This week Sonic Academy proudly welcomes back Swedish born 138 Trance legend Bjorn Akesson for a brand new course in How To Make Tech Trance.
We’re also excited as for the first time here at Sonic Academy this awesome monster of a track is created in Presonus Studio One.
Bjorn builds this entirely new tune from the ground up starting with a blank slate firstly creating the drums before moving on to the layered sub and mid bass. We then arrange the basic layout to give the foundation of the track before adding effects, creating the drop and main theme, adding atmosphere, along with a dope acid line and stabs. Throughout this course we check out Bjorn’s easy-to-follow, methodical approach to workflow and organisation along with his clever use of automation lines to create tension and move through the transitions of the breakdown and drop.
The end result is a 138 Tech Trance track worthy of any club that’s guaranteed to get your heart racing!
And don’t worry if you don’t use Studio One, this course and the resources included are designed to be followed and used in any DAW so what are you waiting for?
Go check it out and learn from a true Trance master!
Workflow tip: I see Bjorn right-clicking and selecting tools quite a bit. Keyboard (number) shortcuts work great: 1 for Select Tool, 2 for Range Tool, 3 for Split Tool, 4 for Erase, 5 for Paint, etc (you can see the shortcut if you hover your mouse over the tool in the toolbar). Much Faster! Works in Edit Window the same way too!
Hmm… Actually you’re right, I better understand what you mean when trying to open up the full S1 Project in S1- 4, the original file that belongs to the Sonic Academy UFX2 Library/ UFX 2 - Fills named UFX 2 - Fills-06.aif was not saved in the samples folder with the project and should be added.
To avoid the hassle & since I own the S.A UFX 2 Library here is the original file, just download/unzip and move it to the samples folder you previously downloaded.
Thank you SO much for an amazing course. I use Studio One 4 for mixing and mastering and recording. I use Ableton for music production and this course has shown me what is possible!
Thank you very much for the tutorial. Trance is not a genre I normally partake in, but I did enjoy and learned so much about using Studio One. I didn’t have the Synths used, which I think was good for me because it forced me to learn about Mai Tai (Studio One) synth to try and duplicate the sounds. I now wan’t to look at the other 138 Trance tutorial you did (I think using Cubase)
