http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2004/11/reason-3-is-on-way.html

LITERAL:
No music company does hype like Propellerheads. On Sunday, tiny weird graphics appeared dotted around their site, which eagle-eyed-geeks started collecting here. By Tuesday, the geeks had assembled the picture above- a new bit of Reason 3 called ‘Combinator’, with the message «This modest device will change Reason forever!!!». Now, they’re all wondering what the thing is for (recording audio? playing VST instruments? Some kind of boring thing to combine bits of different synths?) Then, yesterday, Propellerheads put a post on their home page asking for Beta testers for Reason 3. Cynics might say that every other company in the world manages to find beta testers without advertising for them on the home page, but I’m not a cynic…