Propellerhead Reason 6.5 (Free Upgrade to Reason 7)

Full Description

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 and Record are no different. That is why we 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.

Reason 6 offers new creative effects designed for using directly with instruments or inserting into tracks include: Pulveriser, sound crushing effect with crunchy compression, dirty distortion and flexible modulation; The Echo, advanced stereo echo with modern delay and analog tape echo emulation; and Alligator, a three band pattern gate for complex rhythmic texturing. Interface enhancements, high definition audio transpose and true 64-bit compatibility highlight other new feature improvements.

If you've already got Reason version 1 to 5, get ready for Reason 6! With audio tracks in the sequencer, breathtaking time stretch, and audio transpose you'll be able to stay inside Reason's creative environment for your whole production. With the addition of the Neptune pitch corrector, Line 6 modeled amplifiers, and the ID-8 writer's toolbox of instruments, you'll have serious tools for serious production.

What's new to Reason 6:

Mix in studio grade quality

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

Pulveriser puts crunchy compression, dirty distortion, a multimode filter and flexible modulation in a single, sound-crunching effect.

The Echo

The Echo is an advanced stereo echo bringing together the brilliance of modern delays with the organic sounds of analog circuitry and old-school tape machines. The Echo is equal parts pristine stereo delay, sound sculpturing toolbox, and playable performance effect.

Alligator

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 blockrocking breaks.

Neptune

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.

Audio recording

Capture your ideas with a minimum of mouse clicks and menu actions - version 6 introduces unlimited hard disk tracks and rock solid audio recording in Reason.

Time stretch & audio transpose

With our 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.

Recording meter

The large Recording Meter overlay lets you tune your guitar and set the levels from across the room.

Line 6 guitar and bass amps

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.

Comp editor

As a perfect performance may be less than perfect from scratch, Reason 6 features our 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.

Expert exporting

Want to move your song over to your DAW? In one single click, Reason will export your separate mixer channels as individual audio stems, with or without effects. Need just the effects? No problem.

More sounds

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

System Requirements:

Mac OS X

• Intel Mac (multiple cores highly recommended)
• 1 GB RAM or more
• Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
• 3 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
• Monitor with 1024x768 resolution or larger
• A MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
• Internet connection for registration
• Free USB port for Ignition Key
• CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware

Windows:

• Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Opteron or better (multiple cores highly recommended)
• 1GB RAM
• Windows XP SP3, Vista or Windows 7 (Vista or Windows 7 required for 64-bit)
• 3 GB free hard disk space
• Monitor with 1024x768 resolution or larger
• A 16 bit Windows compatible audio card, preferably with an ASIO driver
• Internet connection for registration
• Free USB port for Ignition Key A MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended