I'm a musician and my favorite genre of music tends to be trance music. I'm looking at ways to achieve becoming a DJ Tiesto, DJ Johan, etc. What hardware do I need, something to last me forever, and what kind material (where should I get it from) do I need?
2006-12-20 08:35:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Trance production
Trance employs a 4/4 time signature, and has a BPM of 130-160 beats per minute, somewhat faster than house music. Early tracks were sometimes slower. A kick drum is placed on every downbeat and a regular open hi-hat on the off-beat. Some simple extra percussive elements are usually added, but, unusually in dance music, tracks do not usually derive their main rhythm from the percussion.
Trance is produced with keyboards, computerized synthesizers, drum machines, and music sequencer software connected via MIDI. The 909 drum machine is widely used to create the drum sounds. The unwavering drum mechanism may be constantly tweaked with for effect, with the Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release (ADSR) all given liberal treatment.
Synthesizers form the central elements of most trance tracks, with simple saw sounds used both for short pizzicato elements and for long, sweeping string sounds. Rapid arpeggios and minor scales are common features. Trance tracks often use one central "hook" melody which runs through almost the entire song, repeating at intervals anywhere between 2 beats and several bars. Much, but by no means all, trance music contains minimalist vocals.
Trance records are almost invariably heavily loaded with reverb and delay effects on the synth sounds, vocals and often parts of the percussion section. This provides the tracks with the sense of vast space that trance producers tend to look for in order to achieve the genre's epic quality. Flangers, phasers and other effects are also commonly used at extreme settings - in trance there is no need for sounds to seem in any way authentic, so producers have free rein.
Like much dance music, trance tracks are usually built with sparser beginnings and ends to the tracks in order to enable mixing more readily. As trance is more melodic and harmonic than much dance music, this is particularly important in order to avoid dissonance between tracks.
2006-12-20 08:38:39 · answer #1 · answered by Mommy To Be in April 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the main drum machine considered by many to be the standard is the Roland 909. Paired with a synth, you can rock the house. Also, for a novice Fruityloops is fun to play around with. Play one of the trance songs that comes with it and take it apart and put it together as your own.
2006-12-20 08:38:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.audio4fun.com
It took me HOURS when I tried to find a FREE DJ thing.
They are really expensive!
U can get free version of AV Musicmorpher here. - No trial.
Its good enough to begin with.
If you are serious u are talking 250euros plus for good dj software. Good Luck!
2006-12-20 08:40:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well Panic! At the Disco uses alot of piano and strings in the trance song that is on their cd
2006-12-20 08:39:55 · answer #4 · answered by Sally Doll 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A keyboard and a on ton of LSD, Shrooms and Qualudes.
2006-12-20 08:42:39 · answer #5 · answered by J-Far 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I use Igorot gongs
2006-12-20 08:39:47 · answer #6 · answered by Crackerass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.trancemusic/hardware.com
2006-12-20 08:39:29 · answer #7 · answered by StarShine G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋