These days with the advent of Reason (by Propellerheads) I am starting to wonder if people will need hardware sound studios to produce music. Sequencers are great (Cubase/Logic/MOTU Performer), but this software package is different. I myself have always enjoyed using hardware due to the quality and response time. It looks like this type of software is finally catching up. Does this kind of software make it easier for the average person to own a full “soft” studio?

Reason allows the user to add more “racks” to the software system.

Here is the info from the website:

Each unit in Reason’s virtual rack is edited from its own on-screen front panel. All the sliders, knobs, buttons and functions of the equivalent hardware are there. But more importantly, on several counts, Reason is better than hardware.

Need another piece of gear? Forget your overdraft and save yourself the bus fare to the music store. Choose what you need from the Create menu, and it appears in your rack, logically patched into the signal chain. If you ever wished you had eleven samplers, Reason is definitely for you.

Don’t like the routing? Press the Tab key, and the rack will turn over, revealing inputs, outputs, CV and Gate connections. Use the on-screen patch cords to set up complex routings and cross-device modulation patches. And if you run out of mixer channels, just create another mixer.

All the sounds you need. Reason ships with a large (500mb+) sound bank with all the sounds you need to get going. Hundreds of loops, drum kits and samples from e-LAB, hundreds of multisampled instruments from Dublab and hundreds of Synth patches will keep you busy for a while.