perhaps you're not realising - hard trance mostly always has exactly the same notes for the bassline - ie an offbeat b-line... you'd never sample a b-line for techno... but you would for hard trance.. and then you'd maybe apply a pitch change or perhaps an eq change to make it fit with the kick you've sampled... this is the skill!!! making the kick sit with the bass!!! in my eyes it's exactly the same as using a 909 for a hi -hat - someone else has programmed it into the machine in the first place!!!



all h-trance trax at the mo are sampled basses + kicks, but changed via eq and other effects.... i believe that's why the genre is progressive so fast.... it's less about synths and keyboard skills and more about computers and programming!!!!