Refractor - Psytrance

Refractor is 2.56GB of proper, ears first Psytrance built by one of our in house producer team. You know they’re the right person for the job when their credentials include tracks on Dacru, Expo, Iono, Phantasm and Blue Tunes. Those names alone should make you stand to attention, but listen to the preview, you’ll probably bypass the blurb below and add it to today’s shopping list in a heartbeat.

Running at full force from the first sample, Refractor has its foundations forged inside custom Reaktor 6 ensembles built from the ground up, ensuring everything you hear is fresh, new and absolutely on point. The whole collection moves, breathes and evolves in ways stock synths just can't do. The synth stack includes Serum 2, Zebra 2.8, A.N.A. 2 and Vital, four very different beasts, all work like magic, but programmed with originality by our producer, ensures leads cut, basslines threaten, and melodic lines flow with real character. No standard preset browser filler included. Then keep that digital chain going mixing through Universal Audio, Acustica Audio and Plugin Alliance, and finally finish off with a LUNA stack of hardware emulations, and you are in some serious Psytrance mastery.

Numbers wise there's a proper stash to dig through. 962 Psytance samples sitting between 140 and 147 BPM, fully key tagged across 22 keys so nothing turns up unlabelled and useless at 2am under the confusion of moody lights and lack of sleep. 450 loops carry the bulk of the weight, arps, bass, drum grooves and drum tops built to lock together, plus a handful of FM and grid synth loops for the moments you want something a bit sharper, more refined. Atmospheres, textures and exemplary vox loops fills those gaps when you’re always looking for something but don’t know what to use. Then there's 408 one shots, including essential kicks, claps, snares and hats doing the fundamentals, backed by a stupidly good 91 synth FX and 82 synth one shots. Oh yeah, don’t forget fills, impacts, uplifters and downlifters ready to be implamented for instantaneous perfection. Then round it off with 104 MIDI files across bass, lead, FM, and synth loops. Now this sample pack is looking way more than seriously fancy, it’s fundamental.

Lets put it this way, Refractor isn't changing the Psytrance sound. It’s just making it sound better, way better!