This month's new ReFills brings super solid drums and sweet FX, plucked strings and tuned percussion, spectral analysed space photographs, tourist chatter in Times Square and mind-blowing bass and synth patches. Check out the latest additions from New Atlantis Audio, Goldbaby and Primeloops in the shop.

Get ready for more filter science. Gordon Reid dives into the topic of peaking filters, or resonance as we mortals call it. Learn what resonance is and why Q isn't necessarily an inventor of weird spy gadgets.

This month we have six (yes, six!) new ReFills in the Shop: four titles from Sample Magic, Sounds and Effects' Drums and Percussion of Ancient Mexico, and Nucleus SoundLab's brand new effects collection Filter Research 2.

Watch our own Gerry Basserman give a tutorial on Reason/Record and BerkleeMusic's online Reason courses in a new video series. Topics covered include Tempo Stretching in Record and using the Thor synthesizer.

SPECIAL OFFER: Any student who enrolls in a Reason-based course for the Summer 2010 term (begins on June 28th) will receive a free time-limited version of Propellerhead's Record software. This timed version of Record will be available for the duration of BerleeMusic's Summer 2010 term.

There's one thing you'll never hear when synthesizer enthusiasts wax lyrical about their instruments: an argument about which has the fattest high-pass filter. In Discovering Reason #35 Gordon Reid explains the sonic characteristics behind high pass filters and gives you some great examples of how you can start using them in your music.

He didn't come to House music... House music came to him! As more aggressive and distorted tracks have grown in popularity on dance floors around the world, DJ and producer Jake Stanczak (Kill the Noise) has made quite a name for himself in the House scene. Kill the Noise's sound is hard, relentless, and razor sharp - cutting through PA speakers like a knife.

ReBirth is back! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been resurrected and made available for the iPhone.

Version 1.0.1 of Record is a free maintenance update that resolves several minor issues. It also comes with a few new features including multiple audio file import and support for Line 6 Pod Farm 2.

Adam Young, aka Owl City is a music 2.0 success story. Launching himself into stardom straight out of his parent's basement, he knows what it takes to make it in the music industry today. We caught up with him at a sold out show at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco, California.

Insert effects such as compressors, EQs, reverbs, delays are very effective tools to give each track its own sonic space and to make your mix sound better – it's these goals that we'll focus on in this article.

This month we offer two new ReFills from the Loopmasters artist series: Riley & Durrant Progressive House and Mad Professor Reel to Reel Reggae – as well as Sounds and Effect's brand new Hidden Objects ReFill.

Line 6 Tones created or edited in the new Pod Farm 2 software are not compatible with Record 1.0.

In this weeks episode James Bernard shows how to create multiband processors (like compression) in Reason and Record. He also shows a song file in Record using the channel dynamics in a mutilband spit for mastering

We went to Chaka Blackmon's studio in Woodland Hills, CA to find out how he is using Reason, Record and Logic together for his production work.

The Discovering Reason series is back with a very thorough introduction to analog filters: the theory behind the various filter types and their uses in Thor.

Reverb is a very useful tool for mixing and in this month's Record U article, Ernie Rideout gives us the lowdown on reverb theory and practice.

In the latest weekly tutorial, James Bernard takes a look at the control voltage and gate features in Reason and Record. Check it out if you are confused about how to use CV and Gate in your rack.

Do you want to help us test the music software of the future? Are you a Reason/Record power user? Can you keep a secret? If your answer is yes to all three questions, maybe you would like to join the Propellerhead Test Pilots?

James Bernard continues his 52 Reason/Record tips tutorial series with a wobbling session on wobble bass. Learn how to create the typical wobbling bass sound often used in dubstep music.

Did you know just how flexible Reason & Record's Remote technology is? In the latest Discovering Reason article, writer Fredrik Hägglund will teach you how to create and edit your own controller mappings for your MIDI control surface.