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Reason Drum Kits

Reason ReFill Collection
9

2.0

, Mac OS and Windows

Hypersampled acoustic
drum kits for Reason 3.0

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Reason Drum Kits 2.0

Reason ReFill Collection

Want lively, realistic drums? Without using loops

or hiring a session drummer? Reason Drum Kits 2
gives you masterfully multisampled, perfectly playable,
totally recallable multi-output drum kits for Reason's
Combinator.
The Reason Drum Kits 2 ReFill is an extensive DVD-ROM library of
life-like, multisampled drum kits for Reason's extraordinary Combinator
device. Drum Kits 2 is more than just a set of professionally recorded
drum kits mapped out across your MIDI keyboard it's a live drum
recording session in a Refill. Reason Drum Kits 2 captures every aspect
of the included kits: the drums themselves, the room surrounding them,
the drummer, the unique sound of the mics and outboard used in the
recording, the works. Reason Drum Kits features 58 unique Combinator
kits styled for Vintage Soul, Indie-type Pop and Hard Rock, plus 96
additional ReDrum sets and an insane amount of inspirational MIDI
files, effect patches and style templates.

Mix your own drums

All the instruments in the kits were captured at multiple velocity levels
using multiple microphones all of which are represented on separate
channels in Reason's mixer, each time you load up a kit. So by adjusting
the levels of the Close, Overhead and Ambience microphones, you can
fully shape and control the sound of your drum kits. You can even add
compression, EQ or effects to individual drums. Essentially, this is like
putting a top-notch recording room, drum kit and drummer right into
your computer. We've taken care of the tricky, boring and expensive
work, leaving you in command of the creative parts: The playing and
the mixing!

Build your own kits

Putting together your own personal drum kits using individual drums,
hihats and cymbals from different kits is, naturally, a breeze; Reason
Drum Kits 2 handles instruments and all their related samples and
velocity layers collectively, allowing you to create drum kits containing
up to a thousand samples with just a few mouse clicks.

Forget multisampling this is hypersampling

The Reason Drum Kits were recorded in acoustic environments tailormade for drums, using the finest blend of vintage and modern technology. In order to capture all the details and nuances of the featured kits,
each instrument was recorded at all possible velocity levels, from a variety of distances and positions. So when you hammer out a two-handed
snare fill on your MIDI keyboard, you can expect it to sound more than
realistic. All mic positions and velocity levels included, the Reason Drum
Kits use around 70 samples for one single key, which adds up to about
800 different samples in one kit! Giving you 11.000 drum and cymbal
samples and an infinte number of extremely versatile, extremely dynamic
sounding drumkits that are a joy to play. Enjoy.

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Reason Drum Kits in production

Being a Reason product, Drum Kits 2 is of course fully ReWire compatible, making it easy for you to incorporate your favorite drum kits into
songs created in other ReWire savvy software; just run Reason and the
Drum Kits 2 ReFill alongside your Pro Tools pop or rock production, and
use the entire Reason rack as a dedicated drum studio.

Load it all
Reason Drum Kits 2 takes full advantage of Reason's all-powerful
Combinator device, allowing for total recall of complex kits and everything that affects their overall sound; mixer channel levels, EQ and effect
settings and routing data are stored along with the kits. This way, your
not just loading sets of drums, you're loading up entire drum mixes
complete with levels, panning and processing in a single click.

Producer Kits
A number of name producers and engineers were asked to use Drum
Kits 2 and Reason's EQs, compressors and effects to reproduce the
secret working methods and signal paths that shape their signature
drum sound. Simply load up any Producer Kit Combinator patch for
that instant professional drum sound.

Bob Brockman Engineer, NYC

(Heather Nova, Biggie Smalls, Mary J Blige)
Dave Darlington Engineer, NYC
(Kylie Minogue, Masters At Work, Chaka Chan)
Ed Bauman Musician, CA
(Bauman Productions)
Eric Gadd Producer/Artist, SWE
(Gadd, Cornelia)
Jack Freudenheim Drummer/Engineer, NYC
(46bliss and RealDrummer.net)
Jocke Skog Producer/Artist, SWE
(Clawfinger)
Magnus Frykberg Producer/Musician, SWE
(Titiyo, Lisa Miskovsky)
Pelle Gunnerfeldt Producer, SWE
(The Hives)
Shep Producers, SWE
(Lambretta, Rachel Stevens, Shaggy )
Simon Nordberg Producer/Engineer, SWE
(Britney Spears, Kent)

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Reason Drum Kits 2.0

Reason ReFill Collection

New in Reason Drum Kits 2.0

Contents:

, 13 Producer Kits
, 20 Style Kits
, 2 Snare Drums Two snappy, hypersampled quality snare recordings added.
, 7 Preset Kits Seven fresh kits spanning from 70's Soul and Funk styles to
modern day Alternative flavors.
, 25 ReDrum Sets
, Completely rebuilt instrument layout using the new Reason 3 features:
Combinator, MClass etc.
, Improved Hihat mapping
, All Preset Kits reworked into Combinator patches

11.000 Drum and Cymbal Samples

Hypersampling

55 Instrument Patches
Easily mix, match and combine the
55 individual drum, hihat and cymbal
patches
25 Preset Drum Kits
, 11 Vintage Soul/Funk Kits
, 7 Indie-style Pop Kits
, 4 Hard Rock/Metal Kits
, 1 Soft Mallets Kit
, 1 Brushes Kit
, 1 Snares Off Kit
20 Style Kits
Kits going through Combinator effect
chains, shaping the kits for different
styles of music

Multi-dimensional instrument reproduction

The Reason Drum Kits ReFill was created using Propellerhead
Softwares Hypersampling method:
, Multiple velocity levels For capturing each instruments full dynamic range.
, Multiple microphones For capturing and controlling distance, ambience
and character.
, Multiple same velocity samples The NN-XT automatically alternates
between sets of similar sounding samples, for a more realistic performance.
, Multiple variation sampling For capturing the human input and the
different techniques, grips and playing styles that bring life to an instrument.

13 Producer Kits
Name producers and engineers have
recreated their signature sound and
secret signal paths using Reason
Drum Kits 2.

96 ReDrum Sets
Tight, acoustic kits for Reasons
step-time drum machine
120 Categorized MIDI Files
Readymade beats, variations and
fills in various musical styles
20 Style Templates
Reason song files containing full
Kits and MIDI files placed in musical
arrangements
6 Demo Song Files
Profesionally produced Demo songs,
mixed in Reason by acclaimed mixing
engineers
30 Effects Patches
GM Sample Mapping
Use Reason Drum Kits with standard
MIDI files
2 ReFills In One
The disc includes 24-bit and 16-bit
versions of this ReFill

System Requirements

We have gone out of our way to create

the most realistic sounding drums ever
made for Reason. Therefore, the full
sampler patches in this ReFill are very
large, resulting in high system requirements for using Reason Drum Kits.

Minimum requirements:
, Windows: Reason 3.0 or later, Intel
Pentium 4 / 1.4 GHz or AMD Athlon XP,
512 MB RAM, DVD drive
, Mac OS: Reason 3.0 or later, Macintosh
G4 1.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, DVD drive

Strongly recommended:
, Windows: Reason 3.0.4 or later, Intel
Pentium 4 / 2.4 GHz processor or faster,
1024 MB RAM, fast hard drive, low-latency
ASIO compatible sound card, DVD drive
, Mac OS: Reason 3.0.4 or later, Power
Macintosh G5 or Dual G4 / 1.4 Ghz or
faster, 1024 MB RAM, fast hard drive,
DVD drive

Reason and ReFill are trademarks of Propellerhead Software. All other commercial symbols are protected trademarks and trade names of their respective holders. All specifications subject to change without notice. C 2005 Propellerhead Software. All rights reserved. Printed in Sweden.