Propellerhead
Reason 6.5 Music Production Software takes a giant step forward with the addition of Rack Extensions! In addition to all the great features like high quality recording and a huge variety of instrument patches you’ve grown to know and love with Reason, this incredible addition in 6.5 opens up the Reason rack to third party developers. This means you have the ability to load any Rack Extension into Combinators, route cables on the back, automate all parameters, and experiment with the safety of undo.
Browse all Rack Extensions in the Propellerhead Shop and even download fully functional trial versions to load into your rack. Every Rack Extension you have purchased can be downloaded as many times as you need – for both Mac and Windows – and the latest version is never more than a click away. Along with third party developers, Propellerhead Software is also releasing their own Rack Extension devices for Reason 6.5!
Propellerhead Reason 6.5 Music Production Software Features
- New in this version, Rack Extensions opens up Reason rack to 3rd party developers so you can tweak, route cables, automate parameters and much more
- Test and download Rack Extensions in the Propellerhead Shop so you can find the exact piece you need
- Unlimited hard disk tracks and rock solid audio recording
- Comes loaded with 4,000 instrument patches, over 1,000 mixing/mastering effects and nearly 3,000 loops
- Vast MIDI implementation
Record
Reason 6.5 software offers the great recording capabilities in 6 so you’re always ready to capture your creativity when it strikes. Created with musicians in mind, Reason 6.5 software lets you create record ready channels in an instant, minimizing the steps between idea and actual recording. The result equals more music - and less dialog boxes. Simply plug in, breathe out and you're ready to go.
Break down
Reason doesn't just come with great devices capable of creating any sound you can imagine. It also comes stocked full with thousands of patches, presets, and loops to get you inspired and started. Over 4,000 instrument patches, 1,000+ mixing/mastering effects, and nearly 3,000 loops... it's enough to satisfy even the most eclectic tastes. For those who like to keep score at home, here's a breakdown of the factory sound bank content which has been expanded in Reason 6.
Comp editor
As a perfect performance may be less than perfect from scratch, Reason features a 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.
Time stretch
With Propellerhead's now legendary non-destructive time stretch, you can actually record first and pick your tempo later. Reason has a unique twist on the concept of time and tempo. Change the song tempo and all your audio tracks will follow right along without any need for pre-processing of any kind. Need to slow your song down to nail a tricky passage? Just reduce the tempo, record your performance and bring the tempo back up.
Audio transpose
Non-destructively change the pitch of an audio recording with a mouse click. Just select the audio tracks, pitch it up or down a semitone, a whole not or even a whole octave. The choice is yours. All in great-sounding, real-time, of course.
Polar
Polar is an old school harmonizing and pitch-shifter effect with a host of modern tricks up its sleeves. Use it for classic harmonizing, stereo-widening, and realtime pitch-shifting, or experiment with buffer looping and audio freezing to create otherworldly effects.
Load up Polar in the rack, and it will instantly make your sounds wider. Introduce slight pitch-shifting to make it even bigger. Turn the Shifters to add harmonics — up to two octaves above — or radically change the pitch down to two octaves below. Finish up your patch by turning on the filter, manipulated by the built-in LFO and envelope.
Pulsar
Pulsar LGM-1 is a dual channel modulation powerhouse for the Reason rack. We call it an LFO—but it’s also a powerful little synth in its own right. For tweakers, Pulsar makes every single thing in the rack a little bit better. For back-of-the-rackophobes it comes with patches containing everything from lush evolving pads to the grittiest of wobble basses.
Need to add slow modulation to a filter, or alter the speed of a tremolo as you trigger new notes? Pulsar is up for any task. Turn up the Shuffle parameter to introduce some irregularity to your modulation. Smooth out sharp waveforms using Lag. Or go all-out bonkers and let LFO2 trigger the built-in envelope, set to change the rate of LFO2, and route the combined outputs of both LFOs to control the rate of LFO1.
Radical Piano
The premise is simple. The results are stunning. Reason 6.5 gives you three basic pianos paired with the technology to make an infinite number of your own. Based on a custom blend between sampling technology and physical modeling algorithms, Radical Piano affords songwriters, producers, and sound designers an unprecedented level of control to craft a realistic piano that is 100% unique.