This item is sold and shipped as a download card with printed instructions on how to download the software online and a serial key to authenticate. Reason is the Rack and the devices. Reason is a plugin and a DAW. Reason is the wires and the workflow. Reason is your musical ideas and your final result. If Reason was a song, the Rack would be the hook. Wire up instruments, effects, and Player MIDI effects to create the sound you're looking for. Or discover something completely new. From your first beat to your next album, Reason is the music making software for capturing and exploring your ideas. Easy to get started yet deep as you want it to be, it's everything you need to sound like you. No music without sounds. Reason comes with a huge sound bank of more than 30000 patches, loops, and samples that are categorized and tagged for fast exploration. From in style, to out of style, to back in style—Reason's library consists of over 20 years of world-class sounds. Reason comes jam-packed with a huge collection of unique synthesizers, instruments, samplers, drum machines, audio effects, and much more. Our devices have been lovingly hand-crafted in Sweden since we started in 1994. By music makers, for music makers.