Zero-G Wired: The Elements of Trance is a huge and exclusive trance sound archive that provides every constituent you need to make the perfect trance track, including just about every 4/4 percussion combination you can imagine.

Over 1 GB of diverse material including trance drumloops, epic trance sequences and arpeggios (all full of energy and vibe and easy to edit and make your own), plus trance-friendly pads, pad loops, euphoric synth lines and trance bass loops, effect stabs, trance snare rolls, and a huge selection of vital trance drumkit sounds.

Although subtitled "Elements of Trance", the sounds in this dance production factory will work in a variety of classic dance genres. Many loops are also usable for other genres like chemical, techno, house etc. The bulk of the loops are aggressive drum and percussion loops.

There are also plenty of kick-only patterns, and other isolated percussion loops. A selection of typical dance piano and guitar loops are provided as well. There's enough material in this category alone to keep you busy for ages. As a bonus, there's also a very useful selection of drumkits.

The "grooveloops" collection (leads, buzzers, basses, pads, ambiences etc) is a vast and powerful collection designed to work with the drumloops. You'll find it's a real party to mix, split and process these sounds just the way you like them. A lot of great sounding synths have been used here, including some really fat analog bass loops and super cool acid loops.

There's plenty for the Ibiza house producers too - the guitar and piano loops provide just the right inspiration and will help you muster your last ounce of euphoria. This is a good all-around dance collection, and with almost 2000 samples, the variety of the content is enormous - if you can't find what you're looking for here, you probably won't find it anywhere else!

Categories of samples included:

Drum Kits

• 808 Kits
• 909 Kits
• House Kit
• Tec-Trance Kits
• Trance Kits

Single Hits

• Bongos
• Claps
• Cow Bells
• Crash
• Cymbals
• CymbalsFX
• Shots
• Hats
• Kick Drums
• Rim Shots
• Snares
• Tambourine
• Toms

Loops

• Drum Loops
• Bongo Loops
• Kick Loops
• Mixed Percussion
• Snare Rolls
• Trance Loops
• Groove Loops
• Acid Loops
• Ambient Intro Loops
• Ambient Pad Loops
• Bass Loops
• FX Loops
• Guitar Loops
• Live FX Loops
• Orchestral Pad Loops
• Piano Loops
• Sweet Pads
• Synth Loops
• Trancy Synth Loops
• Tribal Trance Loops

Instruments

• Acid Shots
• Atmos
• Basses
• FX
• Piano
• Stabs & Jabs
• Sweeps

Formats

• Acid

• Rex

• WAV

Press Reviews

[Please note that these reviews are of the NI...

by Computer Music Magazine, UK

[Please note that these reviews are of the NI...

by Sound On Sound Magazine, UK

[Please note that these reviews are of the NI Intakt-powered boxed plugin version of WIRED but are included here as they also describe the samples in the library; the NI Intakt software is NOT included with the download version, you only get the sample library]
"Wired provides over a Gigabyte of sample data consisting of both loops and samples aimed directly at dance styles such as trance. Within the collection, the various presets include construction kits, drum loops and individual instruments. The latter use Intakt's Sampler mode and include drum kits suitable for trance and house with plenty of 808 and 909-style samples. Other instruments include a good collection of bass synth sounds, a small number of bright and brash pianos, some analogue-style pads and a huge number of one-shot effect, hits, blips and bleeps. The loops are split into two main groups; instrument loops featuring basses, pads and pianos, and drum loops that include full kits and individual elements such as kick, snare and cymbals.

The loops are organised in a number of ways. Some presets contain a single instrument loop mapped with pitch across the entire keyboard and use Time Machine mode to keep it in sync. Others use the Sampler mode and simply contain a collection of different loops, each mapped to a single key - there are both instrument lines and drum loops arranged in this way. Other presets use the Beat Machine mode and consist of a single drum loop beat sliced across a series of keys. However, for instant gratification - perhaps exploiting Intakt most effectively - the 14 construction kit presets are hard to beat. These tend to have a selection of keys operating in each of Sampler, Beat Machine and Time Machine modes, and typically contain some drum loops, individual hits, perhaps a few instrument loops and a bass or melody sound. Whilst construction kit formats are seen by some as a 'paint by numbers' approach to music, Intakt allows you to 'play' the loops, hits and instruments in real time, resulting in a more creative process - and, frankly, it is also downright fun.

All the construction kit contents are derived from various loops and samples used elsewhere within the library, and this just emphasises why it is a shame that users cannot load individual loops and samples from within the library to create their own construction kits. This is not just a comment on Wired, as it applies to the other Intakt libraries covered in this review. That said, an upgrade to the full version of Intakt is not that expensive, and for anyone buying two or three of these libraries, upgrading ought to be seriously considered.

In terms of content, Wired has plenty to offer trance producers and all the essential elements are here to put together complete tracks. Given that there is over a Gigabyte of sample data, and despite one or two frustrating limitations of the dedicated version of Intakt, the combination of sample data and playback front-end is certainly very good value for money."