Upgrade from Reason 1 - 12

Reason is more than just software—it’s both a powerful DAW and a versatile plugin. It’s the legendary Reason Rack, filled with unique devices, cables, and a workflow designed to bring your musical ideas to life from the very first note to the final master. Whether you’re wiring up instruments, layering effects, or shaping performances with Player MIDI tools, Reason puts your sound at the center of everything.

Version 13 takes your workflow to new heights. With an upgraded sequencer, a brand-new browser, five new devices, and an expanded sound library, making music in Reason has never been faster or more inspiring. The redesigned browser brings every patch, sample, and loop into one intuitive place. You can filter by name, type, category, or tag, or simply start typing to get instant suggestions. Every sound in Reason—over 20 years of world-class sound design—is fully tagged and ready for you to explore, and you can add your own tags for a truly personalized library.

The new sequencer splits your arrangement view from the detailed Edit Area, making it effortless to fine-tune notes, automation, and grooves without losing sight of your song’s structure. Paired with improved zooming, smarter layouts, and streamlined editing tools, it’s built to help your music sound exactly the way you hear it. And with a refreshed interface, Reason 13 not only sounds amazing—it looks it too.

The sound bank has been expanded with fresh patches, samples, REX loops, demo songs, and starter templates, breathing new life into your favorite devices. From inspiring pianos and huge basses to evolving textures and cutting-edge beats, Reason gives you over 30,000 sounds ready to spark ideas.

The Rack is the heart of Reason, your virtual studio built just like the real thing, with every knob and cable ready to tweak. Experimentation is fast and fun: drop in a synth, route it through effects, stack Players to transform your performance, or go fully modular with the freely routable back panel. Connect CV to filters, split signals for parallel processing, and explore possibilities other DAWs keep hidden.

Use Reason on its own or bring the Rack into your favorite DAW as a VST3, AU, or AAX plugin. Take the best of Reason into Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, or any setup you like. However you make music, Reason is your partner in creativity—easy to start with, deep enough to grow into, and crafted by music makers for music makers since 1994. It’s a philosophy that’s built a worldwide community of artists—the #reasongang—whose tracks top charts, shake dancefloors, and push genres forward.