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PROPELLERHEAD REASON 10 Music Production Software

Reason 10 is the greatest expansion of the all-in-one DAW yet, with an injection of fresh drum samples and loops, two huge new synths, three sampled instruments and two of the most essential rack extensions. The list of new stuff is formidable; here are my Top 5.

1 EUROPA: SHAPESHIFTER

Compared to Reason’s previous titan of synthesis, Thor, Europa looks deceptively simple — lacking Thor’s modularity, sheer complexity and wealth of parameters. Instead, Europa offers direct transformative control over algorithmic wavetables, allowing fine tweaking over all facets of the sound: from its specific overtones through Europa’s spectral filter, to multiplying, syncing, mirroring and quantising the waveform (all modulatable!). Waveforms can come from

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