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Reason Drum Kits

Reason ReFill Collection

2.0
9 , 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 tailor-
made for drums, using the finest blend of vintage and modern techno-
logy. In order to capture all the details and nuances of the featured kits,
each instrument was recorded at all possible velocity levels, from a vari-
ety 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 Bob Brockman – Engineer, NYC

Being a Reason product, Drum Kits 2 is of course fully ReWire com- (Heather Nova, Biggie Smalls, Mary J Blige)
patible, making it easy for you to incorporate your favorite drum kits into Dave Darlington – Engineer, NYC
songs created in other ReWire savvy software; just run Reason and the (Kylie Minogue, Masters At Work, Chaka Chan)
Drum Kits 2 ReFill alongside your Pro Tools pop or rock production, and Ed Bauman – Musician, CA
use the entire Reason rack as a dedicated drum studio. (Bauman Productions)
Eric Gadd – Producer/Artist, SWE
Load it all (Gadd, Cornelia)
Reason Drum Kits 2 takes full advantage of Reason's all-powerful Jack Freudenheim – Drummer/Engineer, NYC
Combinator device, allowing for total recall of complex kits and every- (46bliss and RealDrummer.net)
thing that affects their overall sound; mixer channel levels, EQ and effect Jocke Skog – Producer/Artist, SWE
settings and routing data are stored along with the kits. This way, your (Clawfinger)
not just loading sets of drums, you're loading up entire drum mixes – Magnus Frykberg – Producer/Musician, SWE
complete with levels, panning and processing – in a single click. (Titiyo, Lisa Miskovsky)
Pelle Gunnerfeldt – Producer, SWE
Producer Kits (The Hives)
A number of name producers and engineers were asked to use Drum Shep – Producers, SWE
Kits 2 and Reason's EQs, compressors and effects to reproduce the (Lambretta, Rachel Stevens, Shaggy )
secret working methods and signal paths that shape their signature Simon Nordberg – Producer/Engineer, SWE
drum sound. Simply load up any Producer Kit Combinator patch for (Britney Spears, Kent)
that instant professional drum sound.
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Reason Drum Kits 2.0

Reason ReFill Collection

■ New in Reason Drum Kits 2.0 Contents: ■ 96 ReDrum Sets

Tight, acoustic kits for Reason’s
step-time drum machine
, 13 Producer Kits ■ 11.000 Drum and Cymbal Samples
, 20 Style Kits ■ 120 Categorized MIDI Files
, 2 Snare Drums – Two snappy, hypersampled quality snare recordings added. ■ 55 Instrument Patches Readymade beats, variations and
, 7 Preset Kits – Seven fresh kits spanning from 70's Soul and Funk styles to Easily mix, match and combine the fills in various musical styles
modern day Alternative flavors. 55 individual drum, hihat and cymbal
, 25 ReDrum Sets patches ■ 20 Style Templates
, Completely rebuilt instrument layout using the new Reason 3 features: Reason song files containing full
Combinator, MClass etc. ■ 25 Preset Drum Kits Kits and MIDI files placed in musical
, Improved Hihat mapping , 11 Vintage Soul/Funk Kits arrangements
, All Preset Kits reworked into Combinator patches , 7 Indie-style Pop Kits
, 4 Hard Rock/Metal Kits ■ 6 Demo Song Files
, 1 Soft Mallets Kit Profesionally produced Demo songs,
, 1 Brushes Kit mixed in Reason by acclaimed mixing
, 1 Snares Off Kit engineers

■ Hypersampling ■ 20 Style Kits ■ 30 Effects Patches

Kits going through Combinator effect
Multi-dimensional instrument reproduction ■ GM Sample Mapping
chains, shaping the kits for different
styles of music Use Reason Drum Kits with standard
The Reason Drum Kits ReFill was created using Propellerhead MIDI files
Software’s Hypersampling method: ■ 13 Producer Kits
Name producers and engineers have ■ 2 ReFills In One
, Multiple velocity levels For capturing each instrument’s full dynamic range. recreated their signature sound and The disc includes 24-bit and 16-bit
secret signal paths using Reason versions of this ReFill
, Multiple microphones For capturing and controlling distance, ambience
Drum Kits 2.
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.

■ System Requirements

We have gone out of our way to create
9 the most realistic sounding drums ever
made for Reason. Therefore, the full
sampler patches in this ReFill are very
large, resulting in high system require-
ments 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.