This video demonstrates using Propellerhead’s ReCycle software to create your own REX loops.

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This video takes a look at using Rex files with Propellerhead Record.

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It’s time to take a look at some ways to work creatively with REX files in Record. Record allows you to work with REX files in new, cool ways – in this tutorial, we learn a few of them.

MrShoNuff71’s guide to Reason Beat Making is a couple of years old, looking at Reason 3.0, but if you put your glasses on, learn how to read and pay close attention, you might be on your way to making hot tracks.

If not, at least it’s entertaining. Don’t miss the atonal synth jam!

Best quote: “That’s the wrong motherfuckin’ sound!” vs “Books, books, books!”

This is a promo video for Pascal Gabriel’s Melophobia Machine ReFill.

Description:

The Melophobia Machine ReFill lets you tap straight into the ways and working methods of free thinking producer Pascal Gabriel, giving you instant access to his particular kind of magic. This ReFill gives you a chance to add unique material from actual Pascal productions to your Reason tracks; Drum kits, Guitar loops, Effect patches, sampled keyboards, Bass patches FX loops, it’s all there.

• eXode Trance Refill
• Scandinavian Roots Refill
• Hip Drums Refill

eXode Trance Refill is the latest offering from Reason guru “eXode”, who has previously created an expansion Piano refill for Propellerheads, a soundset in Reason 4 and the Mjolnir Refill.

The Trance Refill contains over 350 Thor, Combinator, sequence and effects patches with a hard slant towards electronic dance music. The download is for REASON 4 only and is available for $59.

Hip Drums Refill was created from recordings of the Yamaha Hip Gig drumset. These drums have a tight, focused sound which is ideally suited for musical styles Pop, Funk and Rock.

The refill includes 252 Rex files and 2 multisampled NN-XT key mapped kit patches in General Midi format. This combination makes the Hip Drums Refill a complete drum production tool and the download is available for $29.

Scandinavian Roots offers 19 multi-sampled instruments like the Hurdy Gurdy, Kantele, Swedish Bagpipes, Pump Organ and the Offerdahl Pipe and over 980 REX file loops. Additionally, the refill contains 26 NN-XT patches and 28 Combinator patches and is available for $79.

This is a quick Propellerhead Reason tutorial that shows some ways of Making Your Reason Redrum Beats Better.

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Describes how to make your Redrum beats more interesting.

Description:

Recorded in a concert hall with microphones from stage to balcony, Action Drums: Taiko Edition captures the energy resonating from every strike, boom and cinematic blow. With suite names like Alley Sprinter, War Elephants and Lost Temple, Action Drums matches big sounds with grand imagery.

Action Drums focuses on a tempo range of 120-200 BPM. But REX-based loop can be used at virtually any tempo with minimal unwanted audio artifacts.

£49.95 / €74.95

Specifications:

• Over 680 loops in the REX2, Stylus RMX, Reason ReFill, Apple Loop and ACIDized Wav formats.
• Organized into 15 “Beat Themes”, each contains between four and eight full mix loops (89 total), as well as the individual parts used to make the full mixes (590+ loops). This allows the user to easily edit and mix their own unique taiko passages.
• Beat Themes in a wide range of time signatures, including: 3/4, 4/4, 5/4 and 6/8.
• Using the loops within Stylus RMX requires the user to drag-and-drop only one folder into RMX’s included S.A.G.E. Converter.
• Over 140 single and ensemble hits are included for endings and breaks
• Includes 89 Stylus RMX multi presets that allow the user to pull up full mixes of individual loop parts for quick and easy customization of the mix. The presets utilize Stylus RMX’s “Chaos” feature to bring subtle variation to loop interplay. Presets are presented in both single and multi-channel versions.
• Suggested tempos have been given to each suite, but as part of the BPM Flex Series, every loop can be used at virtually any tempo while retaining their feel and groove (not applicable to the ACID wav and Apple Loop files).
• Full mix loop performances are offered at two different tempos for the ACIDized Wav and Apple Loop formats for an additional 89 loops.

In addition to reproducing all of the bleeding-edge Abstraction 01 content in MetaSynth native formats, the MS version also offers an additional 200 new loops and grants access to exclusive power tools to transform and algorithmically mutate new custom loops.

The true power of the MS format is that, like the REX format, the loops represent both a collection of isolated samples and the performance data. Many sound-ware developers today offer various technologies to allow manipulation of the musical performance embedded in a REX groove or instrument phrase, but nothing can compare with the unique graphical power of MetaSynth.

Micro and macro edits and transformations which would take hours in other tools can be made in seconds. Abstraction 01 MS includes a collection of 64 graphical groove patterns which can be used as filters and displacement maps to quickly generate variations or completely new performances. It thus represents not only a sample loop collection, but also a custom algorithmic loop production factory.

Abstraction 01 MS Specs

• Over 500MB of 44.1K/24bit content
• Over 450 Loops and Image Synth Presets
• Over 275 MetaSynth Multi-Sampler Instruments each with 32 samples
• Over 8,500 total samples
• 64 custom Image Filter and Displacement Map presets

The Abstraction 01 REX format is also now available.

Abstraction 01 MS is priced at $49.95. Crossgrades from Abstraction 01 are available for $19.95.

The library was produced by Bollywood composer duo Salim-Sulaiman.

Instruments: Dhol, Tabla, Dholak, Duff, Ghunghroo-Tabla, Dholak-Tabla. Instruments recorded in isolation with natural room reverb and in ensembles (e.g. 6 Dhols, 4 Duffs, etc.).

You can preview Bollywood Grooves below. Features:

• Over 700 Loops in each format (WAV / REX2 / APPLE LOOPS) with tempos ranging from 74bpm to 135bpm
• 4/4, 6/8 and 7/8 patterns
• Carefully recorded, edited and mastered – using state-of-the-art equipment, by experienced sound engineers and musicians
• Loops are in Bollywood song style format, including intros, fills and ends
• Around 2 Gb of data with recordings @ 24 Bit / 48 KHz quality

£69.95 / €105 RRP

Optimized for use in REX2 compatible software such as Propellerheads’ Reason, Drum Foundations Volume One – Classic Rock Sessions, features master drummer Simon Phillips (Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend etc.) professionally recorded at Woodcliff Studios in Los Angeles.

With hundreds of loops organized in “Drum Session” folders, Classic Rock Sessions is structured to deliver 34 complete drum track construction kits for rock/pop songwriters. Each ‘Drum Session’ contains all the parts needed to create your song (Verse, Chorus, Fills etc.), making it easy to build professional drum tracks quickly. A full multi-velocity single hit collection is also included, recorded during the same sessions.

Propellerheads’ proprietary REX2 format allows superb time stretch results in compatible software and can be imported into the highly regarded Stylus RMX virtual instrument.

The REX2 set is available now at $49.95/£29.95 including shipping, exclusively from http://www.sessionloops.com.

Drum Foundations is also available on PC/Mac CD-R in Stereo and Multi-Track Acid WAV and Apple Loops formats.