Reason 6.0.2

Reason Editor's Review

Make beautiful music with the most complete mixing software available for Windows. 

If you're a professional musician or a serious amateur wanting professional tools, finding the right software isn't easy. Mixing, sampling, noise reduction, audio compression... finding the right tools with the right presets, the right settings, can be just as laborious as composing and arranging your original music. If you're serious, then be serious and give Reason for Windows a serious look. 

Reason is one of the most complete audio mixing tools on the market today. It combines complete recording tools with some of the best mixing consoles and equalizers into a single, integrated tool. With it, you'll have access to multiple channels, multiple, parallel racks, and tons of effects. Reason's fully equipped mixing desk adds a big studio signal chain to all your sound sources. Every audio and instruments track has its own channel strip — the built-in EQ, dynamics and advanced routing will give your music that unmistakable million-dollar console sound. The radio ready master bus compressor gives your mixes that extra punch and the professional touch you're looking for. 

Pros: Professional, modular mixing software for Mac and PC. 

Cons: Complicated, extremely expensive 

Conclusion: Reason combines and pulls together one of the most complete sets of audio mixing tools I've seen in the last 25+ years of being a musician.  However, be forewarned – if you don't have a background or active experience in audio mixing, Reason isn't going to be easy to master. You'll need to spend some serious time with the software and with some raw audio tracks in order to understand what all of its tools do to your tracks. The software is also insanely expensive from a consumer perspective, and is truly targeted at the music professional (musician or DJ) for inclusion as part of their road equipment and/or at-home studio. If this isn't you, you're not going to get a lot of value out of the software.