This only really hit me when I was looking for good Serum presets over the last year or so. Pack after pack was absolute garbage - I'd either be greeted with muddy, half-baked sounds, or overblown-hype-trash like the Cymatics packs, which I'll be damned if I'd try to shoehorn into my tracks.
The only packs that seemed to make the most of the synth - the ones jam packed with endlessly useable presets - they were geared towards trance producers.
Thinking it over, I kind of realized - trance and its early predecessors were really all about synths. I guess that limitation made producers learn how to artfully craft patches that fully utilize the fundamental principles of synthesis to their fullest. Nobody does a better super-saw. Nobody does a better pluck. Bass? Yeah, I guess other genres have their own enthralling take on that, but for bouncy, clean, and punchy bass, you could go amiss to overlook trance.
This probably won't blow your mind or anything, but it made enough of an impression on me that I had to say something. Anyone else agree? Disagree?
Submitted March 04, 2018 at 10:24AM by robkramble https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/81xmui/ive_rarely_listened_to_trance_but_i_have_to_say/?utm_source=ifttt