Cool Free Stuff: TranceDrive Soft Subtractive Synth VST

TranceDrive is the product of a single developer (yedey.com) who entered a developer contest hosted by KVR to create a synth software package designed and programmed via their SynthMaker editor. What he ended up completing looks so polished that it’s no wonder he completely forgot to end up submitting it to the KVR site; his prize ended up becoming the kickass plug-in he built from scratch!

Without going into the technical details, TranceDrive is a soft synth geared towards trance music, so the emphasis is mostly on the piercing, nasal-like qualities of the saw wave. Taking notable cue from the Roland JP-8000, TranceDrive carries a supersaw wave, which is essentially the culmination of a room full of saw waves, as opposed to just one, for added impact. The super saw is something you don’t see in a plug-in very often. There are also 6 other waveforms you can shape your oscillators to, as well as 3 LFO’s (with 5 waveforms), modulators, and filters. 

As per your everyday subtractive synth, any of these parameters can be assigned to control one another, and there are also 9 general-use effects (reverb, delay, etc.) right out of the box. Another cool feature that makes TranceDrive unique is the fact that it also includes a limiter at the very end of the signal chain, so you can prevent clipping/overdrive before sending your signal back to the host DAW.

Check out the yeydey website to download! It’s freeware, so be sure to leave a comment to thank him for his hard work and share any presets/patches, if you decide to create any of your own from scratch.