ReFx - Nexus 2.0 NEXUS2 is a next generation ROM synthesizer of the highest quality that can turn your musical dreams into a stunning reality. Forget about stereotypical, boring, stale, old sounding ROM synths and embrace the power of NEXUS2 to evolve your productions to a new level of greatness.

NEXUS2 explores new sonic territory delivering complex, ultra-fat, contemporary soundstorms that sound as good as the most expensive and best hardware available today. A powerful and flexible architecture is the foundation that supports the immediately useful and spontaneously engaging design of the instrument. Every aspect of NEXUS2 was built to produce music of the highest quality, quickly, with the least amount of fuss.

NEXUS2 features a world-class 32 step arpegiator with note-transposition, an agile and simple 32 step trance gate, industry leading reverb licensed from Arts Acoustic, and a sophisticated modulation-matrix that will help you sculpt the sound.

NEXUS2 provides you with everything you need to create your next hit, including a comprehensive 4GB library of over 880 sounds covering a significant sonic territory and driven by a very friendly internal librarian to find the exact sound you need in the heat of the creative moment.

Features like search, favorites, and categorization are standard not only in the factory library but in all available expansions. You will never feel lost or confused searching extensively and wasting time, you will be able to pinpoint the sound you are after within seconds. You won't run out of sounds quickly either as NEXUS2 offers an impressive array of 19 expansions covering a wide gamut of contemporary music styles and produced by the worlds top sound designers. So Whether you need the most powerful dance lead sounds to set the club on fire, or a full gregorian choir for your next masterpiece, NEXUS2 delivers.

All of this may seem like it would be quite demanding on the system resources of your DAW, however, NEXUS2 is very frugal with the CPU and careful with your RAM. You can load multiple instances into your sequencer without worry and because NEXUS2 is coded with love and care for the end user you can rest assured that many instances can be used on modern systems simultaneously without sacrifice.

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NEXUS2 is also a very accessible instrument with contrast controls and several skins available which can change the appearance from black, to blue, to C64 beige, you can be sure you will find NEXUS2 not only a joy to hear but also a pleasing aesthetic vision.

Are you ready for NEXUS2 ? You better be.

NEXUS2 includes these four different skins, so no matter which host you use, NEXUS2 will always look it's best and fit right in. Each instance remembers which skin was selected, so you can even use different skins for different tracks. How about using one of the black skins for the drums, but Cobalt for the bass and the white for the melody?
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NEXUS2 comes with over 70 new features and improvements. Here are most important ones:

  • Expansion Dance Vol.2 already included! - 128 new presets, 500 MB of new samples
  • Three skins (Black 'evil', Black 'good' and Cobalt) included for free
  • New FX: analog phaser from Arts Acoustic - up to 16 stages. Smooth as silk
  • New FX: stereo enhancer - widen or narrow the stereo field
  • Feature Matrix: layers can be switched on/off separately
  • New section: oscillator mix level
  • Oscillators can be switched on/off separately
  • Volume- and pan-control for each oscillator

The complete list follows:

  • Expansion Dance Vol.2 already included!

  • Feature Matrix: layers can be switched on/off separately

  • Oscillator mix (new section)

    • Oscillators can be switched on/off separately
    • volume control for single oscillators
    • volume control for 1up oscillators (when used by preset)
    • panning control for single oscillators
    • free transposing of single oscillators (+/- 36 semitones)
    • free detuning of single oscillators (centwise up to +/- 1 semitone)

  • Trancegate
    • new trancegate presets
    • clear via right-click
    • length freely adjustable between 2-32 steps
    • graphical zoom when pattern length is changed
    • delay (tempo-synced)
    • fade in (tempo-synced)
    • graphical markers on every beat
    • adjustable loop-start
    • graphical marker on play-position
    • shuffle-factor + graphical representation of shuffle-factor
    • librarian uses the full height now, making it much easier to use

  • Arpeggiator
    • new arpeggio presets
    • maximum length increased to 32 steps
    • graphical zoom when pattern length is changed
    • graphical marker on every beat
    • newly created steps have default settings now
    • steps can be transposed note* and octave-wise
    • while holding shift, step-lengths can be adjusted smoothly
    • adjustable loop-start
    • graphical position marker
    • shuffle factor + graphical representation of shuffle-factor
    • expanded arpeggiator filter (incl. drum modes)
    • librarian uses the full height now, making it much easier to use

  • FX
    • new: analog phaser from Arts Acoustic
    • new: stereo enhancer
    • two FX slots instead of just one
    • FX slots can be swapped
    • preset librarian
    • multi-FX can be saved in one file (XFX)
    • 70 new FX presets sorted by effects-categories
    • 25 new XFX presets

  • EQ
    • EQ now has four bands
    • new EQ types: lowpass, highpass, bandpass, bandpass2, notch, peak, lowShelf, highShelf
    • Q factor for each band
    • free frequency (20-18000hz) for each band
    • separate gain (-/+24db) for each band
    • on/off switch for each band

  • Modulation
    • Portamento: trigger mode fixed
    • Pitchbend: Range increased to +/- 48 semitones

  • Mod-matrix
    • more logical sort order
    • separate destinations for FX-slot 1 and FX-slot 2
    • new mod destination flanger feedback
    • new mod destination flanger depth
    • new mod destination flanger speed
    • new mod destination degrader distortion
    • new mod destination distortion gain
    • new mod destination analog phaser pre-filter
    • new mod destination analog phaser lower freq
    • new mod destination analog phaser feedback +/-
    • new mod destination stereo enhancer width
    • new mod destination stereo enhancer gain
    • new mod destination phaser speed
    • new mod destination chorus speed
    • new mod destination EQ1-4 freq
    • new mod destination EQ1-4 Q factor
    • new mod destination EQ1-4 gain
    • new mod destination OSC1-4 volume
    • new mod destination OSC1-4 pan
    • new mod destination OSC1-4 1up volume

  • Librarian
    • can be sorted by name, regardless of the category-prefix

  • Global
    • auto-import-from-desktop function for expansions, skins, and licenses
    • "Nexus Content" is detected automatically after installation (required on OSX only)
    • scroll-speed of mouse-wheel in lists freely adjustable