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How to Refill Indian Instruments

A refill is a kind of component package for Propellerheads' Reason software that can contain patches, samples, REX files and song files. On your computer, refills appear as large files with the extension .rfl. Storing audio samples in a Refill will significantly reduce the size of the files, with no loss of audio quality. To find Indian instrument refills, search the Internet for Asian and ethnic refills, too.

Things You'll Need

  • Propellerheads Reason software
  • MIDI controller (optional)
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Instructions

    • 1

      Find refills of Indian sounds. Some of the best-known Indian-flavored Reason refills are Insane Guitar Tools' "Insane Sitar," collection; Sonic Reality's Reason 3 Refills Vol. 13: World Percussion disc; and Pandit Dinesh's "Pukka Masala" collection of percussion, instrument licks, atmospheres and vocals.

    • 2

      Open Reason and put your new Indian instrument samples into the appropriate Reason folders. You can place it in the My Documents"folder, for example, like this: C/My Documents/Music Tools/Reason 6/refills.

    • 3

      Right-click on the blank space under the racks displayed in Reason.

    • 4

      Click on Create Instrument. Browse the refill packages until your Indian refills appear. Remember that the devices will only show material that's compatible with them, so browsing with the Subtractor won't show NN-XT patches, for example.

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