reFX Nexus 5 announced

[Guy Rowland]

Nexus has always been a rompler, until the 4.5 update last year opened up a fair amount of architecture. Well no halfway house measures now, Nexus 5 will be released on Black Friday, November 29, and will be fully open to design patches from scratch.

Design your own presets from scratch. Load your own samples.

Create your own routings. Build your own expansions.

Introducing the newly designed librarian! Enjoy a fresh new look and stay tuned for more exciting updates. There's much more to discover in the coming days, and we can't wait to share it with you.



N2 Retro Mode: Longing for the old simplicity? Tired of adjusting countless parameters? Feeling nostalgic? Here’s the original skin with the same colors, same style, and same awesomeness.

Special introductory upgrade pricing is available during our annual Christmas Sale depending on when you bought your NEXUS:
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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

https://refx.com/nexus/ (but no info yet on website at time of posting - this is all from their newsletter).

[My name is Nobody]

This time I might upgrade from Nexus 3....

[Guy Rowland]

I'm more swayed by cute updates than new products these days. Lovely not to start from scratch.

Apparently the new factory library will have 1,100 new presets. So if you're a preset-head - and if you own Nexus already you're probably leaning that way - it's a bargain at $79 just for that. And if you're a proper sound designer, then the whole thing has opened up. Looking very promising I'd say.

[Erik]

But what then will be the difference with Avenger ?
I thought, prolly wrongly, that Avenger what a programmable Nexus.

[Guy Rowland]

But what then will be the difference with Avenger ?
I thought, prolly wrongly, that Avenger what a programmable Nexus.

Yeah it's an interesting one. A Nexus selling point used to be low CPU, apparently that will still be the case.

From the screengrabs it will be a very different programming experience. Avenger more tactile and synthy, Nexus more techy and blocky.

My descriptive command of the English language knows no bounds.

[Guy Rowland]

Put sound on mute - this looks great.

[My name is Nobody]

Certainly much more than a rompler.
The drag and drop functionality on various ‘jobs’ makes it more user friendly

Hmmm….getting tempting to go for the upgrade

[Arcana]

I was just watching this video. Seems like it has got a tons of new features.
Has anyone got Nexus 5 yet?
I never bought it but now it looks like it's well beyond the Rompler that the previous versions were.

Still, £188 is quite a lot for a synth these days, and it seems very EDM focused, like Avenger (which I have). Once you start adding expansions you start entering Komplete 15 territory price wise.
Is it worth it?
How's the Pop and Hip hop and other non-EDM content?

[Guy Rowland]

Has anyone got Nexus 5 yet?

Me! I've just had 15 mins with it, been a very full-on day. Initial impressions are terrific - it's very slick now. Searching for stuff is ultra-quick and intuitive, and you can have the right hand pane set to the different layers, so you can instantly what the constituent parts are, all labelled (before the layers were just numbers). Incredibly all the old expansions are named too.

I've barely scratched the surface, but it feels like a really nice and responsive environment to work in. It feels like a massive step forward.

[Erik]

But what then will be the difference with Avenger ?
I thought, prolly wrongly, that Avenger what a programmable Nexus.

Yeah it's an interesting one. A Nexus selling point used to be low CPU, apparently that will still be the case.

From the screengrabs it will be a very different programming experience. Avenger more tactile and synthy, Nexus more techy and blocky.

My descriptive command of the English language knows no bounds.