worldwide. Bridge the gap between mobile and studio by seamlessly moving ideas between Reason and the award-winning Figure and Take apps. Draw inspiration from a global community of artists and share your masterpiece with the world by dropping to Propellerhead.

Reason 8 packs a slew of small improvements to the workflow:

- Double-click to add notes and double-click notes to delete them.
- Auto-update helps keeping your Reason installation fresh.
- Hit the Z key to quickly zoom to and from your selection in the sequencer.
- Tracks are named after the patch you load and the name is the same across all views (Sequencer, Rack, Mixer).
- Nested Create menu makes finding your devices and Rack Extensions easier.
- More colors in the sequencer help you organize your arrangements.
- Plus many more!

Check out the Softube guitar and bass amp models included in Reason 8:


New to Reason? Learn how to make your first beat in this 5-minute video:


See Reason's workflow in action in this video from Propellerhead:


Features:

Included instruments:
- Kong drum designer
- Thor polysonic synthesizer
- NN19 sampler
- NN-XT advanced sampler
- Malstrom graintable synthesizer
- Dr. Octo Rex loop player
- Redrum pattern-based drum machine
- Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer
- ID-8 songwriter's toolbox
- Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers

Included effects:
- Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
- Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
- Alligator triple channel pattern based gate
- Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
- The Echo high quality stereo echo
- Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
- Audiomatic retro transformer
- Line 6 virtual guitar amplifier
- Line 6 virtual bass amplifier
- 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 mkII advanced reverb with convolution engine
- Scream 4 sound destruction Unit
- BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
- UN16 unison
- 4-band mastering EQ
- Dual band stereo imager
- Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
- Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip

Modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel:
- Gain
- 4-band EQ
- 8 send effects slots
- Insert effect slot
- Dynamics section with compressor and gate
- Lo-pass and hi-passfilter
- Spectrum analyzer
- Master compressor with sidechain input
- Group channels
- Parallel channels

Other features:
- Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
- Access to the new Propellerhead music making service
- Rack Extension technology lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects with the devices you want
- Comes with a huge factory sound bank, with patches for all Reason's devices, samples, and loops
- Fully featured high-precision multitrack sequencer with Blocks mode and audio comping tools
- High quality realtime time stretch & audio transpose
- Audio slicing and audio quantize -- correct the timing of your audio recordings
- Convert recorded or imported audio in the sequencer into REX loops for further sound manipulation
- Zoom to Selection for increased ease when navigating sessions
- MIDI Focus for setting instruments without going to the sequencer
- MIDI instrument output -- control synths, samplers and keyboards from Reason's sequencer
- MIDI clock output -- sync hardware to Reason
- Advanced exporting -- export your separate mixer channels as individual audio stems, including effects and tempo track
- Live sampling on all sampler devices
- RPG-8 monophonic arpeggiator
- ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console
- Matrix pattern-based sequencer
- 14:2 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
- ReWire support
- Supports all major file formats -- from wave and aiff to mp3 and more
- Realtime sample rate and bit depth conversion allows for importing any audio into Reason without issues
- Multicore support and 64-bit compatibility makes Reason fast and powerful on any computer

*All product names used are trademarks of their respective owners, and in no way constitutes an association or affiliation with Propellerhead Software. The SSL and/or Solid State Logic trademarks are solely used to identify the products whose sound was studied during Propellerhead Software's sound modeling development. The trademarks SSL and Solid State Logic are owned by Red Lion 49 Limited. Line 6, POD and TonePort are registered trademarks of Line 6, Inc. used under license. All rights reserved.
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System Requirements:

Mac OS X:
- Fast internet connection for installation and registration required!
- Intel Mac with dual core processor
- 4 GB RAM or more
- 3 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Mac OS X 10.7 or later
- Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
- CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware
- MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended

Windows:
- Fast internet connection for installation and registration required!
- Intel or AMD processor with dual cores
- 4 GB RAM or more
- 3 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Windows 7 or later
- Monitor with at least 2080x768 resolution
- Audio Interface with ASIO driver
- MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Web: https://help.reasonstudios.com/

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (1 ratings)
Submitted November 11, 2014 by Chris O in Wilsonville, OR

"A good upgrade from 6.5/7.1 and a GREAT upgrade from anything before"

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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New browser is great. Flat look is ok, but that seems to be the way things are going these days. It's Reason, so you know it is going to be rock solid. Kind of spendy if you are coming from a later release, as you are basically getting a new browser and some midi editing tools. But what can I say, I'm a Reason fan boy I guess. I've been loyal to the Propellerheads since version 2.

Musical Background:

Profesional

Musical Style:

A little bit of everything.
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