So, that's what we're looking at right now. So, if you look at the middle of this window, you see where it says default song and the selection there is empty rack. Here we are on the general page of the preferences and we don't need to go over every single one of these right now, but I want to point out a few things that might help you get started. I’ve changed the setting to always open with a certain template now and should never, hopefully encounter that issue again.- Before we start making music with Reason, let's take a quick look at the preferences. As the issue was actually with this song file (or a plugin it used), that’s the reason it would never open. I had a default setting in Reason preferences that always opened the last song you were working on each time you opened Reason. There was obviously either a problem with the song file or one of the plugins being used – all the other songs I tried worked fine. I tried opening the last song I was working on and it crashed. This time I could open Reason by double clicking the icon, as normal. I opened via the demo song again but this time saved the song by a different name and it was no longer Read Only. I tried opening Reason normally again but still the same problem. I double clicked on the demo song, and lo & behold, Reason opened up – albeit in Read Only mode. Whilst searching for plug-in folders I stumbled upon a default Reason demo song folder. I couldn’t even load it using Rewire in Cubase.Īfter spending hours trawling through the forums, I was just about to concede and contact Propellerhead support, when I got lucky. I tried renaming my VST Plugin folder, upgrading Reason to the very latest version, in-installing and re-installing but still nothing. I mean, ASIO-4-ALL was still running but Reason just hadn’t loaded. I tried opening again and this time, the Reason splash screen was displaying, ASIO-4-ALL loaded up and was active, the splash screen went of and then….

I had recently installed some new plugins and Reason did appear to be doing a full scan, but after a few hours I gave up and closed it using CTRL-ALT-DELETE (yes, I’m using Windows). I had an issue over the weekend, whereby Reason (I’m using version 10) was taking an absolute age to open.

Reason 10 vst plugins folder