Reason 11 announced!!!

[paradiddle]

Yep, cool update! definitely upgrading.

[gentleclockdivider]

Happy to hear you're interested in using Players as MIDI FX in your DAW though, definitely a good idea.

Please consider that - there's NOTHING as powerful and easy like QNG, PolyStep or Delta MIDI Computer in VST world (I really searched).

You didn't search hard enough
It's called loomer architect

[EnochLight]

Here's an actual verified list of all features in 11:


Reason Rack Plugin

• Reason 11 comes with Reason Rack Plugin, a plugin version of Reason's rack with all the devices included for use in any DAW. Fully compatible with your Rack Extensions and patch compatible with all devices and Combinators.

Devices

• Sweeper Modulation Effect, an advanced phaser/flanger/filter with extensive modulation options for both classic and crazy modulation.
  
• Quartet Chorus Ensemble, four flavors of chorus and ensemble effects from bread-and-butter widening to experimental effects.
  
• Master Bus Compressor, the compressor from Reason's mixer available as a rack device. Perfect for a drum bus.
  
• Channel Dynamics, the dynamics section from Reason's mixer. Add modeled compression, gating or expansion to any sound—try it in a Combinator.
  
• Channel EQ, the EQ section from Reason's mixer. Combine with the Channel Dynamics for a complete channel strip you can use anywhere in your signal chain.

Workflow and technical improvements

• Curved automation, simply drag the line between two automation points up or down to curve the line.
• Crossfades, overlap two audio clips and either choose Crossfade from the context menu or press the X key to crossfade. Drag the crossfade to adjust.
• Improved zoom, you can now drag the sequencer track dividers to adjust the vertical size of the track. Tracks can have individual sizes and the Zoom to Selection function can now zoom both horizontally and vertically.
• Mute MIDI notes, use the Mute Tool or press M to mute selected MIDI notes.
• New Pencil Tool mode, use the new multi-note Pencil to quickly draw a series of notes at the same resolution as your snap value. You can quickly toggle between the two modes by pressing Ctrl (Win) or Option (Mac) when using the Pencil tool.
• Absolute Snap, a new setting in the inspector that always snaps what you're moving to the grid.
• Key visualization, in Edit Mode you will now see both played and selected MIDI notes in the piano roll to easier see what's going on.
• Octave shortcut, using cmd+shift+up/down (Mac) or ctrl+shift+up/down (Win) to quickly move selected MIDI notes up or down in octave increments.
• Draw automation point at same level, hold Shift while drawing a new automation point to place it on the existing automation line
• Bug fixes (to be detailed)

Source:

https://forum.reasontalk.com/viewtopic. ... 32#p460232

[DrGonzo]

Reason rack within Live?
Mind. Blown.

Absolutely getting this.

/C

[antic604]

• Key visualization, in Edit Mode you will now see both played and selected MIDI notes in the piano roll to easier see what's going on.
• Octave shortcut, using cmd+shift+up/down (Mac) or ctrl+shift+up/down (Win) to quickly move selected MIDI notes up or down in octave increments.

There's God after all!

[Johnny!]

Not very much for people not interested in using other daws... those workflow improvements are soooo needed but damn, not for €129 - and there’s not really much more to justify upgrade from R10

[Aloysius]

What next? Reason 12?

[Lotuz2019]

So if ReWire is gone, how will you use Reason running that song file in combination with another DAW? Is that still somehow possible with Reason 11 or do you have to use a previous version of Reason?

Can you ReWire Reason 11 with other DAW hosts?

No, ReWire has been discontinued in Reason 11. If you have projects that use ReWire, you can keep your previous version of Reason installed alongside Reason 11. Otherwise, we suggest that you use Reason Rack Plugin instead,

See the text in bold, which answers your question.

May I conclude from all of this that the majority of people who use Reason together with another DAW actually prefer the DAW over Reason to combine the VST plugins with Reason devices?

And would you be able to open Reason 11 (or later) song files in Reason 10? Because if you have made a song in Reason 11 (or later) that combines VST plugins with Reason devices and you want to connect Reason to another DAW (like you could before with ReWire), then what would you do?

Don't get me wrong, the Reason Rack VST looks great, but I doubt it's a direct replacement of ReWire.

[Benutzername]

Will the VST also do sampling?

[Greenstorm33]

I'd buy the rack plugin for ~half the price of Reason Standard. Just throwing that out there.

[tincture]

I'd buy the rack plugin for ~half the price of Reason Standard. Just throwing that out there.

 

Just buy Reason 11 Intro for 69 tokens. All you lose is Grain, Malstrom and a few others you'd never use anyway

[DrEntropy]

This VST / AU version of Reason Rack is something I had been hoping to see for a long time. Rewire is just too clunky and limited. My use of Reason has been therefore also more and more limited over time. I am looking forward to bringing these tools back into my toolkit

[Greenstorm33]

I'd buy the rack plugin for ~half the price of Reason Standard. Just throwing that out there.

 

Just buy Reason 11 Intro for 69 tokens. All you lose is Grain, Malstrom and a few others you'd never use anyway

I'm definitely going to do this as I have a couple nice REs (Expanse!) from when I was trying to Rewire Reason to my main DAW before deciding the workflow was just too clunky. But, I'd pay more to have the full device collection.

[antic604]

I'd buy the rack plugin for ~half the price of Reason Standard. Just throwing that out there.

 

Just buy Reason 11 Intro for 69 tokens. All you lose is Grain, Malstrom and a few others you'd never use anyway

What?! Grain is the best granular synth - no VST compares. Being able to finally run it in Bitwig or Cubase is the thing that excites me the most

[Biscotto]

I'd buy the rack plugin for ~half the price of Reason Standard. Just throwing that out there.

 

Just buy Reason 11 Intro for 69 tokens. All you lose is Grain, Malstrom and a few others you'd never use anyway

What?! Grain is the best granular synth - no VST compares. Being able to finally run it in Bitwig or Cubase is the thing that excites me the most

+1