Reason 13 has arrived: Release Notes

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Post 18 Jun 2024

https://www.reasonstudios.com/en/reason ... ease-notes
Reason 13.0.0 Release Notes

General
  • New visual design of the Reason UI
    • New top bar with buttons for Device Palette, Browser, Sequencer, Rack, Mixer, and Help
    • Old area handles replaced with slim dividers
    • Changed all colors in Light and Dark mode, removed Blue mode
  • Ableton Link update
    • Reason now supports Start/Stop sync over Ableton Link
  • MIDI Clock
    • It’s now possible to send MIDI Clock to multiple MIDI Out ports
    • MIDI Clock sent from Reason is now more stable
  • New “Reason Studios” folder in your Music folder for easier organization of your content, including:
    • New ReFills folder to store your ReFills, automatically indexed by Reason’s browser (see below)
    • New User Library folder where patches are saved by default, automatically indexed by Reason’s browser (see below)
  • Improved and re-organized Context Menus
    • Access to new features previously not available on context menu
    • Re-organized and re-grouped for easy access
    • Some Context Menu options now bring up a dialog window with settings, for example Note Tools > Transpose…
  • The Tool Window has been removed, all features moved to the new Edit Area or context menus
  • Optional Refills and devices (i.e. Drum Supply, Loop Supply, Radical Piano, Klang, Pangea, and Humana) are now handled within Reason Companion
  • Updated Companion with a new design

Sequencer
  • New Edit Area
    • The Edit Area is visible at the same time as the main Arrange Area and can be re-sized
    • Double-click/Enter to open clip and zoom its contents to fit Edit Area
    • Single-click/select to open clip and scroll to it in Edit Area without changing zoom
    • MIDI notes can now be joined with the Join menu item or cmd/ctrl+J
    • New edit mode: Audio Overview Edit, the new default for audio clips
    • Razor now snaps to Slice Handles/transients in Audio Overview
    • Speaker Tool is now available in Audio Overview for quick auditioning
    • New shortcut: Opening a selected clip in Edit Area is now “Enter” and showing/hiding Edit Area is now F8.
  • Edit Area Inspector
    • New area with inspectors for all events in the edit area
    • Moved all applicable Tool Window functions to Edit Area next to its related inspector
    • Added “Make Velocity Ramp” to the Edit Area Inspector
  • Zoom improvements
    • Zoom by dragging in the top of the timeline, in both Arrange and Edit Area
    • Pinch Zoom is now possible with trackpads
    • Improved scroll wheel zoom (cmd/ctrl+scroll and shift+cmd/ctrl+scroll)

Browser
  • Device palette
    • Only shows devices and plugins
    • Filter on device categories and formats
    • All Rack Extensions are now categorized
    • Device palette now reads built-in categories for VST3 plugins
    • New shortcut: F3 to open/close Device Palette, cmd/ctrl+F to open and set focus to text field in Device Palette
  • Browser
    • Brand new separate browser with a new design
    • All Locations is now default and shows all browsable files (patches, audio files, MIDI, REX loops) in locations that Reason’s aware of
    • Filter results using any combination of name, category, tag, kind, device type
    • Suggested filters will appear while typing
    • Category and Tag buttons for quick filtering
    • Browse Focus mode and Add Instrument/Effect/Player now loads an item in the background as it’s clicked
    • Users can edit/add tags to content in the browser by right-clicking items
    • Browser window automatically hides when dragging items outside it
    • Improved Favorite List handling—right-click an item to add or remove it from Favorite Lists
    • New shortcut: F9 to open/close browser, cmd/ctrl+F to open and set focus to text field in Browser
    • New shortcut: cmd/ctrl+E to Add Effect.

Devices
  • Ripley Space Delay
  • Polytone Dual-Layer Synthesizer
  • Sidechain Tool
  • Stereo Tool
  • Gain Tool

Sound content
  • All sound content included in Reason and Reason+ is categorized and tagged
  • 1000+ new patches, loops, and samples (1 GB of content)
  • Two new demo songs
  • Updated song templates

Bug fixes
  • General fixes and improvements
And if you haven't already, be sure to check out Ryan's awesome videos :)

Reason 13: Browser and New Workflow Features
Reason 13: Polytone Dual-Layer Synthesizer Walk-through
Reason 13: Ripley Space Delay Walk-through
Reason 13: Sidechain, Gain, and Stereo Tool Walk-Through

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Post 18 Jun 2024

One of the great new features not listed with the new Device palette is the ability to browse and search all plugin categories together :thumbup: Just de-select the categories.

Another improvement is that when toggling between categories in the Device palette, your search term in the text field will remain. So if you search for "Echobode", but then realize that you are in Instruments, you can select Effects and not have to type it again. Or as mentioned above, you can search across all categories.

And... We can now option-click in the Device palette to collapse/expand all :clap:

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Also there's plenty of new shortcuts - and some previous shortcuts have changed. For example;

Ctrl-E now opens Browser, primed to create Effect
F9 opens/closes Editor window
Edit: I mean F8 closes the Editor window (sorry it's changed a few times!)

There's plenty of others which are now described in the context window itself
Get more Combinators, Patches and Resources at the deeplink website

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Post 18 Jun 2024

deeplink wrote:
18 Jun 2024
Also there's plenty of new shortcuts - and some previous shortcuts have changed. For example;

Ctrl-E now opens Browser, primed to create Effect
F9 opens/closes Editor window

There's plenty of others which are now described in the context window itself
It's actually F8 that will open/close the Edit area and F9 is another way to open/close the Browser.

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Post 18 Jun 2024

MattiasHG Stll no VST MIDI
on 27 Jan 2021

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Post 18 Jun 2024

While I own R12, is there any way to try R13 for 30 days?
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_andreypetr_ wrote:
18 Jun 2024
While I own R12, is there any way to try R13 for 30 days?
You can try it by subscribing to Reason+ (this will give you full access). If you haven't subscribed before, the first month is $1.

Or you can download it and run it in demo mode.
Reason 13: https://www.reasonstudios.com/download/reason13/
All versions: https://www.reasonstudios.com/en/reason/updates
More about demo mode here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7525554

In demo mode, you'll be able to check out the new features, but will have some limitations:
- no access to your purchased REs
- you can save but not open projects
- you can't export audio

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Ableton link? Hmm..:think:
Tend the flame

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Before you have a panic, the Gain Tool is listed as a utility not an effect. Don't be like me.

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Post 18 Jun 2024

MIDI Clock

It’s now possible to send MIDI Clock to multiple MIDI Out ports
MIDI Clock sent from Reason is now more stable
Interesting. Wondering if we can send MIDI to multiple outputs other than clock :think: ................ about to find out.

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Aosta wrote:
18 Jun 2024
Ableton link? Hmm..:think:
Yeah, it's dope for various uses

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Is there a upgrade for non subscibe users ? I can't find it, only R+ .
Can I test the Reason 13 RRP with the Demo version ?

Found it :

https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/prod ... 3-upgrade/
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Post 18 Jun 2024

I have Reason+ and I've just installed 13. After installing 13 I went to check that 12 is still working ok, but I'm getting an error message - ''Missing Resource. The application cannot start because a needed resource file is either missing or corrupt. Please reinstall the application.''

Before I run 12's installer I've messaged their Support to double-check that Reason+ users can have both 12 and 13 installed at the same time.

Has anyone else had this? Or are there R+ users on here that have both 12 and 13 installed now, with both of them working ok? Thanks.

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Doesn't seem like much here for the RRP users to justify £199.

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Kypresso wrote:
18 Jun 2024
Doesn't seem like much here for the RRP users to justify £199.
Exactly ! Overpriced and with some ugly bugs too ...

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Post 18 Jun 2024

helmutson wrote:
18 Jun 2024
Exactly ! Overpriced and with some ugly bugs too ...
What new bugs are there in R13?

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Aosta wrote:
18 Jun 2024
Ableton link? Hmm..:think:
Are you not familiar?
https://www.ableton.com/en/link/

Reason has had Ableton Link support since Reason 9.1, but what it has lacked though is Start/Stop support, which it now finally has and is very handy.

Aside from just having apps in sync, whether it's different Reason projects on different machines, or syncing with mobile apps, it makes for a fun and immersive listening experience with devices/sound sources set up in different areas.

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Faastwalker wrote:
18 Jun 2024
MIDI Clock

It’s now possible to send MIDI Clock to multiple MIDI Out ports
MIDI Clock sent from Reason is now more stable
Interesting. Wondering if we can send MIDI to multiple outputs other than clock :think: ................ about to find out.
You could do that already with multiple MIDI out devices. :puf_smile:

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Post 18 Jun 2024

WolfZeit wrote:
18 Jun 2024
I have Reason+ and I've just installed 13. After installing 13 I went to check that 12 is still working ok, but I'm getting an error message - ''Missing Resource. The application cannot start because a needed resource file is either missing or corrupt. Please reinstall the application.''

Before I run 12's installer I've messaged their Support to double-check that Reason+ users can have both 12 and 13 installed at the same time.

Has anyone else had this? Or are there R+ users on here that have both 12 and 13 installed now, with both of them working ok? Thanks.
Hi! This is a bug we caught last minute, Reason 13 changes the shared resources that Reason 12 uses so the last installed version takes precedence. You can re-install Reason 12 at any time and it'll work fine. We're fixing this ASAP in a point update, sorry about that!

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Post 18 Jun 2024

Ottostrom wrote:
18 Jun 2024
helmutson wrote:
18 Jun 2024
Exactly ! Overpriced and with some ugly bugs too ...
What new bugs are there in R13?
This one for example (it was still there in the last R13 Beta, so I guess nothing is changed) :

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=7527591

I use only the RRP and that is really annoying ...

Not a new bug .

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Post 18 Jun 2024

MattiasHG wrote:
18 Jun 2024
WolfZeit wrote:
18 Jun 2024
I have Reason+ and I've just installed 13. After installing 13 I went to check that 12 is still working ok, but I'm getting an error message - ''Missing Resource. The application cannot start because a needed resource file is either missing or corrupt. Please reinstall the application.''

Before I run 12's installer I've messaged their Support to double-check that Reason+ users can have both 12 and 13 installed at the same time.

Has anyone else had this? Or are there R+ users on here that have both 12 and 13 installed now, with both of them working ok? Thanks.
Hi! This is a bug we caught last minute, Reason 13 changes the shared resources that Reason 12 uses so the last installed version takes precedence. You can re-install Reason 12 at any time and it'll work fine. We're fixing this ASAP in a point update, sorry about that!
Thanks Mattias. So I just reinstalled 12 and yes it's working again (but 13 has stopped working, with the same error). Once you have that bug fixed, am I right in thinking that R+ users can have both 12 and 13 installed simultaneously? Tho not open at the same time of course 🙂

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Post 18 Jun 2024

WolfZeit wrote:
18 Jun 2024
MattiasHG wrote:
18 Jun 2024


Hi! This is a bug we caught last minute, Reason 13 changes the shared resources that Reason 12 uses so the last installed version takes precedence. You can re-install Reason 12 at any time and it'll work fine. We're fixing this ASAP in a point update, sorry about that!
Thanks Mattias. So I just reinstalled 12 and yes it's working again (but 13 has stopped working, with the same error). Once you have that bug fixed, am I right in thinking that R+ users can have both 12 and 13 installed simultaneously? Tho not open at the same time of course 🙂
Yes, that's correct. :)

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Post 18 Jun 2024

MattiasHG wrote:
18 Jun 2024
WolfZeit wrote:
18 Jun 2024


Thanks Mattias. So I just reinstalled 12 and yes it's working again (but 13 has stopped working, with the same error). Once you have that bug fixed, am I right in thinking that R+ users can have both 12 and 13 installed simultaneously? Tho not open at the same time of course 🙂
Yes, that's correct. :)
Brilliant. Thank you 🙂👍🏻

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Post 18 Jun 2024

For me as a R12 owner the main strength of this update appears to be the workflow changes. So I would like to try before I buy the update to make sure the changes work for me. How do I best go about trailing it? Edit: Joey answered this above. I'll try it in demo mode, thanks.
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Post 18 Jun 2024

Hi, so, I've noticed that if I draw a clip in an automation lane and press enter, the clip opens in the sequencer view (which is fine) but there's no grid for the beat division - 16th, 8th or whatever. Plus if I have a note clip open in the edit view and open a controller to add automation, the grid doesn't appear in the controller clip and disappears from the note clip. When I hide the controller clip, the grid is still missing from the note clip until I close out of edit view and re-open it. Hopefully that makes sense.

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