How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:18 pm
Digital or analogue, I just need some tips.
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How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
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Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:19 pm
long attack and sustain?
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:20 pm
Automate some of the filters
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:25 pm
slow, unsynced lfos routed to everything. slow automation increasing intensity (or diminishing or what have you).
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:31 pm
layering and automating the volume of the layers can also help to make things interesting
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:39 pm
Stereo widening is the bizzniss for pads
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:47 pm
Oh god that would sound awful!Recessive Trait wrote:slow, unsynced lfos routed to everything
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:55 pm
prollyDepone wrote:Oh god that would sound awful!Recessive Trait wrote:slow, unsynced lfos routed to everything
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:07 pm
Not necessarily imotripwire22 wrote:prollyDepone wrote:Oh god that would sound awful!Recessive Trait wrote:slow, unsynced lfos routed to everything
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:15 pm
Im getting visions of hypnotoad sounds. Cmon, if you really modulated everything via lfo would sound wank. Pitch, tuning, envelopes the lot. would reallly sound disgustingabZ wrote:Not necessarily imotripwire22 wrote:prollyDepone wrote:Oh god that would sound awful!Recessive Trait wrote:slow, unsynced lfos routed to everything
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:33 pm
Just for a laugh, i selected random oscillators by closing my eyes and modulated everything in massive (nearly everything) via LFO 5.
Check it
http://www.mediafire.com/?yaz4ymyzn0t
Check it
http://www.mediafire.com/?yaz4ymyzn0t
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:14 pm
LOL I didn't take it to mean literally everything. That would defo sound like ass.Depone wrote:Im getting visions of hypnotoad sounds. Cmon, if you really modulated everything via lfo would sound wank. Pitch, tuning, envelopes the lot. would reallly sound disgustingabZ wrote:Not necessarily imotripwire22 wrote:prollyDepone wrote:Oh god that would sound awful!Recessive Trait wrote:slow, unsynced lfos routed to everything
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:37 pm
A very slow lfo on the filter envelope sounds very nice indeed for a subtly shifting moving pad sound.
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Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:44 pm
lfo to pitch? - let's be realistic.
massive gives you 4 lfos and a plethora of things to link them to (wavetable pos, intensity, ring mod, phase, filter cutoff etc etc so many posibilities.) pitch is the last thing i would ever think to attach an lfo to, unless that's what i was going for.
ridicule it if you want. it's a fantastic way to make some really interesting pads.
massive gives you 4 lfos and a plethora of things to link them to (wavetable pos, intensity, ring mod, phase, filter cutoff etc etc so many posibilities.) pitch is the last thing i would ever think to attach an lfo to, unless that's what i was going for.
ridicule it if you want. it's a fantastic way to make some really interesting pads.
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:46 pm
vox or Band pass filters work well in blue
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:57 pm
Think you will find im taking the utter piss!Recessive Trait wrote:lfo to pitch? - let's be realistic.
massive gives you 4 lfos and a plethora of things to link them to (wavetable pos, intensity, ring mod, phase, filter cutoff etc etc so many posibilities.) pitch is the last thing i would ever think to attach an lfo to, unless that's what i was going for.
ridicule it if you want. it's a fantastic way to make some really interesting pads.
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:07 am
shitloads of reverb and delay after the synth. resampling, to cutoff the long trails caused by those two.
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:56 am
Why? Ever heard of subtlety?!Depone wrote:Oh god that would sound awful!Recessive Trait wrote:slow, unsynced lfos routed to everything
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:35 pm
Hardware:
Square waves
Adjust the ADSR
Filter (thats the important part)
Reverb
Delay
Square waves
Adjust the ADSR
Filter (thats the important part)
Reverb
Delay
Re: How do you go about creating pads on synthezizers?
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:36 pm
Depends how you want to make them really. There are lots of ways to make pads.
One of the simplest. Open up your vst, set it to play 3 saw waves on a three octave spread, detune each a little. Add chorus for a silky sound. Then start working with LFOs and EQing to get the sound you want.
You could also open your vst, set it to play 2 saw waves, on a two octave spread, detune each, an have the third play some white noise at a really low volume, then again, start working with LFOs. Then add lots of reverb and delay to help it all mesh together, EQ it,
Those are two really simple ways to create either a silky sounding pad or a more airy pad.
You could also try exporting the sounds you create using these processes and bring it in as a sample, reverse it, add more effects layer them...etc.
Using samples is great too. One thing I do a lot is to take that 3 detuned saw waves on a three octave spread as a sample, layer in a choir sample and a string section sample which gets some good results with EQing and effects. You can make some really thick pads this way.
You should look into granular synthesis too, a lot of my pads are the result of processes revolving around granular synthesis. One of the most fun ways to make pads I think.
The best way to learn to make pads is open up presets in whatever vst you're using and deconstruct them.
If you search on youtube for pad tutorial you should get some good results too.
One of the simplest. Open up your vst, set it to play 3 saw waves on a three octave spread, detune each a little. Add chorus for a silky sound. Then start working with LFOs and EQing to get the sound you want.
You could also open your vst, set it to play 2 saw waves, on a two octave spread, detune each, an have the third play some white noise at a really low volume, then again, start working with LFOs. Then add lots of reverb and delay to help it all mesh together, EQ it,
Those are two really simple ways to create either a silky sounding pad or a more airy pad.
You could also try exporting the sounds you create using these processes and bring it in as a sample, reverse it, add more effects layer them...etc.
Using samples is great too. One thing I do a lot is to take that 3 detuned saw waves on a three octave spread as a sample, layer in a choir sample and a string section sample which gets some good results with EQing and effects. You can make some really thick pads this way.
You should look into granular synthesis too, a lot of my pads are the result of processes revolving around granular synthesis. One of the most fun ways to make pads I think.
The best way to learn to make pads is open up presets in whatever vst you're using and deconstruct them.
If you search on youtube for pad tutorial you should get some good results too.