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Reason 10.0 ...ok! :)

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While watching last friday's Propellerhead video stream with Ryan and Mattias , a very small detail jumped at anyone paying attention to what Mattias was showing on his screen with Reason 10: One tiny small but in practice huge NEW feature: Favorite lists finally supporting Devices! ...besides just patches and folders. This is huge ! I've been waiting for this for some years now, since Rack Extensions "exploded" in numbers and diversity and even more after VST support. Given the fact that Reason doesn't support a TAG system for multi-type tagging devices, patches, ReFills, etc and its browser searching and filtering aren't anything to write about enthusiastically, those with a good amount of REs and VSTs will have a hard time reaching out for the right device at the right time unless some time was spent preparing a custom rack and sometimes even "forget" about some devices that could be used simply because those are "buri

Reason 10 ...yeah.

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Reason 10.0 was announced this past Friday, Sept 22nd . Final release happening on October 25 2017. What's NEW ? 2x NEW Rack Extension instruments : Europa : a shapeshifting synthesizer, so more than just a plain wavetable synth Grain : a sample manipulator with various play algorithms, so not just grain based ones 3x NEW IDT based ROMpler instruments with sounds provided by  SoundIron : Klang : with a selection of tuned percussion based acoustic instruments Pangea : with a selection of odd/unusual/ethnic/world instruments Humana : a Vocal Ensemble/Choir oriented instrument 2x already existing and well known Rack Extensions : Radical Piano  instrument Synchronous Timed Effects Modulator  effect ...and " multi-gigabyte infusion of cutting-edge drum loops and samples " by  Sample Magic So, ok... cool, new stuff is always cool, right? ...though, some isn't "new NEW", since many already interested in... ...p