yeah he is available ...

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 examples 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

Nexus 1, 2 & 3 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 Vanguard

Discography
Releases (selection)

• 2003 Icarus - All Systems Go! / Extension Records
• 2003 Phalanx - Flaming Skies / Illuminate Records
• 2003 Ampire - Singularity / Overdose Records
• 2003 Marc Jerome - Shake it / Everlasting Records
• 2004 Reuter & Schleis - Passion / Alphabet City
• 2004 Floorburner - Get Ready / DJ INC Records
• 2004 Spoot - Take Control 2004 / Media Records
• 2004 Kareema - Cool your Engines / Kontor Records
• 2005 Aramanja - Memories / Waterworld Rec.
• 2005 Denga & Manus - Cenwen / Asgard Records
• 2005 Floorburner - Everybody Dance-Heaven / Yawa Recording
• 2005 Spencer & Hill - Spencer & Hill EP vol.2 / Star Rouge Records
• 2005 Scarf! - Hithouse One / Andorfine Records
• 2005 Party Pimpz - Holiday / Aqualoop Records
• 2006 Slice and Case - Abgedreht / Submental-ZYX

• 2006 Phalanx - Symphony in Gminor / Illuminate Records
• 2006 Ampire - Speedlimit / Traffic Tunes Records
• 2007 Volition - Dimensions / Somatic Sense
• 2007 Spencer & Hill - Get it On / Kontor
• 2007 Em Slice vs Denga - So Sexy / Global Players Records
• 2007 V-Headz - Paxi Fixi / Superstar-Chickenwings
• 2007 Denga & Manus - E-Clipse / Red Silver Recordings
• 2008 A-Lee feat. Amanda Wilson - Gotta Let Go / Oxyd Records
• 2008 Culture Beat - Your Love / Superstar Records
• 2008 Lowrider - Cool / Zooland Records
• 2008 Vengeance - Temptation / Armada / ASOT
• 2008 Spencer & Hill - Da Housebeat / Tiger Records
• 2009 Vengeance - Dawn of the Uprising / Armada / ASOT
• 2009 Spencer & Hill feat Dave Darell - Its a Smash / Zooland Records
• 2009 Dabruck & Klein feat Michael Feines - The Feeling / WePlay

Remixes (selection)

• 2004 Klubbingman - Magic Summernight (Cascada vs Plazmatek Remix) / Sony Music
• 2004 4 Strings - Turn it Around (Manyou Remix) / Alphabet City
• 2004 Alphazone - Revelation (Phalanx Remix) / Nukleuz UK
• 2004 Groove Coverage - Runaway (DJ Manian Remix) / Zeitgeist-Polydor
• 2004 Pulsedriver - Slamming (Tune Up! Remix) / Aqualoop Records
• 2004 Blank & Jones - Flowtation (Phalanx Remix) / Kontor Records
• 2005 DJ Dean - Kick Da Bass (Ampire Remix) / Tunnel Records
• 2005 DJ Shog - Jealousy (Denga & Manus Remix) / Logport Recordings
• 2005 Lazard - Little Star (Cascada Remix) / Pultrance Rec.
• 2006 Dumonde - Tomorrow 2006 (Observer & DJ Spacecase Remix) / F8T Records
• 2006 Michael Gray - Borderline (Spencer & Hill Remix) / Eye Industries
• 2006 Armand van Helden - Funk Phenomena 2k6Rmx / Submental Rec.
• 2006 Ian Carey - Say What You Want (Spencer & Hill Remix) / KickFresh
• 2006 Above & Beyond - For All I Care (Spencer & Hill Remix) / Anjunabeats
• 2007 Scooter - Behind the Cow (Spencer & Hill Remix) / Kontor
• 2007 Yanou feat. Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (S&H Project Remix) / Zooland Records
• 2007 Liz Kay - When Love Becomes a Lie (Kareema Remix) / Zooland Records
• 2007 Tiesto - Carpe Noctum (Spencer & Hill Remix) / Ultra Records

• 2007 Yanou - King of My Castle (Spencer&Hill Remix) / Zooland Records
• 2007 Hi Tack - Lets Dance (Dabruck & Klein Remix) / Superstar Rec.
• 2007 Goodwill and Thommy Trah - Its a swede thing (Dabruck & Klein Remix) / Superstar Rec.
• 2007 Noel Sinner - Pullover (Dabruck & Klein Remix) / Superstar Rec.
• 2007 Eyerer & Chopstick - Make my Day (Dabruck & Klein Remix) / Superstar Rec.
• 2007 Erick Morillo ft. P. Diddy - Dance I said (Spencer&Hil Remix) / OXYD Records
• 2007 Axwell - Its true (Dabruck & Klein Remix) / Superstar Rec.
• 2007 Yanou - Sun is Shining (Spencer & Hill Remix) / Zooland Records
• 2008 Cascada - What Do You Want From Me (Spencer & Hill Remix) / Zooland Records
• 2008 Moby - Disco Lies (Spencer & Hill Remix)
• 2008 Public Enemy vs Benny Benassi - Bring the Noise (Dabruck & Klein Remix) / Superstar Rec.
• 2008 Lorie - Play (Spencer & Hill Remix) / SonyBMG/Columbia
• 2009 Paul van Dyk - For an Angel 2009 (Spencer & Hill Remix) / Vandit
• 2009 Bob Sinclair feat. Sugarhill Gang - La La Song (Spencer & Hill Remix) / Vandetta
• 2009 Dennis the Menace, Bigworld - The First Rebirth (Dabruck & Klein Remix) / Axtone Rec.
• 2009 Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot (Spencer & Hill Remix) / EMI France

 

Whoah. Sounds like they went totally paranoid with their licensing. I have bought Nexus 2 but I would never get Nexus 3.

 

It's worth upgrading purely to get rid of that shitty E-licenser dongle - its the only reason I upgraded myself and for your average user its better because you can run it on two machines and not have to lug the dongle between them and you can use it on both at the same time.

 

Shitty E-licenser dongle?
With the "shitty dongle" you have literally perpetual license and you are completely independent of the manufacturer and internet connection.
Without the "shitty dongle" (Nexus 3) you can beg every month that reFX still exist and also will renew your "subscription" license.

And you really prefer such a monthly slavery more than to own the license at the dongle being independent of everything and everyone?
Sorry, that's absolute strange choice in my opinion...

 

Last edited: Nov 4, 2020

Thanks for the "Heads Up" I won't waste my time to even look at their Ads in future. Regards Russ Isaak

 

The good thing about Nexus 2 is that I can use the legit one in tandem with the AIR version and they both use the same factory contents folder Can't do that in Nexus 3

 

Except with that dongle with Nexus 1 or 2 (or any of the other Vengeance FX plugins) on it you have to buy a completely new license if the dongle is either lost or damaged because they don't register it with Steinberg and thus is completely irreplaceable.

Tell me exactly how that's great again?

 

If my computer, phone, mp3 player, keyboard, bike and so on are lost or broken, I need also to buy a new one.
Sorry, I really don't understand such arguments.
By the way, I have here two (among other) original e-Licenser dongles with Cubase SX3 & WIZOO Hypersonic.
It's even still branded as Syncrosoft and it works flawless, after 16 years!
I have a couple of e-Licenser (Syncrosoft) dongles (almost 10 pcs) and no one was caused me ever troubles (unlike iLok).

"Tell me exactly how that's great again?"

I'm independent of some foolish company and their mercy.
Also, I'm NOT forced to connect my computer online because of some paranoid copy protection.

Once again (maybe you finally get it):

NO reFX Company = bye Nexus 3
NO Internet = bye Nexus 3
TROUBLES with reFX = bye Nexus 3

Now Capisce?

 

Well no most people have stuff like house insurance which would cover losing or breaking all of those those so not the same at all really now is it - in fact its a piss poor analogy. I'm pretty sure though the same house insurance doesn't cover your USB dongle.

You stick with your dongles and I'll stay well clear.

 

I'm always surprised by how often those Vengeance Sound CD's get recommended as being hot shit. I remember thinking the first one I ever checked out sounded OK, but after the third or fourth, I was like, "Damn, why do these all sound like that terrible Main Room Euro Disco EDM stuff? Does anyone even listen to that stuff?" Everything sounds like The Cheeky Girls.

But I suppose he's shooting for what sells?

 

They actually pulled quite a few of those from sale years ago when they got caught having basically taken samples from other sample CDs and even in some cases left the old metadata in the sample with the other sample CD title in and people starting kicking off at them about it.

 

indeed mate indeed
i would say its really the half of the whole electronic music marked
in germany most didnt listen to scooter ( lfmao) but there was anyways a lot hearing it ( )but how much ppl still hear scooter in foreign countrys with less lets say bigger city scene saturation , is crazy .

 

those are one of the things I hate when someone says I make everything myself
i also sample kicks from tracks layer it or change it
I think there is nothing wrong with it as long as you give it a twist
look at all sample cds with roughly the same sounds
like blutonium hardstyle samples with kicks cutted from other tracks
and just like every producer can sample his own piano drums and other sounds
every producer samples something from time to time
as long as you don't sample complete tracks then there is nothing wrong with it in my opinion

 

"laughing, f**king my arse off"? I'm sure! lol.

 

U r wrong man. The Ossis have and still listen to Scooter :D

 

Well there's a difference between a bit of sampling and outright stealing say 20 claps from someone else's pack and selling them as your own without doing anything whatsoever to them. That's what Vengeance did with some of the samples. I don't have any issues in using samples from sample packs/CDs its the end result that counts. I dont use whole loops though like bass or synth loops I draw the line there.

 

ofcourse it's a scam...

just use human beat box.

Bu Bu uh Bu riki tak tak

 

come on guys it's worth it

pay your dues!

with nexus a hit costs shit!

 

I like Nexus, because sometimes I just want to compose something quick, I'm not a sound designer, I'm some kind of wannabee composer lol, I don't really like making my own sounds everytime (sometimes it's really nice and fun but I'm just not the type for synthesizing .-.) And even the old Team Air Nexus has still many useable sounds. Some people might say "hurr durr everyone, Avicii and your mom used that sound", but I don't fucking care, if it fits, it fits. And 99% people who just enjoy listening to your music don't care about things like that anyway. I hate this rompler bashing kinda, maybe it's something different for people who only make electronic sounding synth music. As a general composer Nexus is really handy and it's a good piece of software.

.... But yeah reFX and Vengeance Sound are both huge.... I don't know that much about english insults, so I just call them idiots. You must re-activate your software every 30-90 days... That's ridiculous, what if the reFX or vengeance guys die or what if they have a midlife crisis and don't wan't to do music software anymore? And if you have the older Nexus versions with the dongle, theres a huge chance that you get insulted or banned if your dongle breaks lol. Maybe it's not a big deal if you earn much money but for students like me it would be horrible if this bipolar borderline reFX person bans me because he has a bad temper xD So unless I'm rich, I'll never buy something from reFX or Vengeance haha. But I must admit that Nexus is a very handy tool....

I don't understand why Eric Persing never made more Nexus-like EDM sounds for Omnisphere... Omnisphere is much better and I think it would be a huge cash cow for Spectrasonics .-.

 

Agreed!
In the 80s and 90s, and probably ever since 'synths', we've been swapping synth patches/settings on bits of paper, or in magazines, or just waltzing into a store in Denmark Street with your own ram cards & floppy discs and walking out with new synth & sampler patches after 'testing out' the latest model! lol
I really don't get this current 'preset-user bashing' that I hear, because we were literally buying the synths for the factory presets back in the day, because we just wanted to make good music.
The true synth programmers were the real geeks back then, and yet that doesn't always go hand in hand with being the most creative in a musical sense, from my experience.