Propellerhead Record 1.5 + Reason 5 Now Available; What’s New & What It Will Cost You

Propellerhead Software has released the updated Record 1.5 and Reason 5, which add new instruments, effects, sequencing, sounds, patches and more.

Her’s a quick guide to what’s new and what it will cost you.

Propellerhead Reason 5 & Record 1.5 Highlights:

The new Kong Drum Designer and Dr. Octo Rex loop player extend Reason’s instrument arsenal to help musicians get phenomenal sounding rhythms, drums tracks and beats.

Reason 5 and Record 1.5 add a whole new take on sequencing: Blocks—build songs parts like patterns and string them together for lightening fast arranging with the ability to freely go back and forth between pattern and linear modes.

Neptune, a pitch correction tool and amazing voice synthesizer, turns less than perfect performances into great ones in no time. Simply play new harmonies on a MIDI keyboard for instant backing vocals. Live sampling into all sample capable devices means any musician can use samples in a new and playful manner, discovering the lost art of creative sampling. The Expanded Factory Sound Bank, doubling in size, plus added signature sound designers’ patches, inspire new arrangements and compositions. Multi core optimization, an on-screen keyboard and tempo scaling of clips top the list of additional improvements.

Check out the details below and let us know what you think about Propellerhead Reason 5 & Record 1.5! Continue reading

Propellerhead Reason + Record Tutorial Explains Blocks

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This official Propellerhead tutorial takes a look at using Blocks in Reason 5 and Record 1.5.

via PropellerheadSW:

In this microtutorial we’ll build up a track – starting from an 8 bar loop – and ending with a full song structure all thanks to Blocks, the pattern-based workflow feature in Reason 5 and Record 1.5.

Blocks is a quick way to brainstorm, experiment, arrive at an idea and take it to the next level of arrangement and production.

Warning: This Free Propellerhead Reason Kong Tutorial May Make You Blow Coffee Out Your Nose!

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Propellerhead seems to have had a lot of fun with their latest ‘micro tutorial’ for Kong in the upcoming Reason 5.

Watch out – one bit in particular may have you blowing coffee out your nose. Continue reading

Free Reason Tutorial On Live Sampling

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This free Reason tutorial, via PropellerheadSW, takes a look at Live Sampling in Reason 5 & Record 1.5:

If it was good for Trevor Horn, The Beastie Boys, and pretty much every pioneering producer in the last 30 years… then it’s good for us too. Live Sampling is back in Reason 5 and Record 1.5.

But before you start pitching your burp noises up 3 octaves we thought we’d teach you the basics of the process.

Secrets Of The Propellerheads

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This official video is pretty glossy, but it does offer some interesting insight into Propellerhead Software and the origins of ReBirth, Reason & Record.

Seeing the precursors to ReBirth is especially interesting.

The second half of the video turns into a fairly standard promo for Reason 5 and Record 1.5.