r/reasoners 14h ago

Akai mpk261 unresponsive :(

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r/reasoners 12h ago

How to “Scratch” in reason without turntable.

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Hey I’ve been listening to this song recently and wondered how I could rebuild this kind of scratches right before the beat “drops” inside reason.

Thanks for your help in advance!


r/reasoners 1d ago

Edit mode is slower than a turtle falling down the stairs with dropped frames

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Hey guys. I'm having an issue, a big one, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to solve it.

When I enter edit mode in Reason 12 things just... won't work. I can't resize windows, I can't move/drag notes... I can't really do anything, Since I work with orchestral libraries via midi this is something of a dealbreaker.

Normally I'd just uninstall Reason, say good riddance and never look back, however....

I've been running Reason since... 5 (I think). I've never had any issues with edit mode on my old MacBook Pro from 2012(!!!). I recently got a new Mac mini M4 and it's running like a dream, full orchestra templated. Except for the edit mode window.

I've got plenty of memory to spare, the load on the processor is pretty much none whatsoever. I don't have any other processes running (none that is worth mentioning it at least).

I have all my libraries on the same external SSD's as before, the only thing new is the computer and it doesn't make any sense to me how this is happening.

Has anyone experienced this? Any fixes? I've tried everything I can think of and I desperately need help.


r/reasoners 3d ago

Delay on hihats?

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r/reasoners 4d ago

Can't listen to audio from recovered file

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I thought my last project was saved when I last shut down my computer, but when I reopened Reason, I got the "recovered file" notification. I saved it to the desktop, opened it, and there's an audio file. Cool. It shows the waveform, so it almost looks normal. But it has diagonal lines across it, and when I play it, I hear nothing. It's the only track, it's not muted, the volume is up, and if I move it to a new track, still nothing. Any ideas on how to hear it? Thanks in advance.


r/reasoners 4d ago

Could I sell an old license to myself?

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Bit of a weird question, but could I sell my Reason 10 License to myself? I couldn't deactivate from my old computer, as they don't support CodeMeter anymore. I don't want to upgrade from 10. Still have the boot CD, etc. I've reached out to Propellerhead but they're not replying. Thought selling myself my own license for nothing could be a workaround for reactivation on my new machine... anyone on here done anything like this?


r/reasoners 5d ago

Any ideas where to look for legacy refills? (Abbey Keys, Reason Pianos)

3 Upvotes

Hey, I'm kind of in a dire need to buy these as some lovely old patches need them. Thanks guys!


r/reasoners 10d ago

How do I reamp with reason

2 Upvotes

I want to take my DI signal and reamp it using my two notes torpedo reload and genome plugin (for the IR’s). How do I get my signal out of reason, to my two notes and back into reason


r/reasoners 12d ago

Favourite stock reason effect?

15 Upvotes

Hey, just wondering if anyone has any of the stock reason effects that they use a lot (potentially in an unconventional way) and rate higher than plug-ins they’ve bought? For example, I really love the Neptune pitch adjuster. It can be great on vocals and for messing with the pitch of samples. I did get the soundtoys alter boy plugin but it’s just not as much fun for me!


r/reasoners 14d ago

Made with Reason - August 2025 Edition

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Thank you to everyone who submitted tracks for the August update of the Made with Reason playlist!

I've randomized the order of submissions. Sorry to those who ended up at the end of the list but that's what the "random gods" decided. And anyway, you should probably listen on shuffle as there's no meaningful editorial order to the playlist.

▶️ Listen to the playlist here (and don't forget to like/follow/save it!)

And let everyone know what your favorite track is in the comments. No cheating with mentioning your own track!

This goes without saying, but if you like any of the songs on the playlist, remember to add them to your own playlists, share, etc. I'm sure every indie artist on the list would appreciate it.

P.S.: I never abuse this space but today I wanted to plug something I'm working on that many of you may find useful. I'll post about it in the comments.


r/reasoners 17d ago

Sending CC to a VST

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I have a VST that comes with a file I can edit to allow CCs to control the patch browsing buttons. I have buttons labeled as such on my Panorama P6. I set them, and it works in Ableton, but not in Reason. I can click remote and map a CC that way for most things, but not those buttons. Will reason just not pass CC data along to the VST without going through the remote button to map them?


r/reasoners 20d ago

EDM advice

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Hey everyone! I’ve been into rap music most of my life but as life has gone on I’m slowly starting to see EDM as my favorite genre, yet I find it incredibly challenging to produce

Any advice on where to start? I like house & heavy bass music like Knock2, Chris Lorenzo, Borne, Disco Lines, Deadmau5 etc.

I appreciate all the help!!!


r/reasoners 21d ago

Open/import REALLY old Reason file.

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I used Reason in 2002, can't remember the version. Now I would like to remake a song from back then so bought Reason 13. But it refuses to open the 23 yr old file. Is there any method than can make me succeed with this? Even just extracting the MIDI scores from that old file would to fine.


r/reasoners 21d ago

Made with Reason playlist call for submissions for August 2025

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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 2024-2025.
  4. Track wasn't included in the previous updates of the playlist.

Submit before August 23rd.

👆 Click here to submit

Current playlist is here


r/reasoners Aug 09 '25

A little death metal, a little classical, a little film score influence… total track count is probably pushing 100 pre-bounce

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r/reasoners Aug 09 '25

More fun with Scenic

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Hello community. Last week, I redeemed my Reason reward points and bought a scenic for just €9. To be honest, I wasn't very impressed at first; some other companies have much better instruments of this type. And then I came up with the idea of building a simple melotron out of it. There's the free rompler Nils-k1v with high-quality, clean sounds from classic Kawaii workstations: choirs, flutes, bells, strings, etc. If you sample one single note directly into the scenic and play around with the filter and LFO a bit, you end up with a completely unique DYI Melotron. Add Audiomatic + Ripley on top, and you're done. Ideal for retro and lo-fi compositions of all kinds. And that was another episode from the "only Reason can do that" series. Have fun experimenting. :)


r/reasoners Aug 09 '25

Split Kong to multiple internal audio channels to Ableton?

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Is there a way to route Rewire to multiple audio channels from one instance/plug-in?


r/reasoners Aug 08 '25

How to tell what reason sound is loaded for a given Reason VST plugin instance?

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Hi, I have a track in Logic. It uses a Reason rack. When I click on the plugin I just see all the devices that are used in the sound - I don't actually see what reason sound I chose. Such as such some Pad, or Lead. I need to figure out the actual patch that I loaded. Odd that in the rack plugin I don't see indication. It uses Maelstrom and there I see the text "Heavy" but there are a bunch of other devices.

thanks


r/reasoners Aug 08 '25

Reason 9 License

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Offers accepted? No.

You give me 25€ str8 to (2) FI19 8000 1710 8106 65 and the whole foocken shit aiyudapp' yoorss. 🤪


r/reasoners Aug 06 '25

Selling reason 10 license

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All offers are accepted, best offer gets it :)


r/reasoners Aug 06 '25

Where can I go to sell my account with a reason 10 license?

0 Upvotes

I no longer make music with this software and I am curious where I can sell this account with a copy of Reason 10?


r/reasoners Aug 04 '25

I just upgraded and I hate the zoom function..

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I have used reason for 10+ years and reason 5-10 all performed for the most part the same when it came to adjusting the size and view of the different windows.. With 13.3 I absolutely hate how the window works when you click on a midi block to add or adjust notes.. Before there was a slider on the bottom to go from left to right in the track and now from my understanding you need to hover your mouse over a certain area to zoom in an out and glide your mouse left to right to go across the midi window.. Is there any way to go back to how it was before with a slider.. I keep trying to press the top to position where i want it to start when I press the space bar and I end up zooming or moving my position around... It is beyond over automated... I just want to place to position I want the play back to be at and have the zoom/location whatever you want to call it be seperate like it was before... I genuinely feel like I just spent $150 to have a more cumbersome workflow... why would they change the basic navigation fundamentals... Please tell me there is a way to make it work like it did for years before. I may not be able to articulate what I mean exactly but bottom line is - is there any way to make reason 13's sequencer window perform exactly as it did from reason 5-10.


r/reasoners Aug 04 '25

Selling Reason 13 (New lower price)

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SOLD!


r/reasoners Aug 03 '25

Q: getting a live track on grid

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I want to chop and play around with a track that isn’t perfectly on time (live played) If I load the song into reason it slips in and out of timing of the metronome. I could slice the whole thing and line up all those cuts but I’m hoping there might be a quicker/ easier way to do this. All ideas welcome


r/reasoners Aug 03 '25

Collaborations

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Does anyone here use Reason and make dubstep/riddim and wants to collab. I'm happy to exchange tunes before to make sure we are on the same page.

Look forward to hearing from you peace outtttt