Installation:It is recommended to save the ReFX Nexus folder from the distribution right to the root of the disk, without additional subfolders and Russian (Cyrillic).For example: D: ReFX Nexus1. Run (on behalf of the administrator) the Nexus v2.2.0.exe file and install2. Run (as administrator) the AiR eLicenser Emulator.exe file and install3. NEXUS Criteria found to have sensitivity of 99.6% for ruling out CSI (2/578). Also detected 99.0% (8/818) of ALL c-spine injuries (6 of which were injuries that didn’t require stabilization or specialized treatment). Adopting this rule could decrease imaging in these patients by 12.6%. Subsequent studies have found a sensitivity of 83-100%. NEXUS3 features a brand-new sequencer mode. Nothing stands between you and those chords you've always wanted to put down. Create the most complex patterns with multiple notes per step and set the velocity individually. Zoom in on the x-axis or the y-axis to make fine adjustments or zoom. Along with your copy of Madness: Project Nexus 2, you'll receive a fun little stack of Madness stickers and buttons to commemorate your pledge. Krinkels and Swain will also be thanking you by name in a thank-you tweet at the end of the campaign, and your name or call sign will show up in the game's credits.

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A. Arsov makes the case why sampled instruments somehow sound better than virtual analog ones – can this heresy be true? Read and decide for yourself.

by A. Arsov, May 2013

I don’t know why, but sampled instruments somehow sound better than virtual analog ones. At least that has been the case ever since sampled technology literally exploded in the last two years, making significant improvements in sound authenticity, especially regarding the additional programming abilities that sampling hosts can provide nowadays. Virtual analog synths still have their advantages, offering some extra programming options, but I regret to inform you, my dear reader, that reFX nailed all those extra options in their Nexus 2, so we now have the impressive wide and ultra-fat sound of sampled instruments along with all the programming flexibility of the virtual analog ones.

That’s nice, but as this is not the only Rompler on the market at the moment — and few of them even come close to the flexibility that Nexus 2 offers — what is the point or the reason that gives me the right to claim that everyone should have this Rompler, or regarding its flexibility, that we can even say “synthesizer,” especially if we consider the fact that the price of Nexus 2 is much more in the Rompler range, which is a bit higher than the average virtual analog synth price? For that answer we should go a bit back into the past.

The Story

Some time ago, a friend of mine and a professional electro producer, visited me. As we talked about the production and about the tips and tricks we applied in our production, he suddenly told me that I definitely needed Nexus 2. I was a bit surprised, as I thought it is just another synth, and as I already have plenty of them, I wondered why should I need exactly this one? “First of all, with Nexus 2, you don’t need to lay sounds together to get that full and fat sound; just find the right one and use it. Secondly all sounds are preprocessed, mostly using the desired frequency range, so there is almost no need for additional equalization.” The more I explained to him how I equalized my sounds, the more he explained to me how he uses less and less equalizer in his production. “If the sound doesn’t fit, I just use another sound.” Hm…. Obviously this is the right season for me to try this Nexus 2 thingy. I already knew at that moment that Nexus 2 was probably the most-used synth in modern production. Some time ago, it used to be Access Virus, and now it is obviously Nexus 2. Just turn your radio on, and you will have a good chance to hear it in action.

Damage done, I got it, tried it, and then had to admit that my friend’s thoughts are not so far from the truth. Nexus 2 offers strong and nicely defined basses, soaring leads, impressive arpeggiators, and wide pads. All instruments are well-defined, and the frequency is well-balanced. Goodbye layering and goodbye equalization, at least the heavy ones. OK, it doesn’t hurt if you make few frequency tweaks here and there to make additional space for some other elements, but in general, most combinations sound good without any further equalization. A few days after I got Nexus 2, I received an order for making music for a short, 10-second commercial, so I decided to give Nexus 2 a try. Fifteen minutes later, I finished the piece with six instances of Nexus 2. As Nexus 2 proved to be very light on the processor, I didn’t need to export MIDI files to audio. Half an hour later, I received a message from the production house saying that they liked the piece, asking if the end note could be a bit longer. I just increased the tempo by a few BPM, and gave the end an extra second to fade out properly. Me happy, producers happy, Nexus 2 happy. What else do you want from life?

The Facts

As we already said, Nexus 2 is a Rompler or “ROM synthesizer” as they call it on the reFX site. For €249 ($299 USD) you get a Nexus 2 DVD filled with more than 1100 presets. I didn’t try them all, but until now I haven’t found any bad ones: basses, leads, pads, arpeggios, plucked instruments, epic electric pianos — nope, it is not the name of the category, they really sound pretty epic — various out-of-this-world textures, and a few real instruments. (More real instruments can be found in some extensions.) Very inspirational pianos, all in all, this is pure producer’s heaven. The main advantage of Nexus 2 is that all those sounds sound just right, without being overloaded with reverb. A lot of modern virtual synths sound too wet, being soaked in too much reverb, making it almost impossible to put them right in a mix. Take off the reverb and you have the sound of plucking a hen; leave the reverb and this chosen sound overtakes the whole space. Thankfully Nexus 2 doesn’t fall into this category; it sounds strong and defined without leaving that wet impression of reverb overdose. Don’t get me wrong: Almost all instruments in Nexus 2 have implemented reverb as a send effect, but they don’t sound drowned in it as some modern synths can sound. That reverb just adds some additional space and roundness. It is a real pleasure to mix those sounds. In a pre-Nexus 2 era, my bass track was overwhelmed with various effects to keep the bass sounds alive. A touch of low cut (personal preference) just finished the business.

Shape

The graphical interface is very clear, offering basic classic synth controllers at the reach of one’s fingertips. There is one central window containing all the additional controllers that modern synths offer. Although usually not the case with Romplers, Nexus 2 combines samples using up to four additional oscillators, so it is definitely more ROM synthesizer than classical Rompler. This main window is surrounded with the knobs that are the most used and abused on most of the modern hardware or software synths. The Filter and Amp sections offer classical envelope plus ADSR knobs like type, cutoff, res, spread, slope, spike, pan, etc., while a dual-effects section allows us to choose the amount of the desired effect, along with changing some essential parameters – my favorites are high and low pass as it is in the nature of these effects to expand itself over all frequency range. There is also a master filter section, which is applied to the entire output signal, as Nexus 2 presets can be combined from up to eight layers and this overall filter control them all.

Main Window (or Display According to reFX)

Let’s go back to the main, central window: at the side we can see eight buttons for selecting eight different functions. The first, default one displays the preset browser divided into various sound categories from arpeggio up to various Fantasy and Dream, through the various classic categories like piano, plucked, single-layer leads or pads, the multi’s, and so on. Sorry to repeat myself, but only top-quality sounds are used. It is obvious that the reFX team spent a lot of time selecting only the best sounds for implementation in the fi