This topic is adressed to the maddest trance / house maker freaks. What are your favourite intruments ??? Put some links to your demo songs too, please!
Leads, Basses, Strings, Pads everything!
If you know some must have links for presets, please share it with others.

None of the above...

I use albino quite a bit for this.

a little house diddy with albino
http://www.robpapen.com/ramp3/mh___albino.mp3

Albino seems to be nice for leads, it's on my Christmas list!

V-Station is not bad either if you listen to what these guys can do! : http://www.vengeance-music.de/Virus2/eng/indexesHTML/indexHOME.html

Peter.

What made you put Oddity and V-Station into one line for voting?

Scorpion V4

5 of them in this:

http://kriminal.phreque.com/Goddess.mp3

4 in this:

http://kriminal.phreque.com/rotterdam.mp3

Superwave should definately be in there.

Tranceinstitute, what made you put Oddity and V-Station into one line for voting?

Superwave is awasome for trance

Zeta by far is the best vst for trance leads. Nothing comes close to the incredible sounds it can produce , and the filters are just insane. here is a demo tune not yet finished using zeta for the lead.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/nodrugsrequiredmusic.htm

dr.wackler wrote:

Tranceinstitute, what made you put Oddity and V-Station into one line for voting?

Tuff question! It has nothing to do with quality of the synths. Just to spare a few lines.

For a freebie, buzzroom's Lallapallooza should also be considered, especially as v2.0 has an arpeggiator

tranceinstitute wrote:

dr.wackler wrote: Tranceinstitute, what made you put Oddity and V-Station into one line for voting? Tuff question! It has nothing to do with quality of the synths. Just to spare a few lines.

yeah, but v-station and oddity are two REALLY different beasts.
v-station ist great for trance, maybe the best all the synths listet above, but oddity is not a trance synth, not at all.

You name it! That's exactly why I was asking...

I also have to give superwave (lead) credit here. its outstandingly fat but nonetheless powerfull and not washed out at all. albino (lead/pad) and synth1(fx) would follow next along with v-station(lead/pad/bass) and good old p53(lead/bass). in brackets: what for I made use of them so far in my tracks.

Ps: for those really mean hc-type of sounds I often go back to malström from reason 2.0. does anybody know which vsti can easiest produce similar sounds? Its a shame because malström is exactly what I am missing in my vst rack

Hi,

I see we have a lot of dance music producers here!

We have been creating sounds for daAlfa2k for some time now and think that at it's price range it is one of the best VSTi's for dance music (basses, leads etc.). It does cover other genres as well but for dance music you wouldn't go wrong at this price range.

If you did want to buy daAlfa2k then you can buy it together with our entire range of soundsets for $10 off the usual selling price. You will get the daAlfa2k VSTi plus 640 sounds (5 x 128 presets) from www.Pro-Sounds.net for only $69.95 giving you a total of over 850 presets, most of which are suitable for dance music.

Thanks,
Pro-Sounds

ES2 please

Since I rarely use commercial vst, I have to synth 1 for sure at the top of the list. The superwave8 is high on the list for some of it's presets. Galactix get's a mention also for some straight outta the box trance sounds.

Mighty, what patch did you use for your Albino track? I love those types of bass / basslines...

thanks

sluggo, when I get home I will look at it.

*about 30 minutes or so okay?*

that's more than okay buddy. Hell, I won't be home for another hour. Who am I kidding, I probably won't get a chance to play until Sunday.

It was a preset in trilogy afterall.
you could make this with detuning flanger and a sub osc though

I , twanth donkeh, wecomend thynth 1 and thedthweeteeay for all your cheesy cack needs.

Synth1

http://home.att.net/~vitamind/files/VitaminD-Synth1_demo.mp3

A little something I whipped up this evening to display Synth1.. actually I was making a demo of my Synth1 preset bank, then saw this thread and decided to steer more the trance way.

Everything you hear is Synth1.. no extra fx or processing was done (outside of converting the file to mp3 )

Its pretty versatile for its size (and price) I must say

No-ones mentioned Triangle 2 yet!!!

Superwave and Synth1 and def the best synthedit synths I've heard yet, perfect for trance(when i feel like making it )

Personally i prefer the harder style of things so I go for a cool distortion plug called Tridirt quite a lot to mash up kickdrums and tau.

Also a decent tempo delay called scuzzphut is useful.

bloody slow dialup bollox

dmonik wrote:

No-ones mentioned Triangle 2 yet!!! Superwave and Synth1 and def the best synthedit synths I've heard yet, perfect for trance(when i feel like making it )

Triangle II is a good one.. but not really that versatile with it being monophonic.. (how are you going to create those giant pads.. link up about 5 of them?? )

oh and.. SYNTH1 WAS NOT CREATED WITH SYNTHEDIT.

Still quite a few people who dont believe this.. If you're pulling 'Synthedit' off the Synth1 page, thats because its stating that the developer fixed some issues with using synth1 INSIDE synthedit.

luCiPHer wrote:

tranceinstitute wrote: dr.wackler wrote: Tranceinstitute, what made you put Oddity and V-Station into one line for voting? Tuff question! It has nothing to do with quality of the synths. Just to spare a few lines. yeah, but v-station and oddity are two REALLY different beasts. v-station ist great for trance, maybe the best all the synths listet above, but oddity is not a trance synth, not at all.

Maby I should send you some presets than.

VitaminD wrote:

dmonik wrote: No-ones mentioned Triangle 2 yet!!! Superwave and Synth1 and def the best synthedit synths I've heard yet, perfect for trance(when i feel like making it ) Triangle II is a good one.. but not really that versatile with it being monophonic.. (how are you going to create those giant pads.. link up about 5 of them?? ) oh and.. SYNTH1 WAS NOT CREATED WITH SYNTHEDIT. Still quite a few people who dont believe this.. If you're pulling 'Synthedit' off the Synth1 page, thats because its stating that the developer fixed some issues with using synth1 INSIDE synthedit.

erm....it's a bassline synth

Anyway, I have to defend it seeing as though I was quoted once in FM magazine for saying it was the best thing since sliced bread

PatchArena wrote:

erm....it's a bassline synth Anyway, I have to defend it seeing as though I was quoted once in FM magazine for saying it was the best thing since sliced bread

erm.... no duh

you (re)made my point. He was looking for versatile synths.. I like triangleII as well.. but its not really all that versatile unless you need something thats monophonic.. P1 would be a better suggestion imo.