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A few newbie questions
This is my first post on these forums so hello everyone.
For many years now I've been a big fan of trance music, which nowadays is my favorite music genre. I think of myself as a fairly musical person, having played guitar and some piano some years ago. Usually when I hear a great film score or music of other genres that I like, I start to think about how the songs could be modified into a trance format, and at least in my head some of the ideas don't sound half bad (even if I say so myself).  Anyway, the bottom line is that I would like to try making some trance music of my own, and I'm hoping to get some advice. I'd like to point out that I've browsed through the sticky threads and used the search function, but there's just so much information out there that I haven't been able to find the answer to a few basic questions I have. I'm sorry if these questions have been asked before.
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I read some of the information found on the websites in the sticky threads, and while I did find information on this subject I found it to be a bit confusing and I was hoping to get some clarification. I'd like to know what the absolute minimum equipment for creating professional quality trance music is. I read some of the articles on tweakheadz.com and it seems to me that I'll have to spend tons to even get started. If it matters, here's some trance music I really like, so the hypothetical question is, what kind of equipment would be required to create music of this quality:
Cyrus And The Joker - Milky Way
Robert Miles - Fable
York - The Awakening (Class 1 Cut)
Matias Lehtola - Burning Bright
I know this is a pretty silly question, I relize that creating music of this quality takes years or even decades of experience to create, I'm just interested to know how much money a hobby like this will end up costing me in the short and long term.
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Another problem I'm having is discerning the difference between different subgenres of trance. I've read some articles describing them, but the different genres seem to have many qualities in common with eachother so once again I'm very confused.  I thought the trance I mostly listen to is psytrance, but then I listened to some psytrance albums a few day ago and relized I was way off. Could someone maybe point me to a website with audio examples or for that matter tell me what trance genre the tracks I mentioned above belong to?
I had more questions but I forgot them so that's it for now. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
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