M-Audio Venom - inexpensive 12 voice, 4 part multitimbral virtual analog synthesizer

Published on Mar 24, 2020 Floyd Steinberg

"On your request, here's a lengthy video on the M-Audio Venom, a virtual analog synth from the early 2010s. This Video is sponsored by DistroKid: http://distrokid.com/vip/floyd . Table of contents below!

The M-Audio Venom was released in the early 2010s. It's a 12 voice polyphonic, 4 part multitimbral virtual analog synthesizer (or is it?) This synth is quite inexpensive at the moment, you can find it on ebay for around $120.

In this video, there's a 3 minute track made only with this synth, an overview of the hardware and features, some selected sounds / patches and a brief look at the synth engine and the Windows Editor needed for creating your own patches and how to work around compability issues in Windows 10.

I also show how external instruments can be run through the Venom's effect engine.

Table of contents:

00:00 Demo
03:00 Introduction
03:40 Sponsor message
04:37 Hardware overview
06:24 Patches:

06:29 "Venomous"
06:48 "Worm Rider"
07:23 "Picardy"
07:56 "Reso Perk"
08:42 "Accension"
09:22 "Nervous Bee"
09:43 "FerisWheel"
10:06 "ClassicV"
10:22 "Glass Piano"
10:52 "EuroRacked"
11:13 "UltraBell"
11:40 "Ana Piano"
12:09 "Grain Pad"
12:46 "Mysterio"
13:53 "AM Bell"
14:12 "Sweeper"
15:04 "Lethargy"
15:20 "Mythic"
16:00 "FS SawPad"

17:08 Sound editor / drivers
18:12 real time editor launch :-)
19:55 brief look at the synth engine
21:56 using audio in and insert effects
23:14 bye bye"