Reason (program)
Reason is a popular real-time sound synthesis and sampling software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It emulates a rack of hardware synthesizers, samplers, signal processors, sequencers and mixers. It can be used alone, or as a sub-system with music sequencer software. It is required, along with a laptop computer, by new students at the Berklee College of Music. Reason 1.0 was released in November 2000.The software was named as a reference to software used by the lead character in Douglas Adams' novel, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.