ReFX NexuS v 2.7.3 - ContentCore

Front Panel

Nexus looks a bit like a hardware workstation keyboard from ten years ago — minus the keyboard, of course. Arrayed across the front panel are 28 knobs that you can assign to hardware MIDI controls and then grab and twist in performance. These knobs can also be automated in the host sequencer.

In the center of the panel is a large “LCD” containing multiple edit pages. The eight main pages are accessed by the buttons along the left and right sides; some have multiple sub-pages. The parameters in the LCD are intended for “set-it-and-forget-it” sound design, and can’t be automated, although some can be modulated by routing MIDI messages through the modulation matrix.



The knobs on the left are for filter parameters: cutoff, resonance, envelope amount, and the envelope’s ADSR controls. Those on the right adjust the amplitude, again including the envelope. These are all macro controls, which offset the values stored in the voice for all of the sound layers at once.

Along the bottom are a master filter, stereo delay, and reverb. The latter are not the only effects in Nexus, they’re just the ones that have knobs. The master filter has lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and notch modes. It’s essential for hands-on filter sweeps, because the filters within the layers are not user-programmable, other than with the offset knobs. If the filters in the voice are all lowpass and you happen to need a highpass sweep, the master filter will do the job nicely.

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