Friktion Modeled Strings: Getting Started in the Reason Rack 

The team at Reason Studios come up with some of the most imaginative musical tools out there - and they don't just sound great but they're also a ton of fun to use. I just decided to come back to it and I can't believe how much it's come on since its early days. Thanks, Ryan, for another inspiring tutorial!

I'm surprised how decisions made by the Reason team a decade ago build more powerful framework with every new release. In love with Reason since 2004

I have all all of their string RE, Refills and instruments but this is truly what I've looking for

Reason is the most useful and FUN collection of audio tools available on the market for the price.

The best rack created since Europa and Grain. If this is in Reason 12, it will be hard not to leave 10 to go to 12 xD (Especially if you add video player support, or at least, a sync with VLC or other video players)

Been using this for a week. Purchased now too. My final verdict? You will not know the power of this plugin until you break it in. It can do anything you want to do with strings. It’s like dialing in reverb, but you are dialing in the exact sound of the strings you want.

I’m excited to get this when I get off work. Reason’s DAW just makes the most sense to me and Ryan has been instrumental in teaching how to use the program. We need more “Ryan’s Quick Tips”.

This new Rack Extension is amazing. Congrats, people at Reason Studios, you did an awesome job!

The way you make every tutorial easy, it's amazing... Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, reason really make things easy. I'm good because of you guys propellerhead.

This has got to be the most expressive and deep string vst I've ever laid my hands on in my studio. I'm still amazed. And I've spent some $$$$ on sample libraries over and over. But, I'm just amazed!!

This is truly inspiring, way beyond the best samples, playing with both hands for maximum expression, so lifelike. . . I´m in. . .

I can't help but salivate over this, sonics and control over so many aspects make it totally seductive to me. Plus, kudos to Ryan for putting together such a concise and musical introduction.

When i got the email and seen this vid, I ran over to my PC and bought it immediately, and i must say i am HAPPY AF with my purchase lol WTG Reason!!!!

This looks INCREDIBLE.

The great Ryan Harlan taking care of business as usual!

Damn! This is what I've been looking for, it's a wow!!!!💗 I'm in love with it. Thank you very much

really nice explantion about how strings work i really appreciate it

This is one sick plugin. Just demoed. I’ll be getting it in the next 3 days.

they out done them self I've been hoping for an instrument like this for 15 years

Wow this looks incredible.

I just love string sounds so this announcement was quite exciting for me

just AMAZING !!! Love you guys!

I absolutely love Friktion!

Great video !

Wow I loved reasons strings as they where but this is stunning.

I have been working on doing quite a lot of this Articulation using Europa & Parsec for Brass & Strings for many albums now but this looks so much better suited overall.

this is the coolest freaking thing all of us have been looking for. a realnlive string player. cept they also made 80 other kick butt instruments. this js 2020s best instrument vst......probably the best instrument in 8 years. I love it. it gives slides and staccato and errors...and plucking and articulatiom and its about the realist string playing program ever.

Fantastic instrument. Well done Reason!!!!!!!

Now this is exciting!

Seaboard Support would ROCK with this thing!!!

This is incredible !

This is GREAT!!!!!

Loved it!! ❤️❤️

Very cool video.

Beautiful!

"is the finger doing the plucking or are they smacking their wood up against it" Now why did I giggle at that. 😁

This is good and cool! Thank you

I definitely need this for one of my songs

This rack looks really good. I’m thinking of getting it.

Nice one!

How is Reason Studio NOT the most Creative DAW of them ALL?!!!! 😲

Amazing... it’s what I am looking for

This... Is awesome!

Excellent! Must have

omg that pluck sequence at 6:28

Ooow...my goodness, this CRAZY AWESOME 👈🏾🧢!!!! The 8th symphony of REASON RACKS RE..🎩😆

Might be their best RE yet!

Love youreason guys

Hella impressed!!

Amazing!!!!!

Looks great! Definitely a well thought out instrument. Are there plans in the future to have coupling of resonating bodies? (like AAS chromaphone, where one can feed into the other, or they simply play in parallel) something like that will be able to exponentially multiply the sound design possibilities of something like this. Thanks!

finally physical modelling is gaining presence in the vst world !!!

Awesome starting at 6:15 OMG

I love how they managed to add the human touch to it. With very little automation, it sounds as if someone is actually playing. It takes a bit of learning though, to create that realistic sound.

Looks and sounds fabulous. Would be great if reason could tightly integrate articulations into the sequencer rather than just key switches.

This looks really good. Thanks for the video and thanks to the company for doing a real synth instrument and not another damned ROMploid one-trick cash cow. When they put their minds to it, they're still great developers. There has been real progress here, despite the silly name change. We're getting on a bit of a roll now. Props to RS for another good rack tool.

DOPE!

I Love Reason. Reason of my Love ? It's simple and it's perfect

You sold me.

I have a feeling the MPE support is coming in Reason as this is perfect to play with my roli.

Awesome song. 1st one

Sickkkkkkkkk. Screaming distorted lead guitar. If this isn't the fastest way to channel our fallen Eddy Van Halen (RIP), I'm not sure what is. Drop the Friktion in a combinator with the Scream 4 distortion. Set Friktion to Hybrid Fretless / pluck and set the Scream 4 to Distortion. Then experiment with the Vibrato and the Glide on the Friktion along with the Scream's P1, P2, and Body knobs. Even the Scream's Auto knob (auto-wah) is awesome. I've been searching for this for a long time. The Harmonics on the Friktion is also insane.

Reason!! 🤩👍

SOLD 🔨

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀 lets gooooooo!!!! #ReasonGang

this sounds really good and i don't dislike the UI ...

I'm impressed! Yamaha VL1 on stereoids ;-)

Reasons the best digital by far! Looking for the Reason 12 release for 2021 - Lets kick ass !!!

Congratulations for the fantastic work you did in Fraktion. The UI is truly intuitive and easy to use. Although I have a question which can become also a suggestion. Is there any way to change the scales in microtonal modes? For people like me (we are millions) who produce western music as well as world / ethnic this addition could be a fantastic tool in our hands. An instrument so expressive like this I found it's really a shame to stay limited inside the borders of the western music living out the rest of the globe.

Nice.

"911 what's your emergency?" "I've done it again, I've done it again...I've bought another rack extension"

Sounds pretty good, at least in brief chunks like this.

Man, I always forget about that Combinator!

Hope to get it with Reason 12 Suite

Wow! I'm all over this. Amazing. Will it be part of the Suite? As the 'Reasons' to go that package are getting warmer & warmer ;-)

You guys should make one for flutes.

Damn, that's pretty tempting! Don't like the look of it (colours) but it sound lovely and very powerful! :o

I hope these sounds he creates with the effects and players in this video are in the patches folder. 😁

I like the rent to own option. How much difference is there between this and FL Studio's Sakura? It'd be nice if someone could do a comparison.

These videos are as funny as they are informative. Now I know how to write true crime drama themes 🤣

👍 Ryan

Now imagine adding Polar behind this one ;) Oh wait, I don't have to imagine, that's what I did and well... it's as awesome as it looks :)

Yea this is impressive.

Although I love the concept: a savvy Europa user can basically achieve the same sounds with a combinator and some careful matrix routing and sound design

Will Reason ever do Modeled Winds / Brass and such? That'd be awesome.

Looks promising. Is it really modeling the sound or modifying samples? Good presentation by the way

Looking forward to Fricktion, and what else, in Reason 12?

Music is infinite! :D

Sheeeeesh

Would really love to see more ethnic hand drum percussion drum kit added as well as maybe although I did notice that after purchasing all the sounds that are available and the reason that I didn’t notice that most of the sounds that was basically looking for are there if you do it just sounds like I noticed piano and guitar and violin and even saxophone sounding since which may have been based off of those SMS in the first place but call Adderall not sure but I did notice which we get enough we can get those sound but it would be nice to see maybe another sound kids added that just has the sound as a default as brass saxophone violin classicalKusic guitar electric guitar or added in one or maybe a few more sound packs I would easily buy them without thinking twice I find your app to be the easiest to understand easiest to get things done I feel touchscreen with music is awesome I’m so happy that you guys made this up

I'd like to pause at 1:14 and just talk about something for a moment. I own lots strings scattered about. And I'm sure Friktion is a wonderful instrument. But something is really concerning to me. Reason's core tools and UI for sequencing, locating, and organizing string instruments and patches has remained mostly ignored for years now. Yet here we are with another instrument for sale. But then the launching of Ableton in this video instead of Reason. A DAW I don't own that Reason is implying be used for sequencing. Gotta say it guys, no matter how good Friktion is, I'm shaking my head here.

I have Reason Lite Rack, I want to be sure I can use it in there if I purchase this rack extension?

This.... This actually looks better than IL's Sakura 😍

wow

I _need_ to try this with Quad Note Generator!

Maybe a silly question but can you add new Reason instruments like this to R11 intro?

Please bring MPE into Reason :)

I like it. However, having bought individual REs from Reason in the past only to have them become a part of the mainline Reason/Suite a year or two later makes me hesitant to buy another individual RE... I don't want to end up paying twice for something in a future upgrade.

Banjo reveal = 8:52 approx! For a split second. (Tuesday chat going, 'ah', wishing for more!) - Could I get a 'resonator-banjo' hybrid? Or other hybrids?

Do I need reason rack to play friktion or can I just play friktion in my cubase as vst with out reason rack ?