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Hi,

I am a newbie to Reason, in fact I've not been near music production for about 17 years previously having owned original hardware such as JP8, SH101, Juno 106, TR909 etc (which I sold for peanuts to pay for a divorce before vintage synths become expensive collectibles!). Now getting back into it.

I am looking at software versions of the above to add to Reason but I am a little confused about the differences between refills and emulations and just need some clarification. I've been looking at Softphonics and TAL products. Are the Softronics refills basically soundbanks but you can't create your own where as TAL it's a very close emulation but you can create sounds as well as using preset sounds?

Cheers
Neil

Yes exactly,
Essentially The refills use recording of the Real instrument via note for note samples.
Emu uses digital recreations

It really depends on how authentic you want the sound to be! I personally have the refills and used them a lot. But my music uses a lot of non digital instruments so it suits.

musicman wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2017

Hi,

I am a newbie to Reason, in fact I've not been near music production for about 17 years previously having owned original hardware such as JP8, SH101, Juno 106, TR909 etc (which I sold for peanuts to pay for a divorce before vintage synths become expensive collectibles!). Now getting back into it.

Ouch!

I am looking at software versions of the above to add to Reason but I am a little confused about the differences between refills and emulations and just need some clarification. I've been looking at Softphonics and TAL products. Are the Softronics refills basically soundbanks but you can't create your own where as TAL it's a very close emulation but you can create sounds as well as using preset sounds?

A refill is nothing but patches and/or sounds that make use of already existing devices.

Thanks Gorgon.

Ouch indeed! I'm not bitter lol

PurpleMonkeyDishes wrote: ↑

16 Jun 2017

Yes exactly,
Essentially The refills use recording of the Real instrument via note for note samples.
Emu uses digital recreations

It really depends on how authentic you want the sound to be! I personally have the refills and used them a lot. But my music uses a lot of non digital instruments so it suits.

Thanks. I did actually email the guys at Softphonics in the end and they pretty much said the same thing