Slink into Opal Dreams, a collection of unique presets created for Astra - Splice's classic synth. Explore landscapes strange and wonderful, thick with enticing musical textures of lo-fi, grunge, and laid-back instruments perfect for inspiring new songs or layering into your tracks of choice. [...]

Musician and sound designer Sam OB - who created previous releases Night Zone, Sweetest Touch, Holographic Soul, and Neon Lo-fi - presents Splice Originals: Cybochronic. You’ll find Astra presets and loops representing synthwave, techno, electro, and disco. Drawing influence from legendary techno artists such as Drexciya, B12, Robert Hood, and Derrick May, this collection time travels through the [...]

Hip-Hop Synthesis features 100 presets for Splice’s Astra synth, crafted specifically to give creators the ability to add depth and warmth to their production. This release contains harmonically interesting and diverse synth patches of wide pads, gritty leads, and deep basses giving producers textures that can take their projects up a notch. [...]

Sun/Sets: Dream R&B was created in collaboration with guitarist Greg Matthews, a Brooklyn-based music producer and songwriter who performs as Yellow Shoots. He laid down guitar arrangements that range in style from pop to psych-rock, from soul to R&B. Then the Splice Originals production team layered some Astra synth keys and drums on top. The result is a suite of dreamy, glittery sounds [...]

Through this pack, our in-house sound design team explored the analog possibilities of Astra Splice’s classic synth instrument. Pulling inspiration from the past 60 years of synth explorers, this pack travels through time from synth progenitors like Delia Derbyshire, Wendy Carlos, and Mort Garson to the emotive sonic visions of Vangelis, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel. We added some additional [...]

Created by producer ISS 814, this pack explores the fusion of western house music with Afrobeat. He layered traditional percussion and West African instrumentation like the balafon, ngoni, fula flute, and talking drum with sped up Afrobeat rhythms, all laid over a thumping beat. [...]