How To Make a Trance Track: Production, Mix and Sound Selection
How to make a trance track: our trance production tutorial
In this music production video tutorial we explore our progressive trance sample pack Above Trance, from an overview of how the sounds are structured to picking out key sounds and using them to build a track foundation from scratch.
The tutorial covers everything from the theory of keeping interest in a trance or techno track, to balancing individual tracks, EQing so sounds sit together better, and tips on keeping the inspiration flowing.
Above Trance Vol. 1 - Progressive & Uplifting Trance Sample Pack: the pack used in this tutorial, 830MB of progressive, deep and uplifting trance with MIDI
About the Above Trance sample pack
830MB of trance content inspired by the Anjunadeep label and artists such as Ben Böhmer, Marsh, James Grant and Tinlicker. This sample pack is ripe for all types of progressive, deep and uplifting trance.
It features uplifting, emotional and evocative chord and synth lines, deep basslines that could be a track all of their own, weighty drum and percussion kits and thought-provoking pad lines.
Additional content includes trance construction kits, bass hits, chord hits, pad loops and FX.
Matching MIDI parts are included for each synth, chord and melodic line.
All drum loops come with separate layers of claps, percussion, snares and hats as well as the final mixed drum loop, so you can mix and match the samples you want and build your own kits.
SOUND7 · Above Trance - Vol. 1
What's included in this sample pack:
- 92 MIDI files
- 60 drum loops
- 40 drum hits, including:
- 10x claps
- 10x snare hits
- 10x kicks
- 10x perc hits
- 10 bass samples
- 25 bass loops
- 10 chord samples
- 25 chord loops
- 5 music kits
- 10 pad loops
- 25 synth loops
- 10 FX samples
BPM: 120 BPM
Format: 44.1kHz, 24-bit WAV, royalty free, instant download
If you're after trance samples that sound finished right at the composition stage, this pack is brimming with them, and the audio demo only scratches the surface.
More trance sounds
Classic Trance Vol.1 - Trance Sample Pack: over 500 samples covering progressive house to 2000s-style trance
Logic Pro X - Uplifting Trance Starter Template: a ready-built Logic Pro X project to get your trance idea past the 2 bar loop