Anoyone good with pads?
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- KVRAF
- 3388 posts since 29 May, 2001 from New York, NY
A good way to start is to analyze some of the presets bundled with RhinoCM, and then design your own by mixing some of the techniques. For instance:
- Preset "Phi Star Cluster" uses 2 oscillators. The 1st one has a moving pitch envelope that cycles through the notes of a Bb7M/9 chord, while the 2nd one provides a stable C note. Each oscillator goes through his own filter with different panning settings in the stereo field, with funky cycling cutoff envelopes for extra animation, followed by the stereo fxs providing additional depth and stereo motion. Finally, the use of a unusual tuning scale results in a very "out-there" sounding ambient pad.
- in Preset "ambient bollocks2", 3 oscillators are used, with carefully tuned envelopes that make sure they each fade in/out out of sync, resulting in constantly shifting timbre that loops in about 10 seconds. The waveforms themselves are really simple, straight out of the additive generator. They then run through a filter with a cycling envelope, again out of sync with the fade in/out envelopes, so that the resulting timbre is not repeating until several minutes. A touch of FM for extra brightness, and the stereo FXs do the rest.
This should give you some ideas, maybe combine both techniques and make a preset that uses 1 oscs with a pitch envelope playing a chord, mixed with 2 oscs using the fade in/out envelope trick ?
'Tick
- Preset "Phi Star Cluster" uses 2 oscillators. The 1st one has a moving pitch envelope that cycles through the notes of a Bb7M/9 chord, while the 2nd one provides a stable C note. Each oscillator goes through his own filter with different panning settings in the stereo field, with funky cycling cutoff envelopes for extra animation, followed by the stereo fxs providing additional depth and stereo motion. Finally, the use of a unusual tuning scale results in a very "out-there" sounding ambient pad.
- in Preset "ambient bollocks2", 3 oscillators are used, with carefully tuned envelopes that make sure they each fade in/out out of sync, resulting in constantly shifting timbre that loops in about 10 seconds. The waveforms themselves are really simple, straight out of the additive generator. They then run through a filter with a cycling envelope, again out of sync with the fade in/out envelopes, so that the resulting timbre is not repeating until several minutes. A touch of FM for extra brightness, and the stereo FXs do the rest.
This should give you some ideas, maybe combine both techniques and make a preset that uses 1 oscs with a pitch envelope playing a chord, mixed with 2 oscs using the fade in/out envelope trick ?
'Tick