Venus Theory

Sound designer and musician making tutorials on sound design and music production.

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Zoom F8n Pro
$699.99first cited September 2026speaks highly of it
“Got a new field recorder. The Zoom F8N Pro. And, uh, got to say, eight channels at 192 with some ultrasound microphones. Pretty wicked stuff.”
View source at 5:24from September 2026

Reaper
cited in 5 videos
“So, we're going to throw Reaper on it. I'm going to get my plugins, kind of my usual go-to stuff, which I'm excited to be able to use all that again.”
View sourcefrom April 2026+ 4 more sources
Decent Sampler
cited in 3 videos
“I don't have to record strings because I forgot that Decent Sampler runs analytics. Look at that. I have all my libraries for Decent Sampler on this now.”
View sourcefrom April 2026+ 2 more sources
ToneX (plugin version)
“Don't have my guitar pedal plugged in, but I have the plugin version of ToneX.”
View sourcefrom October 2025
LSP Plugins
first cited April 2026
“I want to try and remix this really quick though with just the Reaper native plugins to see how the CPU compares because my guess is these LSP plugins I downloaded are just very CPU intensive because they're more proper DSP programming and whatnot.”
View sourcefrom April 2026

Ubuntu
first cited April 2026
“And with this build, I decided to go with Ubuntu because that seems like the most standard version that might give me a good baseline of everything.”
View sourcefrom April 2026
Discord
“Uh I will share it in my Discord after the stream.”
View source at 1:41:34from December 2025
Windows
first cited April 2026
“Virtually everything I would normally use on my Windows systems is available for Mac and it runs.”
View sourcefrom April 2026

Vital
cited in 3 videos
“Let's say we want to grab Vital, for instance, and just make a quick quick and cheap.”
View sourcefrom October 2025+ 2 more sources
PolyBrute
cited in 2 videos
“I think if I brought in like the Poly Brute. I have some really good Poly Brute patches I made.”
View sourcefrom October 2025+ 1 more source
Novation Summit
cited in 2 videosspeaks highly of it
“So, what I do have is the handy dandy Novation Summit and it can do all of those things.”
View source at 16:36from October 2026+ 1 more source
Spitfire Labs
first cited October 2026has reservations
“…and it's not like let's say Spitfire Labs where I want to open the soft piano for some reason and oh no, just kidding. It doesn't work anymore.”
View source at 9:54from October 2026

YouTube
has reservations
“I make like nothing off YouTube. Not nothing, but like not a significant amount whatsoever.”
View source at 2:11:20from December 2025

Bandcamp
cited in 2 videos
“Um I meant to put them up on Bandcamp. I just haven't really had the time.”
View source at 2:06:58from December 2025+ 1 more source
Gumroad
“…but I do have a couple courses on my Gumroad”
View sourcefrom October 2025

Raspberry Pi
$200.00first cited April 2026
“And this was built with a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 gigs of RAM.”
View sourcefrom April 2026
Intel Core i9 (13th gen)
$584.99
“But I'm running an i9 uh 13 whatever, so your mileage may vary.”
View sourcefrom October 2025
Samsung tablet
“Honestly, [ __ ] Samsung tablets. This thing is terrible.”
View sourcefrom October 2025
Mac Neo
first cited April 2026
“I bought myself a Mac Neo, which is Apple's new laptop that's the cheapest point of entry into the Mac ecosystem.”
View sourcefrom April 2026

AudioFuse 16Rig
$1,199.00positive about it
“Uh I have the audio fuse 16 rig, which can do like virtual patch bay type things, uh which makes stuff like this easier”
View source at 35:54from December 2025

Hologram Chroma Console
$399.00cited in 2 videospositive about it
“And then uh currently I've got it running into the uh Chroma Console from Hologram, but if we so desire, I can change this pedal out for a couple other ones.”
View source at 6:58from December 2025+ 1 more source
Summit
$2,899.99cited in 2 videos
“I think the yeah the summit is hooked up.”
View sourcefrom October 2025+ 1 more source
Polyend Synth
$999.00cited in 2 videospositive about it
“Uh this is the Polyend synth and it is loaded up with my new preset pack or scene synth scene pack, whatever they call it, called Floods.”
View source at 7:10from December 2025+ 1 more source
E1DA Cosmos ADCiso Hi-Precision Analog To Digital Converter
first cited September 2026positive about it
“And I also asked them to send me their Cosmos, which is a looper delay granular something or other. And uh you know, that's what I like about their stuff. It it just tickles the old juices because it's weird.”
View source at 4:31from September 2026