PROPELLERHEAD Reason Essentials 8 Retail

Just like its bigger brother, Reason Essentials puts making music in focus. From concept to completion, it comes with all the essential tools for turning good ideas into great songs. Reason Essentials comes with a great selection of instruments and effects in a virtual rack that builds itself, or can be tweaked to your heartʼs content—drum machine, loop player, sampler, synths, reverb, delay, distortion and more.

For guitar players, the guitar and bass amp devices from Softube bring a wide range of top quality guitar amps, cabinets and effects. The intuitive audio and MIDI sequencer makes recording and arranging your music a breeze. When you need even more creative options, Rack Extensions expand Reason Essentials and lets you add more instruments and effects, created by Propellerhead and others. With its generous sound bank and familiar creative flow, Reason Essentials has all the sounds and patches to let you focus on the music and finish that song—faster and sounding better.

# includes five RTAS plug-ins:Moogerfooger Analog Delay
# Joemeek VC-5 Meequalizer
# Joemeek SC-2 Compressor
# Cosmonaut Voice
# Digidesign Maxim
designed for Pro Tools TDM, LE and M-Powered
compatible with Macintosh OS X and Windows

Compatibility
RTAS

Minimum System Requirements (PC)
Qualified Mac OS X or Windows XP* Pro Tools System running Pro Tools v6.4 software (or higher).
Qualified Mac OS X or Windows XP* M-Audio hardware system running Pro Tools M-Powered software.
* Home and Professional Edition only. Windows Media Center Edition is not currently supported.

Minimum System Requirements (Mac)
Qualified Mac OS X or Windows XP Pro Tools System running Pro Tools v6.4 software (or higher).
Qualified Mac OS X or Windows XP M-Audio hardware system running Pro Tools M-Powered software.

Overview
The Focusrite Forté Suite is a channel strip RTAS and HD-compatible plug-in for Pro Tools based on the now-legendary Focusrite Forté recording console of the mid-'80s (original price for Forté console: $1.5 million).
Utilizing virtual vintage modules, Forté Suite brings Focusriteʼs sonic signature to Pro Tools through sophisticated modeling of the ISA 110 EQ and ISA 130 dynamics processors (including compressor, de-esser, and noise gate), the key modules from the acclaimed Focusrite Forté analog console. It also includes surround modes as well as graphical representations of EQ, compression, and related module curves. And its interface components closely resemble the ISA series modules treasured by audiophiles the world over.
Along with offering a host of powerful processing tools including a six-band EQ and a multi-channel compressor, gate, and expander, Forté Suite also features a sidechain input and frequency filters for the dynamics processors.
The Forté Suite can perform both as a channel strip plug-in and as individual ISA 110, ISA 130 dynamics, and ISA 130 compressor plug-ins. In addition, the ISA 130 compressor supports all Pro Tools surround formats.

Features
* ISA 110 Equalizer
* ISA 130 Multichannel Surround Compressor
* ISA 130 Expander
* ISA 130 Gate
* ISA 130 De-esser
* Side Chain input for the Compressor and Gate
* Frequency filters for the dynamics processors
* Classic-style, vintage GUI with additional graphical representations of the EQ, Compressor, and Gate
* Taps into the power of Pro Tools|HD Accel cards
* Supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz
* The classic, vintage "Focusrite Sound”
* Support for Digidesign D-Control
* Internal clip detection
* Support for Pro Tools Delay Compensation

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