Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Shiok, but money no enough…
***A short introduction to what is going on: the ReFill is a feature of the Reason (designed and manufactured by Propellerhead Software) software that I use for music sequencing. Reason software contains its own sampled sounds, triggered by MIDI (sending signals from a keyboard to the computer). Think of them like fonts on MS Office. These ReFills are additional sound fonts to add to your software so that you have more choices to harness from. As Reason users we are always trying to acquire better-sounding fonts wherever and whenever we can***
***A short introduction to what is going on: the ReFill is a feature of the Reason (designed and manufactured by Propellerhead Software) software that I use for music sequencing. Reason software contains its own sampled sounds, triggered by MIDI (sending signals from a keyboard to the computer). Think of them like fonts on MS Office. These ReFills are additional sound fonts to add to your software so that you have more choices to harness from. As Reason users we are always trying to acquire better-sounding fonts wherever and whenever we can***
---Hence, from the email that I receive---
We are happy to announce the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill. This ReFill is the result of a partnership between Abbey Road Studios and Propellerheads Software. It brings the sound of this legendary recording studio into your Reason rack. Recorded on location using Abbey Road's recording rooms and vintage equipment, this ReFill gives you access to seven time-honoured Abbey Road instruments - these are the keyboards heard on all those immortal Abbey Road recordings.
Recorded using Propellerhead Software's hypersampling technique, these instruments have been faithfully reproduced using a wide range of carefully selected microphones and pre-amps. With a hypersampled instrument, you are free to pick the combination of mics that fit your sound.
Contents:
- Steinway Upright - the Mrs. Mills piano
- Challen Studio Piano
- Hammond RT-3
- Mannborg Harmonium
- Schiedmayer Celeste
- Mellotron M400
- Premier Tubular Bells
- Preset patches
Combinator patches for various mic blends.
- Style patches
Processed combinator patches.
- Template patches
Empty, pre-wired user patches.
- 40-page full colour booklet
Enclosed in the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill box is Guide to Abbey Road Keyboards, a 40-page. full color booklet by author by Mark Vail. Jam-packed with full color pictures and descriptive session diagrams, this book gives you in-depth info on the featured instruments and the Abbey Road technology used to record them.
The ReFill ships on two DVD disks with both 16-bit and 24-bit versions.
The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill will be available June 13th from the PropShop and CD-rom music retailers world-wide. The price is USD229 / EUR199.
For more info, go to http://www.propellerheads.se/abbeyroad/
