Well, I do twisted dark psytrance with a KS (KS has the same synth engine as the Novas, but only one sound can be playd at the time), and I promiss you it does not sound like POP when you program it like you want it to sound!! If youd like I could send you some demos... Because the factory sounds it comes with is in fact pop sounds!!! Ive made 150 twisted presets on it so far, its realy fast to work with.

A friend of me have the supernova 2, and the great thing with it, is that its multi timbral, so you can make multi splits, or synth drumsets, and run them on the arpeggio, which is super cool by the way, when you start twisting the parameters! I belive you can also have seperate effects on all 16 chanels.

I have a nordlead 1 in the studio. It sucks. We use it as a midi controller!

Shit! You should be imprisoned for that statement! (I mean it :D )

You make psytrance eh? Do you realise how much the Nordlead are used in that genre? The Nordlead 1 and 2 are really the source of alot of those psytrance sounds. The Nordlead is for psy what the JP8000 is for trance (imo).

Agree with AvS there ;)

Guys...ive always wanted to know what psytrance is/was. What bands did psytrance? Was psytrance a very 1998-2001 phenomenon?

DS

see infected musrhoom,sub6
on the other side see eat static,halucigen.

I think psytrance has changed alot over the few years it has existed. There are so many psytrance artists today and to me most them sound 100% identical! Psytrance has evolved to a mostly party orientated style of music, and the productions are often loud and fatigueing (to me atleast).

But i really enjoy some of the older Infected Mushroom. They are really brilliant musicians and excellent sound engineers.

You can hear clips of thier tracks here:

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/yoy/yoy1cd047.html

Also check out Hallucinogen. I personally never really liked his psytrance that much but its very typical oldschool psytrance:

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/twi/twi1cd001.html

More modern psytrance sounds like this:

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/hom/hom1cd037.html

Or just listen to http://www.di.fm

DS:
Psytrance is pretty vast...
GOA used to be quite big around 99-2000.
Then FULL ON take over.
Goa was more melodic and full on was more about really
driving basslines(with loads of notes).
Now it's more about tech trance and more progressive stuff(@ la Son Kite)

So a few suggestions:

Astrix --->?Awesome quality of production, really catchy tunes.
Infected Mushroom --->?They pretty much defined the genre imo.
Son Kite --->?More progressive stuff.
GMS --->?Classic psytrance. Their sound evolved over the years, really dig their stuff.

And so on :)
for more:
www.psyshop.com

Some Astrix samples:
http://217.160.71.18/f/hom/hom1cd037t2.m3u
http://217.160.71.18/f/hom/hom1cd037t5.m3u
http://217.160.71.18/f/hom/hom1cd037t2.m3u

hah AvS looks like we posted at the same time :)
funny heh

ticon are also a nice tech psy group.

Ok..I know you guys are going to kill me, but I ended up buying a Yamaha Motif ES Rack.

I figure It'll be easier for me to pick up a used NL or SNII on ebay...well obviousily since they're no longer manufactured.

I figure I'd go with a bigger ticket price purchase now and spring the lesser costly one on my wife later.

I actually decided on the NL2X Rack, but at the last second I couldn't resist the new ES Rack.

I also bought the techno card SR-JV80-11 expansion card for my XV-3080.

I know it doesn't make much sense because I already have a Triton Studio with vintage, Dance, Trance ROMs and Turbo Phatt with X-Lead, and Techno Construction Yard ROM, Virus B, XV-3080, A-Station, and now the Motif ES Rack.......The next purchase will be a NL2X Rack.

digitalkidd