Manuel Schleis

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Schleis in 2007

Manuel Schleis (born 1979) is a German music producer and former sound designer. [1] He is best known for publishing the Vengeance sample libraries. [2] Computer Music said in 2020 that Vengeance Essential Clubsounds, Volume 1 would "go down in history as a library that changed the sound of dance music". [2]

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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:

Nexus 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 are sample-based synthesizers (rompler) that, according to ReFX themselves, are actually more than just romplers.

Soundsets For Hardware/Software Synthesizers

VST Plugins

Discography

Releases (selection)

Remixes (selection)

References

  1. "Sampling groovebox | MC-808 | Profiles of the pattern creators". Roland US. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 "10 classic sample libraries that changed music". Computer Music. No. 282. 2020. pp. 50–52. Retrieved 20 September 2025 via EBSCOhost.