Propellerhead Reason is a fully featured virtual studio featuring synthesizares, samplers, effects, mixers and a powerful sequencer and mixer. Reason is the perfect first 'serious' sound production tool as it's interface mimics a hardware rack of equipment and it is designed for beginners to achieve good results fast.

Advanced musicians will find the limitations of Reasons in a fews sessions but it has the capability, using a few tricks, to create a full and rich sounding range of musical compositions. All of the instruments available in Reason have been inspired by devices in use in the studios of professional musicians mainly from the dance and electronic music scene thus Reason lends it self perfectly to beginner to intermediate music students who want to make music of this type.

Installing and configuring Reason

Installing and configuring the software is out of the scope of this course. There is a wide variety of material available on the internet easily locatable via a search engine.
Propellerhead, the manufacturers of Reason have a page of downloadable PDF documentation here:

http://www.propellerheads.se/download/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&article=reason_doc

It is also important to have the Getting Started PDF downloaded and ready to view as you follow the course:

English: http://www.propellerheads.se/download/files/GettingStartedReasonVersion4English.pdf
Italian: http://www.propellerheads.se/download/files/GettingStartedReasonVersion4Italian.pdf

and the complete documentation PDF is also recommended

English: http://www.propellerheads.se/download/files/Reason_Version_4_English_documentation.zip
Italian: http://www.propellerheads.se/download/files/Reason_Version_4_Italian_documentation.zip

So now you've got a working version of Reason in front of you lets get going.