Manuel Schleis (*1979 in Wiesbaden) is a former German music producer.
About
He worked together with DJ Manuel Reuter (DJ Manian, danceformation Cascada, also Spencer & Hill) and has produced many club hits and remixes for Sugababes, Moby, Scooter (band), Axwell, Public Enemy, and Tiësto. He is also a developer of audio music software as well as being a sound designer. Under the company name "Vengeance-Sound" he releases Soundsets / Sample CDs. As a sound designer for Access Music Electronics, Roland Music, Waldorf synthesizer, Propellerheads, Tone2 & reFX Manuel Schleis works as well. In 2016 his new line of VST Plugins, called "Vengeance Producer Suite", was released (in cooperation with audio software company Keilwerth Audio). Additionally Manuel Schleis works as a tutor for "dance production" for example the "Roland Synth2Sound Tour", "SAE" & "Musikmesse Frankfurt".
Starting 2014, Schleis has abandoned making EDM tracks, to focus on his passion of producing soundsets with recorded samples only.
Sound Design
Sampling CDs/DVDs
Manuel has done over 50 sampling CD's as Vengeance Sound, along with various other producers. Several of these packs include:
- Vengeance Analog Drums Vol.1
- Vengeance Dance Explosion Vol.1
- Vengeance Dance Explosion Vol.2
- Vengeance Deep House Vol.1
- Vengeance Deep House Vol.2
- Vengeance Dirty Electro Vol.1
- Vengeance Dirty Electro Vol.2
- Vengeance Dirty Electro Vol.3
- Vengeance EDM Essentials Vol.1
- Vengeance EDM Essentials Vol.2
- Vengeance Effects Vol.1
- Vengeance Effects Vol.2
- Vengeance Effects Vol.3
- Vengeance Electro Essentials Vol.1
- Vengeance Electro Essentials Vol.2
- Vengeance Electro Essentials Vol.3
- Vengeance Essential Clubsounds Vol.1
- Vengeance Essential Clubsounds Vol.2
- Vengeance Essential Clubsounds Vol.3
- Vengeance Essential Clubsounds Vol.4
- Vengeance Essential Clubsounds Vol.5
- Vengeance Essential Deep House
- Vengeance Essential Dubstep Vol.1
- Vengeance Essential Dubstep Vol.2
- Vengeance Essential House Vol.1
- Vengeance Essential House Vol.2
- Vengeance Essential House Vol.3
- Vengeance Essential House Vol.4
- Vengeance Freakz On Beatz Vol.1
- Vengeance Freakz On Beatz Vol.2
- Vengeance Freakz On Beatz Vol.3
- Vengeance Future House Vol.1
- Vengeance Future House Vol.2
- Vengeance Future House Vol.3
- Vengeance Future House Vol.4
- Vengeance Minimal House
- Vengeance Minimal House Vol.2
- Vengeance Pop Essentials Vol.1
- Vengeance Pop Essentials Vol.2
- Vengeance Rhythm Guitars Vol.1
- Vengeance Rhythm Guitars Vol.2
- Vengeance Freakz On Beatz Vol.1
- Vengeance Freakz On Beatz Vol.2
- Vengeance Freakz On Beatz Vol.3
- Vengeance Trance Sensation Vol.1
- Vengeance Trance Sensation Vol.2
- Vengeance Trance Sensation Vol.3
- Vengeance Trance Sensation Vol.4
- Vengeance Total Dance Sounds Vol.1
- Vengeance Total Dance Sounds Vol.2
- Vengeance Total Dance Sounds Vol.3
- Vengeance Ultimate Bass
- Vengeance Vocal Essentials Vol.1
- Vengeance Vocal Essentials Vol.2
- Vengeance Electroshock Vol.1
- Vengeance Electroshock Vol.2
- Vengeance Studio Vocals Vol.1
- Vengeance Trap Essentials Vol.1
- Vengeance Ultimate Fills Vol.1
- Vengeance Ultimate Fills Vol.2
- Vengeance Ultimate Fills Vol.3
- reFX Nexus1, Nexus2, Nexus3 & Nexus4
Nexus 1, 2, 3 & 4 are sample-based synthesizers (rompler) that, according to ReFX themselves, are actually more than just romplers.
Soundsets For Hardware/Software Synthesizers
- Trance Source X (Access - all Virus models)
- Incubation V1 (Access - all Virus models)
- Incubation V2 (A - all Virus models)
- Incubation V3 (Access - all Virus models)
- Trance Source 2001 (Access - all Virus models)
- Vengeance Virus TI Factory Bank (Access - Virus Ti)
- CS2x Sounds (Yamaha - CS2x)
- Vanguard Vengeance-Sound Factory Presets (reFX - Vanguard)
- Vanguard Soundset Part II (reFX - Vanguard)
- Gladiator Vengeance-Sound Factory Presets (Tone2 - Gladiator)
- Vengeance-Forum Soundset Vol.1 (Novation - V-Station)
- Vengeance-Forum Soundset Vol.2 (reFX - Vanguard)
- Vengeance-Forum Combfusion Soundset Vol.1 (Propellerheads - Reason)
- Vengeance-Forum Combfusion Soundset Vol.2 (Propellerheads - Reason)
- X-plorations Vol.1 (Roland - JP8000/JP8080)
- X-plorations Vol.2 (Roland - JP8000/JP8080)
- X-plorations Vol.3 (Roland - JP8000/JP8080)
- Blue Magic (Novation - Supernova 2, Supernova 1, Nova Laptop)
- Analog Meltdown (Waldorf - Pulse/Pulse+)
- Nordish by Nature (Clavia - Nordlead III)
- Trance & Dance Soundset for A1 (Cubase - A1)
- Cosmic X (Yamaha - CS6x/CS6r incl. PLG150AN)
- Q - Trilogy Vol.1 (Waldorf - Q+, Q, MicroQ/Komplexer)
- Q - Trilogy Vol.2 (Waldorf - Q+, Q, MicroQ/Komplexer)
- Club 4k part I - V-Station (Novation - V-Station)
- Club 4k part II - V-Station (Novation - V-Station)
- Analog Essentials (TC Powercore - Powercore 01)
- Prophecy (Native Instruments - Pro 53)
- Discovery Soundset Vol.1 (DiscoDSP - Discovery)
- Discovery (Pro) Soundset Vol.2 (DiscoDSP - Discovery Pro)
- Korg Legacy Soundset (Korg - Legacy Collection)
- Oddity Mini-Bass Soundset (GMedia - Oddity)
- Vengeance THOR Soundset (Reason 4.0 - THOR)
- Digital Atmosphere (Korg - Legacy Collection Digital Edition)
- Vengeance Electro Soundset for Massive (Native Instruments - Massive)
- Vengeance Moog Electrobass (Arturia - Minimoog V v2.0.1)
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Metrum Expansion 1 - Factory Extension
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Metrum Expansion 2 - Ultimate HipHop
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Metrum Expansion 3 - Future Kicks
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Metrum Expansion 4 - Blutonium Boy
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Metrum Expansion 5 - Electro House
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Metrum Expansion 6 - Hands Up Kicks
VST Plugins
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Multiband Sidechain
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Metrum
- Vengeance Mastering Suite: Multiband Compressor
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Philta XL
- Vengeance Mastering Suite: Stereo Bundle
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Essential FX Bundle
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Phalanx
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Tape Stop
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Glitch Bitch
- Vengeance Producer Suite: Avenger
- reFX Nexus 1
- reFX Nexus 2
- reFX Nexus 3
- reFX Nexus 4
- reFX QuadraSID
- reFX PlastiCZ
- reFX Vanguard
Discography
Releases (selection)
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Remixes (selection)
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External links
- (Vengeance Sound)
- (Manuel Schleis, Discogs profile)
- (Computermusic interview)
- (Spencer & Hill official homepage)
- (complete discography)