Studio Owner and Musician

Rock, Ambient, Cinematic, Hip Hop, Indie.

The sound is incredible. There's tons of great sounding instruments to use right out of the box for any genre of music and any level of musician. The SSL mixer inside of Reason gives you a channel strip for each track you create, making it easy to dial in some EQ, remove noises with the expander/gate, compression, etc.

Well the features go on forever. Tons of effects. Tons of instruments. Solid sequencer. Being able to pitch correct vocals directly within Reason's sequencer is so useful and sounds great. Now that there's VST support, the instrument options are almost endless.

I find Reason very easy to use. For the most part, the program stays out of your way when creating music. You can tell Propellerhead has put a lot of effort into make this so. There is some learning curve for sure but that's true with any DAW. I was intimated by the SSL mixer and all the device cabling and routing at first, but that went away after a week. You can find many high-quality tutorials on the Props website, YouTube, and also some paid tutorials that go into greater detail if needed. The documentation on Propellerhead's site is pretty good also.I do think the learning curve with Reason may have some benefits over other DAWs because the entire program is modeled as if you were using real-world outboard gear. You can wire devices, effects, etc using cabling just like you would in the real world. You have the freedom to wire things together how you want, which is great for learning about sound design and experimenting. That knowledge can then translate to other things. I'm no longer intimidated when I look at big studio consoles with thousands of knobs. I have a similar console in my DAW that I use every day, and it's just some EQ, compression, gates, send effects, and some side-chaining (mostly).

Everything within Reason feels and sounds high-quality to me. I have never had Reason crash, not even with over 80 tracks running on an older iMac littered with plugins. The program feels like a lot of time and effort went into making a quality product.

For everything you get, I think this product is actually under-priced when compared to other DAWs.

Any contact I've had with Propellerhead they have always been responsive and friendly.

Real-world hardware cabling and device emulations. It feels like I have a huge professional music studio in my home but without the hassle of running all that gear. I'm always inspired to make music with Reason.

At home music hobbyist for 20 years. Vocals, guitar, piano, drums

Pop/Rock, Indie

At home hobbist.

Guitar and anything a keyboard can do.

pro - 25 years

EBM, ELECTRO

I've been making music for 31 years

Christian