Reason 13: Browser and New Workflow Features 

For me personally and I think for others too, the changes implemented are more akin to a downgrade to the workflow. You guys changed exactly the things that didn't need any change and failed to implement long overdue functionalities.

From the comments, it seems everybody is impressed with this update except me. And $200 for an update in 2024 is WILD. Especially one with so few new features. I'm not sure everyone is gonna love this new browser once they get there hands on it. Plus, I really, really hope they didn't get rid of the favorites section for devices because that's what it looks like to me.

I must thank you for finally improving the workflow and the sequencer itself. I must admit that it was becoming a real drag for me in recent years since there were no improvements in this section. Hope that from now on you'll continue to give attention to this kind of stuff as much as for the upcoming new devices. One of the best updates so far..

The improved zoom is a GAMECHANGER! The browser is awesome too! Best update yet.

Good workflow changes here. Looking forward to rediscovering some old patches I’d forgotten.

LOVE U GUYS! R13 is a huge step forward! R+ user here.

Reason 13 looks all really great, but the getting rid of the "Favorites Lists" in the Device Browser section is a workflow killer 😥, I loved that feature, it was so handy having your plugins in Favorites Lists containing all your most used (favorite) EQ's, Compressors, Distortion, Sautration, Tape, Channel Strips, etc. I WISH you guys would bring Favorites Lists back to the Device Browser section while still having the addition of the new browser for patches and audio files. Just my sad wish for Reason 13 😥

All I needed was a bigger screen for editing audio clips and I got way more than that... Totally on board for this upgrade

Looks like a very solid update. Nice work!

Can we tag VST devices? VST patches? For example, I'd like all my EQ's to pick from rather than just the RE's that are assigned by someone else.

A snap to scale and highlight scale option in the MIDI editor would be great!

I am back using reason. I have been getting some fantastic results. Reason forever.

it has matured enormously, congratulations, now the daw is beautiful and perfect, what a wonderful upgrade, now I put it as my main daw

↓2. Tool window has been removed only to take up way more screen space now ↓3.. Everything about sample edit mode was already neatly tucked in the upper toolbar, now it takes up more space

I think this new way of ranging instruments and effects is what we really lacked in Reason Studio. Minor change but a very needed one.

Phew! A lot to get through in one video. I think a Reason 13 updated shortcut "cheatsheet" may be order 😊

I wonder how many of the comments and likes were paid for by Reason Studios. I really don't understand why so many Reason users would be so excited about a new browser file directory system which isn't what I would call a workflow improvement. There are many workflow related features that Reason users have been requesting and the browser is definitely not one of them.

This is what Everyone was waiting for so questions & concerns could be answered...

Excited to try out the new workflow features . 👊🎶

The DAW workflow improvements look fantastic!

Whoo, this is goofy. "What do we have for the sequencer update, people?" "We have tags, sir." "You mean for the browser that we touted as a major selling point just 2 versions ago?" "Yes." "Okay, what else?" "That's it." "That's it!?... Okay, listen up.. just take a handful of things that people are already perfectly comfortable with and change where they're located on onscreen and how they're accessed. I don't care which ones; just make them look different." "You got it, boss!"

Sometimes you don't know what you want to start looking for when starting a song and have a sound library of 10s of thousands of sounds. A random button would be cool to add amongst the tagging options.

Looking forward to the new workflow improvements. I am sure they will inspire!

Making music is fun again! Shoutout to Reason Studios!

Definitely the best update in years!

I was a happy Reason user 20ish years ago. Strongly considering coming back. I like that you are treading between ui modernization and keeping the core features that made it special product. One gripe is that REX files seem like an outdated approach.

Really excited for this!

↓4. Browser feels very RRP oriented. Until now it was very easy to drag and drop samples on the same track, one after the other. Now that workflow has become cumbersome.

I'm one of the biggest advocate for Reason going. Been a solid user since 2.5. I'm sad to say this is the first update I'm not going to purchase. Just feels like it should be an update to 12 rather than the next version.

RYAN RULES!

I never heard one person ever complain about the old briwser (but everyone wanted sequencer improvements), So why the change?……… I hate it. It’s slower, all my favourite lists of how I organized my plugins gone, Feeding me old ass subtractor and malstorm patches I never want to be recommended, clicking new instrument doesn’t take me to my device lists but a list of random patches….. this is a ui disaster

I love you guys!!! These changes are awesome!!!

Makes things super quick!

PLEASE let us use the sequencer when using Reason as a plugin! Edit: what would be especially cool, is if every instance of the reason plugin within a project was aware of the others and were all available within the sequencer (that is aware of and reflects the global song position of the DAW you are working in). Then, by default each instance of the plugin within a session would be in it's own "group" and assigned to one channel within the Reason plugin. This way, you could use Reason just like you would with Rewire in the old days. Furthermore, you could use modulation across the various Reason plugin instances within a project.

Thank you for making this video. I can't wait to start using Reason 13!

Counting the minutes till it drops!

This is a MASSIVE improvement! Thanks!

These are awesome. I'd love to see something like Bitwig Operators and MPE support and then we are golden.

Good job Reason Studios Team! Definitely considering upgrading. Thank you. ✨ 🌟 🙏🏽

Solid asf❤..can’t wait..I feel like I’ve had a daw that grew with my journey…reason since V7

Ive been using reason for 14 years. I love reason for creating, the colors n design make it the funnest to look at out of all the daws. When it comes to editing tho and workflow it’s definitely behind. (Ableton being the example) I firmly believe if reason fixes this issue then it’ll be the top daw

I am an "in-the-box" jingle producer who uses the R+ system in its entirety; no third-party plugins. The Ripley effects plugin is of particular interest; it's clear you've carefully considered the needs of sound designers with its feature set. The sidechain and gain tools are also very welcome. Alongside your updated browser system and sequencer improvements, I suspect my workflow will be at least 20 percent faster. Knowing Reason listens to its dedicated users, I would like to see, in the future, a one-stop mastering plugin (meter / limiter / clipper / eq / saturator) and track stacking. However, I am perfectly happy with Reason+ as it is. Lastly, I've noticed you've said/shown nothing about the SSL mixer, which my favorite part of the DAW. Any surprises regarding this? Looking forward to the update :)

In a post I had somewhere else I mentioned this pop up browser looks more like a step backwards. I am getting a fork right now to go eat those words 😂. thank you guys for all the hard work! You guys just have unique way of implementing features that just make sense so I should’ve known it was going to be the same with the browser! Much love and peace to you all❤

Reason gang baby !!!!!

I'm not even on the lie this makes it easier for a beginner to feel like reason studios is intuitive especially using it as a DAW. I think that I've bought the last four iterations of reason, but sometimes I would take large hiatuses because the workflow made it harder. But to see this is very refreshing. It seems like they are striking a good balance between old school reason feel to new school please make this easier vibes lol. I'm excited

I'm ready to 'spark some new ideas'! Thank you Ryan!

wow, just thought "I wonder what's going on with Reason lately" and this video is 16 mins old! Looks good :)

This is what I'll pay for for sure when the upgrade is on sale. Been a long time coming, these new features in the workflow.

I really like the new browser. Had a blast testing it and I find myself making great sounding ideas without even having to reach for any VSTs. Allow us to drag devices onto a favourites list and it’ll be damn near perfect… Can’t wait for release day and then I can start working in it full time. I’m very happy Reason as a DAW is back in focus. Still my favourite, and I own em all (almost). ❤

This is the update I've been waiting for! These workflow improvements are huge for us Reason-as-a-DAW users. Thank you guys for all of your hard work and attention to detail on this release guys!

Looks pretty awesome ❤

Thanks Ryan. These are great additions, tagging is a gamechanger for me as I have a vast number of patches and Refills accumulated since I first began with Reason (in the v1 prehistoric era - been there since the very beginning). Being able to group tag a bunch of patches in a third party RE (like your Korg MonoPoly example) is incredibly helpful. I assume the same logic will work with Refills (I have over 200 of them!)?

its been along time. now I can use reason back now. like the new work flows

I really like the improved workflow. I'm looking forward to working with Reason 13 to the full very soon. I would have liked to have seen a separate rack and sequencer zoom as I personally would prefer a zoomed-in rack and a zoomed-out sequencer - but there you go - maybe in the future ;-)

I do Bata testing and I have Reason 13, I must say this is a GREAT IMPROVEMENT!!!

The workflow updates are very welcome, but if you are an existing user and don't want or need another synth, delay unit or the utility devices then £200 is an excessive cost for the upgrade. It would be good if there was even very basic clip launcher / marker functionality so you can play different sections of a song on the fly to get spontaneous ideas for song layout before laying out your arrangement. This could so easily be achieved by the existing block functionality allowing different blocks to be triggered by keyboard shortcuts.

THIS IS AWESOME!! BEST CHANGE FOR THE REASON

Damn y'all snapped with this browser tho. My initial thought when opening this video was 'how much could they really improve the browser?', and now I'm heavily considering upgrading whenever I can afford it next.

instead of making music I used to waste hours making subfolders of patches. The tagging system is much much appreciated!

You got rid of the 'Favourites' bit? Why on earth would you do that and force me to use this new system. At this point I am only using Reason 13 for the step sequencer by a 3rd party.

can you guys make a update on you VST host in reason, make more like the combi 2 and give us a VST cv out support too if possible

🎉 since 2.0 thank you. About to upgrade soon

Disappointing that there are still no collapsible folders in the sequencer view

The ReBirth of Reason! 👏

WELL DONE! 👍🏻🔥😎

the new browser looks great!!

I would like straightforfard groove and scale choices as ableton has

Is it possible to create our own unique tags? Like if I want to tag something with a tag that isn’t already there-like say, “Owl City-esque” or something 🤔

That bass isn't "fat", it's just big boned.

Great new features

All this is nice but it did not warrant a paid upgrade. What have Reason Studios been doing these years?

I’d like the mixer faders and pan knobs to be able to be displayed at the bottom half of the sequencer screen instead of the top of the screen as well if that’s a possibility in the future. Thx for working on the DAW workflow. I hope this will be a continued focus on every update as reason is still my favorite DAW to work in.

I love it

This is one of the additions I’m excited about. We’ve definitely needed tagging. In maschine, it makes my work flow much faster. Glad it’s in Reason now. Can you guys add a key or pitch recognition feature that will help us find the key of a one-shot, chord or clip? I look forward to the sidechain device overview. We’ve needed that for a while. Also, can knobs for left&right marker be added on Mimmic, so that we can control it from a midi controller?

Reason come back typing when you write music 😅 Nice, always typing the name of device, instead of just drag and drop from my favorit folder. Applause!!!

I'm sold. After watching this, my workflow is going to be so much faster. can't wait until the 18th. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!! LOL

I’m really so happy to see these improvements in R13 guys. Super exciteddddd for next week. Gogogogo

amazing platform ever since 1.0 😎😎

As a good Windows user, I usually need to format my PC every 3/4 years due to random problems that break the boot or interface. Where are these new tags stored on the hard drive? If it's in the system's default folders, can't I put this information on a hard drive that doesn't have a direct connection to the system's hard drive? // I don't know if it's possible, but having the piano row panel appearing on the side could also be a good deal, some work with ultra wide monitors, and it would be a smarter use of the function in these cases.

Holy cow we finally have shortcuts boys

Time for an update! Been saving up since the vst update a version(or two)ago.

If I have nothing nice to say I don’t say anything at all - since watching this video though I have been compelled to break that rule. I’ve used Reason since version 2 so it actually makes me really sad to be negative about something I’ve stood by for such a long time. I don’t really understand what Reason has come to in these last few updates - charging top dollar and labelling things as updates - that… let’s be honest should have been free changes just to get Reason back on a level playing field with other DAW’s. I paid to upgrade to HD. Now you want to charge long standing and loyal customers for (amongst other less than impressive things) updating the browser and adding a sideschain utility 😂 £199 aswell 😂😂😂😂 my god

“Inspector” is that a new Reason term? Or a giveaway of where the feature inspiration came from 🤣. Good to see the tools migrated inline with workflow rather than floating window though. About time and a very welcome change. Thank you ❤”🎉

It feels like a lot of Reason's sorta hidden features are now more easily accessible

A tag system is pretty cool lol

It looks cool. What was missing! I will save up money to buy this! After many years I want to return to music production in this program!

Stoked for this! I know this isn't related but can we get a video for editing guitars in reason? Or does anyone have a video they can link? I'm curious how in depth audio editing can go in Reason. Cheers!

Is there a way to preview samples and select the desired piece of audio wave? This is necessary for sound designers so that they can use the search in sound libraries containing long files with tons of sound variants. This is very well implemented in "soundly" - there you can select any piece of sample and immediately drag it to the DAW track as an audio file. In my opinion it is critically important, if we are talking about goodsounds browsing

When Reason 8 came out it was all about a faster workflow buy getting rid of the floating browser. I am interested in trying it out though. I just worry because I find Reason can get very cluttered with large projects, which is why track folders and track freeze is such a popular request.

I think this is a great direction of maybe....just maybe getting back into the DAW, still use RRP a ton, but Bitwig and Reaper are already in it to win it. You can see the influences of other DAWs creeping their way in.

The improvements are good, but they should put the range editor in combinator like version 11 has, and the browser seems easier and faster to me than version 12 had, I hope you take these improvements into account, and it would be excellent, always think of everyone the users.

I've been using Reason since v.3.0 (10 versions ago lol) and wasn't a fan of this browser during the beta. But, now that I've had more time with it, I've found myself using sounds and presets from the library I normally wouldn't. Music making wise it's been interesting. Specially since in recent years I had grown accustomed to using more VSTs than the Reason library.

I'd really like the "add device" button in the rack to be bigger so its easier to click and for it to bring up the browser directly. The menu is pretty unhelpful since it doesn't show thumbnails, etc.

Something important to note for people who edit vocals in Reason: 15:40. The Pitch Edit mode does not have vertical zoom anymore, so that waveform display bar is now small and unusable for fine-tuned vocal editing.

Wooohoooo!!!

Great changes. I do feel very conflicted about the blocking of older perpetual licenses though. Please be better than the Avids in this world.

That floating browser is a BIG no for me! And destroying the old browser by removing the option to make folder so you can arrange your favorite devices. So no upgrade for me before they have fix this.

Great Job with the Organized New Tabs. Transients”, would have to give a test drive. Reason” going for a full development throughout the years.

What I miss in Reason is the ability to have one copy of a clip automatically change its multiple copies in a song. Please make 2 types of copy clips. Type 1 is a copy, which after copying becomes completely independently editable. And the 2nd type of copy of the clip is an instance that is always synchronized with each other.

**Can you re-size the piano roll to full screen, or are you now limited to split screen view??**