The Entire History of Reason Studios

[@afunnylookingsquash]

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[@mabian69]

Maybe I missed it, but Reason Rack Extension technology and VST support are milestone in Reason history, but I'm not seeing clear mention of them... Great video anyway :)

[@yodasscrotum]

Came here to say this ^ ....I remember when rebirth was released and the first vst instrument (neon) first came with Cubase...!!

[@GuayusaPure]

Well, everyone was crying for VSTs for ages. Never felt I need anything more than reason already have

[@AdamsOlympia]

He briefly mentioned Reason Rack for sure. The only other DAW company I think it'd make sense to do that would be Bitwig -- "A Bitwig Rack VST" - so long as it could work as a plugin host within a host. (Though I'm not sure if VST's or AU's even have that capability?)

[@zero01101]

i'll die on this completely unfounded cross, but i swear propellerheads became A Thing because of the 303 in rebirth anyone can do an 808 or 909 sample set, but that 303 was unmatched for the time

[@MatthewParkerTunes]

I’ve used Reason since version 4 and let me tell you, it was seriously *helpful* when they added audio track support so that I could stop using a separate DAW for that 😂 Reason has come SO far since then-it’s truly amazing now. So many incredible features. The vocal pitch editor is so freaking good.

[@illyph9963]

Hell yes, same here, SSL was SUCH a game changer for mixing, its sooooo slept on, people still judge it based off the “pre” audio days, and its become so much more since back then

[@Indensity]

Yea I was using garage band to record guitars and vocals. Re-wire would crash 😂

[@KnightedDawn]

Kind of crazy that people judge Reason based on what it was like 15 years ago...

[@ekeys6897]

I remember that:' it was the release of record. I was dancing all around the house (user since R3)

[@bolttracks]

No word on how much work they put into creating the orchestral library that shipped with every version of reason? That library alone was a complete game changer at the time and so far beyond any other DAW available. Let alone the amazing factory library 😻

[@totigerus]

I feel like most people, including myself, forget about the orkester patches. However it’s spelled haha

[@challism]

Minor correction: Complex-1 wasn't included in R11. Algoritm isn't included with Reason. They are both REs available for purchase separately in the shop. Nice video. Thanks for publishing.

[@nomad1517]

Reason was basically Ableton before Ableton existed. It's the swedish brother of Ableton. From what I've heard reason is really stable. Like rock solid. If it had more educational resources for music schools and had a performance mode, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. It's so much fun.

[@courtlaw1]

I was going down the path of buying (spending a lot of money) on hardware synths, step sequencers and drum machines. A friend of mine gave me a random disk with the words Reason 1.0 on it. Went home, CD data disk sat on my desk for a few days, on a whim put the disk in the CD rom drive, Installed Reason 1.0, After a few minutes my world view of making music was completely changed. I then stopped buying any hardware synths only keeping one drum machine and my korg triton which was a beast back in the day.

[@ruslanr.6171]

pretty bad video. definitely not entire history of Reason. What's the point of mentioning blog and independent forum and not mentioning the closing of their own forum. What's the point of mentioning something like the release of DrOctoRex (just an update), but not a word about DrRex which was there since almost the beginning . Mentioning Complex-1 and Algorytm which are not even included and sold separately, but not mentioning the fact that Reason didn't have any plugins all before 2012 and got their own format of plugins and a shop that year. And the introduction of VST only in version 10 couple of years ago. Looks like a paid Ad not a history. Not "The Entire History" for sure.

[@nickpmusic]

Didn't mention "Discover" either which was a music collaboration site which was great and Allihoopa took over.

[@AT-eh2eo]

If reason didn’t have such an awkward sequencer, It would be tied with ableton as #1. Ableton is like the most software looking program, and reason is the most hardware looking. Everything else is sort of in the middle imo. I still do turn to it for every project as a plug in, and love using the daw for the nuances of using Rex filed and Dr Rex. Its just so different that you always work out of your habits

[@anzatzi]

I like these videos but I do not think this accurately captures the history of Reason. Whatever source you used was inaccurate. Also--radical keys is awful. I am a Reason fan and have used it since version 1.

[@mikenoface]

How you gonna show Malstrom and not mention it?! That synth was huge at the time. Still rips. Reason user since Beta 1.

[@keller_]

Awesome video, I think its dope you can scroll around in the workspace unlike in other apps, this stuff seems either really user friendly or horrendously hard to use, interesting piece of software!!

[@illyph9963]

If you know how to use n hook up analog machines, it all works exactly same for most part, it takes “emulation” to ultimate level, and i mean that as compliment, for me as someone who learned on analog first, it always made more sense to me than other daws, cause i can just plug things in and rout them just like i would if i had that “physical” synth, or reverb, or sampler, same with mixer, channel flow and strip work just like real mixer where your input plugs in at top, and signal comes down strip to fader, its incredible daw imo, kong ALONE is pretty much an mpc IN the daw, n thats only 1 machine of like 100 lol

[@Artek604]

Awesome! But I think you forgot to mention that v6 merged Reason and Record. And Complex-1 didn't came with 11, it was part of the Suite edition that contained a lot more devices (15 or 16 if I recall correctly). And Radical Keys isn't a piano plugin, that's Radical Keys.

[@DeejayAfro]

It came along the suite version of 11, his kind of right but as we are Reason Guru's we know more than him ! but it's a beautiful good video for new comers to the program !!

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

You mean, "that's Radical Piano" 😉

[@MrzodiacBE]

Great memories. I'm sooo glad I lived thru all this. Used Rebirth back in the day and damn the looks of the first Reason release. I could feel the first love flowing back. The simplicity was both awesome and also gave a "boxed" feeling. As you couldn't connect anything external. We were soooo creative to get audio into reason with samples and creative ways. Reason 5 was deffo boost in users (I wonder why, lol), but when they released Record I was blown away again just like Reason 1 back in the day. Midi devices, VST's and now VST3, It was and still is my nr. 1 DAW and I've worked with almost every DAW there is, they are all good tho, what ever suits your needs. Love these memories.

[@Caelo_music]

Reason is just a wonderful piece of software and a joy to use.

[@CreepyT]

This series if vids is killer. What about ACID? It's a classic few use these days.

[@pilleater]

Thank you for this. The reason why I choose Reason is because I grew up with Rebirth & Reason 3. It was before proper vsts, and these music programs were like video games. They looked liked, acted like, the real thing. Automation is just pressing record and messing with the knobs and buttons. Fruity Loops was for PC, while Reason was for Mac; that alone was a huge market choice. Reason is just getting better and better. As FL is straight forward and I made music in it, it's just not my thing. Reason is drag and drop, and pleasing on the eyes. Logically, it's a skeuomorphic view on music creation. FL lacks that. Next you should do Bitwig.

[@obiraf]

So i have used reason since v1. These days I vomit at even the thought of using reason as a standalone DAW. It's ok for simple arrangments but any thing larger and its a nightmare to use. I rarely use it these days and when I do its always as a plugin in other DAWs. To me this company and this DAW died many years ago and its just a slow burn now. Its so far behind modern DAW interms of workflow and features that they will never catch up.

[@avace917]

Odd that you skipped version 9.5 adding VST2 support.

[@GaiaWaska]

Thank you for sharing all your hard work! Finding really old info on Reason is super difficult. I've been in love with Reason since 3.0 and making music with Reason as my main DAW ever since. This video was a wonderful dose of nostalgia.

[@DaveSmithHayes]

While the Reason DAW Is alright and I like using it - I much prefer the Rack plugin inside of Renoise or Ableton. I would say that Dr. Octorex, Thor, Subtractor, and the Korg Polysix and Mono/Poly rack plugins I bought are the instruments I use the most. Crazy how versatile the software is and how they found a way to make themselves still relevant.

[@outrospector]

I've been using Reason since 2008, there is no other DAW like it!

[@blogout412]

me too man! what artist were you into around that time? What music you do now? I'm so curious about this :)

[@outrospector]

@@blogout412 Well I have aleays been making trip hop and downtempo, now I finally own some instruments and I am glad to say that reason trained me for this, I am almost dawless and I create my own style

[@wpshadow]

By the way today the Reason update brought us the VST3 support everybody waited for... Now Reason is the monster it sould be -> combining everything from the internal effects and plugins with everything from the VST world

[@foljs5858]

ReasonStudios rename being the time they gave in to 100% greed and 100% milking their customers. They have doubled the update price, added a yearly subscription option that amounts to the same amount (double the old update price), and have being sitting on their ass for 15 months, only making Object, which would once would have been a device bundled in the update (but now you need to buy or get the subcription for it), and presenting it as the best thing ever.

[@illyph9963]

How did this just completely brush over version 7 and “record” being merged into reason and becoming one program, moment it became FULL DAW 🤣, and barely mentioned SSL MIXER…it is one of the greatest parts of reason makes mixing breeze, and was such a huge upgrade from 14:2 when it came

[@falconadv1481]

Was just kicking around in and old hard drive and found og rebirth. Talk about a flood of memories... This could get interesting... And expensive haha

[@DanglyLingham]

I think in the Reason world they are called "Rack Devices" and later "Rack Extensions". The term "plug-in" was never used in Reason.

[@afunnylookingsquash]

that's prob true, but to the laymen it's easier to understand plugin as its universal and on the code level they are basically plugins with some extra functionality although i didnt know they were renamed to extensions later

[@DanglyLingham]

@@afunnylookingsquash : I think so. They went from being Rack Devices / Units to Extensions because a lot if not all of them were converted to the Rack Extension format as far as I know.

[@PiddeBas]

The impact of .rex loops starting with ReCycle was massive

[@tempeff8670]

I'm still heavily using them in my productions to this day.

[@WARDISWARD]

Fun fact , Peter JUbel one of the founders of proppeerheads( and now doing almost all the synths and effects in reason ) also did the dsp for the original Clavia Nord lead 1

[@dxtrs_mnpltr]

Still using Reason 6.5 rewired to Live 9. Best combo ever!

[@encode84]

Dr.Rex loop player came much earlier to Reason than you say. IIRC, Reason 2 already had it.

[@OGStoneVegas]

I remember when the Apple Store used to stock reason 2.0.... that's where I bought my first copy with an iBook G3

[@simimiki204]

Holy shit if these comments are not paid. Company has gotten so greedy, they dont want to support their older customers because of the money grabbing scheme their pulling off. I hope these people sleep well. And they will. Also, me, changing daw forever.

[@EthaSound]

Great video, but as a long time Reason user there are quite a lot of little errors and important things you left out.

[@vladimirgalkin23]

Digital Performer please!!

[@ashantifarmer5246]

I LOVE REASON! I started with REASON 4 in 2010! I used REASON 4 until I got REASON 8 late December 2015!

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

You missed out the removal of the Line 6 Guitar Amps at the same time as the introduction of the Softube Amps which replaced the Line 6 ones.

[@LossLeadas]

I first bought Reason in 1999 version 2.0

[@bocarlsson3rd]

I was about 15 when I tried Reason and had 0 experience with DAWs so felt overwhelmed and didn't try it again (used, Cakewalk, Cubase, FL, Kristal, Logic and now Presonus Studio One). I can't make a judgment on how Reason is now but I used to work at a lunch place near the Propellerhead offices in Stockholm so I met a lot of the staff. They are super chill and down to earth so if that spills over into their products and workplace environment I don't have anything but praise for them.

[@Caelo_music]

Why is the thumnbail color of the reason logo blue? Its normaly organ.

[@jayephbee]

Reason always made sense to me. I’ve tried to get into a 2nd DAW but that lasts a 1/2 hour & then I shutting it off.

[@monogramadikt5971]

lot of important things you skipped over both positive and negative

[@dj2bklyn]

What happened to mentioning vst ability from 9.5?

[@npinero1]

Even though I have Logic, ProTools, Ableton Live, Studio One, Reaper, Luna and Bitwig, I only LOVE working in Reason. GREAT Video. It reminded me why I have been using it for so long.

[@mike2884]

Im still on v4 lol...but ill get modern one day 😂.

[@arminnaimi]

Great video! Made me appreciate Reason a lot more. I cheated on Reason with a bunch of different DAWs in the last 2 years and I have always come back. Also the recent addition of VST3 gives me a lot of hope for further DAW improvements in the future for pro users like me.

[@smenosmeno]

Dr. Octo Rex was just the bigger version of dr. Rex that has been there since the beginning.

[@sixsense6161]

I started on Reason 2 in 2005 age 15 🥲

[@WolfSpirit1989]

could do a history of adobe audition ?:)

[@npcdisease]

Id suffer if i tried reason so mich going on

[@nightcrawler9]

It seems that propellerhead has never failed in your video, personnaly I would be more nuanced as a Reason long time user. Rack Extension was a part of the problem because the company was stubborn to have a closed environment and not accepting VST3. That business model was a failure, and lots of users were upset about that and moved to Ableton Live (or other...). Reason come back from the deads the day they start to make the Rack available for every DAW, because they stopped the lethal autarky. It was the beginning of wake up call, and VST3 integration is the sign that they admitted and learned from their mistakes, but they are not definitely saved, because we are all multi DAW and we know what Reason still can't do for the moment.

[@thereapxr6333]

we need a video on mixcraft LOL.that would be so funny

[@illyph9963]

Holy shit, ive been using reason since 2.5, and never knew recycle came first, before rebirth even? crazy fun fact lol

[@enemysub9057]

Yeah, originally it was for working with hardware samplers. Like you would chop up a beat and send it to an Akai S3000xl etc. via SCSI, but then they just removed that functionality.

[@dichabamogotsi]

My favourite DAW hands down

[@brianhintze6440]

I've always liked Reason. Great video.

[@blogout412]

Liam Howlett :) that's the one artist music who got me into reason around 2008 i think :) I still haven't use all the new stuff

[@sullyskillz]

Liam is a god. He inspired me to make music as well

[@boardbrakazientertainment343]

U skipped allll around

[@napynap]

I remember when the Rack Extension 'RE' was one of the greatest updates, allowing third parties to create rack devices that were part of the account license. So much easier than keeping track of external VSTs, especially if reinstalling to a new computer.

[@andreasgaschka]

Thanks for bringing memories back!

[@gesslr]

I so enjoy these videos. Thank you.

[@Chrisreedbeats]

I love how you kept mentioning that you Use FL Studio during this Reason History video 😂😂😂 great job 👏🏾

[@mojito6629]

Great video, thanks. I remember dearly how I used Reason since its first version until matbe version 3 or 4. Also the Recycle, Rebirth, Rewire and all. I don't remember why I stopped using Reason haha. But they're very nice music tools. Oh and BTW, I see you haven't made video about Digital Performer. I think it's one of the legend DAW that you should cover. I'll be waiting for that one.

[@duartecancela]

Reason inspires and sounds good, love it forever! When i use other DAWs, like REAPER, I always have the Reason SSL channel strip inside a combinator as rack plugins :)

[@whanakemusic]

Please do a video on the entire history of Ardour! It's an open-source DAW that's been around since before 2000

[@pricklycats]

I've actually heard of that one but it was like 9 years ago back when I was trying to find a DAW to use. Always used FL studio.

[@pricklycats]

Used Ableton a bit because it came for free with my midi keyboard but I'm horrible with it lol.

[@whanakemusic]

@@pricklycats Haha fair enough, Ardour recently got a massive update so now it supports clip-launching like Ableton does. There's a new colour scheme so the interface looks a lot nicer too

[@whanakemusic]

I used to use FL Studio as well before I switched to Ardour. Both are pretty good DAWs. but both have very different workflows. I thought FL was the only way to go until I tried Ardour, and instantly got hooked

[@kjwworldwide]

Great video and content!!!!!! I could not afford all the hardware so I got Reason version 3. The hardware look is why I have no reason to leave reason. Version 12 has so many dam goodies and is so much fun to use. Other programs sometimes look more like a spread sheet, sort of like making music in microsoft excel.

[@nicebluejay]

i bought v2 circa 2003 and synced with digital performer for the audio

[@Jacqueal]

Reason has come a long way from its initial release. I started with 3 and have been using it ever since. I don't see myself switching to another DAW anytime soon.

[@sixsense6161]

Dr octorex was in vesrion 2 and Kong was in version 5

[@dxtrs_mnpltr]

Not True. The Rex player yes but not the Dr.Octorex

[@sixsense6161]

@@dxtrs_mnpltr ah yes now I think back you couldn't put multiple samples in the old one 👍

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Record and Reason was combined in Reason 9 and is where the new mixer come from it's the Record mixer.

[@AboveEmAllProduction]

some small factual errors here and there and you didnt mention that audio editing/recording wasnt avaliable at all until much later, and was a huge update. i think it came with 6. previously you could only play back audio using the sampler or redrum. which was very troublesome cause you had to play it back from start every time, couldnt pause and resume, or edit it in any way. and then ofc vst support which didnt come until maybe version 9 i think, and was also huge. but nice video anyway

[@realmchat6665]

Awesome video - loved this history overview, I was there for most of it :)

[@SirMatthewT]

Nicely done. Thank you.

[@BenCaesar]

Shoutout to Scream4! Reason is my day 1 DAW. They have played their hand well by making themselves like a plug-in. As they fell abit behind with sequencing features. And they’re content was some of the best too

[@Eric-pc4yi]

Heck yeah. I use Scream4 all the time, but I didn’t realize it goes that far back!

[@dogefresh2]

Do a video on the entire history of cakewalk/sonar

[@MartotheMartian]

Greatest daw I've used since version 1

[@RomeAround]

Nice video with good information

[@lenowoo]

Actually never heard of this one

[@Lanearndt]

In the early days there was an incredibly convenient line edit tool in the MIDI that I used the crap out of... then for some reason they removed it and I curse it's absence many times a day when I'm trying to edit velocities into even values or ascending/descending smoothly! Why why why did they remove it?!?!

[@anosoumusic]

It's not removed! Hold [alt] on Mac or [ctrl] on PC when using the pen tool (or cmd+alt if using the arrow to switch to pen and activate the line tool simultaneously). :)

[@PrestigeRoadman]

woiiiiii!!! its finally landed!

[@pricklycats]

I forgot reason existed lol

[@thetaokan]

Great story. :)

[@A.R.D.I.]

Reason is great

[@DreamyDawnMusic]

Finally 🙌😁

[@squashbeats]

hehe

[@rjbush7955]

You missed Reason 6.5 when Reason 6 and Record merged into one product. It's also when Rack Extensions started allowing 3rd party devs to create REs using Propellerheads SDK. Overall a good history.

[@Subzearo]

Finally

[@EDM_IDss]

[@N8oRMusic]

Reason 1 was da bomb! It was all downhill after that.

[@GuayusaPure]

Why is that?

[@UltimateMoralizer]

Good video. Reason went downhill the moment Propellerhead became Reasonstudios.

[@macvon56]

I was a Reasons user, but even with this recent spring break sale Reasons is not worth the price compared to the other daws that are currently on the market reasons needs a major upgrade 😢

[@xSaintxSmithx]

I've never heard someone call Reason user-friendly and then say FL isn't user-friendly. When I first opened FL I thought it looked just like Photoshop (and most millennials know photoshop from their myspace days) so it's pretty understandable for a beginner imo. Reason, on the other hand, confuses the hell out of me. Unless you already work with hardware synths it's just a confusing mess.

[@afunnylookingsquash]

i use fl studio 90% of the time, it was a sucky learning curve for me

[@xSaintxSmithx]

@@afunnylookingsquash I've also been using it since FL 5 so it had A LOT less features when I picked it up.

[@JackUFN]

Oh okay, then I'll say it! In my opinion Reason is very user friendly and FL studio is not. I have long praised from the proverbial rooftops Reasons openness to letting the user choose their own order of operations in composition and sound design.

[@xSaintxSmithx]

@@JackUFN If you don't mind me asking, what's your experience before using it? Did you already know how to make music, and dd you make any other digital content before using Reason? Genuinely curious, I'm not trying to start shit, scouts honor.

[@afunnylookingsquash]

@@xSaintxSmithx i believe my first was version 11, but im coming from a non-music background. when i downloaded reason for this vid, i can see from a person who has come from no experience their workflow might be a lot different, but i'd not say bad

[@MEANASSJAMSTER]

during the late 90's I saw this software on various computer screens as I delivered washing machines to peoples homes... I was not destined to experience Reason (adapted) until the year 2005... now I have got Reason 11 ...planning a jump to 12 soon...

[@vroteg]

Maybe. I’m not ready to buy simple version for millions and then pay for add-ons for life. Nah, I pass…