The upgrade license would be useless to you. If it's an 'unopened box', then that would seem to be an unused license, but make sure its a full license and not an upgrade license. Also if you ever decided to upgrade to a current version you would have to pay full price instead of the upgrade price. That would be ripping you off as they would still own the product and you wouldn't even be able to use Reason 6 and above. With that in mind, DO NOT BUY from anyone is unable to transfer their license to you. Your best bet at finding a seller would probably be for Reason 7 or 8. Once you upgrade all of your licenses are connected, so if you sell your Reason license you sell every version you've ever owned. The tricky thing about buying a old version though, especially as old as version 5, is it means that the seller would have had to have never upgraded it. Just a serial number.Reason 6 requires either a dongle or internet verification, but Reason 7 and above allow you to just authorize your computer as well as use internet verification. If you're buying Reason 5 (Reason 4 doesn't have kong) then no there is no dongle. In that case, do I still need to buy the USB key / dongle from Propellorheads?Īny help with these questions would be great y'all. If it's an 'unopened box' version of Reason they're selling, does that mean it'll come with its own unused license? If the seller can't transfer the license over to me, can I still use the software under their license?

If I buy an older version of Reason from someone on Ebay, for example, do I then have to buy the USB key / dongle off Propellorheads to use it? (which I'm ok with, because I believe it's about £50 which isn't too bad) However, I don't know how this all works now.

I know Essentials is very cheap, but I really need Kong and Thor for my older projects. I'm happy to use Reason 4 or 5 so I was thinking of buying 2nd hand, because I don't really want to splash out £300+ for Version 9. He recently sold his copy and my version stopped working, which is fair enough, I guess he's transferred the license over to someone else.Īnyway, I want to buy Reason, mainly so I can work on older projects from around 2011 onwards. New User here - HELLO! Sorry if this has been covered already, but I didn't know which Forum to look in.Ī few years ago (2011) a friend gave me his copy of Reason 5 to play with, I used it for about 3 years on my iMac and it was great.

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