THE RACK PLUG_ IN IN YOUR DAW IN REASON 11

Reason 11 was announced a few months ago and the huge news was that the best bits of it can now run as a plug-in instrument rack – not surprisingly called the Reason Rack Plug-in – in many other DAWs. This means that you can run the software’s best parts – its instruments, effects and utilities – in a channel in your DAW as a VST instrument (with AU compatibility promised imminently).

The DAWs that the Reason Rack Plug-in is compatible with are those that can run VST3 plug-ins, so that’s not every single one as yet. For a full list that Reason Studios (the new name of Reason’s developers) have tested the Rack with, check the box opposite. For the purposes of this tutorial, we’re running through how you can load the new Rack up in Ableton Live, but many of the principles will apply to whatever VST3 DAW