I think that a thread per patch/ patch bunch/ refill is the best thing to do right now. It's simple, makes sense (forum construction wise) and orderly.
One thing we could do within this construct is, devide the "patches and Refills" subforum into multiple subforum's:
- Instruments
- Creative FX
- Studio FX
- Utility patches
Just like in Reason itself.
(maybe split these up in time as well? Like: Studio FX --> Reverb, Compression, Eq, Mastering.)
Guidelines:
Apart from the construct, i think it would be a good idea to add guidelines to every patch thread. Minimum requirements and a semi- set of rules like:
Have a clear title;
- Main purpose
- no statements like "best vox processing patch ever" or something in that manner
- No company, artist's, user's name
- Patch name
- Which version it it, since some stuff might be updated?
- Stock devices or Re's included?
A clear description within the thread:
- Go at it how you like, but keep it clear and to the point
A guide/ explenation of and how to use it;
Optional: how it works, why it works and some screenshot's
Wether its using stock devices or Re's
Downloading:
A download link in .rar format (this is so when user's click on the link; it opens a download/ open with dialog and no redirection to another site in order to download it from over there.
Other download option:
The forum has a nice attachement option, but will not allow any reason extensions like .cmb, .rex2 and so on. There is probably a way to disable this within the php scripts/ plug in so user's dont have to use .rar extensions and can click it directly only to either save it on their disk or open it with Reason.
User feedback:
Have a (anonymous) manditory poll saying:
"on a scale of 1 till' 5 did you find this usefull?".
This way user's can leave their feedback. If for some reasaon a patch or refills gets very negative feedback, the thread/ patch/ refill can be taken down my mods to clean things up, since they ain't usefull
So for instance:
Thread title:
Patch: Natural Vocals - V1 - Stock devices
Thread description:
Natural Vocals
This is a rich patch including a number of device chains that find a lot of usage on vocal processing. All the device's are set up so that no processing is taking place as it is (like no eq or compression). This way you can start of fresh and tweak everything according to your liking.
In the chain are (in order):
- Pre Eq
- De-esser
- Audio splitter for parallel processing (if desired)
- Mclass compressor (main signal)
- Eq (main signal)
- Mclass compressor (parallell signal)
- Eq (parallel signal)
- Pulveriser (parallel signal)
- 6:2 mixer (mixing both back in, parallel signal muted by default)
- RV7000 (6:2 mixer auxillery; AUX SEND set to "0")
- Eq (6:2 output)
- Scream distortion unit with slight (tape) settings (6:2 out, bypassed by default)
- Mclass compressor (6:2 out)
Screenshots:
*Insert image here*
Download link:
*attachement* or *
http://www.sendspace.com/37hh38/natural-vocals.rar*
This is my 2 cents though Feel free to suggest, criticise and so on!