About automatic program updates Reason supports automatic program updates (within each major release). When you launch Reason it automatically checks for new updates on the Reason Studios web site - provided your computer is connected to the Internet. If you are working with Reason off-line, and then connect to the Internet, you can manually check for updates by selecting the “Check for Updates...” item on the Reason (Mac) or Help (Win) menu. Note that the automatic program update function only works within each major Reason release version, i.e. there will be no automatic update between Reason 11.x and 12.x. Each time a new Reason version is available, an “update bar” appears at the top of the Reason song document after launch. In the update bar you can choose to either download the update now or later. You can also check the release notes for the update by clicking More Info: If you click “Not Now” Reason will wait a number of days before it checks for updates again. If you click “Download” the update is downloaded and prepared for installation. A download progress bar appears in the update bar: If you want to abort the download, click “Cancel”. If you want to hide the download progress bar, click “Hide”. When the download is ready, two options are available: Click “Restart and Install Now” to install the update and launch the updated version of Reason. Click “Install on Quit” to continue running the current Reason version and install the update after you quit the current Reason session.
