While ReBirth Mods continued to bolster the success of ReBirth, utilities and tips websites became the next wave of outside inspiration. One of the few survivors is the "ReBirth Cookbook" by Fred Stesney, a site offering useful advice on song development techniques. Mod-maker Peff also maintains a website of ReBirth resources and tips on creating graphics and sample sets.
 |
Despite the Cherry-Coke fiasco, ReBirth ventured into the world of product promotion with the Red Stripe project. Paul Edmonds, the creative director of Evolving Media (advertising firm of the British brewing company, Charles Wells LTD), proposed the idea of a custom ReBirth GUI and sample set targeting the club-going, drum'n'bass fanatics throughout Britain. Edmonds contracted Thomas and Wolfgang Merkle and Kurt Kurasaki to create the graphics and samples, and with the assistance of Propellerhead, a demo version of ReBirth Red Stripe was developed for the marketing campaign. |
The most impressive community contributions were third-party ReBirth software utilities. Florian Bömers, a German programmer, developed "ReNovator," a Windows application that simplified the process of modifying graphics and audio data. ReNovator helped many more realize the creative potential of software manipulation, thus expanding upon ReBirth's flexibility.
A first-generation official Mod-maker, Roman 'TG Virus' Hausner, created "ReMaker" - a tool for converting ReBirth Song Files to MIDI files and vice versa. Armed with ReMaker, one could change note and control sequences using the non-linear editing features of outside sequencers, then convert the information back to a ReBirth song file. Another exciting development was Matias Shill's "Pattern Master," a visual song editor for Windows, and later, Christian Schaub's "Pattern Editor," its Macintosh equivalent. The tradition of third-party applications has even moved into the commercial arena. Mod-maker 'jesuspark' established the design company, Bitplant, to provide user interface and design services to music software companies, including interfaces for Propellerhead's Reason. |
 |
