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"... I´m also very impressed with the quality of your refill. I have been using samples since 1990 and have many refills nowadays. But your samples, including Revolver, just got up to my top list when doing music. I really don´t know any other Refill with analog synths that sounds like this - even compared to my old Akai library or crappy NI collections - which sound more digital than a badly TB-303 replica.
I couldn´t detect any looping clicking noises. I always look for these and find them everywhere. I found none and that tells me a lot about how much work went in there and I have not even scratched the surface of the work that you invested in order to let them sound so "clean" / "raw" and warm.
No, really. Very good quality samples and work on the patches. All are instantly playable for me. As an outsider to the creation of the refill - let me tell you this: EXCELLENT JOB, SIR! In my opinion this refill (AM3) for that price is an absolute smash-hit, must-have for every serious Reason user."
symbiont from Germany
User's reviews
 AM3 review by suntsu - Belgium
Like: I like the quality of this big refill ! The sound is perfect as the NNXT patches...
This is really a must have !
Dislike: So far ? Nothing...
Grade:  5 points - excellent, highly recommended!
AM3 review by Les T (Music Teacher/Guitarist) - UK
Like: Value for money. Really carefully sampled sounds.
Dislike: Nothing!
Grade: 5 points - excellent, highly recommended!
AM3 review by HB
- Germany
about HB: "I've been making electronic
music for 25 years"
Like: Dear Andras,
you have beaten everything with your AM3 and Virology
refill.
First, in sheer size. Now, I ve got 5,2 GB reasonbanks-refills
on my harddisk - even the sonic refill Gold bundle (original
20 CDs) is 3,8, the whole props including all factory
refills is 1,7 and something like the Garritan Orchestra
Refill is tiny 0,7.
Second, in quality. I never heard any glitch, noise
or distortion, and you caught exactly the sounds I like
and are in my opinion useful to reproduce some standard
sounds. In my ears it sound better than the original
hardware, it's a fresh and clear, brilliant sound, maybe
because of three.
Three, the hardware solution. I owned a lot of synth,
at least an oberheim. Although I liked the sounds most
I felt soon bothered by this machine (and these machines
in general) and I put it away. It's DA-converters were
noisy, so I went digitally out using other converters,
the hardware was often defective, the keys were too
few and bad, it weighted more than 12 kg - more than
my whole equipment now. A machine perfect for bodybuilder
and soldering hobby electronic experts.
Now, thanks to your refill, every problem regarding
this unhandy stand-alone-hard-software-solution is solved.
I have a perfect, seamless integration of vintage synths
into my digital workspace. Thanks to reason and its
endless possibilities und unmatched stability I can
alter the sound in any way, in ways which would been
never ever been possible before, and you made already
some pretty good combinator patches. Thanks to my quadcore
there are no limitation of processing power in sight
for the next years.
And thanks to reaper I can process and master now the
sound combined with vocals in crystal-clear-64-bit-quality
using rewire in realtime. By the way the quadcore, line6-soundcard
and your refill have been much cheaper than just the
oberheim itself.
So, this is my conclusion and last remark: Your synths
are better than the originals.
Thanks
Holger
Dislike: It could be more;-)
Grade: 5 points - excellent, highly recommended!
AM2 review by Jd
- Germany
Like:I bought all of "Reasonbanks"-refills
because sounds are best I´d ever heard and working
with : ))
Well, really: all "Reasonbanks"-refills brings
to you: outstanding sets of sounds for very low price!!
reg. Jd
Dislike: -
Grade: 5 points - excellent, highly recommended!
AM2 review by Bjorn
P. (techno lover)
- USA
Like:As a beginner producing techno, this refill
took my tracks to a whole new level. I love the sounds
of the synths on here, and I completely stopped using
other sounds. The sound quality is great, and I couldn't
be more satisfied. Thanks!
Dislike: -
Grade: 5 points - excellent, highly recommended!
Magazine reviews
Reviewed by Keith Gemmell
The Waldorf Microwave, Korg MS-20, Roland
Jupiter 4 and Juno-60 were all popular synthesizers back
in their day. And along with the Moog Prodigy, Korg Poly800
Mk11and the Korg MonoPoly, they are now collectable instruments
the world over. The chances of finding even just a few
of these analogue dinosaurs in good condition are slim.
But all is not lost because the Pink Noise team have sampled
the best sounds from all seven along with two more recent
analogue favourites, the Alesis Andromeda A6 and the Studio
Electronics SE-1X, and made them available as Reason Refills.
We were very impressed with the original Analogue Monsters
collection when we first reviewed it in 2005 but since
then Pink Noise have completely rewritten and enlarged
the patch banks as well as adding new NN-XT and Combinator
banks. They’ve also added samples from another 1980s
classic, the Oberheim Matrix, which brings the complete
‘monster’ tally to ten. Noted for its warm
sounds this legendary instrument was the last true analogue
synthesizer made by Oberheim.
5GBs of content amounts to a significant number of synthesizer
patches – apart from the 72 Rex files – but
in this case the quantity doesn’t compromise the
quality.  Our
only reservation is that, inevitably, with ten analogue
synthesizers in a single collection, many of the patches,
although not duplicated, do sound similar. This isn’t
a criticism, though, more an observation and for such
a reasonable price, true analogue buffs are sure to be
delighted with their purchase.
Verdict: An impressive, value-for-money Reason Refill
containing samples and patches from 10 legendary analogue
synthesisers.
 Amazona.de
is the biggest magazine for music and computers worldwide
in German language. Björn Morgenstern has written
a very detailed and deep review about our much-loved Analogue
Monsters.
This review is really a meticulous work, and the final
conclusion is "Sehr Gut"!;-)
German readers, you can read
he full review here!
Björn also e-mailed me a short version in
English, so now I publish it here with his kind permission:
"I think it's a really huge library with a good
quality. The sound is great analog, nevertheless suitable
for any music-style. That's a good point, because libraries
often focused on special music-styles, where are only
parts usable for the customer. There are no needless breakfillers
for me and I think there are many creative potential in
this library for future programming. Mostly patches are
even for low RAM and CPU, so you can use it on any Computer
and loading is mostly fast.
The idea to offer the sampledata out of the refill is
fine, because Reason users often have lot of refills and
don't use all stuff in it. So you can pick up the sounds
you want and make your own personal refills or you can
save your songs within all the sampledata, or you can
use the sounds in a different sampler.
Price of the Library is very fair and there is no really
disadvantage. Only one thing perhaps to do, you had already
write it to me, making some more patches / combinators
with this huge raw-data. Perhaps with some more Effect-combinator
devices in Vintage-Analog-Style (like the nice string-machine
Ensemble effect in the refill of Robert Sigmuntowski or
some Vintage Sound phasers, delays and so on). However,
I wrote in the review that you will bring up some more
combinator-patches in future, somewhere this year."
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