It's best to listen to demo sounds to get a taste of whether it will suit your needs because once you buy it you can't create custom sounds.
#REFX NEXUS DEMO FREE#
Kontakt Player Free which is also a free alternative which comes with some pretty neat sounds and with enough scouring through the net you can find a tonne of free libraries.
Another great alternative is Native Instruments Kontakt. If the price is too high you may consider getting other romplers for less like Wusik station, Alchemy, Sampletank and Yellow Tools Independence most of which have free versions. For professionals who make a lot of income this may not be an issue. $3,539 is a big price to pay for a semi-professional/home user like me.
#REFX NEXUS DEMO FULL#
A discouraging factor is the price of the full package. There is very little to no editing required for you to make the presets sound good which saves a lot of time, especially in the mixing phase. I think its strongest point is the quality of the sounds. There is usually no need to add any extra effects to the sounds which saves CPU and editing time (for adding and tweaking effects). One of the things I like about the plugin are the onboard effects. I use it mainly in FL Studio and occasionally in other hosts but in 3 years of using Nexus I haven't experienced any crashes caused by it in FL Studio (my main DAW) which is a testimony of the plugin's stability. The package also comes with a USB eLicense dongle, so you need an extra USB port on your machine. The full installation with all the expansion packs requires roughly 50GB. However, my previous laptop which had 2GB RAM used to take quite a number of seconds for the plugin to load and running several instances of it would slow down my PC, so you need to have a decent amount of RAM to run this smoothly. I have 4GB RAM on my current machine so that's not an issue. Once installed it takes up roughly 5GB on your hard drive and it requires a minimum of 2GB RAM to run smoothly. Installation of the plugin is straight-forward.
#REFX NEXUS DEMO PC#
It runs on both Mac and PC and can be installed as a VST, AU, AAX or RTAS plugin. There are expansion packs for adding on extra sounds, which cost an extra $40 - $65 per pack. My main aim was to use it in my dance music productions but I've ended up using it more in my hip hop beats. I first got it when I saw a demo song on YouTube and was impressed with the clarity and fatness of the sounds.
All the sounds are clean if you run it through a spectrum analyzer you'll see that each sound is shaped really well which makes fitting the sound into a mix quite easy. The quality of the sound backs is brilliant. The complete package costs a hefty $3,539. The basic edition with no expansion packs included costs $299. It has a variety of patches ranging from pads, pianos, basses, horns and orchestral sounds, arpeggios and various other sounds. Nexus is a rompler which has a lot of clean sounds, most usable within dance and electronic music.