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Specifications Propellerhead Reason 5 Upgrade

Reason is back — bigger and stronger than ever. Version 5 brings the mighty Kong Drum Designer, a much-improved REX loop player, a whole new way of sequencing, live sampling and much, much more.

Build and play your beats with Kong Drum Designer’s analog drum synths, samplers, rex loop players and physically modeled drums. Use Dr. Octo Rex to build arrangements with chord progressions, fills, and variations. Or use it for some advanced loop trickery.

Reason 5 introduces Blocks — a whole new way of building your songs. Blocks lets you create your songs using a pattern based approach. Use one block for the verse and one for the chorus — or build your song around an eight bar beat.

Re-explore the lost art of live sampling in the NN-XT, NN19, Redrum, and Kong. Tweak any sample in the new built-in editor. Make your songs self-contained by embedding samples and even ReFill sounds in your file. Collaboration just got even easier.

If you own both Reason and Record, this is the upgrade for you!

Details Propellerhead Reason 5 Upgrade

Kong Drum Designer
Analog synthesis, physical modeling, sampling, REX loops, support sound generators, effects, flexible routing, multiple hit types and more. The Kong Drum Designer is not your regular drum module. It’s the drum module focused on letting you get exactly that drum sound you’re after.
Kong has 16 pads and 16 drums. Build your drum sounds based on any of the nine different drum modules. Flavor the sound with 11 support generators and effects. Program automation, create alternating groups and let Reason’s powerful sequencer control the beat.

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
The upgraded Dr. Octo Rex loop player loads eight REX loops into one player and lets you switch between them on the fly. This makes arranging a breeze — load the drum loops into one player, the guitars into another and use the sequencer to select what loop to play in a pattern-like fashion.
For each of the eight loops, the new rex player also comes with an expanded set of per-slice settings. Set pan, pitch, filter frequency and level, reverse slices, use multiple outputs, create alternating groups of slices and much more.

The Reason 5 Factory Sound Bank comes complete with guitar and acoustic drums patches for Dr. Octo Rex and a huge selection of techno, house, club, hip hop and r&b loops from signature sound designers.

Blocks
Many musicians tend to think of music in terms like intro, verse, chorus, breakdown, buildup and so on. With the new Blocks mode in Reason 5 and Record 1.5, your sequencer does too.
Blocks lets you sequence your songs using a more pattern-based approach, with the segments of your song as individual building blocks to be laid out in your arrangement.

You never have to commit to using either mode — you are free to move back and forth between Blocks and Song mode, and any changes you make in your Blocks will instantly be manifested in all instances of that Block. Need some tambourine on that chorus? Add it, and there will be tambourine whenever the chorus block is playing.

Live Sampling
Remember the time when samples were something you sampled and not loaded from your hard drive? When a sampler was a machine that could record samples, not just play them back.
All sample players in Reason are now samplers. Just hook up a sound source to the rack’s sampling input and you are ready to start sampling. Use a mic, a turntable, an instrument or the entire Reason mix.

If needed, bring up the built-in sample editor to set start and end points, loop points and more. This is possible for all loaded samples by the way — not only the ones you have sampled.

This package contains:

Reason license (registered automatically)
Reason DVD
Reason What’s New manual
Welcome card
Reason sticker sheet