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Well… Moving on from the 160dB Refill (which is the first commercial Refill I owned), AMG come with the second instalment – 260dB. It’s optimised for DnB production, and delivers a wide selection of patches and files for all of the main Reason devices.

I’ll start with the Dr. Rex files, as for me they’re the most instantly useful element. Contained in the refill are 57 live and 53 more ‘traditional’ programmed breakbeats. The quality of these is great, with well chopped Rex-files, and completely relevant sounds. You’ll be able to cover pretty much every incarnation of DnB from mellow to hard, through experimental and jazzy, and in combination with a Scream 4 unit there’s a lot of sonic possibilities.

The live breaks have a good human feel to them, and the programmed breakbeats are sure to raise a smile of recognition as there’s some ‘classic’ ones included – something you can’t legally get from free refills! Also, moving on a step from the 160dB refill, quite a few of these breaks are now longer than 1-2 bars, which means they have a little more variation and this makes them more versatile overall. Read the rest of this entry »

When i opened up the plastic wrapper that’s around the cd. I thought this would be just a nice sample cd. But i was wrong.

This cd is full of analog, fresh and inovative sounds wich are really, really cool!!

On the cd is ofcourse the refill. But also the off-line versions of the AMG/ReasonRefills websites, a bunch of demo refills.

And a collection of demo Rex and Rx2 files wich come from the demo refills. The refill is 204 Mb large and contains some

wicked sounds and patches:

• Dr.Rex DrumLoops
• Dr.Rex MusicLoops
• NN-19 SamplerPatches
• Other Samples
• Redrum Kits
• Setup Song Templates
• Subtractor Patches

The sounds in the refill come in a great variety. All Reason instruments can feed on the refill. More then 100 Beats/Breaks REX files. Including live drums, wich i think are rock solid. And very groovy

Also for the Dr.Rex are 4 categories of music loops (Non beat). They include the following:

Gated FX – Great samples. Very analog sounding. Cool!

Rhodes – Great!! i really love the rhodes. And these Rhodes Rex’s are so natural and analogue sounding. They sound just like the real deal. Along with all of it’s noize. Great material!.

Sax – Some wicked sax loops. This is really some serious sax playing. I can’t stop listening to ‘m.

Upright Bass – 37 great bass loops. Very funky and with the right groove. They also adapt nicely when used in a song a little slower or faster then the original loop tempo.

The NN-19 Patches are great. The samples sound very clean even when played on a low/high octave. The patchlist includes 10 analog FX sets, 13 atmosphere patches, 8 music FX sets, 28 bass patches, 4 Rhodes licks sets, 4 sax licks sets and 2 upright licks sets.

In the ”Other samples” folder are the samples from the Rex files and the NN-19 patches. Great samples if you ask me. The sax definately are my favourites here. But i have a thing for sax’s

The Redrum kits are of an equal quality as the Rex files and that is just great. Very clear and natural sounding drumsamples.

Hard and subtle. Both are represented in the selection of drumsamples. Great material!!!

The Subtractor is one of the main instruments in Reason. It’s just a super device You can do so many cool things with it.

The posibilities are endless.

Some very interesting patches can be found in the ”Subtractor Patches” folder. Bass, Fx, Pads and some more patches wich are to unique to label. All programmed very well.

The bass patches are unbelievable. Great bass sweeps as heard in all the great Drum&Bass productions. Super analogue and very sharp sounding pads are also included. Great to create mystic atmosphere’s or to widen the stereo field in your music.

It doesn’t matter if you make Acid Jazz, Funk, R&B, Drum&bass or HipHop. This refill will fill your needs for analog, fatt and clear sounds. All you need to do is make the composition and add the vocals. To give you some help with starting out a

composition in the desired style there are 5 Setup Song Templates in the refill. They can be a major help when you just don’t know how to begin a song in the style you like so much. They are available in the following styles:

Dark – Jazzy – JumpUp(Kosheen like ) – Tek – Trancy(Great sounding and widely atmospheric)

They should definately get you in the right direction when producing you’r own Drum&Bass (or other) track.

I think the cd is very usefull. The sounds are super usable and won’t wear out easily. This refill is a definate must for serious Drum&Bass producers who work with Reason.
Really a super complete refill!! With this refill you can definately build a drum&bass track wich will sound super fatt!!!!!!

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