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Do you want to rock a digital audio workstation like it is the early 2000's?
Do you want low latency, stability and total focus on your music?
Do you love Linux and Reason at the same time?
You have come to the right place!


Download Retro Reason Studio 32bit+ from here: torrent or archive.org
↓ Scroll to the bottom to download Reason 5.0+ compatible combinators. These are also included in the VM! ↓


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The Details

For several years I ran Reason 5.0.1 on Linux under WINE, but the experience was always somewhat subpar. Aside from latency and stability troubles, things I was able to resolve, two bugs in WINE were exceedingly annoying to me. Examples: Not being able to use the pulldown menu in Reason. Vertical labels on devices not rendering properly.

These bugs I reported to the community, and I set a bounty for anyone able to fix them. However, they have still not been fixed. So I resorted to building a minimalist virtual machine that can be run under virt-manager/qemu-kvm under Linux to be able to make music more comfortably.

Reason 5 is now considered abandonware. This means you can use it for free. This 32-bit virtual machine is constructed on top of the Tiny7 build by [eXPerience]. I have further cut down this minimalist system and "frankensteined" it into a lean setup for production with a Wasapi ASIO flexible audio setup. The latest version has support for 32-bit VSTs and multiple MIDI channel inputs into Reason. Currently I am making music with this myself and it works a charm. Just make sure to tweak your virtual machine to run as close to your hardware as possible, and you should get native performance with most multiple-core CPU hardware. Use a USB soundcard and pass this through for a low 5ms latency.

As time progresses I hope to add useful things to this page, like tools I have made for a better Reason experience. Please feel free to follow my videos for more updates on this!

Combinators

Here are some free combinators I have made for Reason 5. Please let me know if you use them in your project! I'd like to get in contact with artists using Reason and/or Retro Reason Studio.

combinator_noisegate
Download: Noise-Gate

combinator_de-esser
Download: De-Esser

combinator_icestromwidener
Download: IceStrom-Widener