Reason 12 is a powerful digital audio workstation that is guaranteed to grow with you. The legendary digital audio workstation gives you everything you need to make amazing songs. From start to finish – Reason 12 is your songwriting and music production companion. Reason 12 includes a range of improvements and upgrades as well as the all new Mimic Creative Sampler. Guiding you through – from song conception to the final master. Reason 12 handles all the steps in between beautiful. Create compose mix and finish with the professional polish youd expect from this venerable music software. With the capability to work as standalone DAW or as a plugin in your preferred DAW – Even if youre used to a specific workflow theres no Reason to not upgrade. Enjoy crisp high-resolution graphics complete with scalable windows so you can optimise the way Reason looks. The new and improved Combinator is a new beast entirely providing new and powerful ways to create sounds as well as the ability use a Combinator within another Combinator. The possibilities are endless! Please Note: This product comes in the form of a digital download code that will be sent to your email for activation. This version of Reason 12 is for academic purposes only reflective of the discounted price. What’s new in Reason 12 With the release of Reason 12 the digital audio workstation has been revamped and optimised with high-resolution graphics new rack devices and an improved workflow. One of the most prominent new additions to the software is the Mimic Creative Sampler rack device. This cutting-edge sampler takes the labour out of slicing sounds allowing to focus on building new arrangements and patterns. Utilising automatic transient slice detection the Mimic Sampler can detect and slice sounds for you eliminating the need to cut your sample manually. Whether you’re re-arranging samples for a hip-hop record or chopping drum breaks for your next song the Mimic makes the whole process a breeze! New and improved Combinator The Combinator has been upgraded now with an increased focus on sound design capabilities. The Combinator allows you to combine instruments effects and other devices to create powerful ensemble sounds complete with a new in-depth Editor so you can create your own custom front panels including all knobs buttons faders and graphics. You can now also create Combinators with existing Combinators essentially creating a never-ending ensemble for more creative sound design options. Glorious high-resolution graphics with scalable windows Improved for the modern era Reason 12 now features full high-resolution graphics complete with scalable windows optimising the GUI for added flexibility. Each Reason Rack device has been upgraded with crisp new graphics. The DAW will also scale automatically to fit within your monitor’s resolution for an optimised user experience. Revamped workflow Take control over your music with the rack. The rack is the beating heart of Reason 12. As you write your song the rack grows with it. As you add more instruments and effects to the rack. Open and close instruments easily and its all routed for you – so when you add more and more instruments and effects you can be sure that it wont mess up your project. If you want to change any of the routings over the instruments then the rack can be flipped so you can edit it manually. This versatility sets Reason 12 ahead of the competition. Incredible instruments included The ideas in your head but you need the tools to get recorded. This is where Reason 12s massive selection of instruments comes in. Create searing leads with the Europa synthesizer or delve deeper with the semi-modular Thor synthesizer. Create amazing beats with Kong – Reasons bespoke drum machine. Get the perfect sound with a range of effects From warming up a synth using a saturator to blasting your beats with pure distortion – the effects on show with Reason will give your sounds the edge they need to stand out. These effects include (but are not limited to): The RV7000 MkII reverb which provides a range of different impulse response models the Echo which brings the accuracy and perfection of digital delay in an easy to use package and Pulveriser Demolition which is filter/distortion/modulation tool that does to sounds exactly what its name suggests. If youre after tools that perfect your songs then the MClass Mastering Suite provides you with everything to bring out the utmost quality in your music. Plays well with others If youre already ingrained in another DAW system but you want to utilise all of Reasons amazing instruments and tools. Then youll be pleased to know that it can all be used as a plug-in with any other DAW. Just load it up and loop with Dr Octo Rex in Ableton Live or play realistic pianos with Radical Piano in Reaper. Reason works anywhere – making it your go-to tool for music production – wherever you make music. Features Instruments Mimic Creative Sampler Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer Grain Sample Manipulator Klang Tuned Percussion Pangea World Instrument Humana Vocal Ensemble Radical Piano Monotone Bass Synthesizer Rytmik Drum Machine Kong Drum Designer Thor Polysonic Synthesizer NN19 Sampler NN-XT Advanced Sampler Malström Graintable Synthesizer Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player Redrum Drum Computer Subtractor Analog Synthesizer ID-8 Instrument Device Effects Quartet Chorus Ensemble Sweeper Modulation Effect Master Bus Compressor Channel Dynamics Channel EQ RV7000 MkII Reverb The Echo Softube Amp Softube Bass Amp Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit Alligator Triple Filtered Gate Pulveriser Demolition Synchronous Effects Modulator Neptune Pitch Adjuster BV512 Vocoder Audiomatic Retro Transformer MClass Equalizer MClass Stereo Imager MClass Compressor MClass Maximizer RV-7 Digital Reverb DDL-1 Digital Delay Line D-11 Foldback Distortion ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter CF-101 Chorus/Flanger PH-90 Phaser COMP-01 Compressor/Limiter PEQ-2 Two Band Parametric EQ UN-16 Unison Player MIDI effects and utility devices Scales & Chords Dual Arpeggio Note Echo RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator Matrix Pattern Sequencer Pulsar Dual LFO Mixer 14:2 Line Mixer 6:2 Spider Audio Merger & Splitter Spider CV Merger & Splitter Combinator General Huge sound banks with more than 29000 device patches loops and samples VST and AAX plugin support: add any instrument or effect plugin to Reason’s rack now available in Pro Tools Delay compensation makes all signal paths play in perfect phase-locked sync Opens songs and synth patches made in Reason Compact – the free pocket music studio for iOS Rack Extensions lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Reason Studios and 3rd party developers Support for Ableton Link: effortlessly sync Reason and other link enabled apps over WiFi 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 MIDI instrument output—control synths samplers and keyboards from Reasons 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 Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces 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 Self-contained song files make moving projects between computers and collaborator as easy as moving a single file Advanced modelled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console Specifications MacOS: Fast stable internet connection for installation and registration Intel Mac with multi-core processor 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions) 5.5 GB free system disk space required plus 20 GB for optional content. Additionally program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space and additional space for cached graphical assets macOS 10.13 or later (64-bit) Monitor with at least 1280×768 resolution CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended For using Reason as a VST Plugin a DAW host with VST3 support is required Windows: Fast stable internet connection for installation and registration Intel or AMD multi-core processor 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions) 5.5 GB free system disk space required plus 20 GB for optional content. Additionally program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space and additional space for cached graphical assets Windows 10 or later (64-bit) Monitor with at least 1280×768 resolution Audio Interface with ASIO driver MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended For using Reason as a VST Plugin a DAW host with VST3 support is required Other Product Code: 109715723