DISC Propellerhead Reason 7 and Balance USB Audio Interface

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Propellerhead Balance USB Audio Interface

2-in 2-out USB Audio Interface

Sounds as good as it looks. Works as great as it feels. We've taken care of all the tedious stuff - installation, setup, the works. You can concentrate on having fun instead: making music. With two channels of pristine audio recording, and with inputs for all your gear, your instruments are always connected and you are always ready to record.

Integrated Music Recording Environment

Balance is perfectly integrated with Reason and Reason Essentials. With Clip Safe you'll never lose a good take to distortion again. Big Meter lets you tune your guitar and set the levels from across the room. Use it with our software, other pro audio apps, or even iTunes - Balance works with everything.

Reason Essentials

Reason Essentials packs all the recording, editing, effects, instruments, and mixing tools you need to sound great. With its generous sound bank and familiar creative flow, it's the software that lets you focus on the music and finish that song. Need more? This bundle includes an upgrade to Reason 7 for even more instruments, sounds, and effects.

Propellerhead Reason 7

Created with musicians in mind, Reason is always ready to capture an perfect performance or an inspired idea before it goes away.

Channels are ready to record in an instant, minimising the steps between bursts of inspiration and actual recording. With less dialog boxes comes more potential for music, simply plug in and you're ready to go.

The collection of infinitely-tweakable instruments offers you a wide array of sonic capabilities to suit any style. Reason 7 has over 90 third party Rack Extensions expanding the previous rack of instruments and effects already available. The new External MIDI Instrument device fully integrates into the Reason environment, so you can bring the sounds of your favourite hardware synths and beat machines to the Reason rack.

Now legendary, the Time Stretch feature lets you record first and pick your tempo later. Change the song tempo and all of your audio tracks will follow, no need to pre-processing. You can slow tempos to nail tricky passages and bring it back up when your done, keeping the amazing audio quality in tact.

Reason's studio-grade mixing console, already a mix engineer's dream, adds several new ways to make mixing your songs better and easier. Explore and tweak sound with all the mixing controls you need right there in the rack, so you can spend less time jumping about in the program and focus more on your music.

New features for Reason 7 include the addition of bus channels, making it easy to group tracks or mixer groups and process them together. Increase your control over mixes with the spectrum analyser window, giving you instant feedback on the selected channel or bus. With graphic EQ overlay, you can easily adjust the EQ on your tracks from anywhere in the program.

Add a bit of inspiration to your mixing session with the new Audiomatic Retro Transformer. Add Audiomatic to any channel or group and select a snapshot to instantly change the sound of your track, Audiomatic is a future-retro effect unit with plenty of personality.

Reason 7's expanded sound bank adds a new and powerful section of hard-hitting drums loops, ready to be thrown into tracks of any style from house and dubstep to metal. There's even more support for audio import formats with Reason 7, too, making it easier to grab loops and recordings from your music library or the web.

Features/Specifications:

Propellerhead Balance USB Audio Interface

• 2-in by 2-out audio interface
• USB 2.0 - bus powered
• Hi-end pre-amplifiers
• Hi-end 24-bit ADC/DACs, 44.1 to 96kHz
• Low latency design
• Clip Safe - Never again a lost take because of inadequate level settings. The "built-in recording engineer" watches over your session and automatically heals any clipped recordings.
• Mac OS class compliant (no driver on Mac OS). ASIO drivers for Windows installed with the software.
• Built-in Propellerhead Ignition Key
• Direct monitoring (for stand-alone or DAW use)
• Hardware input source selection
• Input level control
• Separate output and headphone level control
• Output muting
• Dimensions:
• Length: 192 mm
• Width: 130 mm
• Height: 70 mm
• Weight: 569 grams
• Two XLR microphone inputs with 48V phantom power
• Two 1/4" guitar inputs with padding
• Four 1/4" balanced line inputs (two stereo pairs)
• One 1/4" headphone output
• Two 1/4" TRS balanced main outputs

Propellerhead Reason 7

Instruments

• Subtractor Analog Synth
• Malstrom Graintable Synth
• Thor Polysonic Synth
• ID-8 Instruments
• Neptune Pitch/Voice Synth

Samplers

• NN-XT
• NN-19
• Live Sampling

Drums and Loops

• Korg Drum Designer
• Redrum Drum Computer
• Dr. Octorex Loop Player

Device Control

• Spider Mergers
• Matrix Pattern Sequencer
• RPG-8 Arpeggiator
• Combinator

Dynamics

• MClass Mastering Suite
• Pulverising Demolition
• BV512 Digital Vocoder
• The Mixer

Effects

• Alligator Filtered Gate
• The Echo Delay
• RV7000 Reverb
• Scream 4 Distortion
• Line 6 Amps

Production

• Audio Tracks
• Sequencer
• Blocks
• Regroove Mixer

System Requirements:

Mac OS X

• Fast internet connection for installation and registration required!
• Intel Mac with dual core processor
• 4 GB RAM or more
• 3 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
• Mac OS X 10.7 or later
• Monitor with at least 1024×768 resolution
• Core Audio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware
• MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended

Windows

• Fast internet connection for installation and registration required!
• Intel or AMD processor with dual cores
• 4 GB RAM or more
• 3 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
• Windows 7 or later
• Monitor with at least 1024×768 resolution
• Audio Interface with ASIO driver
• MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended