Dance & Techno Constructionset

The demos have been taken from a very early version of the soundset. The set has been improved a lot afterwards. The sounds have been recorded directly from the microQ stereo outs without any additional effects. Also drums and percussions are taken from this soundset! No other synth, no multitrackrecording has been used! Only one microQ! (Files have been digitally compressed/limited)

The demosongs "Clubhopper" and "Lavalamp" have been created with Akai samples of the soundset and the drums have been taken from our "UltraBeatz" sampling CD.

Check out the single sounds! They may give you a better impression of the soundquality! The single sound demos have been recorded directly from the microQ stereo out without any additional effects.

For better sound quality we recommend to rightclick on each link and safe the source file on your local machine. (German IE = "Ziel speichern unter", Netscape = "Diese Verknüpfung speichern unter")

Reviews:

German "Keys" magazine:
...The sounds are authentic and convincing and fit perfectly into club orientated arrangements..." (Full article)

Online magazine Amazona.de:
"Besides fat lead and bass patches the set contains lots of analogue drum and percussion sounds. Either Dancefloor, Techno, Schranz, Drum´n Bass, Chill Out - the construction set of german musician Steve Kay provides sounds for any styles of electronic music. ..."

User reviews:

Graham Hunter, USA (CA)
"I've always liked these patches, but as time goes on I find myself using them more and more. I'd definitely recommend picking them up. They're definitely very useful for more than techno, too. I do a mix of ambient/industrial and they fit in all over the place with only minor tweaks."

Usama, Germany
"The sounds are programmed with care; they sound not just good but usually also 'right' if you're into the genre ... There is a really big percentage of good stuff - it's not just sprinkled in as the salt... Am I satisfied I got it? Absolutely!"

Sayer, USA
"... There are some great sounds in this collection. Any Micro Q owners (Q too?) that are looking for new sounds should check them out ..."

Michael (MiB), Germany
"I´ve just got Steve´s sound bank for the Q/mQ ... It contains 300 (!) sounds and no bullshit. Most of them are dance type lead sounds - quite "raw" and "in-your-face"... so expect to get 3 banks full of sounds made by a synth fanatic, not yet another bank of tweaks-of-presets for way too much bucks :) ...The soundset is really great, I can recommend it!..."

Max, Italy
"...I think they are great and very useful."

A "Cafe Del Mar" style demosong, containing 100% microQ sounds:

"I Believe In Silence (Words Can Only Do Harm)" Ambient Chillout (2'58 min. / 2.7 MB, quality: 128kbps)
BEWARE! This track contains extremely low frequencies!

This track contains microQ sounds only. The drumsounds are mostly derivates from the Dance & Techno Constructionset and have been sampled from the mQ for easier use. All other sounds are from the Dance & Techno Constructionset without any changes. The bass was taken from my forthcoming mQ basskit but a similar substitute could have probably been found in the Dance & Techno Constructionset as well. I sampled/recorded the pads to Cubase to have extra mQ-outputs left (also for easier EQing).

Sampled mQ/Q percussions: BD, 2 closed HH, open HH, 2 snares (all without any processing and no EQ!)
Bass: mQ Bass-Kit A038 Seismo Bass
Arpeggiosound: Dance & Techno Constructionset, B063 SpaceChimes
Slow melody/leadsound: Dance & Techno Constructionset, B091 DetuneDaHouse (cutoff lowered)
1st Pad: Dance & Techno Constructionset, B001 Quinta Sweep
2nd Pad: Dance & Techno Constructionset, B035 Analogic Pad
FX Noisedrum: Dance & Techno Constructionset, C020 ThunderDrums

External gear:
Lexicon MPX1 for reverb
Roland SDE-330 SpaceDelay for -guess what- delay
Mastering:
SPL Vitalizer for sound and stereo enhancement
Multibandcompressor and finalizer