With this Reason+ for students and teachers annual subscription, you get the Reason Rack plug-in and standalone software along with every single synth, drum machine, Player, effect device, guitar amp model and sample that Reason Studios has ever released—and will ever release. That’s over 70 plug-in devices right off the bat, plus weekly new Sound Packs.

What is Included

You can use Reason Rack as a VST3, AU, AAX plug-in, or running on its own as a standalone DAW. Reason is a powerhouse for electronic music makers. As a Reason+ subscriber, you always have access to the latest version with all available updates. The included 70+ instruments and effects have been used to make countless hits—and countless unique sounds. You get them all, as well as any future devices from Reason Studios. By combining them any way you want in the Reason Rack, you can really control your creative expression.

Get inspired by Reason’s weekly sound packs with musical building blocks that go well together. All sounds in the Reason rack are created by world-class sound designers—so you can change them any way you want.

Virtual Studio Rack

At the heart of Reason is a virtual rack where you craft your own sound using Reason’s synthesizers, drum machines, samplers and other organic instruments—along with a large collection of audio and MIDI effects to shape your sound and even the notes you play on your keyboard.

The Rack is a musical playground. Drag an instrument device into the Rack and start playing immediately. Add devices underneath your instrument, like audio effects, and everything is automatically connected and routed together. If you like building custom instrument and effect chains, you’ll love diving deeper into Reason’s Combinator, where your custom device creations can be saved, programmed for your own macro controls—and even configured to have your own custom front panel with knobs, faders, and buttons of your own choosing and your own positioning.

If you love experimenting with modular synthesis and open-ended signal routing, then Reason’s Rack has another advanced dimension for you as well. The back of the Rack is where devices can be cabled together using audio jacks and modular control voltage cables to modulate signals from device to device. The back of the Rack is a true “if you can dream it, you can build it” canvas to explore. But if you’re a front-of-the-rack type of music maker, you’ll appreciate that Reason devices auto-route while you focus on what truly matters: the music.

With a multi-gigabyte supply of synth sounds, sampled instruments, drum kits, loops and effects, Reason's built-in sound bank comes packed with everything you need to make any style of music. The integrated browser helps you quickly find and try thousands of sounds across a huge sound library.

Reason is a Plug-in

Reason 12’s devices are available to users of every DAW running as a VST3, AU and AAX plug-in. Running Reason as a plug-in inside your DAW of choice doesn’t only offer the flexibility to take the Reason Rack wherever you want to take your music making—Reason can also interact with other plug-ins to supercharge them in ways never before possible.

Reason’s Player MIDI effects are a wholly unique take on musical creativity and experimentation. By transforming incoming notes on your keyboard—or by generating their own notes, chords or drum patterns—Reason’s Players have become favorites of the Reason Rack. Reason’s Players can now be set up in your DAW to control other plug-ins in your DAW, bringing the power of Reason’s Players to every instrument plug-in you own.

Adding the Reason Rack Plugin Effect atop your DAW’s mix channels means tapping into Reason’s powerful mix-polishing audio effects. To get that big studio sound, the Channel EQ, Channel Dynamics and legendary Master Bus Compressor devices have been faithfully modeled after the elite SSL 9000 K mixing desk at the center of the world’s top studios. If you want to dirty up your mix channels in the best sense of the word, try out the Audiomatic Retro Transformer’s selection of coloration and tonal shaping effects.

Run Reason as Standalone Software

Running Reason 12 as a standalone software doesn’t just mean you can access the same powerful Reason Rack and the same vast collection of devices. Reason standalone includes its own sequencer and professional mixer, meaning you can bring your ideas to life from exploring new sounds to fully polished, mixed and mastered songs ready for sharing with friends and fans.

Expanding the Reason Rack

While Reason comes with a sizable collection of instruments and effects devices already, some of us are always looking for even more creative options and the inspiration that comes from exploring something new. When you’re ready, Reason’s Rack is expandable with Rack Extensions. Rack Extensions additional Rack device plug-ins built by some of the top instrument and effects developers around the world—from modern effects to vintage instruments and everything in between.