Ok so I stopped producing trance about 18 months ago and have since moved to logic pro and concentrated on making techno. Just for a change I tried making a trance track and it ended up a techno track. I feel I now can't make trance. Does anybody ever or have experienced this when not making a genre for so long?

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Switch to house, then try to make a techno track and it might end up trance?

J/K - I hear ya. It seems like I could never could make real trance because my influences are all over the map. I tend to not try to make a specific genre - I just make a song that usually starts out sounding like something I'm into at the time and, eventually, it ends up being whatever it is. I think that's the reason so many people correct me when I say that my song is a particular genre - in my mind, it started out as one genre, but eventually evolved into something else (due to my own influences/style) without me even realizing it.

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its just funny because i used to be able to crack out a trance track in a day now i struggle to get one going. techno tracks on the other hand just flow for me. then again it could be due to the fact i produced trance on cubase sx 3 and techno on logic.

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Trance requires more composition work than a techno track, maybe that is why ?

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I usually make melodic/trancey breaks, but I occasionally make a trance or prog track and I must admit, I feel a lot more effort goes into it when I do, mainly because they're genres that I rarely produce nowadays. I wouldn't say that was a bad thing though.

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ive never understand how to make techno. when i try to do it ends up as techtrance or proghouse or something. techno is indeed the most difficult genre of all imo. respect to Pjotr G, he is the only one on here who masters it.

Maybe try working on a different element first...

Where in techno you might work on the drums first...

With trance try the chord progression/Melody... im pretty sure it wont end up techno this way

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Originally posted by palm techno is indeed the most difficult genre of all imo.

Definitely!

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Originally posted by Subtle Trance requires more composition work than a techno track, maybe that is why ?

Thats exactly what I was thinking.

Techno tends to sound somewhat sterile and dry too imo, even good tracks. Trance is usually layer after layer of 5 musical events happening at once (I'm exagerating for the point) but thats what I was thinking.
I've never attempted techno, only electro and house, but I am basically always doing trance, and it always seems the hardest imo. Plus a lot of electro/house I hear I just don't enjoy one bit. I hear its "in" right now but have no idea how that really happened..

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just re-train your ears and pratice making trance riffs and basslines,find some top trance tunes for a point off reffrance and see how you go

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trance is the easiest of all. its just a simple drumloop with a baseline, an arp and a breakdown.

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox Thats exactly what I was thinking. Techno tends to sound somewhat sterile and dry too imo, even good tracks. Trance is usually layer after layer of 5 musical events happening at once (I'm exagerating for the point) but thats what I was thinking. I've never attempted techno, only electro and house, but I am basically always doing trance, and it always seems the hardest imo. Plus a lot of electro/house I hear I just don't enjoy one bit. I hear its "in" right now but have no idea how that really happened..

How exactly can it seem the hardest when you haven't even tried the rest?

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