RE News: Lizard revealed he's working on Rack Extensions!
Posted: 16 Jan 2015
I thought a good way to really feel the transition between the Propellerhead User Forum and ReasonTalk could be to bring some news published over there and bring them right here! And the biggest to me is the announcement made by Lizard that he has started working on Rack Extensions using the Instrument Development Toolkit technology.
Sure, those Rack Extensions are still at a relatively early stage of development, and won't be available anytime soon, but, still, Lizard published some screenshots of two REs he's working on to give us some idea of what we can expect from him! The first one, Three-P, is a "sampled synth" made of samples coming from the classic Roland JP-3X synth, a concept he already used for one of his first ReFills (Three-P samples won't be taken from that ReFill though, and will be totally redone).
The second one is a human beatbox, currently made of 120 samples consisting of noises made with different human body parts! The GUI is not finished, but here's a screenshot published by Lizard, as well as some sound demos for this particular Rack Extension.
Sounds: Modern Kit, Fat Kit, Dirty Works and Fresh Dig.
On a more personal note, I must say I was very happy to hear those news from Lizard, since he has been one of my favorite free ReFills developer (Clank! is still an essential ReFill given the kind of stuff I'm doing!)! I'll label his human beatbox as one argument, to me, in favor of upgrading Reason from 6.5 to 7 or 8 when it's released!