Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Last week we spoke about the Groovebox Challenge, a perspective to simplify our dance music production: what if all the sounds in your track had to come from one groovebox?
This week let's design the contents of that groovebox together!

The Beatsurfing plugins ► beatsurfing.com
SlickEQ ► tokyodawn.net/tdr-vos-slickeq

Oscar's stuff
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Oscar's courses ► https://courses.underdog.brussels
1 on 1 coaching with Oscar ► calendly.com/oscar-underdogmusicschool/coaching
Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv
Patreon ► patreon.com/underdogmusicschool
Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3
Torc techno project ► soundcloud.com/torcaudio
XYS label ► xysecret.bandcamp.com

Contents:
0:00 Why design anything at all?
1:21 The sampler multisample trick
3:06 Resampling sounds from Random Metal
5:35 Ableton's similarity function
10:44 My favourite EQ plugin
12:30 A new techno rumble secret technique
15:19 I DIG IT ALL
17:27 Seven deadly snares
22:17 It all comes together