Reason 8’s look has gone notably ‘flat’, in homage to modern OSs like Apple’s Yosemite. However, the named heading divider strips have little clickable circular buttons to allow them to be toggled with mouse clicks. Your F5, F6 and F7 keys (respectively) toggle them open and closed, and dragging their horizontal boundaries resizes them. Propellerheads’ basic approach to handling the Mixer, Rack and Sequencer views remains pretty much the same, you’ll be pleased to note. And you can hide the transport completely with a command in the Window menu. The transport itself no longer has a Blocks button (that functionality is now accessible from the Options menu), and instead gets a super-useful quantise section showing the current value along with a text button to apply quantise to anything in the sequencer that’s selected. The song navigator just above the transport section is a lot smaller. The sequencer and mixer have each lost a not-very-useful navigation panel. The overall look is brighter, neater and more contemporary. Well, one thing’s for sure, Reason 8 looks different. Let’s take a closer look at what those changes are. And a new browser, while not particularly sexy in itself, promises to make a big impact on the way we work, speeding up and improving our interactions with the sequencer, the rack, and individual devices. It changes the way you work with some fundamental aspects of the application, all very much for the better. That redesign is more than just cosmetic, though. Now available from and dealers worldwide, Reason 8 offers a redesigned user interface, two new guitar-oriented effect devices and, um, that’s about it. In this context, there’s a risk that the newly released Reason 8 could look a little disappointing. Within two ‘whole-point’ releases Reason went from being a niche, insular, MIDI-only platform to a versatile full-blown DAW attracting extensive third-party support. We’ve got used to major releases of Reason being quite revolutionary: Reason 6 gave us audio tracks and the big modular mixer, 6.5 ushered in Rack Extensions and then version 7 added MIDI tracks and audio quantise. There’s lots to get to grips with in the new version of Reason.
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