The Ultimate House Music Sounds to Watch in 2025
Motion is a brand new tech house, minimal house, and nu-disco producer pack from The Producer School, inspired by artists and labels at the forefront of modern house music. This video walks through every element of the pack - from Serum and Diva presets to sample loops, drum kits, and royalty-free vocal hooks - giving you a full preview of what is inside and how it sounds in context.
What Is the Motion Producer Pack?
Motion is a tech house, minimal house, and nu-disco producer pack designed to capture the sound of modern house music with new disco influences. Inside the pack you will find over 90 Serum presets, 30 Diva presets, a sample pack containing drum loops, FX loops, guitar loops, bass guitar loops, and more, three different project files for FL Studio, Ableton, and Logic Pro, and a collection of 100% royalty-free female and male vocal hooks. All samples and presets are royalty-free, meaning once you purchase the pack you have a license to use every sound - including the vocals - in your own commercial productions without needing additional permission.
What Serum Presets Are Included in Motion?
The pack contains over 90 Serum presets divided into categories: basses, chord steps, FX, leads, plugs, and synths. Standout bass presets include a plucky saw bass, a punchy organ bass inspired by sounds from CCO Records, a deep saw bass with high resonance, a fat analog bass with nu-disco influences, a UK garage Reese bass used in tech house and minimal house, and a fat Minimoog-style bass. Most presets use velocity to control the filter cutoff, giving you expressive dynamic control in your playing or MIDI programming. Chord step presets allow you to hold a single note and have the preset play a full chord pattern automatically - ideal for building house progressions quickly. Lead presets include an organ-style lead, a funky lead with mod wheel vibrato, a minimal house lead with interesting LFO-driven arpeggiation, and a lead with a built-in perfect fifth.
How Do the Diva Presets in Motion Sound?
Motion includes 30 presets for Diva, a synthesizer known for producing fat, warm analog-sounding basslines heard across house and nu-disco productions. The Diva presets in this pack include deep and warm basses ideal for filling up the low end, an organ-style bass that doubles as a lead when played in a higher register, and a very deep sub-bass for tracks that need all of their low end energy in a single, focused instrument. Like the Serum presets, many Diva presets use velocity to control the filter cutoff for expressive dynamics. Chord step presets are also included for Diva, allowing you to hold a note and have full chords voiced automatically. These presets are particularly suited for that full, analog low end that characterises tech house and minimal house tracks.
How to Use the Sample Loops in Motion
The sample pack inside Motion covers a wide range of loop categories suited to house and nu-disco production. Bass guitar loops come with MIDI included, so you can load the audio for feel or swap in the MIDI to play them through your own synths. Synth-based loops also include MIDI files for flexibility. Guitar loops capture a funky nu-disco character and work well as rhythmic ear candy in drops. Analog shots were sampled from a Moog synthesizer. Drum loops are divided into hi-hat loops - including acoustic hi-hat loops for a human touch - minimal glitchy loops, percussion loops, shaker loops, and top loops. Individual drum hits include claps, closed hi-hats, presses, kicks, open hi-hats, percussion sounds, rim shots, shakers, snares, and toms. Drum fills add variation at phrase endings.
What Vocal Samples and Hooks Are in the Pack?
The vocal content in Motion is one of its most distinctive features. The pack includes both male and female vocals across several formats. Ad-libs are short one-shot vocal exclamations provided as both dry and wet stems, giving you control over processing. Full vocal hooks are radio-ready phrases that can be dropped directly into productions. All hooks are also provided as dry and wet stems so you can apply your own effects if needed. Vocal loops are chopped and rhythmic, sitting closer to a sample-based house style. Spoken word samples are shorter phrases suited to tech house and minimal house - examples from the pack include phrases about funk, groove, and house music. All vocal content is 100% royalty-free, so using these in commercial releases requires no further licensing.
How to Use the FX and Atmosphere Sounds
Beyond musical content, Motion includes a range of FX and atmosphere sounds useful for transitions and ear candy. These include downlifters for building tension before drops, impacts for hard hits at key moments, ambient textures for background atmosphere, and laser-style sounds that work as percussive ear candy within the track. An FX sweeper preset in Serum is specifically designed for transitions and has a disco-influenced sweep character. There are also plug presets in Serum that replicate muted guitar-style sounds, adding that organic, strummed quality that is central to minimal house and nu-disco aesthetics without requiring a real guitar recording.
How to Get Started With Motion for House Music Production
The fastest way to start using the pack is to load one of the three included project files - available for FL Studio, Ableton, and Logic Pro. Each project file demonstrates how the presets, loops, and vocals work together in a finished arrangement. From there you can pull individual elements into your own sessions. For basslines, start with the Serum or Diva bass presets and program rhythms using velocity to open and close the filter. For chord work, the chord step presets let you sketch progressions quickly by holding single notes. For groove, combine the acoustic hi-hat loops with the individual drum hits to build patterns that feel human and natural. For atmosphere, blend the ambient textures and vinyl noise at low volume underneath your drums to add warmth and a sense of physical space.
Motion is available now at The Producer School. The pack includes over 90 Serum presets, 30 Diva presets, sample loops with MIDI, royalty-free vocals, and three full project files for FL Studio, Ableton, and Logic Pro - everything you need to produce tech house, minimal house, and nu-disco at a professional level.
Tutorial by Niek, co-founder of The Producer School. For more production tutorials, subscribe to The Producer School on YouTube (280K+ subscribers).