Venus Theory
Sound designer and musician making tutorials on sound design and music production.
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@VenusTheory· 441.0K followersRecording software5
- Reaper
cited in 4 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.”
- Decent Sampler
cited in 2 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.”
“Don't have my guitar pedal plugged in, but I have the plugin version of ToneX.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“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“Um, oh, I'm getting audio to OBS with the OBS as uh acco plugin. So, I'm getting the ACO information off my interface direct into OBS.”
View sourcefrom October 2025
Productivity software2
“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“Virtually everything I would normally use on my Windows systems is available for Mac and it runs.”
View sourcefrom April 2026
Creator tools21
- 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.”
- Vital
cited in 2 videos

“let's say we want to grab vital, for instance, and just make a quick quick and cheap.”
“And now with components, I can load those right onto the summit, and we can see what sort of ungodly abomination I've released on the world.”
View sourcefrom December 2025“And then I use uh Synapse the Legend for the hold loop.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“And then if I wanted to load I I don't know like Sunbox because I love Sunbox.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“And then this this thing that's UVI whoosh with just a custom preset I designed.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“Anyways, so uh under here we have ba ba ba ba I got to move here. A Korg multi poly.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“But I've wired one together with Cardinal, which is a free and open- source version of VCVR. You should definitely grab it. It's very, very, very good.”
View sourcefrom November 2025“Cuz I think that's that's like my biggest thing with the Blofeld is I I love the Blofeld.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“How about we play with strands? I like that library.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“I also might have accidentally discovered the holy grail of micro cassette recorders with this old Panasonic one, which has a line input, a tape speed control, a tone control, a volume control, and it actually sounds really good.”
View sourcefrom November 2025“I have the Osmose hooked up under my desk and I think when I get home from this trip, I might hook this up with MIDI and see if it does like MPE stuff or something.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“I I like that it it has the same kind of vibe as the MS2000R I have where there's a real like kind of oblique digital crispiness to the top end of things.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“I've been using Falcon for like, I don't know, God, like as long as I've been had this channel, I think like six or seven years.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“This uh Behringer Edge right here.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“Uh these are contact uh Damage 2 and Microonic.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“Uh these are from Steven Slate Drums, whatever the free one is.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“Uh, I've used the Polyen tracker, but I've never used like a tracker, like a proper uh computer-based tracker.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“Uh, that's just a quick transition I made with a UVI whoo damage 2 and then my pulsar 23 and then uh just a copy of that here with it changed a little bit.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“Um, if we throw that into like a little bit of a little bit OTT.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“While I was playing around with my Novation Summit here, I noticed we have user wavetables that we can import, which means I have an idea.”
View sourcefrom December 2025
Ecommerce platforms2
“Bandcamp”
View sourcefrom October 2025“but I do have a couple courses on my Gumroad”
View sourcefrom October 2025
Computers4
“And this was built with a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 gigs of RAM.”
View sourcefrom April 2026“But I'm running an i9 uh 13 whatever, so your mileage may vary.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“Honestly, [ __ ] Samsung tablets. This thing is terrible.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“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
Other12
- Summit
$2,899.99 · cited in 2 videos

“I think the yeah the summit is hooked up.”
- Microcosm
$459.00

“And then microcosm, you know, extremely hot take here, but I think the microcosm is very good.”
View sourcefrom November 2025 “And then, I mean, I guess maybe I'll be super original and maybe we'll do something with the shallow water, which you know, everybody needs a shallow water.”
View sourcefrom November 2025- Hologram Chroma Console
$399.00

“I don't really know what I want to hook up with it, but you know, here in the pedal bag of goodies, we got microcosm, the classic, the chroma console, which is the homie.”
View sourcefrom November 2025 “I got the lowest of low guitars, a bass six. It's a guitar, but an octave down.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“I got the opportunity to work on some of the factory presets for Techno and I wanted everyone to be able to experience them.”
View sourcefrom September 2025- MiniFreak
$649.00

“I think it's time to add some synth layers, though. So, I've got the Mini Freak ready to go.”
View sourcefrom April 2026 “I've got Terra here going into ribbons from Kenotone, which is like a lowfi tape pedal and delay and MP3 a fire.”
View sourcefrom November 2025- Ribbons
$399.00

“I've got Terra here going into ribbons from Kenotone, which is like a lowfi tape pedal and delay and MP3 a fire. It's a fantastic pedal. You should really look at it.”
View sourcefrom November 2025 “Need to renew my sonic pass.”
View sourcefrom October 2025“So, I want to use the Polyen synth to put some layers on this next track.”
View sourcefrom November 2025“Um this thing is called a guitarra de golpe. I bought it in Tijuana.”
View sourcefrom October 2025
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