Need help on pad

[rindy]

it sounds pretty easy but im having a hard time nailing it
wondering if anyone here has some tips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fICwmarruiE&t=0m12s

its the one thats really wide in the background

[ehbes]

For wide pads like that I usually sample some violins or something and process them.

Take the sample, copy it a couple times. Use different combinations of distortion, reverb, LP filters, haas effect, etc, then buss them together. That should give you a nice sound and plenty of stuff to automate to add some nice changing textures

[rindy]

thanks, but i cant seem to get it right
its either too robotic sounding or too harsh :/

[syrup]

lowpass?

[rindy]

dunno, mabye im just not playing around with the right samples

guess ill just keep mucking around till something works

[cmgoodman1226]

I think a lot of what your hearing is actually vocals that have been washed out a bit and sidechained. Other than that it sounds like pretty simple saw wave chords lowpassed.

[zeekazi]

Yeah it's really the vocal that gives it the character. Try to find a vocal sample of someone going "ooh" or "aah" and chuck it into a sampler, detune a bunch and lowpass, layer that with some really detuned saw waves, lowpass those too and you should be getting somewhere. Find random other stuff that you can either timestretch or detune a bunch and layer up to make 'em sound interesting, like strings or even like a sax sample or something. Detuning is really what gives it that fuzzy sound.

[rindy]

found this on making vocal pads, makes things alot easier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtDYxNZB0ZI