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Not a great track, but here's my take:
From the top
Basically, highpass the kick, keep percs on 16ths almost, its quite a crowded percussion line with shakers on the 8ths and quite a bit of other miscellaneous percussion. Kick drops in and bassline starts coming up in volume.
Its layered up with a fairly highpassed mid bass using a PWM or similar oscillator and a sub bass way down around 100 hz. Listen around 0.44 for the mid bass, don't confuse it with the pluck, which you hear in isolation later. You get a good listen to the sub bass at the end of the track as its fading out. This is the main melodic driver of the track IMO.
Theres a soft pad going on throughout all of this but its not that important in terms of sound design. Quite a lot of effects and stuff going on, definatley sounds like he was using some virus presets there, or was at least inspired by them.
first breakdown 2:35
basic pad, boring stuff. Flange/phase, reverb, lots of release, lots of unison. Pluck sounds like a physical modelling thing, but you can get the same results out of a subtractive synth - can't remember how, try using a formant saw oscillator. No unison on that. Theres only two synths playing here, pad and pluck. Pluck plays in three parts though.
Overall
The important thing he does is introuce a lot of effects in the high end of the track. I don't like this at all about modern trance, but I think its what gives this track its flow. basically just highpass a rythmic pad sound and run the lowpass filter up slowly. You hear this a lot throughout the track.
Pretty simple IMO.
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