I don't like the set at all though. If you skip from one song to another... it really simply DOES ALL SOUND THE SAME!!!!
Every melody for a damn hour long, is plucks with 16th notes long. There are zero songs with long stretched notes.
Why is it never longer notes, something with variety.
Like superstring: Taaaa daaaaa daaaaaaaaaaaa ta-da-da, Taaaaaa daaaaaa daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. (Thats superstring).
Variations in note lenght.
Jurgen Vries - The Theme: ta-dá-da-da-da-daaaa ta-da-daaaa, ta-da-daaaa, ta-da-daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
(Right? Variation in note lenght!!!).
Or you know... variation in synth sound... like Bart Claessen - Playmo, what a weird synth sound is that right?! Freshness! Be your own style, like my go-to Svenson, nothing sounds like him. It's "his" signature synth sound. Flight 643, that "bleep". Unique sound. Same goes with Lethal Industry.
Why is it always the same small-16h-pluck sound? If you don't want variation in the notes, at least do it with sound?
/end rant.
1st track is nice. but Ok.. now i join you haters lol
(wasnt meant all of you ofc! I mean some people here just dont like modern trance and let us others know that in a way they shouldnt be doing, like writing terrible to some new comers trance topic which ends to be bp nro2 lol)..
But you have a fair point here, its all saws. Not much other instruments or note lenghts or rhytms used so its get boring when its just 1 hour straight of that, even invidual tracks might be nice.
Bad thing is this is what all "producer tutorials" also teach. People use money for tutorials and years of time to learn how to produce technically nicely sounding track, but they cant write music so thers no soul. So they all end up sounding everyone else, basic chords with basic arp saw melody.
No one can teach you to make a ferry corsten style of melody, you either know or you dont know how to write good melody and nice harmonics and how all that could blend beatifully together. It takes also years to analyze, listen to different style of music and practice writing it, first learn the rules and then break them.
But thats why there no much originality on modern trance scene melodic wise. I always try to bring our dm tracks some originality and all our tracks starts out with a melody - theres no track without a good memorable or somehow unique melody. Most new upcoming producers seems to be hyped about how good their rolling bass and acids on top sounds, like everyone elses rolling bass and top acid fxs.
Also supported by Armin van Buuren recent ASOT in London 
