Propellerhead Reason 10 + Soundtoys 5 Ultimate Effect Rack

Propellerhead Reason 10 - The Biggest Update. Ever. + Soundtoys 5 - The Leading Effects Rack.

What it is:
An easy and fast music production software + The entire range of Soundtoys plugins in one powerful collection.

How we use it:
A virtual studio of synths, keys, and effects with unrivaled character and creativity.

Why it's cool:
Reason 10's intuitive interface and an ever expandable rack of instruments + Ease of use paired with phenomenal sound inspires experimentation and creativity with Soundtoys 5.Propellerhead Reason 10 | The Biggest Update. Ever + Soundtoys 5 | The Leading Effects Rack.

Propellerhead Reason 10
Reason is an integrated software music production studio with audio recording, million-dollar mixing, built-in collaboration tools and a massive collection of instruments, sounds and effects. It’s the perfect choice for writing recording, remixing and producing great-sounding tracks.

New sounds and new gear pave the way for new music, and Reason 10 is here with a rackload of new synths, instruments, samples and more. Grain and Europa: two massive, brand new synthesizers. Klang Tuned Percussion, Pangea World Instruments, Humana Vocal Ensemble: three new live-sounding organic instrument devices. Radical Piano: a top-notch acoustic piano. Synchronous: creative modulation device. Loop Supply and Drum Supply: a multi-gigabyte infusion of cutting-edge drum loops and samples.

Virtual Studio Rack

At the heart of Reason is a virtual rack that builds itself as you create your song. Fill your rack with as many devices as you need to get your sound. Reason’s legendary instruments and effects cover every need from acoustic and organic to electronic and synthetic.  

As you build your rack, everything is automatically connected and routed for you. If you want to dive deeper, turn Reason’s rack around and you’ll find yourself in cable heaven! Craft the sound you are after by routing audio and control voltage freely between devices in the rack. Your imagination is the only limitation to what you can build.

Recording

Capture your musical ideas in Reason’s powerful sequencer. Record and edit audio, MIDI or automation with powerful recording and editing tools. Quantize MIDI or audio to fix timing problems, or use ReGroove’s swing magic to breathe life into your sequences. Always in sync with your flow, forever adapting to you and your working methods, Reason's sequencer simply gets you there faster.

Record first and pick your tempo later with Reason’s renowned time stretch. And thanks to audio transpose you can even record first and change the key later. Fine tune your vocal performances to perfection with Pitch Edit. Non-destructively change the pitch, correct the timing of your audio recording with Slice Edit. Or rework, resample or reshape your recordings into something completely new.

Mixing

When finalizing your song, Reason's mixer gives your tracks that big studio sound right out of your computer. The Mixer is faithfully modeled after the legendary SSL 9000k*analog mixing desk, with flexible routing, full dynamics, EQ, full automation, groups and parallel channels, and its famous master-bus compression.  

Extending Your Rack

When you're looking for even more creative options, plugins come to the rescue. Expand your virtual rack with new, inspiring instruments and effects created by developers around the world—from modern effects to vintage instruments. Reason supports VST plugins and Reason’s own Rack Extension format. Rack Extensions are full Reason rack citizens, giving you the same fully integrated experience as when using any of the included synths, effects and utilities.

VST plugins are right at home in the Reason rack. Drag & Drop from the browser, use CV with your plugins, add Players, put them in Combinators with Reason’s own devices or Rack Extensions – all the things you expect when working in Reason!

Sounds

With a multi-gigabyte supply of synth sounds, sampled instruments, drum kits, loops and effects, tailored to fit a wide range of genres and styles, Reason's built-in sound bank is packed with everything you need to make music. The integrated, always open browser makes finding the right sound across a huge sample library a breeze. Want more? Expand your palette with a world of ReFill libraries—sound libraries custom-made for Reason.

Included instruments

• Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer - new in Reason 10!
  
• Grain Sample Manipulator - new in Reason 10!
  
• Klang Tuned Percussion Instrument - new in Reason 10!
  
• Pangea World Instruments - new in Reason 10!
  
• Humana Vocal Ensemble Instrument - new in Reason 10!
  
• Radical Piano - advanced acoustic piano - new in Reason 10!
  
• Kong Drum Designer
  
• Thor polysonic synthesizer
  
• NN19 sampler
  
• NN-XT advanced sampler
  
• Malström graintable synthesizer
  
• Dr. Octo Rex loop player
  
• Redrum pattern-based drum machine
  
• Subtractor analog subtractive synthesizer
  
• ID-8 songwriter's toolbox
  
• Combinator, for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers
  

Included Player devices

• Scales & Chords
  
• Dual Arpeggio
  
• Note Echo

Included effects

• Synchronous Effects Modulator - new in Reason 10!
  
• Softube Guitar amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
  
• Softube Bass amplifier with amp and cabinet modeling
  
• Alligator triple channel pattern based gate
  
• Pulveriser distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
  
• The Echo high quality stereo echo
  
• Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
  
• Audiomatic Retro Transformer
  
• RV-7 digital reverb
  
• DDL-1 digital delay line
  
• D-11 foldback distortion
  
• ECF-42 envelope-controlled filter
  
• DF-101 chorus/flanger
  
• PH-90 phaser
  
• COMP-01 compressor
  
• PEQ2 2-band EQ
  
• RV7000 MkII advanced convolution reverb
  
• Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
  
• BV512 vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
  
• UN16 unison
  
• 4-band mastering EQ
  
• Dual band stereo imager
  
• Stereo compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
  
• Maximizer with look-ahead and soft clip

Modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for every instrument and audio channel

• Gain
  
• 4-band EQ
  
• 8 Send effects slots
  
• Insert effect slot
  
• Dynamics section with compressor and gate
  
• Lo-pass and hi-passfilter
  
• Spectrum analyzer
  
• Master compressor with sidechain input
  
• Group channels
  
• Parallel channels

Other features

• VST plugin support: add any instrument or effect plugin to Reason’s rack.
  
• Delay compensation makes all signal paths play in perfect, phase-locked sync.
  
• Supports the Allihoopa music making and collaboration service, with access to an endless supply of inspiring user-created music, backing tracks and performances.
  
• Support for Ableton Link: effortlessly sync Reason and other link enabled apps over WiFi.
  
• Unlimited audio recording and instrument channels
  
• Rack Extensions lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects from Propellerhead and 3rd party developers
  
• Huge factory sound bank, with patches for all Reason's devices, samples, and loops
  
• Loop supply & Drum supply. 3GB of cutting-edge loops and samples - new in Reason 10!
  
• Fully featured high-precision multitrack sequencer with Blocks mode and audio comping tools
  
• High quality realtime time stretch & audio transpose
  
• Pitch Edit mode for polishing your vocal recordings
  
• Audio slicing and audio quantize—correct the timing of your audio recordings
  
• Convert recorded or imported audio in the sequencer into REX loops for further sound manipulation
  
• MIDI instrument output—control synths, samplers and keyboards from Reason's sequencer
  
• MIDI clock output—sync hardware to Reason
  
• Advanced exporting—export your separate mixer channels as individual audio stems, including effects and tempo track
  
• Live sampling on all Sampler devices
  
• RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator
  
• ReGroove Mixer real-time groove console
  
• Matrix pattern-based sequencer
  
• Pulsar Dual LFO
  
• 14:2 mixer w/ EQ and effects send/return
  
• 6:2 channel stereo line mixer
  
• Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
  
• Spider Control Voltage Merger & Splitter
  
• Remote mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
  
• ReWire support
  
• Supports all major file formats—from wave and aiff to mp3 and more
  
• Realtime sample rate and bit depth conversion allows for importing any audio into Reason without issues
  
• Multicore support and 64-bit compatibility makes Reason fast and powerful on any computer
  
• Self-contained song files make moving projects between computers and collaborator as easy as moving a single file.

Soundtoys 5 The Ultimate Effect Rack
Saturate, compress and distort with Decapitator, Radiator, and Devil-Loc. Get a virtual history of echo and delay hardware with EchoBoy and PrimalTap. Transform your vocals with Little AlterBoy. Recreate classic studio pitch, chorus and widening effects with Crystallizer and MicroShift. Take modulation to new levels with the beat-synced rhythmic effects of PanMan, Tremolator, FilterFreak, and PhaseMistress.

All of these individual elements are proven, powerful tools, trusted by professional mix engineers, musicians and sound designers everywhere. But combined in the new Soundtoys Effect Rack, they are indeed the ultimate effects collection.

The new Soundtoys Effect Rack is the centerpiece of Soundtoys 5. 
It turns a tried-and-true collection of powerful individual plug-ins into a virtually unlimited creative multi-effects system.

The Effect Rack makes it simple to build your own custom effect chains and define your signature sound. And when you’ve created the perfect combination of effects, the Rack’s global controls let you treat the whole rack as a single plug-in.

Lock rhythmic effects to a single tempo, or let them run free. Fine tune the input and output levels, and use the global mix control to blend your effect in with the dry signal. Then experiment with the powerful new global Recycle control. By mixing the output of the rack back into the input, you can build your own modulated reverbs, over-the-top delays and other unique ambience effects that would require complicated routing to accomplish in most DAWs.

Work Smarter.
The Effect Rack integrates all of the individual Soundtoys effects into a single plug-in, which improves workflow by displaying an entire custom effect processing chain at once. You won’t need to juggle multiple plug-in windows to adjust parameters, add new effects, or change their routing. The Effect Rack keeps everything right at your fingertips. Choose from our range of carefully-crafted presets to find the perfect jumping-off point. Or quickly design, save and recall combinations of your favorite Soundtoys effects—all in one self-contained plug-in.

You no longer need to use a hardware dongle. 
With computer-based authorization, free up precious USB ports for audio interfaces and MIDI controllers. Studio pros can still use Soundtoys 5 with their iLok USB keys to manage all of their plug-in licenses. All Soundtoys 5 plug-ins come with two activations. Use one at the studio, and the other on your home machine or laptop.
We pride ourselves on building simple, elegant effects that give you instant inspiration. 
But when you’re ready to go beyond the basics we also let you open the hood and get some grease on your hands.

Slide open an effect’s Tweak panel to access special circuit-level controls. 
Many Soundtoys effects offer special Tweak panels which expose deeper editing features. Here you can find advanced options for a plug-in, like a choice of saturation styles, fine control of an effect’s groove, or a selection of different delay algorithms. Our modulation effects offer powerful shape and rhythm editors here for creating complex motion. And in Soundtoys 5, we’ve redesigned our Tweak panels to make advanced controls easier to find and use.  The result: an incredibly customizable set of sonic tools that you’ll want to use on every project.

Effects that move to your rhythm. An LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) is at the heart of every modulation effect — it’s what gives tremolos, phasers, panners and sweeping filters their characteristic motion.

Our included library of LFO shapes goes far beyond standard modulation effects, giving you curves based on vintage modulation effects, amps and instruments as well as more abstract shapes. You can also draw and sculpt your own totally customized shapes using our Shape Editor. Use it to dream up new LFO shapes, from knife-edged waves to gently ebbing curves.

Our Rhythm Editor is like a rhythmic modulation sequencer. Choose a length (in bars) and the size of the steps you want to edit (sixteenth notes, eighth notes, quarter notes, etc), then start clicking to make a new pattern. You can turn individual steps on and off to create pauses or rests, and adjust the level and length of each step to humanize your pattern and give it some musical variation. You can even choose the number of beats per bar to create some funky syncopation or odd-time-signature grooves. Like our custom shapes, custom patterns are even swappable between plug-ins. And, of course, you can lock everything to the master tempo of the Soundtoys Effect Rack or your favorite DAW for solid, dead-simple synchronization.

We’ve spent the last decade creating one of the world’s greatest gear collections. 
We look to the past for inspiration. But we build each of our plug-ins to stand solidly on its own with features designed for modern studios. As a result, we’re happy to say that Soundtoys effects are used, trusted and recommended by professionals in all aspects of audio production. Now with Soundtoys 5 and the Effect Rack, we’ve brought all of these acclaimed effects together to see how much further they can go.

Compatibility

Reason 10 

Mac OS:

• Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration
  
• Intel Mac with multi-core processor
  
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large [ReFills] or [Rack Extensions])
  
• 4 GB free system disk space required, plus 8 GB for optional content. Additionally, program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space
  
• [Mac OS X] 10.7 or later (64-bit)
  
• Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
  
• [CoreAudio] compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware
  
• MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended

WIndows:

• Fast, stable internet connection for installation and registration
  
• Intel or AMD multi-core processor
  
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended for large ReFills or Rack Extensions)
  
• 4 GB free system disk space required, plus 8 GB for optional content. Additionally, program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space
  
• [Windows 7] or later (64-bit)
  
• Monitor with at least 1280x768 resolution
  
• Audio Interface with ASIO driver
  
• MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended

Soundtoys 5

Plug-in formats (both 32 and 64-bit):

• AAX Native, AAX AudioSuite, VST, and Audio Units (AU)

Supported sample rates:

• Minimum: 44.1 kHz, Maximum: 192 kHz

System requirements:

• Operating systems: Mac OS X 10.8 or later; Windows 7 or later
• An internet connection is required at the time of activation.

Supported host applications:

• Pro Tools (10.3.5 or later), Live, Cubase, Nuendo, Sonar, Logic, Digital Performer
• Click here to view our full list of compatible host applications.

Other requirements:

• iLok.com account (An iLok USB dongle is not required. Create a free account here)

Installation Instructions
Reason 10:

1. Create a Propellerhead account at https://www.propellerheads.se/account/signup
2. Run Reason 10.
3. The first time you run Reason 10 in Authorized mode you need to register your Reason 10 license on your Propellerhead user account and authorize your computer or Ignition Key hardware. To do this, just launch Reason 10, select "Register and Authorize" and follow the instructions.

Soundtoys 5:

1. Download the Soundtoys installer from your Soundtoys account.
2. If you already have an account go to: https://www.soundtoys.com/authorize/
   
3. Run the installer on your computer.
4. Open your host application (Pro Tools, Logic, etc.), which will scan your plug-ins and prompt you with an activation window.
5. Type in your iLok account user ID and password and follow the steps to complete the activation.
6. Make some music!

What's new?
What's new in Reason 10.1

• Reason 10.1 is a free update for all Reason 10 owners and will be available for free through Reason’s in-app auto update.
  
• 10.1 features sample loading in Reason’s flagship Europa synth which provides a powerful new way for creating stunning sounds while maintaining its easy-to-use interface.
  
• Reason 10.1 supports Rack Extension SDK 3, allowing developers to create new and better Rack Extensions, including Player devices.
  
• For a limited-time: Reason 10.1 owners also get the new Drum Sequencer for free! Offer ends May 31, 2018