Nucleus SoundLab presents GuitarScapes for Propellerhead Reason 5 and Record -
a ReFill adventure through the endless sonic possibilities offered by well-
sampled guitars inside the Reason 5 environment. GuitarScapes takes a wide
variety of synthetic and realistic guitar samples and then mangles them beyond
recognition, all in the name of providing you the absolute best in musical
inspiration. Guitars + Imagination = GuitarScapes!
Sampled guitar has always been a bit of a conundrum in the audio industry.
Either it doesn’t sound realistic in the slightest, or its very complex to
sequence and perform with. Many experienced producers will tell you, for those
requiring the absolute in realism there is still no substitute for a real
guitar. So our goal with GuitarScapes was to let go of the realism
requirements imposed by past sample libraries and instead focus on creating
bold, new, and exciting sounds. GuitarScapes takes the sampled guitar to a new
universe, while still keeping the spirit of guitar sound intact.
GuitarScapes is built upon a very solid foundation of sampling. A variety of
guitars were sampled in detail at 24-bit 96khz quality (before careful
downsampling). Multiple pickup positions as well as up/downstrokes were
captured on two of the most detailed samplesets. Besides this realworld
sampling, a wide variety of analog, FM, additive and physical modelling synths
were used to create a rich and complex set of guitar-like timbres. All of
these samples were then hand-processed for perfect trims and loops, before
being imported into the Reason 5 environment for patch creation. The very best
in Reason patch designers were called in for the job - including Jeremy
Janzen, Adam Fielding, Shaun Wallace, Lewis Osborne, Tom Pritchard, and Joseph
Mizelle.
The final product of nearly 24 months of effort is the GuitarScapes ReFill.
Inside you’ll find vocoded hybrid pads, sequenced ‘almost-real’ plucks, rock-
solid bass guitars, monstrous distorted monoleads, classic filtered
arpeggios/chords, cinematic ethnic strings and even frighteningly realistic
acoustic and electric guitars - if your track calls for simplicity. Beyond
that, if you own both Reason and Record, you will be pleased to hear a very
special set of patches was created that takes advantage of the Record-
exclusive Line6 Amp and Neptune pitch-shifter! Of course, as a Nucleus
SoundLab ReFill, GuitarScapes also features extensive PDF documentation to
help users harness GuitarScapes in their productions.
- 1.2GB+ of 24/16-bit 44khz samples.
- 223 Custom Combinators - each one unique and featuring all 4 Rotaries, Buttons and Modwheel mapped to intelligent assignments
- 46 of the above Combinators are for Reason + Record - these unique Combinators are exclusively built using Record amps and FX and as such require Reason 5 + Record
- 63 Basic Combinators - featuring a single sampleset with a chain of useful FX
- 55 NN19 Patches
- 25 NN-XT Patches
- 8 Demo songs packed inside the ReFill as RNS files
- PDF Design documentation for each patch, detailing important aspects of its design, inspiration and performance
- Requires Reason 5
