Way Beyond Fairlight R3
Tweaking Fairlight
- • Building on the CMI, for Reason's latest features.
- • Exploration and fascination
- • Sick drum machines
Audio examples
WBF R3™
Way Beyond Fairlight Release Three
WBF R3™ is the all new follow-up & addition to WBF R2™ — rebuilt from the ground up for modern versions of Reason using Combinator 2, the new instruments, deeper routing and a dramatically expanded sound design. Created over 15 years of sampling, programming and experimentation, WBF R3™ combines the spirit of the exciting Fairlight CMI with ultra modern sounds.
Check out the free demo called DeLight 2™
What’s inside?
WBF R3™ contains:
- 2,200 patches
- Around 8,000 categorized samples
- Deep Combinator 2 programming
- Nicely layered instruments
- Polysynths, FX and textures
- A creative drum machine inspired by the majestic TR-1000
- A trance synthesizer inspired by the JP-8000
- Relooped and custom processed waveforms
- Experimental hybrid instruments
- A few favourites from WBF R2 are reprogrammed and reimagined
The library is carefully organized into easy-to-navigate categories including basses, drums, polysynths, FX patches, ambient textures and more.
Built for modern Reason
Unlike WBF R2™, which focused heavily on NN-XT and the original Combinator, WBF R3™ fully embraces the modern Reason ecosystem. The two refills are working excellent side by side of course, and that’s actually a great way to use them.
WBF R3™ contains programming for:
- Grain
- Mimic
- Europa
- Malström
- Thor
- PolyTone
- MonoTone
- NN-XT
- Subtractor
- Redrum
- Dr. Octo Rex
- RV7000
- Scream
- Ripley
- The Echo
- Combinator 2
Many patches behave almost like dedicated Rack Extensions, such as the jaw dropping drum machine - it almost became too advanced for ourselves to design. Bound to give creative surprises.
Hardware soul meets digital experimentation
The library includes material inspired by and sampled from carefully selected instruments including:
- Fairlight CMI IIx
- Roland Jupiter 4
- Prophet 5
- Korg Lambda
- Vintage drum machines
- FM, additive and vector synthesis hardware
Everything was selected for personality, warmth, slight instability and musical inspiration.
Sound philosophy
WBF R3™ was built to encourage experimentation, layering, strange combinations, happy accidents and deep musical exploration inside Reason. Pads become cinematic landscapes. Drum kits become entire rhythmic systems. Simple synth lines suddenly feel alive.
Features
- Massive Reason refill
- Built for Reason 12 and up
- Works with the Reason Rack Plugin in all major DAWs
- Deep Combinator 2 integration
- Low CPU usage despite advanced sound design
- Fast workflow and organized categories
- Highly tweakable patches