TRANCEHAK

Hello I was lucky enough to take delivery of a brand new high spec music optimsed powerful PC and cubase 5, together with high performance steinberg interface. I'm using the Fantom as my master keyboard, however when rec...

Parsifal I find normalising doesn't help. Sampling adds a lot of top end frequency and transients but kills the life out of kicks, so freeing up FX by resampling doesn't help me.. I have heard the expansions but they sti...

I use my own 8 voice big pads, but you run into polyphony problems (even with just 2 voice) a lot if there is much of a release tail especially on big rising cressendos where there are automation movements on several sli...

To be clear, I make music that needs to pump and shake with max volume in the chorus but is quieter and building in the drops which is not everyones cuppa tea. But when you take a pice of kit to the absolute limit is whe...

Artemey, I belong to another forum (anjunabeats) populated mainly by an intrepid band of individuals that are at the forefront of the euphoric trance scene. Many of these get signed to labels. These are guys that really...

Im upgrading from just Fantom to CUBASE 5 and found Steinberg (makers of Cubase) make thier own interface for about £800 which has great preamps for recording mics etc

Human progress is wrought by those that are dissatisfied, never by those that are happy to remain static. Good companies deliver on promises. Roland sales leterature advised the Fantom is capable of near professional res...

Buminbeer - I get u. These other guys are making it much more complex than it need be - forget all that pattern stuff - Ive never used it. Ok so you want to work like a drum machine; First make sure you are in song / per...

Tips for great pads which is vital for me as trance producer; 1) Set the pitch on each oscillator slightly apart - say +5 on one and -5 on the other 2) SIDECHAIN COMPRESSION - if you want the music to pump between kicks,...

SIDECHAIN COMPRESSION TRICK For anyone wanting to make dance, side chain compression has become an invaluable feature of any track to get that pump between kicks. I found the best way to get this is using the 'duck' fx....