How do you make your pads?

[jaydot]

Well personally my DAW has some nice preset pads-but I often like to experiment by trying to replicate them

My favourite kind of pad is the long-attack, detuned sine waved reverbed and chorused pad, gives it a really floaty effect when low passed at about 150.

You?

[NinjaEdit]

Similar thing but PWM. With a hint of vibrato.

[fragments]

Just what ever tickles my fancy in Alchemy really....or if I'm doing hardware I use about 3-4 channels hard-ish panned channels on my E-Mu Proteus sent through some kind of delay or reverb.

[bennyfroobs]

i sample space noises

[Wick Effect]

I usually just make a basic sound and then I bandpass it. Then put a lot of reverb on it and maybe some chorus etc.

[wub]

I usually just make a basic sound and then I bandpass it. Then put a lot of reverb on it and maybe some chorus etc.

This.

Anything is a pad if you want it to be. Once made a pad out a very stretched snare.

[pulsewaves4stopsines]

I usually just make a basic sound and then I bandpass it. Then put a lot of reverb on it and maybe some chorus etc.

This.

Anything is a pad if you want it to be. Once made a pad out a very stretched snare.

Try stretching tablas. With the different tones you can get, you can layer a few together to make some interesting sounds. Just thought I'd say, since I just got done messing around with tabla samples.

[jaydot]

Must try making pads with a hardware synth sometime

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Must try making pads with a hardware synth sometime

Its not really different...unless you do live takes of knob twisting on the synth or FX units. But for me that is the best reason to own hardware these days.recording live knob tweaks is way easier and more fun than drawing complex automation curves. Besides you can get a lot more happy mistakes and "uneven" parameter values. Automation is pretty exact.

[mks]

9th chord.

[kaili]

i use alchemy also mainly, layer different sample sources with it then process em with bare reverb and chorus etc

[DrGatineau]

All different ways. As wub said anything can be a pad. I like to record cool percussions sounds with lots of reverb and then reverse it, and put the two together to make a pad. You can tell the swamp 81 crew does this with 808 cowbells a lot, but you can do it with any sample. add some delay and other effects as well.

also i must confess i really like to use presets from absynth because i have no fuckin idea how that synth works but it has sick pad presets. then i do a lot of processing and maybe edit some stuff in-synth if i can figure out how lol. really should learn how to use that synth cause it can make some beautiful, complex sounds.

[Electric_Head]

Pads are everywhere and everything.
If you know how to manipulate a sound with effects; the sky is the limit.

I lowpass, add reverb, pitch it down, stretch it out, add side chaining, drown it in more reverb, eq, saturate and drive it through a similar process again, flangers, filters, phasers, etc.

Pile the shit on there.
Pads are so much fun to make.

[jaydot]

Aye arguably better than making bass. In facr helll they ARE better than making bass,

[skins345669]

i sample space noises

sick.

Really depends on what kind of pad you want. One I'm a big fan of at the moment is white noise through a resonator to whatever chord you like, band pass then mess with it to give it depth and space in the usual ways.

Made a pretty nice sonar beep with a 625hz tone with a bit of white noise on the top, bandpass, heavy chorus, then reverb into oblivion.

[legend4ry]

I bought Rev and Omnisphere,

[Electric_Head]

I bought Rev and Omnisphere,

I bought Geosonics, you want pads? Oh lord, this has got pads.

[audiowaves]

Personally I use a long attack and some sort of lowpass/bandpass, chorus, reverb and all that basic stuff.
I recently saw a tutorial by Nigel Good which was quite interesting. He recorded his own voice (or used a vocal sample, not sure), put it through a granuliser and layered it in absynth. It was pretty good sounding, trying to find the link atm.

here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPW42fncXk

[jaydot]

Personally I use a long attack and some sort of lowpass/bandpass, chorus, reverb and all that basic stuff.
I recently saw a tutorial by Nigel Good which was quite interesting. He recorded his own voice (or used a vocal sample, not sure), put it through a granuliser and layered it in absynth. It was pretty good sounding, trying to find the link atm.

here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPW42fncXk

Long attack is essential yeah

[hirszu]

Distance did a tutorial on pads (NI Massive). All the basic stuff that will get anyone started