REFX Nexus 2 - A Confessional

[tedannemann]

Nexus rocks because of the preset programmers behind the expansions. Real world producers with experience, no pipe dreams or experimental nonsense presets. Just stuff you could use in an actual commercial production.

[Zexila]

You mean just the stuff you could use in your flavor of the month EDM production.

[tedannemann]

Of course EDM (in the sense of any kind of electronic involving music), I wouldn't produce the next Jazz or Rock record with Nexus, however all synth related stuff is there, playable, usable, musically most of the time...

[Zexila]

In the sense of mostly cliche flavor of the month dance music.

[chk071]

Well, if you own loads of Nexus packs, you surely have enough ammo to fight the next world war, so to speak. Horses for courses, of course, you won't be able to produce any kind of music with Nexus. The way producers talked about Nexus, it's simply production ready sounds, when you need to reach for those. I don't think it's much different to the way orchestral/cinematic producers work, AFAIK, most also have their own sound designers, right?

[frizzbee]

Well, if you own loads of Nexus packs, you surely have enough ammo to fight the next world war, so to speak.

yes and duplicate content as well as layered presets from single leads of the expansion

[jacqueslacouth]

Aint nuffin' wrong wit usin' presets
I challenge anyone to design better house basses than Nexus. It'z the reason i use it for dat. You wont find anytin' in omnisphere capable of doin' that. Shit...Hive, Spire, Synthmaster eva

I'm actually wondering as to why you put such effort into fouling the English language. I can see that deep down, you have some respect for it through your consistent use of correct punctuation in deliberately incorrect spelling of words.

Does it add a certain street credibility to your musings or make it all a little more edgy?

I mean, I can understand abbreviating words to an extent (out of laziness I'm presuming), but why, for instance in the case of "it'z", "nuffin'" or "usin'"where it is patently wrong and requires exactly the same number of key strokes, do you bother...

And for the sake of the children can we just make it illegal, punishable by death, to use "dat" for that?

*sigh* I'm getting too old for this world.

[chk071]

Cuz gangsta. Ma brutha from a different mutha.

















Ok ok, i shut up already.

[tedannemann]

In the sense of mostly cliche flavor of the month dance music.

This depends purely on your musical horizon... and also skills...

[egbert101]

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[Windy23451]

Nexus 2 is a real guilty pleasure.

[Kinh]

You mean just the stuff you could use in your flavor of the month EDM production.

This is exactly what I thought for a while. but then I started-a-thinkin' "what can I do wit these generic presets to make the production more innovative, different?" You gotsta think outside Z box. dig?
I think nexus expansions are a good place to start if you wanna sound cliched without actually being cliched by using the same predictable format and arrangements expected. If all you're doing is using the SQ presets as a basis then your missing the boat.

Too often I hear new music that uses older sounds in a new way and in doing this, still retains a competitive edge. Other times I hear new stuff that uses strangely alluring timbres that doesn't chart too well.

[Julien Unison]

In the sense of mostly cliche flavor of the month dance music.

This depends purely on your musical horizon... and also skills...

EDM Snobbery?

EDM Shrubbery !!

[ATN69]

There is a lot of snobbery going around in the music industry, but I could not care less about it. I will use what ever I have in my arsenal in order to get the result I want, including Nexus.

[braj]

How do you think Nexus compares to other Romplers like Syntronik?