To help you with your decision, our product comparison chart below lists which features are available in which program, and should help you decide which program you should get – if not both.
Reason is an all-in-one music production environment that comes with all the synths, samplers drum machines and effects you need. Reason comes with a fully featured realtime MIDI sequencer and two massive soundbanks containing sounds, loops and patches for all possible styles of music. Learn more about Reason
Record is Propellerhead Software's streamlined, super-intuitive music recording program. Designed with musicians in mind, Record gives you unlimited audio tracks, powerful guitar and bass amps, automatic timestretch, as well as world class effects and mixing gear, and a built-in fully featured audio and MIDI sequencer. Learn more about Record
Using Record and Reason together gives you everything you need to create, arrange, record and mix your music. All-in-one music production environment Reason brings all the synths, samplers and sounds you need. Record is streamlined music recording software with unlimited audio tracks, real-time timestretch and world class mixing gear. This unstoppable combo – Record Reason Duo – provides an intuitive, direct approach to laying down tracks and recording performances, allowing you to make better music, faster.
| Features | Reason |
Record |
Record Reason Duo |
| Fully featured midi sequencer | x | x | x | Fully featured audio sequencer | x | x |
| Blocks sequencer mode | x | x | |
| MIDI recording | x | x | x |
| Audio recording | x | x | |
| Professional mixer with dynamics, EQ and more on every channel | x | x | |
| Supports MIDI keyboards and control surfaces | x | x | x |
| Built-in audio time stretch | x | x | |
| Sound bank containing instrument and effects patches, samples and loops included | x | x | |
| Orchestral sound bank included | x | x | |
| Effects sound bank included | x | x | |
| Live sampling | x | x | |
| Instruments | Reason |
Record |
Record Reason Duo |
| ID-8 | x | x | |
| SubTractor Analog Synthesizer | x | x | |
| Thor Polysonic Synthesizer | x | x | |
| Malström Graintable Synthesizer | x | x | |
| NN19 Digital Sampler | x | x | |
| NN-XT Advanced Sampler | x | x | |
| Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player | x | x | |
| Redrum Drum Computer | x | x | |
| Kong Drum Designer | x | x | |
| Effects | Reason |
Record |
Record Reason Duo |
| Neptune Pitch Correction and Voice Synth | x | x | |
| MClass Equalizer | x | x | x |
| MClass Stereo Imager | x | x | x |
| MClass Compressor | x | x | x |
| MClass Maximizer | x | x | x |
| Line 6 Guitar Amp | x | x | |
| Line 6 Bass Amp | x | x | |
| RV7000 Advanced Reverb | x | x | x |
| Scream 4 Distortion | x | x | x |
| DDL-1 Digital Delay Line | x | x | x |
| CF-101 Chorus/Flanger | x | x | x |
| BV512 Digital Vocoder | x | x | |
| RV-7 Digital Reverb | x | x | |
| D-11 Foldback Distortion | x | x | |
| ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter | x | x | |
| PH-90 Phaser | x | x | |
| UN-16 Unison | x | x | |
| COMP-01 Compressor/Limiter | x | x | |
| PEQ-2 Two Band Parametric EQ | x | x | |
| Other devices | Reason |
Record |
Record Reason Duo |
| Audio Track | x | x | |
| Mix Channel | x | x | |
| Combinator | x | x | x |
| Mixer 14:2 | x | x | x |
| Line Mixer 6:2 | x | x | x |
| Spider Audio Merger & Splitter | x | x | x |
| Spider CV Merge & Splitter | x | x | x |
| Matrix Pattern Sequencer | x | x | |
| RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator | x | x | |
| ReBirth Input Machine | x | x | x |