Creating Custom ReFills
Utilities
Refill Packer from Propellerhead Software
ReFill Packer is a utility program that lets you create your own ReFill sound libraries for use in Reason. ReFills can contain samples, loops and all of Reason’s patch and song file formats. The ReFill Packer is a free download for all Reason owners.
Articles
Making Your Own Reason Refill from Sound On Sound
One of the best things about Propellerheads Reason — and this is a program that offers many best things — is the plentiful extra content supplied commercially by professional programmers or for free by other users. This extra content invariably comes in the form of Refills — self-contained packages of Reason device patches, samples, REX-format loops, songs and other material. Right from the beginning of Reason, Propellerheads have promoted the creation of Refills by users. In parallel with the initial release of the software and its subsequent updates, compatible versions of Refill Packer were made available. This no-frills application is free to registered users and puts the making of Refills within anybody’s reach.
Making a ReFill by Reason Freaks
Make a folder on your harddrive which will become the refill. It’s just like making a zipfile out of a folder. Now you have to make the folder structure of the refill. Open your refill folder (the one you just made). Now you have to make folders for the devices for wich you have patches or samples.
Creating Thor Patches in Reason & Packaging a Refill by AudioTuts
In this tutorial, we’re going to work through a hands-on workshop and create several Thor synthesizer patches. Then we’ll take our new patches and combine them into a redistributable Reason refill using Reason Refill Packer.
Make ReFill Packer Work by One Nil
To successfully make your own ReFill you will need three things, so I’ve divided this article into three sections that correspond with these things.
Submitting your ReFill to the PH ReFill Archive by Propellerhead Software
So you’ve downloaded a copy of ReFill Packer, put together a collection of your best patches, loops and grooves and packed them into a ReFill that you’d like to share with fellow Reason users?
Organized Refills by James Bernard
I was speaking with an artist the other day who was having some issues when loading song files that could not locate a sound from a specific refill and it occurred to me that something I do as a rule might be of some use.If you have a lot of refills on both an internal and external hard drives and ever find yourself in a situation where you need to locate a sound from a refill that you just can’t remember the location of… try this refill organization setup that I use.

