Smokers Relight Deux (WAV, REX, Reason Refills) Review

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(More customer reviews)The first Smokers collection quickly became a user-standard, filling every inch of its product with usable, well-crafted loops and loads of deconstructed hits. All of the hype for Smokers 1 was for good reason.
No surprise that this sequel gets the same media treatment, much of it deserved. But a closer look at the collection exposes a slight flaw that keeps it from a 5-star rating: the beats are too much alike over too much of the disc. Sure, the drum SOUNDS are different, but the beats from folder to folder are mostly cut from the "Keep On Movin'"/Lisa Stansfield cloth. I'd have liked more variety in the rhythms themselves, more backbeats, more play. Some people would call this kind of one-beat regimen "working within the genre." Sure...if the genre is two songs deep.
That said, they compensate a great deal by offering "dropped" variations of the main beat (notice the singular) and more one shots than you can shake your hard drive at. if you like building your beats, this collection gives you some great fodder. It's a worthy addenudum to the original collection, if not quite the classic stand-alone that the previous incarnation was.
A final note: it's horrendously overpriced considering these flaws.


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The long awaited follow up to Smokers Delight is finally here!! 7 Gb on 2 DVD ROMS - Loads of weed smoking, velvet, souly, jazzy trippin, turntablebeats and samples.5000 24 Bit Loops & Samples in 3 formats; WAV, REX2 & a huge 2 Gb Reason REFILL.WAV SECTION (24 BIT) 5012 Loops & Samples in 80, 90 & 100 Bpm. Vinylstyle Break- beats, Hiphop Loops, Hh-Rim Dub Loops, Percussion Loops, Fender Jazz Bass Loops, Rhodes Piano Riffs & Chords, Turntable Fx & Music Loops. Flute, Tenor Sax & Trumpet Riffs, Electric Piano & Vinylstyle Music Chords, HipHop Drum & Fx samples.REX2 (Stylus RMX prepared) 1163 24 Bit Rex2 Loops & Multi-Rex Files. Breakbeats, MPC Hiphop Loops, Percussion Loops, Bass Loops,Rhodes Riffs & Chords, Fx & Turntable Music Loops. Multi-Rex Flute, Tenor Sax, Trumpet Riffs, RhodesPiano Chords, Vinylstyle Music Loops.REFILL (Reason 3.0) 4755 24 Bit Rex2, Multi-Rex & Wav Samples. Vinylstyle Breaks, Hiphop Drum Loops, Hh-Rim Dub Loops,Organ Beatbox Loops, Shaker, Conga & other Percussion Loops, Fender Jazz Bass Loops, Rhodes Riffs & Chords, Fx & Turntable Music Loops, Flute, Tenor Sax, Trumpet Riffs, Rhodes Piano Chords, VinylstyleMusic Loops, HipHop Drum, Fx & Percussion samples. Combinator, Redrum, NN-XT and Effect Patches.

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Propellerhead Reason Pianos Refill 1.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)While there may be other great piano samples out there and there definitely are - possibly more interesting than these - what is amazing about the way Propellerhead implemented this is the flexibility and tone shaping possibilities. They including several mic positions for each sample - ALL of which can be raised or lowered which dramatically effects the tone in a very real world studio way. If you have experience recording, you will know what I am talking about. Mic position has a huge effect on sound. I don't know of any other sample library that does that as effectively and intuitively as this one. The pianos overall are nice though most are too shiny and bright for my taste. Pulling back on the close mics helps that. It also obviously is meant for use with Reason and Record which makes it the "go to" piano library if you use those programs.

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The Reason Pianos ReFill gives you three-amazing-sounding, highly realistic, Hypersampled acoustic pianos with the kind of presence and playability you normally wouldn't associate with sampled pianos. Where other piano libraries leave you with a fixed piano sound that may or may not suit your project, Reason Pianos does just the opposite: these pianos were recorded using multiple microphones, leaving the mixing and shaping of your piano sound up to you.

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