Hi.
A question for those of you who are into Ambient music. How can I recreate the static pad sound (not the melody one) from the background of the video below? It seems very smooth and continuous, yet there is some "pulsation" going on.
http://youtu.be/2EQR0hMFbsk?t=3m41s
I would be very grateful for your help.
How to recreate this static pad sound
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- KVRian
- 852 posts since 28 Oct, 2004
Search for singing bowl and glass bowl samples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeCB8G98XFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dbyt_sCYTg
Whenever I want to create some droning ambient soundscapes I like to go for convolution reverbs, but instead of using an actual room impulse I choose some other ambient pad sample and trigger this with another sound (sometimes something simple like an organ, sometimes something more complex like another pad). You can get very echoey and strange chamber reverbations out of it and depending on your playing style and expression you can create different modulations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeCB8G98XFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dbyt_sCYTg
Whenever I want to create some droning ambient soundscapes I like to go for convolution reverbs, but instead of using an actual room impulse I choose some other ambient pad sample and trigger this with another sound (sometimes something simple like an organ, sometimes something more complex like another pad). You can get very echoey and strange chamber reverbations out of it and depending on your playing style and expression you can create different modulations.
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- KVRian
- 834 posts since 2 Mar, 2008 from Melbourne, Australia
Hi
On drone/pad type sounds like this, hollow waveforms and wavetable/FM synthesis is you friend.
This sort of pad can be made pretty easily with something like some square waves mixed with some sort of thin wavetable waveform (think NI Massive). It's not a precise science as finding the waveform that gives you the harmonics you're looking for will come down to personal preference, but once yo fiddle around with anything other than the standard saw/square etc you'll see there is a whole new world of sounds to be discovered.
Also, whatever it is it's filtered down with a lowpass
As for the pulsing, sounds to me just like an LFO linked to the main amplitude, with about 50% depth so it just moves in and out.
Short of all of that get something like Spectrasoncs Omnisphere....heaven for this sort of stuff!!!
On drone/pad type sounds like this, hollow waveforms and wavetable/FM synthesis is you friend.
This sort of pad can be made pretty easily with something like some square waves mixed with some sort of thin wavetable waveform (think NI Massive). It's not a precise science as finding the waveform that gives you the harmonics you're looking for will come down to personal preference, but once yo fiddle around with anything other than the standard saw/square etc you'll see there is a whole new world of sounds to be discovered.
Also, whatever it is it's filtered down with a lowpass
As for the pulsing, sounds to me just like an LFO linked to the main amplitude, with about 50% depth so it just moves in and out.
Short of all of that get something like Spectrasoncs Omnisphere....heaven for this sort of stuff!!!
Sound Engineer / Musician / Producer......but I'm always learning.
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- KVRist
- 389 posts since 22 May, 2012
Omnisphere.
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- KVRAF
- 4590 posts since 7 Jun, 2012 from Warsaw
Granular synthesis will give you this result in no time. And yes, use bowl sample.
Yeah, the way to make stuff sound good even if you have no idea about synthesisOmnisphere.
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