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Reason 7

Today we’re going to pretend we can play music better than we actually can. ^link

Before the release of Propellerheads Reason 7, the opening of this video, demonstrating the new ‘audio quantize’ type features, made me smile… it begins with the line:

Today we’re going to pretend we can play music better than we actually can

A few weeks on from its arrival, and the 7.0.1 update is now available (update news via KVR – and let’s not forget the Reason Essentials equivalent v2.0.1).

I (Sam F) have had chance to play a bit with some of the new features and will talk about them in the show today…

… (update) Adam Jansch and I talked about:

• External MIDI – connect the Reason rack to outside world!
• Faders in the rack view of a mix/audio channel – the mute, solo, pan and level controls of the mixer strip are now mirrored on the rack.
• Spectrum analyser – a floating window that gives a frequency domain view of a track with an overlay option for editing the EQ curves of the channel.
• New stuff in in the sound banks
• Bus mixing of mixer channels gives new routing options (could also have mentioned the parallel processing options now available)
• Requires Win7 / OSX.7 or above

Would I recommend it?

Yes, it’s a lot of fun and super quick to get something musical going on; beyond that there are many ways in which one can go deeper into the program if you choose to. Having a play with Reason 7 in demo mode is definitely worth it – especially if you have external midi gear hanging around…

Making music with Reason 7 is seriously enjoyable, as long as you don’t take yourself too seriously.