Hard Trance Hoover
Genre: Hard Trance · Tempo: 145 BPM · Time signature: 4/4 · Length: 16 steps · Style: late-90s hard trance: punchy 4x4 kick, offbeat open hat, and a rolling hoover-style bassline
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The pattern
| Instrument | Steps (1 = start of the bar) | Velocity | Timing and chance |
|---|
| kick | 1, 5, 9, 13 | 127 | on the grid, always plays |
| clap | 9 | 85 | step 9: plays 65% of the time |
| hat-open | 3, 7, 11, 15 | 90 | on the grid, always plays |
| sub | 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 | 60-75 | on the grid, always plays |
Digitakt II
Tracks
- T1: kick
- T2: sub (rolling hoover bass)
- T3: clap
- T4: hat-open
Digitone II
Tracks
- T1: kick (ALGO 1, FM click-into-boom)
- T2: sub hoover bass (ALGO 1, detuned dual-operator crunch)
- T3: clap (FM noise + MOD retrigger)
- T4: hat-open (FM noise)
Syntakt
Tracks
- T9: kick (BD CLASSIC)
- T2: sub hoover bass (SY RAW)
- T1: clap (CP VINTAGE)
- T12: hat-open (HH BASIC)
Notes
Hard trance at 145 BPM: the punchy kick and offbeat open hat give it the same four-on-the-floor trance backbone as classic/psytrance in this library, but the rolling, detuned 'hoover' bassline on the 16ths (rather than a plain sub pulse) and the harder-clipped kick are what push it into hard trance territory. An original pattern following the genre's well-documented kick/hoover-bass structure, not a transcription of any specific track.
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