Pads: your first choice?
- KVRAF
- 2874 posts since 22 Oct, 2002 from "somewhere between digital and analog"
I'm really getting in to Synplant these days... I've put like 20 of em' in songs and it just seems to be perfect. Low cpu, and blends really well for a lot of stuff. Wish they'd tempo sync the fx though...
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- KVRian
- 1048 posts since 16 Oct, 2008
I think no one has mentioned Ensoniq Transwaves, either.3*s wrote:Wavestation. I can't be the first person in 10 pages to mention this.
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- KVRAF
- 7789 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
I don't own them, so I can't call them a first choice, but I'm considering picking up this week... Wusik & PsyGen (been demoing the PsyGen for awhile now, nice evolving/morph pad actions).Aroused by JarJar wrote:I think no one has mentioned Ensoniq Transwaves, either.3*s wrote:Wavestation. I can't be the first person in 10 pages to mention this.
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- KVRian
- 1048 posts since 16 Oct, 2008
Wusik does Transwaves? I did not know that, love to hear some examples...BBFG# wrote:I don't own them, so I can't call them a first choice, but I'm considering picking up this week... Wusik & PsyGen (been demoing the PsyGen for awhile now, nice evolving/morph pad actions).Aroused by JarJar wrote:I think no one has mentioned Ensoniq Transwaves, either.3*s wrote:Wavestation. I can't be the first person in 10 pages to mention this.
found some:
http://www.wikizic.org/Wusik-Wusikstati ... kZI6D4.htm
it's well-done except it's pretty lo-fi. Of course the originals in the Ensoniq machines weren't burnished ueber-quality-digital either, but they were thick and not "lite".
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- KVRAF
- 7789 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
I don't know if it does or not, they do nice pads though...Aroused by JarJar wrote:Wusik does Transwaves? I did not know that, love to hear some examples...BBFG# wrote: I don't own them, so I can't call them a first choice, but I'm considering picking up this week... Wusik & PsyGen (been demoing the PsyGen for awhile now, nice evolving/morph pad actions).
- KVRian
- 1105 posts since 31 Dec, 2006 from the hills above beautiful Boise, Idaho
The thing with Omnisphere is that there are soooo many patches in there that you have to weed out the "ho-hum" patches. Last year I took a couple days and went through every one of the 2000+ patches in Omnisphere and marked my favorites. Now when I open Omnisphere I can go right to all my favorite pads instantly. Even though some of the Omnisphere material, like the Symphony of Voices samples, is nearly 15 years old, some of the pads based on those samples sound incredible within Omnisphere. Try stacking 2, 3, or 4, of your favorites together and you can get some incredibly stunning pads.jacqueslacouth wrote:
I really hope so. This thread prompted me to go back and have another play wih Omnisphere, and yes, there are some really nice pads there. I think part of my thing is that I tend to get sucked in to the multitude of presets and end up noodling around sort of going "yeh, that's cool, nah, don't like that" etc. etc.
"It is better to compose than decompose."
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- KVRian
- 1048 posts since 16 Oct, 2008
I'd like to hear a modulated PWM pad from Omnisphere that does not use any of the sample library, only the built-in oscillators.quantum7 wrote:The thing with Omnisphere is that there are soooo many patches in there that you have to weed out the "ho-hum" patches. Last year I took a couple days and went through every one of the 2000+ patches in Omnisphere and marked my favorites. Now when I open Omnisphere I can go right to all my favorite pads instantly. Even though some of the Omnisphere material, like the Symphony of Voices samples, is nearly 15 years old, some of the pads based on those samples sound incredible within Omnisphere. Try stacking 2, 3, or 4, of your favorites together and you can get some incredibly stunning pads.jacqueslacouth wrote:
I really hope so. This thread prompted me to go back and have another play wih Omnisphere, and yes, there are some really nice pads there. I think part of my thing is that I tend to get sucked in to the multitude of presets and end up noodling around sort of going "yeh, that's cool, nah, don't like that" etc. etc.
- KVRian
- 1105 posts since 31 Dec, 2006 from the hills above beautiful Boise, Idaho
I'd like to hear that also. Spectrasonics really needs their own forum. I would bet that someone out there has created some nice pads using only the built-in oscillators.Aroused by JarJar wrote:I'd like to hear a modulated PWM pad from Omnisphere that does not use any of the sample library, only the built-in oscillators.quantum7 wrote:The thing with Omnisphere is that there are soooo many patches in there that you have to weed out the "ho-hum" patches. Last year I took a couple days and went through every one of the 2000+ patches in Omnisphere and marked my favorites. Now when I open Omnisphere I can go right to all my favorite pads instantly. Even though some of the Omnisphere material, like the Symphony of Voices samples, is nearly 15 years old, some of the pads based on those samples sound incredible within Omnisphere. Try stacking 2, 3, or 4, of your favorites together and you can get some incredibly stunning pads.jacqueslacouth wrote:
I really hope so. This thread prompted me to go back and have another play wih Omnisphere, and yes, there are some really nice pads there. I think part of my thing is that I tend to get sucked in to the multitude of presets and end up noodling around sort of going "yeh, that's cool, nah, don't like that" etc. etc.
"It is better to compose than decompose."
www.SeanDockery.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6k45d ... J5eCnhNbfA
www.SeanDockery.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6k45d ... J5eCnhNbfA
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- KVRAF
- 7789 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
+1 on them having their own forum.quantum7 wrote: I'd like to hear that also. Spectrasonics really needs their own forum. I would bet that someone out there has created some nice pads using only the built-in oscillators.
- KVRAF
- 2750 posts since 2 Feb, 2005 from Raincoast of Grayland
Wouldn't this thread have less padding if the title was: "Pads: What's your LAST choice?"
perception: the stuff reality is made of.
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- KVRist
- 245 posts since 10 Nov, 2006
I'm sure it's been mentioned. But I'll mention Camel Audio Alchemy again, then .
- KVRAF
- 2138 posts since 8 Feb, 2007
Get rid of Alchemy and HALionSampleconstruct wrote:So far these synths were mentioned in this thread, when the next thread comes up with "Which synth is best for leads, basses, plucks, drops, wobbles, trippy, shmoppy, flippy, wuppy, homophobe, urban and ambient meditation music just refer to this list or copy/paste it into any thread:
*Alchemy
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*Anything from HG Fortune
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*HALion 5
not enough, keep them coming.
Take "Anything from HG Fortune" and just shorten it to "Anything".
Then, when someone asks for the "best, latest, greatest, most awesome, l33t, shawingggg Pads" you just say : "Anything". case closed
And while you kids ponder this heavy topic, just know this :
Hanz Zimmer, for example, likes to LAYER synth patches (I do, too, BTW). listen to the main pad in "Inception" : it's "HS Broken 4 Rotate" + Something else.
You could do that, too.
Just choose your free\paid synths (there are literally HUNDREDS of free synths that have this one or two or ten sounds that can be used for layering), layer them sounds and get pad sounds like no other. export them as samples, and there you go : instant sound designing without knowing synthesis (I think synthesis nowadays is overrated, anyway. layering, OTOH, is far underrated). just follow your heart - and your ears (in that order).