Pantheon II is out!!!

This past fall I had the pleasure of designing patches for Nucleus Soundlab's latest release Pantheon II. I initially met NSL head honcho, Jeremy Janzen, thru the interview I conducted with him on the very first edition of 10 Questions, which came out on August 5th of this year. A week later, after pestering him with e-mails concerning sound design work, he asked if I wanted to work on Pantheon II. Needless to say I was very excited and had a hard time not posting about the work in progress here on the blog! Unlike a lot of sound design companies that release products based on genres and dance styles, Jeremy Janzen releases his refills based on the synthesizers and samples used in the sound design. Pantheon II is based on Reason's flagship synthesizer, Thor, and each patch designed had to utilize Thor somehow. He also of course wanted each patch to be unique and designed from scratch, with every knob and button mapped and labelled with a singular purpose. Needless to say a lot of work went into these patches and that's not even considering the intense documentation that comes with Pantheon II, detailing the inspiration and performance notes of every patch! Okay, enough rambling.... here's the technical info:

Nucleus SoundLab proudly releases Pantheon II, the next in their series of ultimate Thor Refills for Propellerhead Reason 4. Pantheon II carries on the the fine lineage set by the original, with a massive new variety of intricately constructed patches ready to inspire you. Once again, these patches inner workings are revealed with refined and detailed PDF documentation.

Imagine a Refill without compromise. Instead of patches consisting of a single good idea, you'll find patches that contain several great ideas, tweaked to absolute perfection. As is now the Nucleus SoundLab standard, these patches are totally unique and fully mapped - ready to start or jump-start your new track. You won't have a problem finding a suitable patch either - not only are all Combinators categorized intelligently across diverse categories, but all Thor patches are as well!

The original Pantheon brought detailed and informative patch documentation to mainstream Reason Refills. Now with Pantheon II, that concept has been further refined and fine-tuned. PDF bookmarks now make finding the exact patch you are looking for simple. Further, the new documentation is more concise and takes up less pages, while offering even more useful information about the performance, inspiration and design behind every patch!

Pantheon II doesn't seek to retread old ground. If you already own Pantheon I, you'll find virtually no sonic overlap. Instead, new directions are explored: Malstrom/Thor hybrid synthesizers are featured; hardware-inspired monophonic beasts are uncovered; the Thor Step Sequencer is harnessed and taken to the next level; massive atmospheric washes using wavetable and FM techniques are explored; and RPG8 creates both classic dance arpeggios and exotic and delicate physically-modeled algorithmic patterns.

Details:

173 fresh and unique Combinators.
244 Thor patches.
30 Subtractor and Malstrom patches.
8 .rps demo songs.
All Combinator and Thor rotaries/buttons uniquely mapped.
All Combinator and Thor patches categorized intelligently.
PDF Design documentation for each patch, detailing important aspects of its design, inspiration and performance.

Pantheon II is priced at $49 USD in downloadable format. Want the full Pantheon experience? Why not check out the Pantheon Bundle? You'll get both the original Pantheon as well as Pantheon II at nearly 20% off.


For more information, a demo refill, and to purchase Pantheon II go to Nucleus-Soundlab.com.