We've been waiting so long for Propellerheads to get around to putting audio recording into their hugely popular synth rack sequencer called Reason - it's been very quiet over at Prop HQ since Reason 4 came out 18 months ago, what can they be doing? I think we might have underestimated them. Rather than bolt something into Reason they've come up with a whole new recording environment which they've imaginatively called "Record". This is brilliant for two main reasons, firstly it's a stand alone bone fide bit of studio recording software with loads of good stuff in it (which we'll come onto in a minute) and second if you already have Reason then it will completely integrate into Record without any of that mucking about with Rewire.