Reason Soul School
With Reason Soul School, Propellerhead Software's funk flavored ReFill, the soulful sound of the 60's and 70's is up for grabs. You won't find grooves rarer than these.
The Reason Soul School ReFill explores the classic sounds coming out of soul's three capitals: Detroit, Memphis and Cincinnati – and puts them in the midst of your Reason rack. Featuring twelve unique soul and funk instrumentals and all their musical elements – bass, drums, guitars and horns – this ReFill gets under the skin of the music. It's like having access to every channel – every instrument – on an old school rare groove multitrack tape!
Live and lively
Composed exclusively for this ReFill and recorded using the finest in vintage technology, all material was played live by funk savvy musicians – simultaneously, without overdubs, for that genuine feel. The sound? Raw, gritty and authentic. Just like all those records you never dared to sample. We dare you not to sample this one.
REX:ed and ready
Every single drum fill, bass line, guitar riff and horn lick featured in Reason Soul School is in Propellerhead's REX format for full flexiblity and tempo independence.
Complementing the mass of loops and licks are the carefully multisampled versions of the included instruments. Perfect for adding embellishments and variety to to your soul stew.
Soul Keys
Free of charge with this ReFill comes Reason Soul Keys, a vintage scented bonus ReFill containing keyboard patches for Propellerhead's finest sound libraries: Abbey Road Keyboards, Reason Pianos, Electro Mechanical (free download) and Reason's own Factory Sound Bank. Reason Soul Keys gives you a wide range of keyboards made to go hand in hand with Soul School: Celeste, Piano, Organ, Clavinet, Wurlitzer, Rhodes and more. Enjoy.
Called Motown, the Detroit based Soul made famous by The Supremes, Marvin Gaye and countless others is light, bouncy and joyful. In translating the Detroit sound to the Reason Soul School ReFill, our focus was on cretating a Temptations style vibe, keeping the drums small in size, but allowing the overall sound to be large and roomy.
Forever eternalized by Stax Records and artists like Booker T, Memphis represents a rootsier, bluesier sound. Our approach in achieving a Memphis type feel was to maintain a looser playing style and keep the drum and instrument sounds nice and dry.
Personified by mr James Brown himself, the Cincinnati sound is funky, gritty, punchy and to the point. During the process of capturing the Cincinnati sound for this ReFill we adopted the precise, almost mechanical, yet extremely funky playing style. The sound? Dirty.
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