Honestly, this stuff is okay but it isn't worth the money you will have to pay for it. I know that Roland try to market their new Juno synth line as well as some of their grooveboxes as being great for beginners and all but there's better stuff out there. Not a shot at Roland or anything.

I think if trance is what you are planning on writing then you will have to involve using a computer rather then relying on just hardware synths. I don't know what the specs of your computer are so I'm not going to suggest anything for you to run out and buy. Not yet anyway. But I can see you getting much much much better results using something like Ableton Live (as your main audio/ sequencer application), something like the Native Instruments Battery 3 for drum tracks and a few other software or hardware synths for all the pads, basses, arps and all the sounds that make you think of trance music as you're reading this.

So to sum it up, I think what I'd like you to do is check out the specs of your computer. If they are up to date so to speak then will take it from there. If not, I guess will have to take it from there too, but in a slightly different direction.

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[This message has been edited by 3351 (edited 02-13-2007).]