Rebirth

Beecher

I was gonna put this in the freeware thread but I was scared it might get overlooked, Rebirth is now freeware!. A classic piece of software that emulates the TB303, TR808 and TR909 synths! Low latency cards or midi keyboards are not neccesary! Everyone who can should try this!

Anima

Its cool that its free but its kinda obsolete at this stage. Can only really use it for electro tracks.

Berkel

Cool - I used to love that program!

Beecher

Anima wrote:

Its cool that its free but its kinda obsolete at this stage.

I'd havta disagree with you here, its pretty simplistic compared to the likes of Reason 3, and if you have reason theres no point in getting this as reason can do this better, but if you dont have reason this is the best alternative to creating 303,808 or 909 riffs virtually, plus its free. Also computer music magazine still occasionally use this in their stars on your hard-drve section (where they teach youhow to sound like other bands)

Anima wrote:

Can only really use it for electro tracks.

Well for standalone tracks solely created in rebirth you could only really make stuff like techno, ambient, house and maybe hip-hop music, but who's to say you cant mix it up and use a 303 line in rock/metal (Im pretty sure I could dig up an example somewhere). Plus the mods available for it can alter what you can do (apparently theres a 'rock' mod for it, im downloading Rebirth now to try it)

Anima

Well yeah obviously if you have nothing else then its worth looking at but as you said Reason can do most things Rebirth can do better and its also easier.

The 808, 909 and 303 are very popular still in electro music which is why I mentioned it. I'm sure you could use it in other styles but Rebirth really doesn't sound very good so I'd imagine most people would just use it for a bit of fun.

The mods are a good aspect of it alright, theres tons of mods out there. I've used a few and some do sound quite good.

sturgo

I'd have to disagree there me old mate. I think Rebirth is still an amazing piece of software. It's a very versitile instrument and it's still being used. Check out the Freestylers!

Cake Fiend

If you know what you're doing, there's a hell of a lot you can do with two 303s, an 808 and a 909. It's worth downloading it purely for the hell of it - I spent about four hours just messing about in it the other week! Great craic.

tman

i still use rebirth to make basslines and leads, tis a fantastic little proggy
it doesn't offer much scope for creating full tracks (compared to reason, anyway) but i find it indespensible for creating samples for use in other applications.

downloaded this a few days ago, would probably have made this post now if Beecher hadn't gotten there first. good looking out