Reason 11 Digital Audio Workstation

Whether you're just starting out on your musical journey, or are well on the way to finishing your next album, then Reason 11 Digital Audio Workstation could well be for you.

Make Music The Way You Want

Whether you want to use Reason 11 as a standalone, or as a rack plugin for your favourite DAW, its legendary power and collection of virtual instruments with help you turn good ideas into great music with ease.

Reason 11 Digital Audio Workstation Highlights

• Powerful virtual instrument rack plugin and music production software.
• 17 premium instruments
• 29 audio effects
• 11 MIDI effects and utilities
• Sound Bank with more than 29000 device patches, loops and samples.
• Use Reason the way you want: as an instrument and effect plugin in any DAW or as standalone production software.
• Fully equipped and ever expandable rack of instruments and effects.
• Easy to learn, yet as deep as you want to go. Reason has you covered, from your first steps in music making to full-blown productions.
• Easy and comprehensive sequencing, easy audio recording and a studio grade mixing console.
• Reason has everything you need to make music. When you feel the need, expand your music making with more sounds and plugins

Virtual Studio Rack

At the very heart of Reason 11 you'll find a virtual studio rack like no other. From synthetic and electronic, to acoustic and organic, Reason 11 covers all bases with its huge library of sounds, synths, instruments, and effects.

Building your rack has never been easier, as every aspect is automatically connected and routed for you. In addition to this, if you turn the rack around you'll find yourself at the gates of modular heaven.

Use these rear connector pannels to discover your perfect sound, or freely control the voltage  - your imagination is the only limit.

Packed with gigabyte's of synth sounds, sampled instruments, drum kits, loops, and effects, the sound bank on Reason 11 has everything you need to make any style of music.

Use As A Plugin

A new feature for Reason 11, you now get the opportunity to use all of its fantastic sounds an instruments within your favourite DAW.

You can stack or combine all of Reason's instruments and effects - just like with the DAW viersion - and even add Reason's Player MIDI FX units. If that's not enough, this Rack Plugin can also be expanded with exclusive Rack Extension plugins, allowing you to create the Rack of your dreams.

Use As A Standalone

If using Reason 11 as a plug-in isn't for you, then worry not: it's still one of the most powerful standalone virtual studios available on the market!

Recording

Make use of the awesome sequencer to capture/record your musical ideas, then edit the audio, MIDI, or automation with ease thanks to Reason's powerful array of recording and editing tools.

Mixing

Once your song has been finalised, the built-in mixer can give each of your tracks that big, studio sound right out of your PC.

This mixer is a faithful recreation of the legendary SSL 9000k analog mixing desk, and features all of the routing, dynamics, EQ, full automation, groups, and parallel channels, along with that famous master-bus compression.

Extending Your Rack

For more creative options, you can expand your virtual rack with a whole host of new, inspiring instruments and effects. You can makes use of Rack Extension plugins, or industry sandard VST's, directly affecting your track in the way you want.

Reason 11 Digital Audio Workstation Features

• VST plugin support: add any instrument or effect plugin to Reason’s rack
• 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
• Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
• Fully featured high-precision multitrack sequencer with Blocks mode and audio comping tools
• High quality realtime time stretch & audio transpose
• Pitch Edit mode for polishing your vocal recordings
• 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 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
• 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 modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel

Instruments

• Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
• Grain Sample Manipulator
• Klang Tuned Percussion Instrument
• Pangea World Instruments
• Humana Vocal Ensemble Instrument
• Radical Piano - advanced acoustic 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 pattern-based drum machine
• Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer
• ID-8 songwriter's toolbox

Effects

• Quartet Chorus Ensemble - new in Reason 11
• Sweeper Modulation Effect - new in Reason 11
• Master Bus Compressor - new in Reason 11
• Channel Dynamics - new in Reason 11
• Channel EQ - new in Reason 11
• RV7000 MkII advanced convolution reverb
• The Echo high quality delay & tape echo
• Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
• Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
• Alligator triple channel pattern based gate
• Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
• Synchronous Effects Modulator
• Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
• Audiomatic Retro Transformer
• MClass 4-band mastering EQ
• MClass Dual band stereo imager
• MClass Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
• MClass Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip
• 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
• BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
• UN16 unison

Player MIDI effects and utility devices

• Scales & Chords
• Dual Arpeggio
• Note Echo
• RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
• ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console
• Matrix pattern-based sequencer
• Pulsar Dual LFO
• 14:2 mixer w/ EQ and effects send/return
• 6:2 channel stereo line mixer
• Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
• Spider Control Voltage Merger & Splitter
• Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers

Sounds and patches

• Huge factory sound bank with more than 29000 device patches, loops and samples.

Reason 11 Digital Audio Workstation System Requirements

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)
• 4 GB free system disk space required, plus 8 GB for optional content. Additionally, program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space
• Mac OS X 10.11 or later (64-bit)
• Monitor with at least 1280x768 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)
• 4 GB free system disk space required, plus 8 GB for optional content. Additionally, program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space
• Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
• Monitor with at least 1280x768 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