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Up to now, for atmosphere, I've just used rain or vinyl crackle or something but I want more harmonic sounds to go on top of this. I suppose what i'm after are basically pads but abit more spooky etc.

I would guess an additive synth would be best to achieve this kind of sound, but I don't have one. I only elements and massive. I've tired down pitching a lot of loops of strings, wind instruments etc I have made, that seems to create quite abstract atmospherrs in some cases.

So does anyone have any tuts or tips?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QQ4eY-i6i0

Drones are what theyre called i think. Just slap envs on pitch then lfos on filters and put it on free so its just randomly evolving the whole time. Record that and cut out your sexiest moments and then hella reverb. Also foley sceeching metal samples are great. Dry ice on metal makes some spooky sounds. freesound.org

The real answer is reverb on anything

Record some minor chords of a string or pad then layer it with a choir and plenty of reverb and delay-then reverse it etc and see how it sounds

Anyone know what instruments I should be using if I want to make some of the deep evolving pads like heard in this tune?

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There's so much warmth and tonal quality, so many layers.. I don't know where to start!

put a nice big reverb onto a track, could be a sample, a synth...anything.
freeze the reverb (most reverb plugins have this function)
record and bounce that audio
put it into a sampler, loop it then and play droning notes/ chords

What does the freezing actually do? Never clicked on it as of yet

try with "air pads"