I’ve personally used Propellerhead’s Reason for several years now, and love it. The software is well priced, the interface is intuitive, and the overall sound is pretty darn good. Maybe not equal to the final polishing of Pro Tools, but for a fraction of the cost. And you can always choose to an engineer to master your music at a professional studio with nice outboard gear

The big news in this upgrade, is that they have now added the audio recording and editing features previously available as Record v1.5 . Also in the new version, several creative effects including; the ‘Pulveriser‘, a bit-crushing effect with compression and distortion; ‘The Echo‘, an echo with modern delay and analog tape echo emulation; and the ‘Alligator‘, a three band pattern gate. Combining those elements with it’s already impressive built in sound modules, effects and processors means one thing… watch out Ableton.

From the official Propellerhead press release, “With version 6 Reason reclaims the spotlight. Combining all the features from Record, version 6 adds audio recording and editing into Reason, along with Propellerhead’s acclaimed mixing console with masterfully modeled EQ and dynamics on every channel, multiple parallel racks, all the effects you know and love plus new ones to fall in love with, and much more of what you’ve always wanted in Reason.”

Reason 6 will retail for $449, upgrades from versions 1-5 of Reason will cost $169, and this will all be released on September 30th, 2011. For more information on Reason 6, plus other products and upgrade options, check out http://www.propellerheads.se/products/

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Swedish music software company Propellerheads announced a dual new release a few weeks back. Reason, the company’s all-in-one virtual studio, has moved into version 5, and it’s new direct audio recording tool, Record, gets an upgrade to 1.5 status.

Reason has been around for 10 years, and has been touted as an essential tool by many industry greats and contemporary producers. The virtual studio rack included drum machines, sound modules, samplers, effects and processors, and now, KONG Drum Designer. It also has new structuring and workflow tools such as Blocks, and an upgrade of their Dr Rex sample chopper to Dr Octo Rex. Check the video below for a preview of KONG…

Record gives you unlimited audio tracks and mixing effects. it was designed with musicians in mind, not audio engineers. Making the creative process easier and faster, so that you can be humming a melody one minute and recording your guitar part the next, sounds like a hugely positive idea that I can definitely relate to. The new version includes voice synthesis from Neptune – a pretty powerful tool, and one that has wide uses in the recording industry. For more info, here’s the Record video…

On a personal note – I am a Reason user, but after researching this blog post I cannot wait to purchase the upgrade and get into the new features, along with the accompanying live audio possibilities with Record.

Feel free to share your tips, tricks and questions in the comments.

by Lee Jarvis.

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Looking for something to help you find Music Jobs in LA? Want to learn new skills to help get more out of your music?

Top artists and producers share their secrets at The Producers Conference, a broad set of creative clinics and interactive classes for computer musicians. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get the inside track on advanced production techniques, song writing, mixing methods and more.

The Producers Conference, Los Angeles, USA
November 14th, 2009. 1 PM to 6 PM. Doors open at 12:30 PM.
King King
6555 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028 (map)

Get Your Ticket Now!
Tickets are $30.00.

Conference Schedule

1:00-1:10pm – Gerry Bassermann
Record: Design Concept and Interface – Creating with ‘flow’
Gerry Bassermann lays out the why, what and how behind the development of Propellerhead’s recently released Record software. Discover what makes Record so powerful yet transparent.

1:15-2:00pm – Matt Piper
Unleashing Creativity with Record
Line 6’s Propellerhead Product Specialist Matt Piper will demonstrate how he stream-lines his creative workflow while offering arrangement tips-n-tricks; covering Record’s arrange window contextual tools and navigation, comping editor, groundbreaking tempo control, multiple racks, new devices, Line 6 technology, Reason integration and enhancements, file and audio formats, new authorization paradigm, and more.

2:00-2:50 – Artist Discussion
The presenters discuss topics like: maintaining creativity during production, careers and roles in the music biz, and answer questions from the audience.

3:00-3:50 pm – Kurt Kurasaki (aka Peff)
Signal Flow and Effects in Record
Peff discusses his development work on Record, especially the creation of many of the insert effect combinators and the design concepts behind this part of the Record Sound Bank. He’ll demonstrate the processing power of the mixer channel strip in combination with these insert effects and show how to clarify and enhance music tracks.

4:00-6:00 pm – Artist Presentations

About The Presenters

Gerry Bassermann
Gerry Bassermann is Propellerheads Director of North American Markets and an accomplished musician. He holds several degrees in music composition and performance and currently owns and operates OpusNine ( a project studio in the Los Angeles Bay area). For over twenty years, he has worked for many prominent music companies, as a product designer, demonstrator and musical consultant.

Matt Piper
Matt Piper, author of Reason 4 Ignite, is Line 6’s Propellerhead Product Specialist. Piper is an accomplished musician who makes innovative use of Propellerhead software for music production as well as for live performances with improvisational groups and DJ’s in the thriving underground electronic music scene in Los Angeles.

Peff (aka Kurt Kurasaki)
Kurt Kurasaki, author of Power Tools for Reason 3.0, is a noted Reason user with credits in Keyboard and Computer Music Magazines. He also works with Propellerhead Software as a sound designer and tutorial developer. Known as Peff throughout the Online ReBirth and Reason Communities, Kurt is one of the originators of ReBirth Mods.

Joe Solo
Joe Solo is a composer, producer, and songwriter for his own company Solo Productions, Inc. Previously he served as a composer for BMG’s Killer Tracks, Fox Sports, and worked as a songwriter/composer for Paramount’s Famous Music Publishing. Solo also co-wrote two hit songs, Sweet baby and Glad You’re Here, with Grammy Award winning artist Macy Gray and is currently working on a song for her new album, to be released in 2010.

Michael Elsner
Michael Elsner’s professional career began in 1998 when he moved to Nashville,TN. He began working on projects with such artists as Michael McDonald, Sixpence None The Richer, and Jon Anderson from YES to name just a few. During the four and a half years spent in Nashville, Elsner toured with various artists and in the studio producing and/or playing on countless sessions.

Since June of 2003, Michael Elsner has been living in Los Angeles, CA, where he have played on sessions for Miramax Films, Chrysalis Music Publishing, and various television, album and film projects. Select examples of these include the Ella Enchanted soundtrack, The Ex List, The Young & The Restless, and The Bold & the Beautiful. He have signed publishing deals with a number production music libraries and Elsner’s songs have been placed in various television shows and commercials, including High School Musical 2, Hannah Montana, CBS’s Cold Case, Beyond the Break, ABC’s ‘TV’s All-Time Funniest,’ History Channel’s ‘Modern Marvels,’ Baywatch, ESPN, as well as commercials for Audi, Mazda and Rent Way.

I hope that some Music Jobs Blog readers will be interested in this event. Please report back here if you attend!

Lee Jarvis.

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