Reason was one of the wave of innovative DAWs that blew in sometime around the year 2000, others being Ableton Live and Cakewalk Sonar. These DAWs were catching the winds of change as computers were becoming viable platforms for producing digital music.
While Live’s innovation was Session View and its quantised clip launching, Reason offered a more analogue taste – a rack full of virtual devices, the cables to connect them as you liked, and a way to sequence it all to make music. It was one of the most innovative, powerful and fun ways to make music as the 21st century dawned.
