Trance Takeover is now in full swing, and this week, we’re bringing you the second epic masterclass in ‘How To Make Trance’ and this time, we welcome back the man that is Protoculture!
Nate has been assigned the task of creating a progressive Anjuna/Trance 2.0 style track, and he does not disappoint! Built from scratch from start to finish in Bitwig Studio, this mammoth course is packed full of pro tips and tricks when it comes to Trance production.
Starting with atmospheres and a running theme, we set the tone for the track before diving into kicks, percussion, arrangement, automation, leads, builds, FX and more before we carry out an extensive mixdown and master.
The end result is an epic track showcasing all the tricks you need to create a massive club ready track.
Don’t forget all of the resources are available for you to utilise in our Trance Takeover remix comp, so once you’ve honed your skills, head over to the remix page to download all our Trance Takeover tutor’s projects and files so you can get to work on your own masterpiece and be in with a chance of winning some incredible prizes!
Brilliant guys, currently use Ableton but I’ve seen a lot of good things about Bitwig. Looking forward to getting stuck in to this course over the next few days, thanks SA & Protoculture great work!!
Hi. Great course so far. Really enjoying it and you convinced me of giving Bitwig a chance. It looks like it’s more performant than Ableton and the workflow is much more efficient. May I ask which PC you are using @ Protoculture? It looks like you have almost no CPU load. Thanks.
Same PC pretty much yes. This is the one we built for the course here at Sonic Academy. Only real chnages have been the addition of more SSD Drives. I’ve got Sabrents in my machine instead of Samsungs. The 5900x is a beast… its a few years old now and stil lhandles anything I throw at it.
You don’t need to have the same DAW or 3rd party plugins to follow the course along and learn how the track was created. IMO, it’s always informative to see what other producers are using, but you can use your own software and plugins to produce your own track
I know that using .clap plugins would prevent project transferability; however, demoing third-party plugins for poly modulation, like Diva and Hive2, in Bitwig would be beneficial
A thought with the loop trick you do with the bass MIDI, is that you can pre-make a long MIDI, say 8-16 bars, of various bass patterns put end to end, so that you can quickly select/audition them by moving the loop points (rather than having, say, 16 different bass patterns as separate clips, which can take up a lot of space in the clip launcher). Obviously you can’t trigger them with a Push2 or whatever the way you would with separate clips.
Liking the tutorial so far. I don’t have all the same plugins (I couldn’t reproduce the vocal ambience stuff with what I’ve got), and I’m using Ableton instead. So it’s interesting to see which bits of your method are Bitwig specific.
@fabriceoze Yeahh, Bitwig is defo a great DAW and Protoculture project layout, organisation and workflow deserves 5 stars IMO. Great as a template and excellent example of structured workflow from Nate here, kudos
Great course, I actually done the remix using Bitwig for first time coming from Cubase, Enjoyed working in a new Daw, like others didn’t get the time to add stuff that I wanted and what the track needed but on the plus stage I will def be using Bitwig again on next new project.
