Reason 3.0 and Reason Drum Kit Refill - Opinions?

[JCWarrior]

I am in the tedious process of trying to make purchase decisions. I have been considering getting BFD for drums and MOTU Mach 5 for my sample engine. I would use these to record drums, bass, some orchestral instruments, synth, etc to acompany what will be primarily Instrumental Guitar music. Some vocals at times. Guitars will be live.

I was just listening to the Reason 3.0 demo's and I was very impressed with the drums and other orchestral instruments.

Has anyone here been through a similar decision process and what did you end up with?

Anyone here using Reason 3.o and RDK?

I appreciate the feedback.

[ikon1234]

I like Reason for drums... It's a step sequencer in there which makes it easy for drum programming

[JCWarrior]

Thank you. Have you used others like "BFD" as well?

Anyone else?

[ejwells]

BFD is a whole other world when it comes to drums.
Reason is adequate, and alot of stuff can be done with it, but BFD is WAY superior in programabilty, and real drum sounds.

That said, BFD is also a sizable can of worms, in that if you're anything like me, you won't be satisfied with the initial sounds, and will soon add XFL and 8 Bit Kit, which will find you at about 50 gigs of data, and you'll need a dedicated HD to house it all.

[stuey]

i've been using reason since version 1, now owning v3 and with refills such as the strings, drum kits etc, it's the easiest thing i've used in some time.

I rewire it through PT LE 7, exporting the sounds out as audio then mix the whole thing in a PT session. The drums sound great, but with the addition of recycle you can sample your own drum sounds and get them into reason. I'll sample a kit through my akai s3000xl, get the finished sound into reason and they you go. If reason could record audio, my akai would be on ebay.
The only thing i'd say is that the reason plug in is very power hungry.

I rarely use the redrum tho i have to say, I use the sampler or the rex loop player and edit it in the drum map.

It's the way forward if you don't have a drummer on stand by.

[neeel]

I have reason drum kits 1 and reason 2.5 at the moment.

Reason 3 is coming for xmas and I am getting drum kits 2. Link here.

Drum kits 2 http://www.propellerheads.se/remote....on=displaymain

Reason 1 drum kits I think sound as good as BFD although BFD is maybe a small bit more flexible in the standard way of drum mixing. Whereas reason you have to fiddel with reaosn modlues a bit more.

Neil.

[killcrush]

I just take each output from the back of the nn-xt and plug it into the hardware interface, then make an aux track for each hardware interface in pro tools, and you can mix to your hearts desire. its like having a full drum kit already mic'd and ready to go in pro tools. so cool, and reason is so easy to use man, battery is just a nighmare but I havnt tried bfd yet so I can compare it to that

[neatguys]

I am in love all over again with reason 3.0!!!!
The sound quality is so much better now and I wrote 3 tunes in 1 night with it!
Still going through all the new presets

[phobia]

Hi!

Can the Reason Drum Kits be exported as REX files when done (programmed) in Reason?
Would be handy to import them as REX in Audio Regions for future flexibility.

Cheers,
// J

[stuey]

Recycle handles REX files. I don't have the drum kits 2, although Satan, or is that Santa may bring it for Xmas.
Are the Drum kits packed into refills of are there samples as well, wav, aiff files..?

If so you can just open them up in recylce (if you have a copy that is) and edit the samples in recycle. There you'll be able to save as a REX file and easily use it in the reason loop player

Stu