The plug-in and factory banks come with a hefty price tag of $249 and each expansion costing an additional $55, there is no two-ways about it, this is not a purchase most aspiring producers would make lightly. Piano leads, supersaws and bass hits are in no short supply yet the expansions are there to offer add-ons that may fit better for particular styles.įor such a usable product, the downfalls are stark and hard to ignore. Where Nexus really shines is giving you a pallet of quality sounds that can be layered or blended with your go-to synths to create bigger and fuller patches. If you’re looking for infinite parameter controls and fine-tuning then you may find that Nexus does not exactly cater to your needs. The built in delay and reverb modules are of a surprisingly good quality, allowing you to polish your sounds without needing a massive fx chain on your channel, saving those precious CPU cycles for your other demanding synths. The samples are engineered to fit easily into a mix, with the UI providing quick ADSR, filter and arpeggio controls to tweak. The factory banks are designed for most modern dance and electronic genres, providing bread and butter sounds for all your drums, synths and fx needs.

It’s difficult to pinpoint what it is about Nexus that makes it so usable: the sleek interface with quick controls and organized library, the nearly endless samples that both come with the base synth or the dozens of expansions that can be added, or the CPU friendly user interface that blends right into your projects.īut what about the sounds? Purchasing Nexus is much more about the samples that come with it than simply just a shiny plug-in. There is something undeniably alluring about a central hub to command those hundreds of samples, with familiar controls that any synth programmer can easily maneuver. Described by reFX as a 'next generation ROM synthesizer-plug in' (ie ROMpler), this beast of a plug in can be found in the project files of the vast majority of Beatport top 100s tracks. With hard drives full of sample folders and our DAWs packed full of every synth plug-in under the sun, producers spend hours of their lives searching, digging, frantically combing their files for that perfect kick or snare…that perfect bass hit or noise fill.

Sound-selection is, no matter the genre, by and large one of the most crucial aspects of any project. Synths or samples? In our day and age, this question presents itself to nearly any producer looking to push their sound out of the bedroom and into the bigroom.

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