The Fastest Way to the Next Chord

[@monkeyplusplus]

What nobody seems to be saying is how you're developing a pretty consistent UX language for music theory with your player devices that's approachable for just about anybody. This is really cool. Every time I get my grubby paws on one these things I feel like a caveman who just discovered a jetpack.

[@stephenmandelbaum2027]

I agree, I quite like the player aesthetic.

[@DJDilemma1]

Love the analogy.

[@MrzodiacBE]

Jup

[@nanob0zo]

Well said.

[@johnchedsey1306]

I'm not particularly "skilled" when it comes to making music, other than my ears knowing when something sounds good vs not. These tools make it a lot easier to get from "sounding like crap" to something listenable. It's so rewarding to be able to express myself musically, given that it was entirely impossible pre computer era.

[@soviut303]

It cannot be overstated how inspiring the Reason player devices are. The way they encourage experimentation is second to none.

[@Kaitain]

I've been using the Scales & Chords player for chords sequences for years now and it taught me loads. But just recently I got to the point where I often want to go outside of diatonic chord sets.. then this player arrives. It looks like a dream come true!

[@ReasonStudios]

So glad to hear that!

[@overseastom]

I don't know much about music theory and this player definitely looks fun to use, but I thought you could *already* pick other types of scales in the Scales & Chords player, by just using the roll-down where you can select Lydian, etc. Am I missing the meaning of your comment somehow?

[@Kaitain]

​@@overseastom Yes, that dropdown is for the scales, but it doesn't affect the chords so much. The chords are still largely diatonic I think. I've been watching David Bennett's excellent videos about chord sequences recently (kzbin.infovideos), and I noticed how many chord sequences there are that Scales & Chords can't do without going in and editing lots. It looks like this player could do any of those chord sequences.

[@SsgtHolland]

Functional and simple...with room to make it endlessly complicated. Reason Studio's reclaimed their core business.

[@ReasonStudios]

🥰 Thanks for that lovely comment!

[@Caelo_music]

When you think they already covered all MIDI effects but then BLG and Chord generator drop, and they are instantly good. Excellent job, again the UI looks super nice and intuitive. Cheers to the Reason team

[@ReasonStudios]

Thank you!

[@EmlynInTheMix]

This looks like a lot of fun and quite different from all the other chord progression programs available. Well done Reason you keep getting better!!

[@freshkidblaze]

I'm glad we can enter our own chords, this is a dope learning tool ⚡️⚡️.

[@RobertClark11]

I love the way this player updates paths to next chords after each chord choice is played. It loads with ID8 so you can get started immediately figuring out your progressions. I was addicted to it immediately.

[@t-y-s7726]

Just had to login on youtube. Only for give Reason Studios the thumbs up on this one. I'll download the trial but I really think it will help. Moving on. Grtz

[@toshea1980]

I was skeptical when I heard that Reason was adding another Chord player, but watching this reveal made me reconsider my position. There's no way to musically complain about this implementation of how to interconnect chord structures. This is probably gonna be an instabuy for me, and a whole lot of inspiration to follow.

[@ReasonStudios]

Glad to hear it!!!

[@davidsaurel4012]

Yes for me too

[@barringtonjohnson6569]

@@ReasonStudios is it only native to reason?

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@barringtonjohnson6569 What do you mean?

[@barringtonjohnson6569]

@@HOLLASOUNDS what I mean was: does it work in any DAW?

[@huxlee3947]

I've been in love with Reason since 2.5. I tried some other DAWs, but those were just meaningless one-night stands. As someone who manually typed code for music software back in 1989, as a 10yo, on C-64, Reason is my dream come through. Till death tear us apart.

[@MatsumuriMedia]

Tracks are flowing so much faster with this thing... and I have not even started combining it with other players yet... I am going to lose hours to this! Keep up the great work I am loving the direction you guys are heading! You have one very happy customer over here.

[@ReasonStudios]

So glad to hear that! Making more and better music is our number one goal here so that's what we love to hear!

[@SuperSaltMine]

This aids my creative process more than anything else you could have developed. Very excited.

[@micromando4669]

Finally!!! It feels like i’ve been waiting for this a lifetime or at least since the chords player came out. Now i can get way faster to find the chords my head is demanding, without fiddling around too long, loosing inspiration! I love you guys 💙

[@gabrielegelfofx]

Finally all chord packs advertising on KZbin are ended. Great job Reason!

[@ReasonStudios]

👀

[@song23ministries]

I'm soooooo encouraged ! Thank you Reason for helping me make music for the KING.... Jesus.

[@hectorheckler6327]

Reason has just become a lot more relevant to me than ever before. I can't wait to try that chord sequencer.🔥

[@Chrisreedbeats]

Listen, THIS changes everything!!!! Thank you RS for this awesome player!!

[@davids736]

I have literally just added this to my Reason+ - the best twenty quid a month I have ever spent! I have been banging on about Reason from day 1, and it is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Most DAWs do the same things essentially, but Reason+ is a completely different beast altogether. It is packed full of the most incredible synths and effects, and the suite of Players just keeps on getting better and better. I'm working right this very moment, but I can't wait to get my teeth stuck into this latest addition. A massive thank you from me to the Reason Studios - dere er bare best!! 👍👍🙂🙂❤❤

[@ReasonStudios]

THANK YOU!

[@kjwworldwide]

I watched this video like a child watching his favorite tv show. This looks amazing, I am a total geek for these players

[@kevinphillips6333]

One of my fave things from the discontinued Figure App was the ability to transpose your phrase using the circle of fifths chord map. I'm glad you guys revisited it for Reason. :)

[@jnee]

I remember thinking that with PolyStep and Scales&Chords I had all the bases covered. but yet again I'm stunned at how useful this is

[@FrootyRecords]

Just downloaded. I have to say guys you really surpassed yourselves this time! . Amazing, Intuitive and totally inspiring. Song writing block?. Gone!

[@PaulOrtiz]

Yeah super cool - Chords and Scales is great but tricky when you need to break out of key. This solves that problem nicely. Some tips! - Sequence your chords and then change chord sets for unexpected results - If you're triggering your chord changes by MIDI, you can use the F8 tool box to Alter the notes and get unexpected progressions - Quad Note Generator in chromatic mode (with a limited note range) can auto-generate random progressions from the selected chord set. - One for the patch-heads; you can feed all your chord changes (including custom edits) to multiple Player stacks by using CV Player Tap (free). Just put one directly underneath Chord Sequencer, and one at the top of the target Player Stack, and connect all 16 Gate/Note Outs, to Ins. You can go from the Outs of the second CV Player Tap, into a third, fourth, fifth, etc.

[@usedusermoser]

Lord Paul, please a video of this on your channel!

[@robertoorozco4545]

Man, this sounds so helpful, but I don't know what it means since I am new to Reason and music. If you ever get the time, would you pretty please upload a video explaining what you mean? Although, I do understand some words like MIDI, Sequencer,...Chords...box. Thank you for the explanation either way, I'm sure the people who know how to use Reason were helped out by your comment. Ty and take care!

[@owakulukem]

Yes, finally!! This is what I’ve been waiting for. I can finally get the music I hear out of my head and into Reason. Thank you for this player, I will be using this on nearly every song. Super excited about this player!!

[@somuchfortalent]

Sold. Keep focusing on getting back to your roots--stability, efficiency, quality devices, and fun. Reason has a lot to offer.

[@pitabread79]

These videos are always so good. They’re the extra bit of spice on top of what’s already the best DAW, and it’s constantly improving

[@allenalesna]

If you know music theory, this will accelerate your workflow by a factor of 10. On the other hand, if you don't know music theory, this could accelerate your learning to it given the right fundamentals. Awesome tool in the box. Happy to get first dibs.

[@wakegary]

This one is huge. Love it.

[@MellowXBrew]

Entering your own chords is where this thing is gonna fly for me. This thing builds bridges!

[@alfaxysm]

Where has this been all my life?? This RE is exactly what I've dreamed about and I want to thank you for making it come true! As always the user experience is so straightforward it's mindblowing. I've just bought Chord Sequencer and after a few minutes of trying it out I already feel like I'm making banger after banger - the device is super fun to explore, experiment with, and the best thing about it is that you pretty much can't make mistakes with it!

[@mrwilliejacksonjr]

This is really innovative! Reason Studios, through their players, is making it easy for an artist to be creative. You could literally let all their players make the beat for you! Best DAW ever! They won't appreciate this company until later in life. I'm a give my 💐 now.

[@branchpizza]

I remember when this kind of stuff would be free as part of reason. Oh really I have the latest version but I have a chance to buy a device for £50 on sale for a short time?? Thank you for your generous offer

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

New devices where not on sale during the 3rd off sale.

[@hottroundzproductions]

Right after they charged us for a fake upgrade

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@hottroundzproductions It wasn't a fake upgrade but nothing like the Reason 10 upgrade which come with Grain, Europa and a load of other stuff, I think those days are gone.

[@hottroundzproductions]

@@HOLLASOUNDS they charged $129 or $199 for a GUI update and a $10 sampler. No VST3 like they said and now they charge for this player?? Absolute fake upgrade.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@hottroundzproductions By $10 sampler you are referring to the WAVEs VST Which are very similar in function? ReasonStudios prices are kinda to high I agree but there trying to compete with alot of other brands that are more more expensive.

[@paulbrazel5027]

Already playing round and loving the results. As others have said, it's an excellent learning tool.

[@ReasonStudios]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@XSalador]

This is truly fantastic 👍. Hats off to the Reason Crew 🔥

[@jojokiwi1888]

The humanize part is deeply appreciated!

[@ThatsMistaTwistToYou]

I watched the video several times before going to buy this for my Reason 11 suite. So good!

[@marshallcolin71]

1- this is DOPE!! 2-What I would LOVE to see is a tutorial for how to use that CV out to trigger the bass line. That would change a lot of things for me!

[@ReasonStudios]

THANKYOU! Regarding bassline and CV out, this was covered here kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGvfmaFp7mpi8U

[@thesonuvman333]

This right here is what I've been looking for all my Life LOL!!! Gratitude...

[@chris5375]

It’s a shame that my full Reason 12 license is worth a penny, chord sequencer is not included in Reason 12

[@chris5375]

I will stick with my Cubase 12 license, cause this Chord Pad thing is implemented and already to go without any costs.

[@AgentsofRush]

Yep agree. All should have been added to reason 12 update not only for + users.

[@EannaButler]

Nah, Reason never produced devices such as this for free for existing licence holders. The idea of getting everything new that's released is a significant part of the reason why someone would want to pay the subscription cost. So as a licence hold, I'm OK with paying for a device like this. Especially one of the Reason-produced Players - they're uniformly excellent devices, and with Reason as a Plugin, you get all this goodness in your favourite DAW...

[@wakegary]

Yea, you have to pay for this product

[@DonVincenzooGame]

i pay 19 per month and i am happy to have everything ! and i am more able to pay 19 every month and stop when i want instead of paying full licence that i was never able to buy

[@KingGrio]

I gotta say Reason comes up with great new ideas, instead of reinventing old synths or copying old ideas.

[@ReasonStudios]

Thank you for those kind words!

[@nebstaism]

This is dope ...I’m thankful 🔥🔥🔥but please reason we’re missing out so bad not being able to use vst3 in reason... please get that sorted ASAP!!!

[@usedusermoser]

Read the blog dude, enjoy the present moment.

[@soundsfromYYBY]

Vst3!!!! They have to many effects and instruments lol

[@hottroundzproductions]

@@usedusermoser the blog is all lies, they took our upgrade money and didn’t do shit. Wake up ffs

[@OmkaraHellcore]

You've outdone yourselves again. Amazing.

[@baron5978]

This is yet another nugget of gold. Love it!

[@KoasDistro]

I can't wait to have a play. I bet I'll have another song ready soon....

[@MarcSwing]

Nice! But you should have kept the strum function that you had on the prototype in your blog and it would be perfect!

[@NiharSavala]

I agree. that would have been very helpful.

[@WendyDunham]

Reason Studios,you are rockin’ the casbah with this Chord Sequencer, and previously with the Bassline Generator! Wonderful music tools.

[@ReasonStudios]

Thank you Wendy!

[@SMEL]

Well done reason!!! Glad to see a human touch knob and alternative and unorthodox chord choices ... 🙌🏾 looking forward to see what i can do with this!!!

[@Milan____]

Seeing this, I love it, but I immediately have a feature request: I'd love for it to have a CV note cable for 3rd, 5th, and... maybe some other. While this could be done manually by bouncing the MIDI and editing it, of course, having these separated to other instruments would make it drastically easier to do 4-part writing, or orchestrating for strings, or wind sections for that matter.

[@Milan____]

Actually, now that I think about it, that would be great as a separate Player, since I've had this "problem" also with Dual Arp, Lectric Panda's Evolution and Aggregate, and PolyStep too. It would be very useful as a player, but also have its uses if it came as a feature in the (DAW) sequencer.

[@happyfreeky]

Wow. Thank you thank you thank you. I’ve been wishing for something like this for the past week so that I can compose some piano pieces - at least until I can get my hands on a midi keyboard

[@briandunk6956]

This is exactly what I needed. Cannot wait to try this out.

[@docjoesweeney]

Ok. This is very, very cool. I've been disappointed with Reason's direction of late, and cancelled renewal of my 12+ subscription. However, I reinstated it with the intro of the baseline generator, which when combined with the various drum tools and players is pretty good. This addition looks super exciting. I still want Reason to address its woeful MIDI interface, but I will give credit where its due.

[@stapizo]

YAY ! Wasn't expecting the new player to come so quickly ! Looks fantastic as always, smart and fun to play as always... Only need a few performance tweeks for macbooks, native compatibility of reason DAW on M1 and I'll be the happiest musician there is. Keep it up and thanks for your hard work reason team !

[@_20nine_]

what a great surprise.. especially after hearing you can adjust timing. Very cool guys

[@steuph1976]

Part of me loves these players, this one I feel I'm going to use it all the time. The user experience work done on these (and all recent devices like Alogritm, Mimic, the vocoder...) is phenomenal. You're still making some of the best music software ever. Another part of me is dreaming of a completely redesigned Reason with the same UX magic.

[@arothmanmusic]

I just discovered “Reason Rewards” tonight. Aaaaaaand they’re gone. Looking forward to playing with this!

[@MrzodiacBE]

My first reaction when I heard this was coming: "oh, another chord generator". My reaction seeing this video "wooooooow, wait". Going to test it out now!!!

[@djdavique]

This looks (and sounds) sweet!

[@usedusermoser]

Staaapp it please, I ❤️ you Reason. This is awesome! Just a thought if you could add the humanise function to the existing keys and chords player, that would be a killer update!

[@lokologico]

Love it! Reason is a great tool for me when it comes to generative music ! This is going to come in handy !

[@ErikHawk]

Wow, this is very cool. I especially like how you can see the chord voicings on the player and be learning chords/music theory at the same time!

[@ReasonStudios]

Thank you!

[@djsilent01]

Also, if you still have rewards points, you can use them towards this player. You actually made me smile today RS.!!! Good Job.

[@ajosean]

This was perfect... I didn't know I had reward points... turns out this is almost $25 bucks after the rewards... the price I wanted to pay! Sweet!

[@arothmanmusic]

What / where are reward points?!

[@jrvinwav]

bruhh, this player is revolutionary for the rack plugin. other daw users will be really compelled to get reason rack now.

[@ReasonStudios]

🤩

[@AkatsukiBK]

The actual sequencer lane automatically makes this a must have for me. Picking it up today.

[@blueeyedboxer20008]

Now I'm excited, take my money! 😍

[@MentalSideBeats]

Awesome! Would be nice to have a similar tool, but a quantizer, i.e. to quantize incoming midi not just to one specific scale, but to a chord progression. Been sequencing several scales&chords for that

[@beatzbyjay24]

I just bought mine with my reward points i feel like a kid in guitar center again lol very happy and i was messing with this earlier its alot of fun

[@miltmanmusic_BCS]

Alright now this is dope with endless possibilities.

[@theclassick1]

This just eliminated writer's block. 🔥❤🔥❤🔥💯

[@BiggVic]

I like what I'm seeing Reason!!! 🔥

[@ReasonStudios]

Yooo Vic, glad to hear it! Can't wait to see what you cook up with this!

[@BiggVic]

@@ReasonStudios It's for sure coming!! 🎹

[@t.m.pompey]

This changes everything.Thank you all.

[@michaelihde]

What a great idea! That thing as a touchscreen (kinda keybord) as a hardware on my desk to play in diffrent DAW's that would be great. i would be the first to buy it ;)

[@wonderboy75]

But why do I need this when I just bought the Midi chord pack advertised on KZbin? Just kidding! This looks really dope Reason Studios!

[@xvicermusic]

🤯🤯🤯🤯 This is the game changer I’ve been looking to see come true for a long time!

[@NerdisticTouch]

As a musician and also a software developer by profession this has got to be the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a while. Y’all got some sick code mad lads up there at Reason Studios. 🤝🏾 best daw this !!! Worth every cent of mine lol.

[@titancreativemedia5675]

Yeah this is the one right here!!! That sequencer is nice!

[@MFPRODUCTIONSCHANNEL]

This looks great! 👏

[@Russplight]

How do the guys at Reason make these intuitive GUI that makes you want to make music. EXCELLENT job!

[@ReasonStudios]

Thank you!!!

[@pwrtrace]

Loving this, I struggle with chords and this is a life saver and learning tool. Thanks props :)

[@ReasonStudios]

Happy to help!

[@seanmurrayguitar]

Pleasure to be involved in the music for this! ❤️

[@ReasonStudios]

You smashed it as always!

[@fabiofazzi6720]

This looks like awesome... can't wait to test it (when can we get the full Reason+ Apple silicon version? ;-) )

[@decideriobeats690]

So excited for this! I love chords and now it’s gonna be fun to make some new progressions

[@exyl_sounds]

looks sick! is this available as a VST?

[@ReasonStudios]

Chord Sequencer is not available standalone but Reason itself is available as a VST-the Reason Rack Plugin, in which you can use Chord Sequencer together with all the other devices in the Reason Rack.

[@jazzsong8566]

Gorgeous! Ryan, are you please going to make one of ❤️YOUR❤️ videos teaching us a lot of stuff on this device? 🙏

Great one.

[@josearroyave7102]

Wow! Finally the called Reggeaton Producers can add more than 3 basic chords in their songs! 😄 Amazing Tool! Thanks Reason

[@Rome.Monroe]

I can see this being useful.

[@DerLieDer]

Nice! Very interesting für people who aren't good at music theory. Nevertheless, I think that even people who are already good in music theory can be inspired by the Chord Sequencer! Thank you Reasonstudios! Best DAW in my opinion! Much love from germany 🧡

[@carlrowlinson2833]

Reason looked at Captain Chords and were just like "hold my beer"

[@rob.parsnips]

This looks so cooool 🎉

[@AGDugros]

I'm a Reason user and a pro musician (as you can see on my Channel) but in some case can be useful this new Reason module.

[@Sidegigging]

Wow this is awesome 🔥 thanks Reason 💯

[@2tallcharles99]

This is good for people who resisted GAS and didn't buy a Roland J-6. I've been working on making the J-6 chords into presets for Cthulhu and the MPC progressions and if anyone is interested, I'll probably do the same for Chord Sequencer.

[@JAEFORDbeats]

Stoked on this! When is the livestream?! Because I NEED to see what Mattias knows about it that we don’t yet.

[@ReasonStudios]

It's on Friday! Link here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGvfmaFp7mpi8U

[@rockhills]

I downloaded this right away. There's something about this chord sequencer that makes me "play" chords differently than others I've used. I wish however that there was a an option to switch the keyboard layout instead of the 16 pad looking layout. I also wish after sending to track that it didn't blank everything out. I found myself bypass all to find out what chords were playing. I also wish it could send root bass note to it's own track. Not complaining but man they did a great job with this player. I was never quite as interested in the Scales and Chords player as I have been with this Chord Sequencer. Yeah it's pretty cool.

[@ReasonStudios]

Glad you're enjoying it and thanks for the feedback. If you flip the device you'll see handy little Root Note CV Out there which you can use to send the root notes out to create an accompanying bassline!

[@rockhills]

@@ReasonStudios So I can’t quite figure out how to record those root notes to the bass device sequencer. I must be doing something wrong I just haven’t figured out what.

[@NB-qq8wo]

This is AMAZING!!

[@demonwright]

Instant buy. Awesome 😍

[@resonatestudiohub]

Oh, yeah, Reason! Now we are talking!

[@dwaynemusik]

Needs to have a strum feature and random note velocity would be great if it was like ripchord or scaler 2

[@bigtimemad]

I can't wait to get home tonight after work and download this. Omg 😜😜

[@ReasonStudios]

Share with us what you make!!

[@bigtimemad]

@@ReasonStudios i will