I love making music using Propellerheads Reason but the lack of VST support can sometimes get annoying. There are tonnes of top quality soft synths out there that sound amazing but if you're only using reason then your missing out on some awesome sounds. I often find myself making a few loops in Ableton (intro) and then dropping then into an NNXT sampler in Reason so I can build a track around them.This technique works well if you already know what sort of track you're going to be making. But if you're like me then you'll find that the best work you've done often comes from pure experimentation. In this case you want full control over your sounds so that you're track can evolve and grow over time.
It would be great to drop an instance of NI Massive into your Reason rack but as of yet VST support is not available in Reason.
Another popular option is to import raw waveforms into reason and build your own instrument from that. Fair enough you're not going to be able to replicate your favourite soft synth exactly but it will open up doors to completely new sounds and ideas.
Below I have uploaded a set of waveforms from 3 of my favourite soft synths; Massive, Firebird and Razor. There are ten waveforms from each synth so that's 30 samples in all. All the samples are pretty long so they should stretch out in your sampler giving you quite a decent range of playability.
Load them into your sampler and mess around with them add some effects and maybe a filter. You never know, you might come up with some pretty decent patches.
