Audio Science

I’ve created some free patches for Reason’s Combinator, just for those who read this blog. The first one, DX piano, is a wide, lush replication of an electric piano, similar to a DX-7 E-piano, with its own characteristics. Very playable as an electric piano for “padding out” arrangements in places where a pad won’t sound right. Surprisingly, only one Subtractor subtractive synthesizer was needed for this patch - a couple of effects are the only addition. Excellent for extremely low CPU consumption (the Subtractor synthesizer uses far less CPU bandwidth than the Malstrom graintable synthesizer).

The second one, Eclipse, is a combination of a pizzicato-type synth combined with a pad. It plays well as an arpeggio patch - if you have a synthesizer with an arpeggiator, set a long hold for the arp notes and it should work well. In the demo song below, I simply hand-played the patch.

If you would like to listen to an example of these patches being used in a song, I threw together a demo song featuring them - click here to listen.
To download the .rps Reason song file, click here. (right-click & hit “Save Target As”)

Download DX piano Combinator patch

Download Eclipse Combinator patch