Lyra Melody Maker V2

A huge free update for Lyra is now available. 31 new voices. Revamped algorithms across the board. Create even more catchy melodies faster than before. Use the recording section so Lyra can anticipate the next chord or analyze your how progression. Better melodies all around!

All of your V1 presets and songs are safe. Just click the V2 button under any setting to try the new version. This also activates the purple knob section.

Check it out here: https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack-extension/lyra-melody-maker/

On sale now through Black Friday!

Hey there, long time no see. Just got back with production recently after moving across the country. I'm meeting the classic "if i like it, all others hate it"-moment with this. I really enjoy it and it was done in two days really. I would like to know if you have an idea on "why" that hit's specifically with this track so much, lemme know. I ask'd most of my DnB-kinda friends, they all do not really enjoyed it as i do.

Current project name: init.

Time for a monthly update of the "Made with Reason" Spotify playlist. Submit your tracks using the form below. A few simple rules, as a reminder:

1. Track was made with either Reason DAW or utilizing the Reason Rack Plugin in another DAW.
2. One track submission per artist.
3. Released in 2025-2026.
4. Track wasn't included in the previous updates of the playlist.

Submit before October 30th.

🚀 Submit on BopOps

🎧 Current playlist

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And.... after purchase receive dark science fiction (1 gig) The Resonant Drop (normally $59.95) sounds totally free.

Kontakt or Reason.

https://soundsandeffects.com/fright.html.html

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es ist eigentlich nicht meine Art irgendwo was zu posten, aber woran ich in den letzten Monaten gearbeitet habe ist echt gut geworden.Vielleicht hilft es jemandem bei seinem Setup oder jemand hat tips.

Der Plan war 2 Computer mit DAW nebeneinander und das gleiche controller setup. Alles mit der gleichen midiclock und gemeinsamen audio output.

Am Anfang habe ich die clock sync mit rtp midi gemacht. Das lief aber nich zuverlässig genug. Danach kam ich auf iconnectivity midi4+ bzw. audio4+ und dachte schon das wäre der gamechanger. Aber der eigentliche spaß war dann eigene mappings zu erstellen für die controller die keine vorgefertigte remotemap in reason haben.

Z.B. beatstep1, spark1 und maschine mk1 gemapped auf redrum/thor sequencer. Oder eine map für den bcr Zaquencer der 4 kanäle parallel laufen hat, damit 4 Instrumente parallel aufnehmbar und steuerbar sind, ohne external bus zu verwenden. Zuletzt ging es sogar eine remotemap zu schreiben um im smk25 von mvave die keys als masterkeyboard zu nehmen und die 8 pads vom gleichen gerät dem redrum sequecer zuweisen der die kick fürs mixer sidechaining gibt (das lauflicht hab ich noch nicht hinbekommen...hat jemand tips).

Die 8 Taster an der Maschine Mk1 A-D die normalerweise die Gruppen der Pads umschalten sind jetzt ein kleiner 8Step sequencer bei der redrum map. Der Sequencer vom Spark läuft jetzt im kreis :)

Es hat echt spaß gemacht, das einzurichten, auch wenn es übel war das iconnectivity einzurichten.

Wer tips zum mappen und routen hat oder braucht...

UPDATE (Oct 24): Beta 1.0.0d45 is now out! See changes in my comment below.

UPDATE (Oct 26): Beta 3 (v1.0.0d64) pushed with an on-canvas numeric keypad & clickable perimeter rulers, 320-bin selectable 2K–16K FFT, M/S/L/R Channel View, cross-band detector keying, silent CV/Key standby band modes, "Dry Key" mix-minus mode, single-knob Mono Low with live Side preview, and full sequencer automation support. Full notes in this comment.

Hey, r/reasoners!

I'm very excited to introduce Solstice, a 24-band display-interactive dynamic equalizer.

A modern dynamic EQ is probably the single tool I miss the most inside the rack. We have great character EQs and the SSL (am I still allowed to say that?) channel strips, but we still have to either go without big chunks of modern dynamic EQ features or deal with popping up a VST window and losing all the Reason goodness that we're all here for in the first place.

So, I built Solstice to enable that modern, dynamic, visual EQ workflow natively inside the rack. Since I wanted to do something totally different with the UI using the new SDK 5 features (essentially a full-glass touchscreen mounted in your rack), this one does require Reason 14+.

It has become my go-to EQ, and it does some things that haven't been available in a Reason-native format before (and a few that haven't been available in any format before!):

• Interactive display running at full framerate with pre-EQ, post-EQ, and sidechain overlays, plus optional peak hold curves
• Up to 24 bands (double-click anywhere to add one), usable as a standard EQ or a dynamic EQ applying upward or downward compression/expansion in response to band energy
• Draggable on-screen node handles for frequency, gain, Q (band width), dynamic gain, dynamic threshold, and a solo handle to quickly hunt for trouble frequencies (all automatable)
• Grab peaks (and troughs) right off the spectrum to interactively flatten (or boost) them, even while the display is running
• A unique time-integrated "Crest" display mode showing average energy and +/- variability over time. I had one of those "in the shower" realizations that there's a fundamental mismatch between what dynamic EQ adjusts (which happens over time) and the instantaneous snapshot traditional EQ displays show—having time-integrated curves onscreen makes dialing in dynamic controls feel way more intuitive
• Extensive sidechaining support (including ducking bands from different sidechain frequencies on a band-by-band basis), collision detection showing competition between your main audio and sidechain input, and a "Mix-Minus" (minus-self) function that removes your track's own audio from a shared sidechain bus so you don't have to build separate "everything but myself" buses
• Variable analyzer slopes including a 4.5 dB/oct mastering slope and a perceptual-weighted slope so Solstice shows you what you actually hear (which actually helped me find and fix a minor sub-bass pink noise issue in Kalibrus at 96kHz+!)
• Full back-panel CV inputs and outputs for modulating bands or driving other devices from a band's dynamic envelope, plus a zero-cost bypass mode that disables EQ processing (and disables the display when folded or off-screen) so you can use it purely as a spectrum analyzer without worrying about CPU usage

I'm looking for a few beta testers to take it for a spin, try to break it, and let me know what works and what doesn't.

If you're interested, drop your Reason username in a comment below (capitalization matters!) or sign up via the Solstice page.

Thanks!

I'm 99 percent sure I am buying one of these tomorrow. I'm leaning more towards the Novation Launchkey 49 MK4 MIDI Keyboard Controller than the Arturia KeyLab Essential mk3 MIDI Keyboard Controller. Main DAW = Reason 14. What do you guys think?

Atomik Rack — GitHub: https://github.com/atomikfactory/atomik-rack

It's a free, open-source, rack-based DAW written in Rust. It already has a rack with audio, CV, and note cabling, a mixer, a sequencer with a piano roll, several instruments and effects, and CLAP/VST3 plugin hosting.

It's still very much an alpha project, and there's plenty of work left to do.

I'm not trying to replace Reason or convince anyone to switch. I still love Reason and the unique workflow it offers. However, there are a couple of issues: I want to make music on Linux, and performance seems to get worse with every update.

All I want is to make music on Linux while keeping the same rack-based workflow I love about Reason, including the ability to use Reason Rack Plugin VSTs.

If you check it out, I'd love to hear your feedback! What would you like to see built next?

I'm a former Reason user who switched to Bitwig years ago. For the past few years I've used Reason less and less, I always have a track with PSQ1684 ready to go in Bitwig cause I love that thing to death but, apart from that, I don't really use it that much.

Last night I decided I wanted to do a jam mostly based on my Rack Extensions and Reason Synths and I've had this issue happen repeatedly:

if I load different instances of Reason Rack plugin on different tracks, it might crash the moment I load the same RE on two of them. Not only that, but if it crashes, it will lose chunks of datas.

For instance: I have 3 tracks with 3 different Noise Engineering synths, I load Kron on one, I start working on patching another, I load Kron there too and Reason crashes. Once I turn it back on, half the things I tweaked while working on the second rack's patch got lost.

Luckily, workint in Bitwig means that the crash doesn't shut down the project since everything is sandboxed. I stopped using most of the signal shaping things I had in Reason and I'm now mostly using Bitwig modulators, cause at least those values won't get lost if something crashes, but this is getting very frustrating.

Anyone else experienced similar issues? I used to be able of using different instances of Reason Rack in a single project and I only had this issue with one RE before, now it happens regularly.

EDIT: I'm on a M1 Max macbook pro running Sequoia, I'm on Bitwig 6.1.4 and Reason 12

Hi guys my reason 13 wont start with rosetta which is needed after some bought plug ins were not listed by reason ,.. started rosetta and boom the waves plugins came back after a restart companion started to give me beachballs and had to stop it to start with reason. And npw reason wont start,.. anyone have to same problem? im on tahoe ,.. im not ready to move to golden mac os yet any tips? thanks

I just felt like giving the echo some praise, even since reason added vst, hasn’t changed fact this is my GO TO delay in most situations, it’s so versatile, I even made a scratch cut with it one time way back in day when it first got added in like v3 or whatever it was lol, I forget exactly how I did it, but learned from a YT vid, just way of manipulating the tape flutter, not to mention the trigger cross fader, I don’t think I’ve EVER placed a repeat adlib in sequencer, I’ve always set tempo, set it to “triggered”, and use that fader switch, it’s like triggering your own voice to the beat like a sample on a SP202 back in day lol sometimes I even midi remote override TO a pad on my controller lol, it’s just such a 🔥🔥 device that has stood the test of time with how unique its features are, on top of sounding great, great saturation, and being great traditional delay as well, and I think it gets often overlooked, just cause it’s a “factory” device, that’s been there since beginning basically. I just was working on it today and was like 🤔”I need to talk about this”… SALUTE to the echo 🫡🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

breakcore made for the pun. this was made solely chopping up a single Rex loop of an Amen Break

Semi-Modular Synth

• Patchable vintage-style semi-modular architecture
• External Signal Processor: audio-to-CV conversion
• SE-10 step sequencer and FX-30 effects unit

Intro offer, save 50% until November 15th!

Requires Reason 14 or later!

https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack-extension/es20-analog-synthesizer/

I’m using Reason 14 on Mac (novice), trying to set up a live vocoder using the Digital Vocoder, but struggling with routing.

I’m trying to use a live mic on an audio track for the modulator and a synth like Europa as the carrier and I can’t seem to get it working properly. At some point I got it sort of working momentarily (not sure exactly how I got there), but the dry mic feed was output to the master bus which I don’t want.

Any tips or screenshots of your rack would be much appreciated!

I noticed when I was zoning out looking from like a foot away and now I can do this on command just like looking at one of those magic eye pictures. If you have successfully seen those you know how the pattern fades in to the background of the 3D space? The mixer can do that just try it. I swear I'm not high right now.

I'm pretty sure that Reason Studios occasionally held sales on their own rack extensions, and possibly on the the price of Reason (or Reason+) itself.

I have an old version of Reason perpetual, and would like to upgrade to Reason 14, plus buy a few of Reason Studios' rack extensions. But if there's any chance of a sale in the next year or so, I won't bother (I have a long free trial of Reason+ and am just planning ahead).

What do people think are the chances that Reason Studios under its new ownership of Landr will put on sale their own products? I think the price of Reason perpetual and perhaps even Reason+ has decreased since they acquired Reason Studios.

Let the speculation begin! But any reasoning/rationale behind speculations would be even better.

I upgraded from Reason Free to Reason+.
And (re)downloaded, installed and launched the Reason 14+ app the site offered me (a 7.3GB .pkg, I'm on macOS). 

But now my problem is:
The Reason Library contains the Reason Free patches only. Additional Reason+ instruments appear, but all their patches are missing except the pre-loaded initial patch.

I checked the Companion App, but no patches to be found for the + instruments. Soundpacks work fine though. 
I tried this: I logged out from the app, re-launched it & logged back in again: no luck.

What could I be doing wrong?

(Edit: added some extra info.)

Update: Success! After a tip from u/Electro-Grunge I removed the previous install completely (including 3 preference files and the reason folder in 'Application support' - not sure if that was required), did a re-install, and now everything works.