Miksa Music has released Progressive Trance / House, a soundset featuring 128 patches for the Lead 3/Rack 3 synthesizers by Nord.
I proudly anounce my brand new soundset for Clavia’s Nord Lead 3 and Nord Rack 3 synthesizers.
This is a perfect choice for every trance, house or progressive producers. It contains a whole bank of categorized presets, including basses, leads, synth sounds, pads and a few FX sounds.
All the programs have the modulatin wheel assigned to morph the sounds instantly.
The soundset costs $29.90 USD.
More information: Miksa Music
Resonance Sound has introduced Colours Vol.2, a Sylenth1 soundset by Aiyn Zahev Sounds.
Among the 128 sounds you will find huge basses for Trance & Electro tracks, fast and punchy trance bass sounds, huge full pads & anthem leads typical in Trance and Main-room, deep & clean plucks for Trance & Progressive house, fascinating arpeggios & a variety of atmospheric sounds and FX perfect for intros.
Combined with 6 MIDI construction kits, which you can hear in the audio demo, royalty free for your next production.
Colours Vol.2 features
- 128 Sylenth1 Presets (.fxb bank).
- Velocity and Modwheel allocations.
- 6 Basic Royalty Free MIDI Construction Kits, as heard in the audio demo.
- 87 MIDI files in all.
- Requirements: Lennar Digital Sylenth1 V2.2 or higher.
The soundset is available from Resonance Sound for 28.95 EUR inc. VAT.
More information: Resonance Sound / Colours Vol.2
Mastrcode Music has introduced the T-Force Alpha Plus, a freeware synthesizer instrument geared towards trance music.
Alpha Plus is the advanced version of the T-Force Alpha TS. It has all features of the Alpha TS with some more and some updated functions: new sythesis (Subtractive and additionally FM Synthesis), revised oscillators with some more functions and now with a separate noise oscillator, new Mod Envelopes and now with a new integrated Sidechain FX (e.g. for the typicyal sidechained pad sounds and/or pumping basses etc.).
The T-Force Alpha Plus advanced trance synthesizer plugin.T-Force Alpha Plus features
- Synthesis: Subtractive/FM.
- 3 Multiwave Oscillators with voice control (adjustable from 1 to 8 voices per osc), adjustable stereo width and panning, with Sine, Saw, Ramp (reversed Saw), Triangle, Pulse (square with PWM) waveforms and retrigger option for each oscillator.
- 1 Noise Oscillator with adjustable stereo width and volume.
- 1 Resonance Four Pole State Variable Filter, switchable between Low Pass, High Pass, Bandpass and switchable 12/24 dB slope, Resonance can be driven up to self oscillation.
- 1 ADSR Filter Envelope, 1 ADSR Amp Envelope, 2 ADSR Mod Envelopes.
- 2 host syncable LFOs.
- Adjustable Drive function for Saturation/Distortion.
- two band Low Freq/High Freq Equalizer.
- Bitcrusher.
- Portamento.
- 32 step Envelope Controlled Trance Gate.
- Velocity control (on/off).
- Dual Delay, switchable between Stereo mode and Ping-pong mode (right and left channels have their own tempo settings).
- Stereo Reverb.
- Integrated Sidechain FX, optional with internal bpm synced triggering or external triggering via MIDI In (triggered by MIDI Note On, on MIDI channel 2).
The Alpha Plus is available to download as a freeware VST plug-in for Windows.
More information: Mastrcode Music / T-Force Alpha Plus
Zenhiser has announced Trance Synths 2, a collection of over 450 trance synthesizer samples.
Trance Synths 2 is absolutely crammed packed full of trance hooks for classic trance, melodic trance, progressive trance, tech trance and anything in between. There’s 99 trance hooks in the pack, all stripped down so you can use as mush or as little of each hook as you wish, that’s a total of 457 trance loops.
Each of the samples is supplied with the bpm and key information in the filename for ease of use and on top of that we’ve supplied the midi for each loop so you can amend, change the sound, flip notes, do exactly what you want to each loop to make it your own. Trance Synths 2 is a one stop shop for all your trance needs, we’re supplying you some of the finest trance synth lines ever made, giving you the option to amend them with midi, plus with the knowledge that it’s a Zenhiser sample pack you know your buying the best.
The sample pack costs $35 AUD.
More information: Zenhiser / Trance Synths 2
Equinox Sounds has released Uplifting Trance MIDI Arpeggios, a collection of MIDI loops for uplifting trance music production.
‘Uplifting Trance MIDI Arpeggios’ from Equinox Sounds features 30 professionally programmed uplifting Trance Arpeggios in MIDI format so you can fit them into your Trance music productions, or transpose them into any key.
All phrases are 100 royalty-free and ready to be assigned to your favourite synth or sampler in your personal and commercial productions.
The MIDI pack is available to purchase for $19.95 USD.
More information: Equinox Sounds / Uplifting Trance MIDI Arpeggios
SPC Plugins has announced version 1.1 of Gater-Pro, an advanced stereo trance gate effect for Windows and Mac.
Stereo Trance Gate with switchable rate, variable shapes, swing, “through” mode, mix, 64–bit processing and MIDI–learn
Gater-Pro trance gate plug-in for PC and Mac.Changes in Gater–Pro v1.1
- Reduced stuttering when gate time changed rapidly.
- New demo mode with unlimited time and random white noise bursts.
- GUI display inconsistencies fixed.
- Generic (host) user interface inconsistencies fixed.
- Empty programs are now numbered 1–32.
- Internal code improvements.
The Gater-Pro plug-in is available for Windows and Mac (VST) is available to purchase for $39 USD.
More information: SPC Plugins / Gater–Pro
