When we used the first version of Nexus we grumbled about the lack of those user LFOs (they eventually debuted in v1.2), so this time we’re going to suggest that since the mod matrix is more powerful, there should be user ADSRs too. Mod sources include the mod wheel, aftertouch, pitchbend, CC and host automation, and twin user LFOs. This now has over 100 destinations, and all effects (except ensemble) have at least one modulatable parameter. The front panel knobs and buttons are unchanged since v1, yet the LCD panel offers some neat new tricks. The Mod screen offers control over vibrato, portamento and pitchbend (now with a +/-48 semitone range), but the main point of interest is the spruced-up modulation matrix.

You can’t create sounds from scratch using Nexus2, or import samples into it, but there are sound-shaping options aplenty. Nexus offers an array of expansions covering a wide gamut of contemporary music styles and produced by the worlds top sound designers. Features like search, favorites, and categorization are standard not only in the factory library but in all available expansions. Nexus includes a comprehensive 4GB library of over 880 sounds driven by a friendly internal librarian to find the exact sound you need in the heat of the creative moment.

Nexus features a 32-step arpeggiator with note-transposition, a 32-step trance gate, reverb licensed from Arts Acoustic, and a sophisticated modulation-matrix that will help you sculpt the sound. Every aspect of Nexus was built to produce music of the highest quality, quickly, with the least amount of fuss. A powerful and flexible architecture is the foundation that supports the immediately useful and spontaneously engaging design of the instrument. Nexus is a next generation ROM synthesizer. Nexus delivers complex, ultra-fat, contemporary soundstorms.

ReFX Nexus 2 Full version is the kind of instrument that you go to when you don’t want to spend time programming - it’s a ROMpler rammed full of inspirational, pro-quality sounds.

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