A Beginner’s Guide to Rave Stabs

A beginner’s guide to rave stabs. I kick off with a little context, then cover how to make some classic stabs with various synths. Check out my DnB music on Spotify! Check out my latest happy hardcore EP: Chapter markers: 00:00 Intro 00:20 Chapter 1: What are rave stabs? 01:30 Chapter 2: Hardware samplers 04:56 Chapter 3: The digital 80s 07:20 Chapter 4: Hardcore rave 11:05 Chapter 5: Sampling and resampling 13:35 Chapter 6: Where do I get rave stabs? 15:39 Chapter 7: The Landlord stab 19:04 Chapter 8: Moog saws 21:09 Chapter 9: What the... 24:46 Chapter 10: 27:32 Chapter 11: Bass stabs Tunes mentioned: LA Style - James Brown Is Dead Wax Doctor - A New Direction Human Resource - Dominator The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever Jazz & the Brothers Grimm feat. Baby D and MC Juice - Casanova (The Raising Hell Mix) Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock Kate Bush - The Dreaming Freeez - . Nightwriters - Let The Music Use You Rhythim is Rhythim - Strings of Life Nexus 21 - Self-Hypnosis (Mr Whippy Mix) MC Duke - I’m Riffin’ (English Rasta) Wayne Smith - Under Mi Sleng Teng Frank De Wulf - The Tape (Remix) Mimmo Mix feat. Valerie Etienne - All Your Love The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club Mix) Manix - Feel Real Good 2 Bad Mice - Hold It Down Acen - Close Your Eyes (Optikonfusion!) Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx Nitro Deluxe - Let’s Get Brutal (Brutal Dub) Inner City - Good Life Outlander - Vamp Landlord - I Like It (Blow Out Dub) 2 Bad Mice - Bombscare Neon - Don’t Mess With This Beat (Instrumental) Jessie Deep! - . Spectrum - Brazil Second Phase - Mentasm Fatback Band - Kool Whip Urban Shakedown - Some Justice Electric Light Orchestra - So Fine Patti LaBelle - Something Special (Is Gonna Happen Tonight) (Acappella) Shades of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation Jumbo Records & Tapes – 250 Discojingles The Prodigy - Your Love Vibena - Positive Energy Part 1 Blame - Music Takes You SL2 - DJs Take Control Altern 8 - Evapour 8 DJ Seduction - Hardcore Heaven Terrorize - It’s Just a Feeling Acen - Close Your Eyes (XXX Mix) Bizarre Inc. - Plutonic Agent Orange - Sounds a Bit Flakey (Jungle Mix) DJ Force & The Evolution - Simply Electric Psychotropic - Hypnosis N-Joi - Malfunction Hyper on Experience - Lord of the Null Lines (Foul Play remix) Andy C - Something New Part 2 Further viewing, reading and resources: Vox video Prodigy in FM Creating the Spectrum Brazil stab Rave Generator 2 Chroma DX7 ROMs The real origin of the “Landlord“ stab Eric Persing interview Arturia CZ-V presets Ron Wells - Jungle Techno Vol 1 PG-8X at Martin Lüders’ VST site Picture credits: Thumbnail photo by Zachary Smith on Unsplash Mellotron: Silicon Chip: Roland TB-303: Roland SH-101: Roland D-50: Korg M1: Roland TR-808 Roland TR-909