Your Guide To The Best Trance Sound Packs
Struggling to find the right trance sound pack for your needs? It's even harder on a limited budget, when you don't want to waste time trawling through store pages or drop money on something that turns out too laid back or too euphoric for your style. Whilst presets and samples can be adapted to work with many styles, it's important to get the right sound pack for your needs.
Each synth has a character sound that lends itself really well to certain styles, and we always try to work with the synth to bring the best of that out. So we've broken down our best trance sound packs into easily digestible information to help you find the best trance sounds for you.
Serum Future Trance Volume 1 and 2
A cutting-edge sound bank, focusing on sounds that wouldn't be considered 'classic' trance sounds of yesteryear. Instead these trance presets focus on next-gen sounds that haven't yet seeped into the trance mainstream. Ideal if you're working on blended trance genres or really want the latest sound.
Get the sound: Serum - Future Trance Vol.1 and Vol.2 are 64 presets each, and both work in Serum 1 and Serum 2.
Spire Progressive Moments
A collection of Spire trance presets that focus on more progressive trance and progressive house type sounds. Spire's synth architecture lends itself well to snappy, progressive-style sounds.
Ideal for: progressive house producers, progressive trance producers.
Get the sound: Spire - Progressive Moments Vol.1 packs 17 bass, 21 leads, 12 pads and 16 plucks, from deep to euphoric.
Spire Trance Zero
A pack of trance presets for Spire which focuses on mainstream trance. Think Armin van Buuren, Dash Berlin, typical modern Dutch trance. These trance sounds focus on big room-filling leads, searing synths, euphoric pads and driving basslines. Sounds are modern in style.
Get the sound: Spire - Trance Zero Vol.1 is 64 Spire presets, with nods to Above and Beyond, Grum, Kolonie and Armin van Buuren.
Sylenth1 Trance Essentials
These Sylenth trance presets aim to offer a really solid set of excellent quality bread and butter sounds. Presets range from unique trance sounds you won't find in other packs to some really classic trance sounds you'll know and love. Ideal if you're looking for a high quality, general purpose trance preset pack that covers a lot of bases well.
Get the sound: Sylenth1 - Trance Essentials Vol.1 gives you 18 leads, 16 bass, 16 pads and 14 plucks for Sylenth1.
Thorn Trance Euphoria
A clear emphasis in this trance sound pack on euphoric trance sounds. Lots of high quality modern sounds with that euphoric focus. Solid bass, really epic pads and some very cutting-edge sounds you just can't get from other synth sound sets.
Get the sound: Thorn - Trance Euphoria Vol.1 is 64 presets for DS Audio Thorn: punchy leads, unorthodox harmonics, crispy bass and silky pads.
Strobe2 Foundations
A solid set of trance presets which aims to cover the classic styles of trance and progressive house. Familiar favourites with enough unique sounds to help you build your sound.
Ideal for bread and butter trance sounds, and trance sounds with substance and weight.
Get the sound: Strobe2 - Foundations Vol.1 is 64 Strobe2 presets, heavy on leads (34 of them), making full use of the Transmod system.
Diva Current Trends
Inspiration taken from all the current trends of the trance scene. Some very unique, weighty sounds with true depth and clarity that take centre stage in your productions. Excellent sound quality, and with so many harmonics these sounds are ideal for melodic and progressive styles.
Get the sound: Diva - Current Trends Vol.1 is 16 each of leads, bass, pads and plucks. Don't have Diva yet? The Diva bundle throws in two SOUND7 Diva packs free.
Hopefully you're now much better informed to find the best trance presets for your productions, and can spend less time reading and more time producing trance.
More sounds from our sound shop
Presets sorted? These fill in the rest of the track. Every SOUND7 pack and template is royalty free and an instant download. The Spire bundle at the end is a little different: the two SOUND7 packs arrive instantly, and the Spire licence activation code is sent by email after your order.
Classic Trance Vol.1: over 500 classic trance samples, progressive house to 2000s style
Above Trance Vol. 1: progressive, deep and uplifting trance samples and construction kits
Logic Pro X - Uplifting Trance Starter Template: uplifting trance starter project for Logic Pro X
Logic Pro X - Driving Trance Starter Template: driving, harder and psy-trance starter project for Logic Pro X
Reveal Sound - Spire + SOUND7 Sound Packs Bundle: Spire plus two SOUND7 Spire packs free (packs are instant, the Spire licence code is emailed)