Free Trance Software Synthesizer For Windows

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TranceDrive is a new free software synthesizer for Windows that’s designed specifically for making trance music.

TranceDrives offers supersaw oscillators, “harsh” filters, a trance gate and massive reverb.

If you’ve used TranceDrive, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Features:

  • 3 main oscillators
    • each main oscillator supports 6  waveforms: sine, saw, triangle, pulse, saw7, cry
      • the waveform “saw7? is a supersaw with 7 detunable sub oscillators
      • the waveform “cry” is an experimental waveform, it is built up with several hardsynced saws
    • main oscillator 2 has an additional unisono mode, when it is enabled, the whole oscillator triples its voice and the voices can be detuned from each other
    • the oscillators can be chained (osc1 to osc2 and osc2 to osc3) using FM, PM and sync, these 3 options can also be used at the same time
  • seperate noise oscillator
  • 3 LFOs, each supports 5 waveforms: sine, saw, triangle, pulse, sample and hold
    • the LFOs can be synchronized to the host tempo or run free at a specific frequency
    • each LFO can control multiple parameters of each OSC, you can even assign several LFOs to the same parameter
    • LFO1 can control the filter cutoff
  • 2 Envelope generators (Mod & Amp) with variable shapes
    • the modulation envelope can control multiple parameters of each OSC, and it can also be mixed with the LFOs. Additionally it can control the filter cutoff
  • 3 types of filters: lowpass, highpass and bandpass
    • each filter type can be set to 6dB, 12dB, 18dB and 24dB steepness
  • 9 effects, and they can be used at the same time: gater, chorus, phaser, flanger, distortion, delay, reverb, equalizer, stereo-effects
  • each of the unused parts of the synth is shown with less contrast, so you can focus on the active parts
  • the output of the synth can be clipped to avoid overdriving noise. The clipping is done with a soft limiter, that can be used to compress the whole synth sound (just enable clip and turn up the main volume)

11 thoughts on “Free Trance Software Synthesizer For Windows

  1. I just tried it, and BOY is this thing a processor piggy. Using the .exe version on an old 3.2 GHz P4, I got choppy playback just playing two notes at the same time with the "BS Basic" voice. I will have to try it on my newer computer some time.

  2. Got it. Not bad, but it needs an arp and a second filter. I love the distortion though. It would be nice to be able to rearrange the effects chain as well, but that's probably asking too much.

    I like the gui design as well.

  3. Got it. Not bad, but it needs an arp and a second filter. I love the distortion though. It would be nice to be able to rearrange the effects chain as well, but that's probably asking too much.

    I like the gui design as well.

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