Trance ID | Remix Magazine

Produced by a team that's worked with such deverse acts as Christina Aguilera, Eminem, Boy Georged and Alex M.O.R.P.H. to name but a few, Trance ID features more than 1,000 loops and 260 related single sounds that draw stylistically from such progressive trance gods as Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren. Highly sophisticated and polished for commercial club and radio styles, the library features a huge variety of complimentary synth seqences, lead phrases and effects that can be cross-matched and mutated in exciting ways.

Uebershcall's Elastik loop player has become the centerpiece to all its groove- and phrase-based libraries recently. With 3 GB of material across 40 construction kits, a library as deep and malleable as Trance ID greatly benefits from the beautifully simple yet powerful software interface. For starters, the innovative "loop eye" allows you to quickkly whip up musical variations by adjusting the beginning and end of a loop's circular sweep around the radar screen, even reversing of loops or beat-sliced sections on a track-by-track basis. instant, high-quality time-stretching (10 to 240 bpm) and pitch-shifting allow you to stack and match loops from different kits, while the powerful envelope, filter and kill functions are especially useful for trance. The beats are fierce and bass lines are tight, as are the main and alternative lead phrases. The fresh and inspiring content stands out from other libraries I've auditioned lately.

Some of the coolest stuff resides in the Intros/Outros folders, which are based on layered builds and breakdowns of the visually inspired pads and cinematic-like effects sounds contained in each kit. From euphoric and high energy to chilled and floaty, Trance ID is exquisitely produced and a beautiful adventure through modern sound design.