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Yeah, you're probably going to get slammed pretty good for that question here, but here's my advice:
(1) Make sure you have a good drum/percussion library
(2) Get one decent synth and learn how to program it
(3) Get a good book or two on mixing and spend a lot of time with it (and with your EQs, compressor, limiter, reverbs, delays, etc.)
(4) listen to a LOT of trance and EDM in general and listen to the melodies, countermelodies, chord progressions, fills/transitions, etc. That's not to say that you should copy them, but that you should figure out what works, what doesn't work, and why.
That's about the cheapest way. Remember, learning to produce trance isn't about spending money on software and gear, it's about learning how to make and combine sounds, arrange a track, mix a track, write a decent melody/hook and make it work with a chord progression, etc. In other words, it's more about knowledge and experience than it is about gear. That said, Kinetic is fine, but you may want to consider upgrading to Project5, which comes with a bunch of excellent synths, audio processors, and effects plugins, but is still dirt cheap.
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