Most Electronic Music Producers spend plenty of time working with Audio Loops and Samples. Loop-based Music is unquestionably the backbone of 99% of all Electronic Music compositions heard today, be it Drum Patterns, Vocal Snippets, Guitar jolts or whatever; Looping something generally takes place.

There has of course in the past been critics. A lot less these days but it’s always been the old die-hard stick-in-the-muds who seem to tar anything electronic as worthless and made by a robot. Ah well, each to their own and all that. We love Loops. Does that make us any less Creative or Musical? On the contrary, the amount of fun and creative expression you can produce from loop-based productions is endless in it’s offerings.

Propellerheads Reason really blew the lid off Loop Based Sequencing right from it’s first appearance and the legend that we now love and know as the Dr.Rex Player. Due to Reason’s Rock solid ability to perform, throwing 10 or 20 Rex players in the Rack at a time has never been an issue, only a pleasure! Yet the Dr.Rex Player has had it’s limitations, and you could say that it’s a touch long in the tooth now. If you compare it with say Structure in Pro Tools which has a much more detailed engine.

I have been known to Rewire over to Pro Tools just for Structure occasionally just for that extra zing and tweak-ability but as I’ve always said, I find Rewiring a necessary evil at times and much prefer to have just one DAW going at any one time. When you first own a car you drive it to it’s limits whenever possible. Over time you realise that this is not the way to go. Anyone whose fried their first car will no exactly what I mean. Anyway, cars aside, the world of Rex is getting a Heart Transplant.

Rex Mangling is soon to be taken to even greater heights of flexibility with the launch of Dr.OctoRex. Just one of the new tools coming to Reason and Record’s Upgrades due from Propellerheads in Sweden this Summer.
Check out the Video. If you Rex and Loop you will be stoked.

Maybe your new to Rex? You could always let our Wave Machine produce a Remix Pack for you so you’ve got your very own Rex’s to get you on your way. Rexellent news all round I think

Screenshot of Dr.OctoRex: