![]() This was going live as I was writing this so I couldn’t watch, but there was a QA video with the full team from Reason Studios.Īnyway, that’s what I know – weekly sound packs, a ton of access to add-on instruments and effects that you used to have to buy separately, and the upshot price winds up being a bit lower even for those who already own Reason (assuming you want those add-ons, that is). I’m a bit sorry that’s a standalone – a la Native Access from Native Instruments – rather than just built into Reason, but I’ll give it a try. Once you add the subscription, there’s a new app to download called Reason+ that manages devices and sound packs. This gives you another option to all the extras, even if I am sure Reason users will keep an eye on whether Reason includes stuff for free. I really loved that software and wanted to be able to recommend it because I thought folks would have fun with them, but knew its pricing in the past was prohibitively high for a lot of people. Even mighty Logic Pro doesn’t have quite this many instruments, effects, and compositional tools. I mean, just a couple of these to me already makes this worth the price of admission. And it includes Complex-1, the West Coast/Buchla-inspired modular. That includes Friktion, their beautiful physical modeling string instrument and the powerful sequencer Pattern Mutator (which sounds like an automatic generator but actually is really deep for performance and composition). ![]() That is really a big deal for our whole community and industry as it expands to other users.īut the reason I think this is a good deal is really down to the Reason Studios devices. That explains their slogan about making this your own, and at least from a marketing standpoint, it says that Reason Studios aren’t trying to make everyone sound the same. The patches and songs are interesting, because – since you have the full Reason – you’re free to edit and customize and patch as you wish, using these as a starting point. Weekly updates (they say they’re planning around 10 packs a week).The full version of Reason and Reason Rack plugin, always up to date.And it is a beautiful semi-modular synth – enough so that with a hard drive full of such software, I do like coming back to this one. So 20 bucks a months saves quickly if you have your eye on Reason Studio’s own in-house add-ons. Unless you already picked up the latest version and crossgraded to the Suite with all the extras (see comments), it’s worth a look if you want to upgrade and/or fill out your catalog of stuff.Īnd that remains an option – if you don’t like this model, the pricing for non-subscription licensing remains as before. ![]() That makes this big bundle of stuff run inside perennial favorites Ableton Live or Apple Logic Pro, or that other subscription-based DAW, Pro Tools).īut they’ve added a lot to sweeten the deal, making this even more inexpensive for your twenty bucks a month. That’s already saving you money off Reason itself, if you want upgrades regularly – enough so that it could also mean considering getting Reason Rack to run alongside your DAW of choice as a Mac or Windows AU/VST/AAX. I need to double-check details, but it seems the month-to-month is without a commitment. This probably makes Reason cheaper (depending on use case). That’s true of Reason itself, upgrades, and Rack Extensions and instruments and effects included here. Yes, you can still buy Reason a la carte. Quick answers: yes, cheaper (for most uses), and very possibly.
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