Just like nobody is going to really care about what DAW you use to make music (whether it be Reason, FL Studio, Ableton, Logic or w/e) nobody is going to take the time to wonder if you "cheated" to create great sounding chords. If it sounds good, so what. You make music to create. Not critique. If we're pointing fingers and saying people are cheating then the same can be said about all of us who use DAWs and never made anything with all hardware like they did back then. Not cheating. Just simple,fun and intuitive.

I went to a classical music school and know theory yet this allows me to make up harmonies on the go without paying that much attention which is great for when you're running around a lot

The players, especially Scales & Chords, has been a major source of inspiration for me. It's sped up the time it takes to lay down beds for my melodies and given me the option to invert and spread on the fly without having to drag dozens of notes around. I'm really keen to see what kinds of crazy stuff people start doing with automation on top of this.

I'd watch any Reason related video with this guy's voice on it. He is the sound of Reason for me personally.

As someone brand new to Reason (I bought it TODAY!), I must thank you for such a clear, concise and well-presented tutorial. I hope that all of your tutorials are just as excellent. Cheers!

Scales and chords actually helps me explore very complex arp progressions that would be impossible to play by hand.

You have done it again Propellerhead! Can't wait to get into these new features :) Now just some more features for live stuff such as triggers or visual additions or maybe even your own midi keybaord integrated with reason and it will be all-time.

It's a decent idea to help folks produce music, but people should try to learn past this tool as well. Some of my coolest chord changes came about from less-than-perfectly played chords and bum notes. With this gadget and "instant correction" I never would have played the "bum notes" and discovered some really interesting progressions.

This is pretty darn cool. Can not wait to try it out

I've been around for a while. Back when synths and drum machines started to get hot in the 80's and 90's in mainstream, a lot of people said that they were cheating in terms of music creation. Here's the thing: people want to still hear real instruments, real performances and real musicians by-and-large. Guitars, acoustic instruments, real drums and real songwriting has not "died". Synths did not "eliminate" that kind of music. While a lot of synth pop is crap and one could make the argument that tools like this are to blame (at times), I feel for the not-so-technically-musically-skilled (banging out something on an instrument) who have great ideas in their heads. I would argue that there will be better music in the world, overall, because those people will now have a chance to materialize what they're feeling in their heads. Will there be more crap too? Yes. But it will filter to the bottom, IMHO.

I can actually play chords but this is amazing... Most time it takes me 10-15 minutes to create an original chord progression from my head but I can see using this alot to give me a different approach to creating... This will be like have a second producer on my albums we with me...

Thanks for a very clear and most versatile demo - and a MERRY new year

I love this. I'm a bass player. I know theory. But my piano playing skills are not so hot.

Reason 9.5 is amazing! I absolutely love it!

Amazing addition to the DAW.

Good job with this player lads, don't listen to all the negativity below, making something easier is always favorable!

Honesty this player made me to come back to Reason again and use it as my main DAW. I moved from reason to FL Studio. These new additions are so cool in Reason 9. But still I miss those VST instruments like nexus and massive

seems pretty interesting, it will definitely be good for get the creative juices going for those who aren't amazing at playing. good job propellerhead!

Wow this is good for someone who stopped making music for around 15 years. Just getting back into it while even knowing a wee bit about music theory. I'm rusty as hell and really struggling to write chords and progressions this hopefully might end my writers block.

This software blows my mind every time I watch one of these videos

Actually, you could use two lines from Taylor's song to describe this device: Player's gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate Seriously, I've seen a lot of hate from people because this device supposedly makes composing "too easy." However, you're still gonna need to know at least the basics of Music Theory to know how it works. After all, this thing will be mostly useless to someone who doesn't know what "E Minor" or "F Major" means. Even then, this thing isn't gonna make you the next Varien or K-391. Despite having the assistance of this device, building complex melodies and chord progressions takes a metric ton of experience. Ryan makes it look easy here, but trust me: it's not. You can't just make a melody by mashing your keyboard.

Upgraded for VSTs, unexpectedly got this gem.

"quicker than a wrong move in mindsweeper" FIRE ASS SCRIPT WRITING

This is nuts. It's color. By. Numbers. And I love it

I use this soooo much you can't imagine

2020 my mind explode with this!

very helpful and nicely put. thank you

Great feature in reason you can transpose chords around:D

Excellent tutorial!!!

I see everyone complaining that software writes the music for you...I really don't see how if you're the one putting all the notes together. i mean, if you don't know what you're doing in the first place, never having disciplined yourself musically, you're REALLY not going to produce anything good. it took me years to learn to use a DAW effectively, and I'm still learning. I go back and listen to some older stuff and cringe haha ^_^ same as any musician (yes, I am a musician. I study music, I play instruments, both electronic and traditional, and they're two sides of a coin)

good job as a tutorial of reason, clear and brilliant voice

Great addition.

Incredibly Amazing

SICK VIDEO!!! WOWZERS!!!

this is a pretty awesome learning tool, it's like have a chord bible in the daw

Wow this is absolutely amazing

This video decided my DAW for me . Reason it is!

Love the tutorial and the feature! Would love to have a render of the song, I actually liked it :P

Im excited and shaking my head at the same time. I know music theory and took music for 5 years, but never learned the piano (learned percussion, trumpet, trombone, bells...). Learning piano was always on my list buuut now.....????

I just cant wait to upgrade!!!!!!

Lmao all the salty people in here.... You know you don't HAVE to use the new features, right?

It's a great tool, and very intuitive for finding some inspiration. I would like to know how once I have the progression I like to have the midis with the whole chord notes, not just the note that is written.

I love Reason have been using it since Reason 2.5. This is a great tool and very inspirational, but watching this video really hurt my eyes XD.

OK here is a question, how do I combine inverted and non-inverted chords? can we automate inversions and even change scales?

I'm generally not a fan of these but especially using these in combination with the dual arpeggiator you can create very interesting soundscapes as you can sort of "program" melodies. As someone who often uses rather complex arps this is very useful.

Scales and chords simply made easy. My work as a producer now got better. Thank you @propellerhead

This is a damn good tutorial.

excellent video good work:D

This is a lot of fun. A lot of fun.

Thanks learned a lot

soon 1 finger will be all you need to do everything! amazing.

Great Job 😉

"It's not really an Adele kind of day." lmao- Scales & Chords is excellent. I can write on guitar and transpose into Piano, synths, anything, play with inversions and make my blocky acoustic demos into incredible chord structures and tones, it's my favorite. 2021.

Greatly appreciate it

Great!

I sincerely hope someday you guys open up and make your amazing synthesizers available to those of us that don't want to work inside of Reason and have no desire to try to get 2 applications running at once on a reliable consistent basis. I would be honored to make kick ass patch libraries if these were available to more than just Reason users. I am very doubtful you do this but I'll keep requesting.

Pretty cool for sure. Can the same concept be applied to horn sounds like trumpet, sax etc is it built into the program or do you need some extension pack.

is there a way to use send to track or direct record to write the notes from the players to the midi and not just the note thats being input?

I can only imagine using this stuff within Live (and Push!) using the upcoming Reason rack. Rewire can do a lot, but the VST approach will give me even better control over Reason from within Live... Add Push into the mix (my favorite sketching tool) and... wow.

Okay it's a new era of music I think it might be time for me to change my Daw I'm way overdue it's time to check out this reason and see what it's about 🔍🎹

Is it possible to make sus2 and sus4 chords ?

Epiccccccc!!!!!

This is a very cool demo. The features listed above should be used as a rough guideline for creating new music. However, if you're serious about creating music, you should learn the theory behind it and then you can play outside the scale and add all kind of notes that normally don't harmonize well with your selected scale / pitch and whatever. These accidentals are what makes music beautiful (to me) and not just following common misconceptions about music. For example, when choosing C minor (Cm) as your tonality, adding a B natural (not flat) could add some unexpected tension to your music. Same goes for all kind of chromatic harmonies that add interesting passages from one chord to another. For example (still in Cm): Fm - F#dim7 - G. When it comes to making music, you need to know your basics in order to create truly amazing stuff. However, if you don't know much about theory or can't master the piano, Reason looks like a great tool to get started and experiment.

Reason is just getting better and better only if the time stretching feature could get some attention in coming versions I have to time stretch in sony acid then bounce it as wave and then throw it back in reason it kills the flow since acid is windows only I can't rewire it with my reason which is in mac...

i love reason, i'm using version 11 for 30 days because i can't afford to buy a license! maybe one day, Reason Studios donates me a license to create content on KZfaq! it would be a great joy for me!

Hi. I recorded this as you have but i have a red track view rather than the matrix view. Why is this. Have i use the wrong record mode or id there a different view from what i can see?

hi, in the rack i dont have ( direct record and send to track) do you know why?

Players, the beat sync of production. (and there is nothing wrong with that) Thank you propellerheads.

this is super

awesome but, what if i wan to to change scales dynamically while playing? ...i mean, for example, how can i make a Cm, Emaj, F7th, G9th chord progression with just one Sc&Ch device??? ...Here seems u can just choose one root...

reason the best!!!!!

can we record it to our synth as a full note not just one note ?

Does anyone know how to create custom chords sets with the Player in Reason? I would like to take midi chord sets I have from other programs and convert them into the Reason player. I would love to be able to make the chords strum without using echo player it seems that there should be a way to do that as this technology reminds me of other 1 finger chord vst's (Chordz Engine) in that the midi notes don't automatically translate to the piano roll.

How do you map Akai Advance to Reason 9 please? Any preset available?

Can the chords hit by one key be converted to notes taking place in the chords for manual alterations?

man hes pushing those tracks HOT

Great

Nice

Where can I listen to that track with vocals?Please tts awesome.

I just came across a bug with this player. For example, if I'm in the C scale and I play B diminished, it instead plays a G chord in the first inversion. Likewise, if I'm on the E Minor scale and I disable chords, it is not correcting all the pitches of E minor when I play them. Seems like this is a bug, and I'm not sure if it is already addressed, or I just stick with Scaler 2.

This seems like a okay tool for learning theory... Not so much for writing though, at least not for me. I use inversions to minimise the distance my fingers travel, or to create melodies within chord patterns. If I have to automate this device to get those results, why not just do it myself by playing it? This is good for somebody who doesn't know what they are doing, although I fear they'll never learn if this device does it for them. Also what happens if I want to use an accidental note? Too many limitations with this kind of stuff if you ask me. Listen people, if you want to write amazing music, a program isn't going to make it for you automatically. You're gonna have to learn your craft.

in Cm if the chords were correct in root position, D would be a Diminished triad, not a Bb chord in 1st inversion.

this is amazing. wish logic pro x had some function of this. their midi chord plug is weird and not as intuitive as this

can u guys do a video of reason and the vip software .

Haters gonna hate ;) Sending notes to track is awesome. Any plans on opening up some of the settings for automation?

I think I've seen my new D.A.W

Is "Scales and Chords" included in Reason Essentials?

Where can I get this as a demo?

Only thing annoying is trying to do a dominant 7 chord in minor keys. Thank goodness for that alter button!

Does it come as a VST?

Man, I wish Logic X Pro made it this simple to play chords like that so easily.

It would be cool to have a player that takes really phat cords you play by hand and turn them into a single note.

Is there any alternative for Scales & Chords in FL Studio 12?

Does it have the Locrian Mode too???

Hello, can we "split" somehow, and play "scales and chords" in a part of the MIDI keyboard (e.g lower half) and regular chromatic notes on the top part?

anyone think reason 10 is worth getting?

is the scale and chords available in the propellerhead store? i have reason 7 and want this feature but dont want to spend 120 to upgrade to 9.. just want this feature...

Does Propellerhead/Reason have an android app?

i like the new updates, but i have spent more on this software then any other software i use to get the full version. These features are all ready given inside logic x for $200 and that was 2 years ago. pricing is an issue with this company even for sounds and refills and the quality of sound those refills give.

Is there a way to export chords into notes?