Propellerhead Reason Essentials Upgrade

Manufacturer: Propellerhead
Product type: Music production software
Cat no: PRO 0079  

• Mix in studio grade quality: every audio and instruments track has its own channel strip, the built-in EQ, dynamics
• Pulveriser: crunchy compression, dirty distortion
• The Echo: advanced stereo echo, modern delays with the organic sounds
• Alligator: 3-band pattern-based gate effect
• Neptune: pitch correction and voice synth device
• Audio recording
• Time stretch & audio transpose
• Recording meter
• Line 6 guitar and bass amps
• Comp editor
• Expert exporting
• Expanded factory sound bank
• High definition audio transpose
• Better ReWire handling through individual outs on every channel
• The Reason's new self-contained song file format

Highest bit rate	64bit
System requirements PC	Windows XP SP3/Vista/Windows 7, 3 GB free hard disk
System requirements Mac	Mac OS X 05.5.8 or later, 3 GB free hard disk

***Upgrade to Reason 6 for owners of Reason Essentials, Reason Limited or Reason Adapted***

Reason is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music.

Walk into any professional recording studio and you will see racks filled to the brim with different tools used in music production from reverb to compressors, vocoders, synths, distortion units, and parametric EQs. The studio's rack is the heart of its creative factory. Reason is no different. That is why Propellerhead have outfitted your computer with a virtual rack filled with all the same gear. They look and function exactly like their hardware cousins. Even better, they sound just as good too.

Unlike a real studio, however, if you want another synth or an extra compressor you can create one from a menu rather than taking that second job or signing up for those experimental clinical drug trials. When you're ready for more, expand your studio with Rack Extension instruments and effects.

With a combination of powerful music production, and audio recording and editing features, the Reason 6 from Propellerhead has fast become the worlds most popular music creation software for producers across the board, from beginners to pro. Combining all the features from Record, version 6 adds audio recording and editing into the Reason, along with Propellerhead's acclaimed mixing console with masterfully modelled EQ and dynamics on every channel, multiple parallel racks, all the effects you know and love plus new ones to fall in love with, and much more of what you've always wanted in Reason. The fully equipped mixing desk adds a big studio signal chain to all your sound sources. Every audio and instruments track has its own channel strip, the built-in EQ, dynamics and advanced routing will give your music that unmistakable million-dollar console sound.

The radio ready master bus compressor gives your mixes that extra punch. Pulveriser puts crunchy compression, dirty distortion, a multimode filter and flexible modulation in a single, sound-crunching effect. The Echo is an advanced stereo echo bringing together the brilliance of modern delays with the organic sounds of analogue circuitry and old-school tape machines.

The Echo is equal parts pristine stereo delay, sound sculpturing toolbox, and playable performance effect. Alligator is a three band pattern-based gate effect that turns bland pads into rhythmic textures, radically twists your loops, and tweak boring beats into block rocking breaks. New in the Reason rack is the Neptune pitch correction and voice synth device.

Neptune turns your performances into pitch-perfect ones in no time. Simply play your new harmonies on your midi keyboard for instant backing vocals. Capture your ideas with a minimum of mouse clicks and menu actions, the version 6 introduces unlimited hard disk tracks and rock solid audio recording in the Reason.

With the now legendary non-destructive time stretch, you can actually record first and pick your tempo later. And with the brand new audio transpose you can even record first and change the key later. Change the tempo of your song, and the audio follows right along.

Non-destructively change the pitch with a mouse click. The large Recording Meter overlay lets you tune your guitar and set the levels from across the room. With the virtual guitar and bass Pods from amp and cab simulation experts Line 6, Inc.

You are never short of interesting tones and timbres. As a perfect performance may be less than perfect from scratch, the Reason 6 features the swift and easy to use comp editor. Building the ultimate vocal track is as simple as selecting the parts that work and muting the ones that don't.

Exit the comp editor and listen to the results; a perfect take containing only the good parts. Want to move your song over to your daw? In one single click, the Reason will export your separate mixer channels as individual audio stems, with or without effects. Need just the effects? No problem.

The included Factory Sound Bank has been expanded with thousands of new patches and loops for the Reason's instruments, and hundreds of patches for the new Pulveriser, The Echo and Alligator effects. Finding your sound has never been easier.