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BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:49 pm

Resonator63 wrote: Twin2 never seems to get the plaudits it deserves either.

Indeed, Twin2 was the first thing that sprung to mind. Of course, if you want a more analogue feel, try either Diva or ACE.

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:57 pm

Definitely Diva! Definitely!

Diva is the queen of warm analogue-ish pads imo!

I don't have a demo of a more "traditional" pad online at the moment but here is an example of my winter solstice preset: Winter Solstice Demo

Diva is perfect for that kind of stuff!

Cheers
Dennis

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:08 pm

cocoazenith wrote:As an example, the pad at the very beginning of this track is pretty much what I'm looking for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6PqbyWioE

That's a pretty easy sound to reproduce. If you tell us what synths you have now, I could probably point you in the direction of doing it yourself.

Great track, btw!

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:50 am

I went ahead and recreated that song for you:

http://jrrshop.com/eric/Eric_Dahlberg-1 ... _house.mp3

The pad is the Come Upstairs preset in Massive, I just turned down the resonance and envelope amount on the filter. The bass is a DIVA patch I quickly threw together using a DCO oscillator and a Moog Ladder filter. The drums are from Battery, using a Wave Alchemy kick and some 909 sounds from Sounds Outside The Lines (all free samples). The reverb on the drums is the one built-in to Battery and I threw on a D16 Decimort to make the drums sound dark and flubby like your example. Finally, I put Ozone 5's 4-Band Master - Punchy Dynamics preset on the main buss, which actually contributed significantly to making it sound closer to your reference recording.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:55 am

cocoazenith wrote:Hello all,

I've been searching for ages for a plugin that can provide clean analog pads and couldn't find exactly what
I was searching for. I've tried Absynth, Sylenth 1 and many more but most of them sound too artificial, cold or have too much of a sweep to them so most of the time I've used Kontakt or ESX24.

For my ears Xils Lab Oxium (which was just released), Tone2 Saurus and U-He Diva could sound very warm.

There are also two nice expansions for Saurus:
http://tone2.com/html/analog.html

http://www.electric-himalaya.com/tone2_ ... _bank.html

MAybe not exactly what you look for but if you got Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V you could also check my "Atmospheric Transients" soundset which includes many analog and digital style pad sounds:
http://www.waldorfmusic-shop.de/epages/ ... ts/wsetp01

More information here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=344042

Lot's of samples created with several softsynths and a few hardware synths are included. There are also samples based on Soniccouture Novachord which are used with kind permission of Soniccouture.
BTW the filter of the PPG 3.V sóunds great IMO and the Chorus FX of it is one of the best (again IMO of course).

Ingo

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:07 am

Dune...diva...xils stuff....most new va's can do that kinda thing.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:53 am

Some pads in Oxium :

Simon's Trancy Pad

EpicQuest Pad

Simon's BP Pad

CS Chorus Pad

Drone Cinepad

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:14 am

Padshop, Diva, Massive, Omnisphere,... there are lot of synth.

cocoazenith · Post by **cocoazenith** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:33 pm

Uncle E wrote:I went ahead and recreated that song for you:

http://jrrshop.com/eric/Eric_Dahlberg-1 ... _house.mp3

The pad is the Come Upstairs preset in Massive, I just turned down the resonance and envelope amount on the filter. The bass is a DIVA patch I quickly threw together using a DCO oscillator and a Moog Ladder filter. The drums are from Battery, using a Wave Alchemy kick and some 909 sounds from Sounds Outside The Lines (all free samples). The reverb on the drums is the one built-in to Battery and I threw on a D16 Decimort to make the drums sound dark and flubby like your example. Finally, I put Ozone 5's 4-Band Master - Punchy Dynamics preset on the main buss, which actually contributed significantly to making it sound closer to your reference recording.

Oh My God!

This is f***g incredible.

The pad really sounds like that one.
Massive and Diva seem to be strong at this chapter.

I think I'll add the ease of use (just like hardware analog synths) criteria to the title of this post.

P.s. would've tried oatmeal but it's windows only

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:55 pm

cocoazenith wrote:Oh My God!

This is f***g incredible.

The pad really sounds like that one.
Massive and Diva seem to be strong at this chapter.

Thanks!

Massive isn't easy to use but it can do pretty much anything once you know it. Plus, it's preset handling is second to none, IMO, and you'd get a lot of mileage out of Sample Magic's Deep House Patches:

http://www.samplemagic.com/details/58/d ... se-patches

discoDSP · Post by **discoDSP** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:59 pm

Discovery Pro or Corona are serious candidates

http://www.discodsp.com/mp3/snippet/zer ... filter.mp3
http://www.discodsp.com/mp3/xpo_leads_and_pads_demo.mp3

Resonator63 · Post by **Resonator63** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:40 pm

Admiral Quality Poly-Ana hasn't been mentioned yet

It has now

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:51 pm

In my opinion, Oatmeal is about as far away from warm as you can get. I wanted so badly to like that thing because it has some cool features, but it's only really good for thin pastey sounds IMO.

Better off with TyrrelN6, Tal Noisemaker, the lovely Charlatan, or of course the U-he and Xils paywear stuff. What I tried of Oxium really does sound very hardware-like to me, even though I don't need that kind of thing as I'm sorted for that sound.

cocoazenith · Post by **cocoazenith** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:18 pm

No Charlatan for OS X tho'

schnapsglas · Post by **schnapsglas** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:18 pm

People might laugh, but does M-Tron count?

Plugin for clean, warm analog pads