Reason Tutorial: Bigger Beats
Reason was one of the first DAWs that made beat-creation really easy and integrated, with the now venerable ReDrum module turning a new generation of musicians on to the idea that you didn’t need complex plug-ins More...
Reason Tutorial: Bigger Beats Part 2
King Kong The Kong Drum Designer is really quite different, being more of a sound-design tool and less of an old-fashioned beatbox. A quick tour of the front panel will reveal that each of the 16 pads has More...
Propellerhead Reason 7 Review
When one of the world’s best loved DAWs gets an update we’re always excited to see what’s new. Hollin Jones lifts the lid on Reason 7 Reason is one of the most popular music-making applications around. For More...
Reason 7 and Reason 7 Essentials 2 Announced By Propellerhead
Propellerhead have just announced the release of the hotly anticipated Reason 7 and Reason 7 Essentials 2, ‘With over 90 third party Rack Extensions expanding Reason’s rack of instruments and effects already More...
Reason 6.5 Tutorial: Real Piano Sounds With Radical Piano
Until version 6.5, Reason didn’t support any kind of add-on instruments or effects, though you could load sounds from ReFills and even produce your own. And, of course, you could and still can ReWire into another More...
Reason Tutorial: Extreme Loop Processing Tricks
Reason has featured support for audio tracks since version 6, which means that as well as being able to import audio samples and loops to sample-playback modules, you are able to use drum loops in a more conventional More...
Reason Tutorial: 25 Pro-Tips
Quickly Create Automation Lanes Practically any parameter in Reason can be automated, but normally you have to start recording automation to activate an automation lane for that particular control. However, if More...
Reason 6.5 Review
For much of its life, Reason was quite unique in the music technology world. It was a MIDI sequencer that didn’t record audio and didn’t have native support for plug-ins but was nonetheless incredibly popular. More...
Reason 5 Tutorial: Making Beats with Kong Drum Designer
Propellerhead fans have always had access to some pretty impressive drum tech. Even the company’s very early creations – such as the now legendary ReBirth package – offered two classic hardware emulations More...
Reason 5 Tutorial: Kong Drum Designer – Part 1: The Basics
For many people, Reason was the first piece of software they used that made the laying down of rhythm tracks as easy and intuitive as it had seemed on classic drum machines. Of course, there were plug-ins More...
