![]() Since it was introduced with version 6, the well-modelled and beautifully designed SSL-styled mixer has quickly become one of the best features of Reason - and it's here that we find version 7's trump card. Its UI is based around a '70s style TV screen, which displays wonderfully nostalgic pictures of whatever the device is mimicking at the time. What we will say is that it's undoubtedly one of the best looking effects we've seen in a while. Controls are limited to Dry/Wet, Gain and a vague Transform knob, which allows minor tweaks to the quality of the sound. The results are fun, and you can certainly produce useable effects of a decent quality, but the device doesn't allow you to go particularly deep. It features 16 presets, with names like VHS, Tape, Vinyl, Circuit and Wash (inspired by a washing machine,) that mimic the sound qualities of a variety of vintage appliances. It's an effect - supposedly inspired by iPhone apps like Instagram - that degrades and distorts sound in a retro way. It comes downloaded as a Rack Extension rather than built directly into the program (which confused us for a few minutes before we realised we had to update and sync up our REs to get the new device to appear.) The Audiomatic Retro Transformer is the only new creative device to come with Reason 7. ![]() It's all a brilliantly smooth and simple process, and one that really opens Reason up to handling audio recording and manipulation tasks that a lot of users may well have turned to other DAWs or plugins for in the past. Do so and Reason brings up the option to send the new file directly back into the rack, opening up a new instance of the Dr Octo Rex loop player, for playback and manipulation of the newly created sample. ![]() Once an audio clip has been sliced it can then be bounced to REX format in one click too. We drastically retimed bass parts, synth lines and vocal samples and the results were some of the smoothest, most artifact-free we've heard from any DAW. Reason's audio engine handles the whole process impeccably, too. These can be quantised to the beat grid or dragged as you wish, enabling completely free retiming and morphing of the recording. Once an audio clip has been recorded or imported into the sequencer window, hit Quantize and the recording will be sliced, adding warp markers attached to each transient. There have been some great changes to the way in which Reason works with audio, too. Simply add the External MIDI Instrument to the rack and select the appropriate destination from its drop-down list and your hardware is hooked up to Reason.Īround the back the device has a Gate In and CV Ins for Pitch/Mod Wheels and an assignable CC control, opening up a host of fun options involving hooking external hardware up to other Reason rack devices via the DAW's much-loved animated patch cables. ![]() Still, it's a welcome addition here and in true Propellerhead style it's been implemented in a simple and pleasantly straightforward manner. In a way it's quite surprising that the ability to send MIDI out of Reason wasn't added when audio was introduced in version 6. ![]()
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