Reason

With Reason 7, users can integrate all their instruments into Reason with MIDI out, automatic audio slicing and audio quantize, and even convert their recordings into REX loops for further creative possibilities in the rack. For mixing, Propellerhead is introducing a spectrum analyzer with visual EQ controls; group and parallel mix channels; and many workflow improvements to help users sound better, easier. To inspire, Reason 7 makes it easier to import audio from users’ music libraries and the web with support for mp3, aac, wma and more. The enhanced Factory Sound Bank comes fully loaded with tons of new loops and drum kits, while the new Audiomatic Retro Transformer effect unit adds a futuristic-vintage sound to any tracks, never more than a mouse-click away.

With Reason 7, users can integrate all their instruments into Reason with MIDI out, automatic audio slicing and audio quantize, and even convert their recordings into REX loops for further creative possibilities in the rack. For mixing, Propellerhead is introducing a spectrum analyzer with visual EQ controls; group and parallel mix channels; and many workflow improvements to help users sound better, easier. To inspire, Reason 7 makes it easier to import audio from users’ music libraries and the web with support for mp3, aac, wma and more. The enhanced Factory Sound Bank comes fully loaded with tons of new loops and drum kits, while the new Audiomatic Retro Transformer effect unit adds a futuristic-vintage sound to any tracks, never more than a mouse-click away.

Fixed a problem related to scrollbars under Mac OS 10.8, where the program could crash.
Fixed a Create Menu bug, where sometimes the wrong device would be created.
Fixed a bug in how the Browser uses the registry under Windows. This could lead to situations where some file types couldn’t be browsed and loaded.
The Download All function for Rack Extensions could cause the Authorizer to misbehave or fail.

Authorizer now works properly under Windows 8.
Reason now works with AMD processors under Windows 8.
Fixed Combi patch backwards compatibility that was broken in 6.5.0 and 6.5.1.
Default browse locations now work as in Reason 6.0.2.
Rack Extensions now respond to sample rate changes in the ReWire host.
Dropped support for 22,050 Hz sample rate on playback and export.
Fixed crash bug when exporting song containing a placeholder device.
Stopping playback now cuts hanging notes in Rack Extension devices.
Fixed a bug that caused audio glitches in Neptune’s Live Mode.
Fixed resource/memory leak when browsing in locations with lots of items.
Fixed a bug in NN-XT when doing Set Root Notes From Pitch Detection.
Fixed a bug where bounced samples defaulted to 0% Loop.
Authorizer will no longer request downloading of license data when it’s not necessary.
Fixed some ReWire bugs.
Fixed a bug where the Master Section’s Insert FX would be moved when moving a connected device to another position in the rack.
Fixed some name label bugs in template songs.
Minor bug fixes.

Fixed a bug where resetting a Combinator containing more than one selected device caused a crash.

Fixed performance issues with Alligator on 32-bit Windows.

Fixed a bug where context clicking on mixer parameters did not work if the rear of the rack was in view.

Fixed a bug where under specific conditions a Rack Extension could cause a crash.

Minor Rack Extension hosting fixes.

Propellerhead today released new versions of their award-winning music making platform: Reason 6.5 and Reason Essentials 1.5. New in these versions is the introduction of Rack Extensions—a groundbreaking new technology from Propellerhead that opens up the rack to third parties, enabling developers to create their own instruments and effects for Reason and allowing users to expand their collection of instruments and effects with the Reason devices they want.

This version fixes the following issues:

Viewing the sequencer area by pressing F7 would always reset keyboard focus to the track list, with confusing results. Now the keyboard focus setting is properly remembered.
If you changed settings in the Tool window when there was no open song document, the program could crash.
The output of the RV-7 "Large Hall" algorithm was in mono.
Copy command (Copy to clipboard) could cause an "Unknown Exception" error message.
A few remote codecs (including Behringer BCR/BCF, Korg Kontrol49 and mikroKontrol) were not properly replaced when Reason 6 was installed over an existing Reason 5 installation, which made them stop working under Windows 64. Now they are replaced by the new version at installation.
Some audio hardware models (that worked fine in Record) stopped working with Reason 6 under Mac OS X.
If Reason received MIDI Clock while in ReWire mode, the program could crash.
With some HID devices (e.g. Tablet input devices of certain brands) connected, Reason couldn't launch properly.
Bounce Mixer Channels would cause Reason to hang if the program was in MIDI Clock Sync mode.
Using the Speaker tool repeatedly in the audio editor could occasionally make the program hang.
When the scratch disk became full, Reason 6 could crash.
Old non-unicode keyboard layouts (Mac only) could cause Reason 32-bit to crash at startup
On a Mac with a two-monitor setup and the SecondBar tool running, some actions could cause Reason to crash.
Loading samples, opening and saving songs could take a very long time in some situations.
General performance has been improved in many areas.
The Novation Automap Control remotemap has been updated
Remote support for Teenage Engineering OP-1 has been added.

In rare cases, the Save and Optimize could destroy the song file. This would happen if the operating system reported a problem to Reason at a bad (very specific) moment during save and optimize.
Using the context menu on text fields in the tool window that could cause a crash.
If some actions were performed in the browser while the name of a Favorite was being edited, this could cause a crash.
Tempo map information embedded in audio files within ReFills couldn't be read properly. Now it can.
The program now includes Line 6 TWXY 5.26.0. This allows access to computer authorized Line 6 models in Reason and makes the program compatible with Pod Farm 2.5.
Zooming with the scroll wheel has been made smoother.
The vertical navigator in the mixer did not reappear correctly (after being automatically hidden).
The previous version accidentally included a beta version of ReWire. Now, the deployment version is included instead.
Removed some misplaced text from the context menu in mixer (when running the program in French).

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.

* The handling of bad sound drivers has been improved, lessening the risk of a crash due to faulty drivers.
* Added Remote support for M-Audio Oxygen 88.
* Added localized help and documentation in German, Japanese and French. Note: The localized help and documentation files are automatically included when Reason or Record are installed from the DVD. When downloading Reason or Record, you need to download and install localized help and documentation separately.
* During certain circumstances, if a MIDI control surface was locked to a device and the user deleted any device from that song, the program could crash. This would happen if there was another song open and that song was playing back in the background.
* The "Arpeggio Notes to Track" function on the RPG-8 could cause the program to crash if some of the RPG-8 parameters had been automated.
* Saving a patch could in rare cases cause the program to crash. This happened if the user loaded a patch from a folder containing a huge number of patches, then moved the patch file to another folder and finally attempted to resave the patch by Alt-clicking the Save Patch button on the device.
* In some cases, after copying and pasting a sample-based device from one song to another, the pasted device could refer to the wrong samples if the samples were self-contained.
* Cable drawing has been slightly improved.
* Thor's step sequencer in random mode triggered two voices. This could happen when the "Step" run mode was selected and the direction was set to "Random".
* The program will occasionally check the available hard disk space. On some systems, these checks could make the user interface temporarily unresponsive.
* Duplicating devices a large number of times could cause a graphical bug in the rack.
* A number of localized (translated) text strings were cut off.
* Voice handling for the NN-XT has been optimized slightly.
* Dr. OctoRex slice numbers were not shown correctly in Edit mode when using the application in German.
* If a song used SoundFonts under Windows Vista or Windows 7, the program could store the wrong path to the referenced samples. As a result, there would be missing sounds next time the song was opened.
* Switching from MIDI sync to internal sync could result in an "Unknown Exception" alert.
* The program could become very unresponsive when working with songs with a large number of self-contained samples.
* Songs or combi patches could load with incorrect settings. This happened if a Combi rotary or button had been programmed to control a certain device parameter, and this parameter had been changed "manually" so that its state conflicted with the Combi rotary/button. After saving and loading, the setting of the device parameter was reset to match the Combi settings.
* When stopping after recording in ReWire mode, the program could freeze for a few seconds.
* Updated some Japanese translations.
* The program could assert when changing to virtual MIDI input settings.
* Kong's Nurse Rex in Slice Trig mode within a Mute Group would not mute the voice when another pad was triggered.
* A crash could be caused by dragging one or more half width devices and hovering over a Disk Channel device that doesn't show inserts.
* The function of bouncing several audio clips to new samples or to a new recording could take longer than expected.
* The remote override mode was not completely blocked while the program tried to quit.
* Muted audio clips in Blocks while adjusting the Block Clip offset could look a bit peculiar.
* Sample Editor now handles samples with a sampling frequency below 8000 HZ correctly.
* Names of Mix Channels could become blank in certain cases.
* Bug in the Mix/Disk-channel, which could occur whenever a device was added or removed in the combi of a channel device (insert effects). This bug might show itself by some short clicking sound, artifact or short freeze when adding or removing devices in a channel device. The Combinator was not affected, and also not the master section.
* There was a bug when the user tried to move the notes that were being recorded either by scaling the tempo in the tool window or nudging them with Ctrl-left/right.
* Handling of ReGrooved blocks has been improved.
* NN-Nano now uses High Quality Interpolation when pitching samples.
* Converting pattern automation to notes disregarded pattern offsets incorrectly.
* Automation of aftertouch, expression and breath are now smoothed in Thor.

Kong Drum Designer

GrooveBox avec 16 pads, 9 modules de batterie, synthèse analogique, modélisation physique, sampling, boucles REX, effets, routage flexible, banque sonore et kits de batterie intégrés.

Live Sampling

Tous les lecteurs de samples de Reason permettent maintenant d'enregistrer vos samples à la manière des sampleurs hardware. Editeur de samples avec détecteur de pitch et mappage automatique de zones pour créer des instruments multi-samples.

Neptune

ajusteur de pitch pour voix, transpositeur et harmoniseur

Blocks

Blocs de séquenceur regroupant les éléments d'un refrain, d'un couplet, d'une boucle de 8 mesures, etc. Toute modification sur un bloc affecte tous les blos identiques.

Dr. Octo Rex

chargement jusqu'à 8 boucles REX. Nouvelles fonctions

Autres nouveautés:

Automatic Self-Contain of Samples (incl from ReFills)
Record Notes on Multiple Tracks
Scale Clips by Resizing
Mute Tool
Set and move loop functions
Tap Tempo
Improved key commands for laptop use
Hierarchical menus in Combinator programmer
Additional CV inputs on Combinator
Updated Help system (incl Help on Mac)
Normalize and reverse audio clips
Bounce clip to sample

A maintenance update that resolves a few minor issues and, as a response to user feedback received for Reason version 4, brings some small workflow changing alterations.

Thor : Synthétiseur Polyphonique
RPG-8 : Arpégiateur Monophonique
Mixer ReGroove
Un Nouveau Séquenceur
Localisation en français, allemand et japonais
nouveaux patchs
fenêtre outils
mises à jour de Combinator et NN-XT

version compatible MacIntel

amélioration de performances ReWire

Correction de bugs concernant :

import MIDI

chargement de sessions anciennes

cross-browsing

gestion de notes combinées

icônes manquantes sous Tiger

support pour contrôleur sans fil Frontier Design Group TranzPort

support pour M-Audio Ozonic

contrôle possible de solo et mute pour chaque piste sélectionnée

nombreux bugs corrigés

RV7000 Advanced Reverb : Une réverbe stéréo disposant de nombreux algorythmes. Des grands halls aux réverbérations à ressorts .

- BV-512 Digital Vocoder : Un vocoder 4 à 512 bandes avec EQ.
- Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit : Une distorsion capable de toutes les destructions, d'une subtile bande magnétique aux gouffres digitaux.
- UN-16 Unison : Un chorus classique pour grossir et élargir le son, spécial synthés des années 80 !
- Spider Audio Merger & Splitter : Une petite boite à malice pour les furieux des parcours de l'audio, des routing avancés bien plus faciles.
- Spider CV Merger & Splitter : Un utilitaire de routing pour expérimenter sur le CV/gate pour explorer des chemin impossible auparavant dans Reason.

RV7000 Advanced Reverb : Une réverbe stéréo disposant de nombreux algorythmes. Des grands halls aux réverbérations à ressorts .

- BV-512 Digital Vocoder : Un vocoder 4 à 512 bandes avec EQ.
- Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit : Une distorsion capable de toutes les destructions, d'une subtile bande magnétique aux gouffres digitaux.
- UN-16 Unison : Un chorus classique pour grossir et élargir le son, spécial synthés des années 80 !
- Spider Audio Merger & Splitter : Une petite boite à malice pour les furieux des parcours de l'audio, des routing avancés bien plus faciles.
- Spider CV Merger & Splitter : Un utilitaire de routing pour expérimenter sur le CV/gate pour explorer des chemin impossible auparavant dans Reason.