reFX Nexus 5 arrives on Black Friday, and the plugin will leave its rompler history behind for the first time and be a full-featured Synthesizer.
Nexus is the most comprehensive rompler plugin out there, with 30.000+ available presets, but also the most expensive. For the maxed version with 30.000+ sounds, you’ll have to pay 4599€, the price of a high-spec MacBook Pro M4 MAX or two Teenage Engineering OP-XY.
High price, full control? No, until a few years ago, you had minimal options for adjusting sounds. That changed with the Nexus 3 and later with the Nexus 4 more and more. With Nexus 4.5, they went further and made it to a full synth with editable oscillators, filters, etc.
reFX Nexus 5
In the latest newsletter, reFX CEO and head sound designer Manual Schleis announces the new version for Black Friday. The highlight will be that Nexus 5 removes its rompler clothes/chains and becomes a full-featured Synthesizer.
For the first time, you can design your own presets from scratch. This was previously only available to partner sound designers. In Nexus 5, anyone can create new sounds and build even their own expansions. This huge step forward will also please third-party sound designers and will open the third-party expansion market.
reFX promises that the plugin will have no more limits and that users will have full access to every function.
New Features
In addition to these openings, there will be new things to discover. According to the newsletter, Nexus 5 will have a newly designed UI and librarian that gives you full access to the sounds, layers + routings, synthesis, multi-FX, and more.
Up until now, the topic of synthesis has been very tight-lipped. In reFX Nexus 5, you can use the multi-synthesis engine entirely for the first time.
It’s not yet official, but a user on KVR Audio shared that you can work with virtual analog synthesis, wavetables, sampler with time-stretch, retro sampler, granular, cloud, and 4-operator FM.
Manuel Schleis says in the newsletter that you can also upload your own samples for the first time. Then, you will find built-in modulation and multi-FX processors, including delay, reverb, vinylizer, and more.
As a bonus, reFX Nexus 5 will ship with an N2 Retro Mode that takes you back to the Nexus 2 days. It gives you the “old simplicity” of the Nexus 2 UI with the original remasted skin with the same colors and style.
The new version also includes many new sounds. Manuel confirms that Nexus 5 will include 1100 new presets from the reFX sound designer team.
First Impression
Bravo, or should I shout, finally? Many producers and sound designers have long wanted this step from rompler to full-fledged synthesizer for Nexus. If the synthesis options etc. are right, then Nexus 5 can become a very exciting Synthesizer workstation.
It will be exciting to compare it to Omnisphere 2, Falcon 3, or HALion 7. All information will be published on November 29th on Black Friday.
reFX Nexus 5 will be available on Black Friday with special introductory upgrade pricing during the annual BF/Christmas Sale, depending on when the user bought the NEXUS license:
- before July 1st, 2024 (applies to customers who bought NEXUS1, NEXUS2, NEXUS3, or NEXUS4): $79
- between July 1st, 2024 and August 31st, 2024: $39
- on or after September 1st, 2024: Free
More information here: reFX
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