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Planning to do so.

Few metro stations from my home and 30 minute walk from my office, great

Really good track, i love this kind of psy - melodious and euphoric, lots of great sounds and melodies you have here. A couple of notes: - the pads in the intro/breakdown are kinda static and sound boring, try modulating the sound somehow, maybe add a phaser or modulate something with an LFO. - the overall mix balance is somehow wrong, I'm listening on bad speakers now but I can tell that the high frequencies are way too harsh and noisy (especially that supersaw lead) while the midrange seems to be almost absent, the mix sounds thin. But all in all, really nice track, followed you on SC.

I have that Caustic app installed on my office PC, I've made a two minute goa sketch in it But it is way too limited, making complete tracks with proper stucture and decent quality in it would require much more patience than doing this with a normal DAW and plugins, I truly admire that guy you linked.

Exactly the same here except that I only have two of them. Maybe we need a thread "what is the best software to make psytrance if you only have a half an hour per day when you are tired and wasted" Btw, in this scenario software really helps because of its immediacy, as much as I'm loving my Access Virus i think I'll move to software. But don't lay it away, chances are that when you get retired you'll just have no more passion for music.

Yes, that's pretty much it. I really want to break away from my amateurish mindset and finally make something worth releasing on a decent label but when I try to be serious abot my music all the fun goes away.

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Yeah, I have and that's a kind of problem

The new software synth Rapid by Parawave is really good for psytrance. I comes loaded with all kinds of EDM/trap/pop presets but making trippy psy sounds in it is pretty easy. Ths basic character of the synth really reminds me of Access Virus, fat and edgy. This is a short psytrance demo I've made with this synth, almost no external processing except for reverb/delay and very basic equalization, all sounds are basic psytrance patches which I've made from the init preset. https://soundcloud.com/recursion-loop/parawave-rapid-psytrance-demo If anything, I'm not associated with the developer anyhow, just really like the synth.

Ephedrix. It seems that he still does some DJing but no new music in the last few years.

At first few listens I also thought that it is missing something but it doesn't. Maybe there are less peak moments than in Digicult or Ephedrix albums released in 2008-2009 but it creates very strong futuristic and trancey atmosphere neither overly euphoric nor too dark, just the right spot. Unfortunately everything Aquila released after this album was much weaker.

One of the albums to which I'm returning almost every week. It is not as detailed and deep as their 2012 and 2015 albums, some parts are way too trancey even for me, some parts are too simplistic and the movie samples are brutally overused but the whole thing has got the right vibe. Timeless classic for me. "This place ... is different"

Safi Connection's album is so bad that it is even good. Bad production, horrible singing, stupid melodies altogether create some weird cyberpunk atmosphere. This one is just bad, no excuses.

Googled Redgloam and quite liked what I've heard on Bandcamp, really nice downtempo stuff.

Well, basically the same Tristan/Laughing Buddha/Nano-style full-on, but this time with some more interesting sounds and melodies here and there. Nothing groundbreaking but well executed, groovy and trippy. Tracks 5-8 are forgettable but the rest of the album is pretty decent

I think 140 bpm is kind of "breaking point" above which psytrance starts to sound "running/rushing" and below it it sounds more "groovy/evolving". Also I believe progressive psytrance (Sideform, Relativ, E-Clip) and progressive trance (Vibrasphere, Atmos, Perfect Stranger) are two different subgenres, the latter is typically slower.

I think it's prog (everything around 140 bpm and below is called prog today) I listened to random parts of some of the tracks at SC but what I've heard sounds boring as fuck

Thanks for the link! But I have the exactly opposite problem - for me it's relatively easy to write a full track haivng an intro, build up, climax and stuff but polishing the sounds and the mix, making a proper bass, compressing and equalizing things is a disaster. I have more or less passable understanding of the techncial side of things but when working on a tune I quickly lose the judgement on what sounds good and what sounds bad. Saving song templates and short synth loops somehow helps

Listening from the youtube right now. Strange impression, seems that the chord changes are borrowed from Russian pop and even some Soviet movie music. I guess even if I didn't know where that guy is from I'd spot these very familiar harmonies. So, that's goa made by Russians for Russians Overall I like it much more than average new school goa, even despite some synths sound cheap and the mixing is not quite right at times, the whole thing is very dreamy, atmospheric and emotional.

Good for them, while amateurs like me are beating dead horses all over the internet with that "analogue vs plugins" debate, the masters use whatever they have in their possession to make killer stuff

100% analog stuff, not software, you say? I spotted Sylenth, Nexus and Tal Bassline 101 plugins in that vid, lol. Not that there's something wrong with that, ofc

Yeah, Delerium is awesome, except for their latest output when they basically turned into a generic pop project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh_so2itacI And a pop song by them (but a great one)

The sounds that come with Arturia are the presets from their plugin synths packed into a separate plugin, you will have some possibilities to tweak and modify these sounds but not much. And people who have actual experience with the analogue synths Arturia claims to emulate say that sthey don't sound really similar, there are softsynths which do this much better, like U-he Diva. This soundpack may be useful for beginners but I wouldn't consider it a deciding factor. I never had any analogue synths myself, but I have a Diva license and when I was comparing Arturias to it, I preferred Diva's sound in each case. Good to know that you have an opportunity to talk with more knowlegeable people, when i was posting I was more or less sure about what I'm talking about, but in fact my understanding of MIDI is pretty poor, these days you don't really feel the need to understand how it works because you just plug it in and it works in 99% cases

I think Vicious Delicious is very fun actually, ofc it is not trippy or spiritual or whatever but catchy, melodic, extremely well produced and has certain futuristic vibe I find very appealing. It contains some really horrible singing, but it is done in a kind of "so bad that it is even good" manner so I actually like the vocal tracks too except for one, don't remember how it is called, which is some sort of pop ballad (and I even like that hip-hop track!). After VD they went downhill but not because of "commercialization" but because they run out of interesting ideas and good melodies. I don't listen to IM too often now, but I still rate them above many "serious" psy acts