The coproducer blog

Stories & sound recipes

Why we built this, and how the classic rave sounds are actually made: the exact numbers, from people who've made the records.

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From the founders

Why we built coproducer

Two DJs, one on each side of the console, built the co-producer they both wished they'd had. Who we are, and why this exists.

By DJ Rapid & Quench

Tutorials

Tutorial · BUNKER · hard techno

How I made my first hard techno track

BUNKER, our hard-techno AI agent, builds a track start to finish in the studio, and shows you the one habit that makes coproducer do what you mean: structure your prompts. You bring the taste; it brings the hands.

4:29 · steal the recipes below

Sound recipes

The gabber kick

The distorted 909 that is the bassline, plus the ordering mistake everyone makes.

The hoover

Why yours sounds flat. The Mentasm PWM trick, and why we ended up sampling one.

The Belgian rave stab

The Anasthasia hoover-stab: a saw stack through a filter envelope that snaps shut in 90ms.