http://www.propellerheads.se/products/record/

Propellerheads Reason is one of the most unique and interesting software environments out there right now for musicians. It isn’t quite a DAW (which has some perturbed) and it isn’t quite a synthesizer. It lies somewhere in the middle acting literally as a rack of synths that one traditionally found in hardware. There have been calls for years for Propellerheads to open up the software to allow plugin support but they have resisted.

Two years ago we saw a new UI interface with version 4.0 and yesterday Propellerheads had another announcement to announced Record, their new songwriting software which doesn’t add on to Reason but instead is its own software platform.  The interface is very reminiscent of Reason and does integrate with Reason. Why it isn’t a part of Reason itself I don’t know, but the video above definitely makes me thing that they are going for the bedroom artist here. I can see the appeal on the Windows platform, but is this going to make a dent at all on the Mac platform with Garageband coming with every Mac out there?

Ohh, and it still looks like you can’t support VST or AU plugins.

via Sonicstate.com