The Essentials to Know About Reason 13 Software
- The iconic creative rack: chain instruments, effects, and utilities with free routing to sculpt unique sounds.
- Two uses, one license: work as a standalone DAW or insert the Reason Rack as a plug-in in your compatible sequencer.
- Fast and playful workflow: smooth navigation, drag-and-drop, and presets to go from idea to finished track in no time.
- Complete production: recording, sequencing, sound design, and mixing combined in a coherent environment.
What Reason Is For
Reason 13 is designed to compose, record, arrange, and mix in one space while offering a powerful virtual rack for sound design. Beatmaking, electronic, pop, hip-hop, scoring, or modular experimentation: it adapts to all aesthetics and integrates seamlessly into your studio setup.
Main Features
The Reason Rack, a Creativity Engine
Stack synths, samplers, effects, and utility modules, connect them freely, and explore new textures thanks to audio and CV/Gate routing. The "Combinator" allows you to create super-patches with macros and custom mappings for deep performance and automation.
Reason Rack as a Plug-in
Insert the rack directly into your DAW to enrich your sessions with Reason instruments and effects. Benefit from automation, instant patch recall, and a coherent workflow between your standalone projects and sequencer productions.
Sequencer, Recording, and Arrangement
Capture multitrack takes, perform precise comping, quantize and time-stretch audio and MIDI. Clip editing and detailed automation make building dynamic and clean arrangements easier.
Mixing and Finishing
The integrated console offers channel EQ, dynamics, and buses to shape your sound. Add reverbs, delays, distortions, filters, and creative processing to add character, then export a mix ready for mastering.
Technical Specifications
System Requirements
- Version: 13
- Software download
- License validity: unlimited
- Copy protection: online activation
- Simultaneous activation: 1
- Windows: from 10 (64-bit)
- Mac OS (64-bit): from 10.15
- Minimum CPU: multi-core
- Minimum RAM: 4 GB
- Minimum disk space: 30 GB
- Internet connection required for installation and activation
Supported Formats
- Standalone mode: full digital audio workstation
- Reason Rack plug-in: VST3 and AU
- 64-bit environments only
Features
- Multitrack audio recording, MIDI sequencer, and advanced automation
- Modular rack with instruments, effects, and utilities
- Combinator to create complex patches with macros
- Audio time-stretching and quantization
- Integrated mixing console with EQ, compression, and buses
- Preset navigation and drag-and-drop for fast workflow
Included Content
- Collection of native instruments and effects
- Ready-to-use patches, presets, and sound banks
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