Reason 6 is a virtual rack studio with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. With a vast sound library and an intuitive creative workflow, Reason helps you throughout the entire process.
Visit any professional recording studio and you will see racks packed with different tools used in music production, from reverbs to compressors, vocoders, synthesizers, distortions, and parametric EQs. The rack is the creative heart of a studio. The same is true in Reason. The appearance and operation are exactly the same as their hardware counterparts, and they sound just as good. Unlike in a real studio, if you need another synth or an additional compressor, you can simply create it and insert it into your new rack.
Reason 6 has an MSRP of €344 + VAT.
What's new in Reason 6?
If you already used previous versions of Reason, get ready for Reason 6. With audio tracks in the sequencer, time stretching, and audio transposition, you will be able to carry out your entire production within Reason's creative environment. Along with the Neptune pitch corrector, Line 6's modeled amplifiers, and the instrument toolbox represented by ID-8, you have some very serious tools for music creation and production at your fingertips.
Three new creative effects (Pulveriser, Alligator, and The Echo) have also been added, the sound libraries expanded, and support for 64-bit operating systems added. Reason 6 is a massive step forward for your rack.
Studio-quality mixing
The fully equipped mixing console adds a signal chain for all your sound sources. Each audio track or instrument has its own full channel (the EQ, dynamics, and advanced routing incorporated into each channel will give you the sound of a professional console. The "radio-ready" master bus compressor adds that extra punch to your mixes.
Pulveriser adds crunchy compression, dirty distortion, and a multimode filter along with flexible modulation in a unique effect to make your sound crunch.
The Echo is an advanced stereo delay that offers the brightness of modern delays along with the organic sound of analog circuits and vintage tape machines. The Echo is the combination of a stereo delay unit, a sound sculpting tool, and an effect designed for real-time manipulation during live performances.
Alligator is a three-band pattern-based gate effect that turns ethereal pads into rhythmic textures and allows you to radically alter them, adding more interest to your loops and rhythms.
Another new feature in Reason is the pitch correction and vocal synthesizer tool Neptune. Neptune makes your performances perfect in an instant. Simply play your new melodies from your MIDI keyboard to add new backing vocals.
Audio recording
Capture your ideas with the minimum number of mouse clicks and menu actions. Reason 6 adds unlimited audio tracks. The only limit is your computer's power.
Time Stretching and Audio Transposition
With the new non-destructive time stretching, you can now record first and correct your tempo later. With the new Audio Transpose, you can transpose audio however you want. Change the tempo of your song and the audio will follow the change immediately. Change the pitch of your tracks non-destructively with just one mouse click.
Recording meter
The long recording meter allows you to tune your guitar and adjust the input signal levels.